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Biologist, just fed up at this point because *gestures everywhere*

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · Aug 29

I explain this all the time
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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · Jul 5

So first, we gotta start digging into biochemistry, BUT, we have to treat biochemistry like the finite-state machinery that it is. And not the abstract mathematical concept, but the simple machines of physics (lever, pulley, screw, etc) to form active mechanisms like this lock:

An example of a simple mechanism that can be modeled by a state machine is a turnstile.[4][5] A turnstile, used to control access to subways and amusement park rides, is a gate with three rotating arms at waist height, one across the entryway. Initially the arms are locked, blocking the entry, preventing patrons from passing through. Depositing a coin or token in a slot on the turnstile unlocks the arms, allowing a single customer to push through. After the customer passes through, the arms are locked again until another coin is inserted.

Considered as a state machine, the turnstile has two possible states: Locked and Unlocked.[4] There are two possible inputs that affect its state: putting a coin in the slot (coin) and pushing the arm (push). In the locked state, pushing on the arm has no effect; no matter how many times the input push is given, it stays in the locked state. Putting a coin in – that is, giving the machine a coin input – shifts the state from Locked to Unlocked. In the unlocked state, putting additional coins in has no effect; that is, giving additional coin inputs does not change the state. A customer pushing through the arms gives a push input and resets the state to Locked.

The turnstile state machine can be represented by a state-transition table, showing for each possible state, the transitions between them (based upon the inputs given to the machine) and the outputs resulting from each input:

The turnstile state machine can also be represented by a directed graph called a state diagram (above). Each state is represented by a node (circle). Edges (arrows) show the transitions from one state to another. Each arrow is labeled with the input that triggers that transition. An input that doesn't cause a change of state (such as a coin input in the Unlocked state) is represented by a circular arrow returning to the original state. The arrow into the Locked node from the black dot indicates it is the initial state.

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 35m

Nah he fell in the sea and reverted

Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 36m

It me Im one of those more people

Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 1h

It is indeed sparking some joy

Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 1h

Ah hell. She has also been going through the boxes of childhood stuff her mom couldnt throw out, and dumped on us. She found one of those damn Presidential fitness tests in one. Guess what we are doing now….

Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 1h

High school friend of my wife is staying with us for a bit because she got a new job in the area, and they are having a TIME.
They have randomly decided that they are going to get better at splits/backbends and are in the middle of the living room groaning as they stretch ass-sat, middle aged limbs

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 1h

Just limbs everywhere for the last 20 minutes Im dying

Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 1h

They are now in happy baby, legs in the air. Even the damn cat is on his back 😂. Love it

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 6h

Great big gravitational pull of dumb shit. Not good

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MAF @ MCM London M-14 @velnna.bsky.social · 7h

"Oh yeah? They said the same thing about digital art when it became a thing" isn't a gotcha it's an admission that you're too stupid to tell the difference

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 9h

No. Yall gotta stop making these superficial comparisons to biology they are not remotely similar

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 12h

It's not a war against truth with false information. It is a war _against information_, against the facticity of contingent existence, in place of the fascist imagination.

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 13h

These two assessments go together. If you actually had what you imagine/assume a brain simulation is, you wouldnt need training data, it could just get to analyzing things immediately. It could CREATE models, not be one.

If you have to turn everything into data/math problems before the computer can even operate on it, how are you gonna make an autonomous AI “agent.” You havent come up with the algorithm that turns new encounters and aspects of reality into useable data/math problems.

Cells dont have to do that btw

Like…guys. Its not a mathematical model of the brain. Its a mathematical model of the dataset. The distribution of word proximity in it, to be precise.

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · 20h

It's so maddening that *there is literally a helpful diagram in the Attention... paper* showing that the LLM outputs are statistically plausible strings of words. What do the words say or mean? That's not part of the model.

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