Jim Spohrer 2024
@spohrer.bsky.social
Books, Science, Nature (good hikes in California), Service Science, Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, Quest for Geothermal-Powered , Master-Mechanic-Robot for Family Farms.
Bend in the road
September 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Bend in the road
Homestead Avenue 2
August 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Homestead Avenue 2
Gunsmoke “The photographer”
August 2, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Gunsmoke “The photographer”
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Here is the photo with my mentor!
July 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Here is the photo with my mentor!
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Thanks Sam Arbesman for sending me a copy!
June 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Thanks Sam Arbesman for sending me a copy!
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New notions of infinity challenge a plan to define the mathematical universe: "Is Mathematics Mostly Chaos or Mostly Order?" @quantamagazine.bsky.social
(Plus- John Allen Paulos @ja-paulos.bsky.social)
Get down with Godel: roughlydaily.com/2025/07/04/a...
(Plus- John Allen Paulos @ja-paulos.bsky.social)
Get down with Godel: roughlydaily.com/2025/07/04/a...
July 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
New notions of infinity challenge a plan to define the mathematical universe: "Is Mathematics Mostly Chaos or Mostly Order?" @quantamagazine.bsky.social
(Plus- John Allen Paulos @ja-paulos.bsky.social)
Get down with Godel: roughlydaily.com/2025/07/04/a...
(Plus- John Allen Paulos @ja-paulos.bsky.social)
Get down with Godel: roughlydaily.com/2025/07/04/a...
Wilder Ranch near Santa Cruz
July 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Wilder Ranch near Santa Cruz
Coastal fog - in retreat.
June 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Coastal fog - in retreat.
Cowell-Purisma Coastal Trail
June 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Cowell-Purisma Coastal Trail
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198 Methods of Nonviolent Action — AEI/ Empowering Humankind
www.aeinstein.org
May 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Carl Sagan: Goal For Human Species
May 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Carl Sagan: Goal For Human Species
Samuel Arbesman’s recent book looks great!
May 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Samuel Arbesman’s recent book looks great!
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🌍 Learning for Sustainability
I post on systems thinking, facilitation, co-design & evaluation — grounded in practice and shared learning.
📄 Worth revisiting: Systems thinking and systemic design: working with complexity
🔗 learningforsustainability.net/post/systems...
🧪 #LfSinsights
I post on systems thinking, facilitation, co-design & evaluation — grounded in practice and shared learning.
📄 Worth revisiting: Systems thinking and systemic design: working with complexity
🔗 learningforsustainability.net/post/systems...
🧪 #LfSinsights
Systems thinking and systemic design: working with complexity - learningforsustainability.net
Systems design explained, with key concepts and links to tools that support systems thinking, planning, and collaboration in complex contexts.
learningforsustainability.net
May 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
🌍 Learning for Sustainability
I post on systems thinking, facilitation, co-design & evaluation — grounded in practice and shared learning.
📄 Worth revisiting: Systems thinking and systemic design: working with complexity
🔗 learningforsustainability.net/post/systems...
🧪 #LfSinsights
I post on systems thinking, facilitation, co-design & evaluation — grounded in practice and shared learning.
📄 Worth revisiting: Systems thinking and systemic design: working with complexity
🔗 learningforsustainability.net/post/systems...
🧪 #LfSinsights
Coyote Lake in the distance
March 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Coyote Lake in the distance
How fast is AI getting better at long tasks?
Seems to be doubling every 7 months
URL: metr.org/blog/2025-03...
Bottomline
AI is impressive, but imperfect - but it is getting better.
Seems to be doubling every 7 months
URL: metr.org/blog/2025-03...
Bottomline
AI is impressive, but imperfect - but it is getting better.
Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
We propose measuring AI performance in terms of the *length* of tasks AI agents can complete. We show that this metric has been consistently exponentially increasing over the past 6 years, with a doub...
metr.org
March 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
How fast is AI getting better at long tasks?
Seems to be doubling every 7 months
URL: metr.org/blog/2025-03...
Bottomline
AI is impressive, but imperfect - but it is getting better.
Seems to be doubling every 7 months
URL: metr.org/blog/2025-03...
Bottomline
AI is impressive, but imperfect - but it is getting better.
AI is not very good at:
Truth - it makes many mistakes
Properly citing sources
Long complex tasks - it gets lost in the weeds
Truth - it makes many mistakes
Properly citing sources
Long complex tasks - it gets lost in the weeds
March 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
AI is not very good at:
Truth - it makes many mistakes
Properly citing sources
Long complex tasks - it gets lost in the weeds
Truth - it makes many mistakes
Properly citing sources
Long complex tasks - it gets lost in the weeds
AI is very good at:
24x7 access
Fast response
Summarization
Point-of-views
All languages
Generating multiple-choice questions for learning
Generating explanations of wrong answers for teacher guides
Generating python code
24x7 access
Fast response
Summarization
Point-of-views
All languages
Generating multiple-choice questions for learning
Generating explanations of wrong answers for teacher guides
Generating python code
March 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
AI is very good at:
24x7 access
Fast response
Summarization
Point-of-views
All languages
Generating multiple-choice questions for learning
Generating explanations of wrong answers for teacher guides
Generating python code
24x7 access
Fast response
Summarization
Point-of-views
All languages
Generating multiple-choice questions for learning
Generating explanations of wrong answers for teacher guides
Generating python code
Orion over Apple spaceship
March 8, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Orion over Apple spaceship
Neighbors napping
February 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Neighbors napping
Delighted this arrived today!
January 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Delighted this arrived today!
Above the clouds
January 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Above the clouds
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Every Jan 1 I post a scorecard on predictions I made, with dates, on Jan 1, 2018 on cars (self-driving), robots, AI, & ML, and on human spaceflight. Besides telling which turned out right and which wrong in the last year I also talk a lot of smack about these topics. rodneybrooks.com/predictions-...
Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01 – Rodney Brooks
rodneybrooks.com
January 1, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Every Jan 1 I post a scorecard on predictions I made, with dates, on Jan 1, 2018 on cars (self-driving), robots, AI, & ML, and on human spaceflight. Besides telling which turned out right and which wrong in the last year I also talk a lot of smack about these topics. rodneybrooks.com/predictions-...