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I am an enterprise systems architect developer and astronomy graduate student.
"The US wants China to stop distilling its AI models, stop smuggling its chips, and stop fine-tuning its open-source models for military use." Sure - you tell'em USA!...as if China is going to stop.
Couple of references for road funding ev tax: - https://slate.com/business/2021/03/vmt-tax-buttigieg-driving... - https://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/transportation/2023-02-22/demo...
Your group looking for any other position types besides Applied Scientists?
Right! And what it 'really' is will push the philosophical 'hard problem' of consciousness. Will we be able to penetrate something human-like to know if it is conscious?
If it passes the Turing Test then it's just semantics after that - linear regression gains artificial consciousness
I think the term "world model" is a highly overloaded term. What does it really mean in your opinion?
You must mean the new Albert Clippy!
Verizon network outages all over the country this afternoon - maybe that?
Agreed. You simply cannot pause an emerging technology as powerful as AI. We all know the US Government will not stop especially within defense circles much less other countries. This same dilemma has appeared multiple times and just has to evolve through learning and development.
Agreed - I have the very same issue as well. Google Keep is my goto mobile app for most of my note capture just due to its speed and ease of use. Now I have a few github utilities to download my Keep notes to markdown for Obsidian use later - but that isn't really ideal yet.
PS - all I can say about Canvas is 'wow'!!! Awesome feature!
I just thought it seemed a bit odd to me to have the project tied to large organizations in China so much. I’m not saying to “buy American” but I do think it’s reasonable to be perplexed.
Why is this project tied so specifically to China? Honest question here....
Too much emphasis on YC - there are others
Good list! You should add Orientalism by Said and Open Society and Its Enemies by Popper - both classics!
Good list - except for Phoenix Project - sorry you had to read it - utter insipid crap.
Great picks!
Hmmmm...scientists are still debating whether the signal is dark matter or pulsar output (high energies create electron-positron pairs). I see this recent Chinese paper debating if DAMPE can even distinguish dark matter positron remnants or pulsars - Wang et al. (2017) say this - "For the pulsar case, the latest Fermi-LAT anisotropy limits have also been taken into account. Our results show that the cases of DM annihilations to τ+τ− and all charged leptons are difficult to be distinguished from the pulsar cases by the current experiments and DAMPE"
Philosophy Degrees: Reid Hoffman - LinkedIn, Stewart Butterfield - Flickr, Peter Thiel - PayPal, Patrick Byrne - Overstock, Carly Fiorina - you all know her, Carl Icahn - Icahn Enterprises, Sheila Bair - FDIC, George Soros - Soros Funds, Herbert Allison Jr. - Fannie Mae, Gerald Levin - Time Warner, Ethan Cohen - you all know him, Rupert Murdoch, Rashida Jones, Philip Glass, etc... ...of course - just statistical - there's always some list for other degrees too....
Agreed that 'state of the art' is the wrong question - but, it is worth watching David Chalmers challenge progress in philosophy (bear with the first 20 minutes or so - it gets better). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUfz6oahp2Q
why don't i care?
I think as the earlier comment pointed out this really was about the additional data from AMS that helps refine and/or add confidence to the possible theories - some of which are dark matter related and some which are not. Unfortunately, the article title was blatantly incorrect.
Excellent callout and my mistake missing the point on the wider energy range and the rollover. Thank you! The additional data will help the determination of dark matter vs. pulsars as the positron source.
"To determine if the observed new phenomenon is from dark matter or from astrophysical sources such as pulsars, AMS is now[sic] making measurements to determine the rate of decrease at which the positron fraction falls beyond the turning point (item 5), as well as to determine the antiproton fraction (the ratio of antiprotons to protons plus anti-protons). These will be reported in future publications."
Very strange to see this article posted now. This news from the AMS is over a year old. And clearly, there is considerable debate whether the positron excess is from dark matter particle annihilation or from nearby pulsars. There are many papers on the subject - here is just one example that explains some of the issues - http://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.1840.pdf (PS - I am an astronomy graduate student).