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@ocrampal@mastodon.social
2026-01-13 15:19:45

Why Computation Can Simulate the Past, but Never Generate the Living Present
The Zoetrope of Logic: Why Programs Live in Frozen Time
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The Zoetrope of Logic: Why Programs Live in Frozen Time
Why Computation Can Simulate the Past, but Never Generate the Living Present The Illusion of Time in Software When you watch a video game character run across a screen, witness a real-time stock ticker update, or see a physics simulation unfold, you're experiencing what appears to be continuous, flowing time.

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-02-17 11:54:51

Time course of visual plasticity following adult-onset #deafness (in cats) nature.com/articles/s41598-026

Time course of visual plasticity following adult-onset deafness - Scientific Reports
When deprived of a sensory modality, the brain often compensates with supranormal performance in other intact systems. While this compensatory plasticity is typically attributed to early sensory loss, plasticity following adult-onset sensory loss remains poorly understood despite its clinical relevance. In many patients, adult-onset hearing loss precedes treatment by cochlear implantation, yet little is known about the neural changes occurring before this intervention. The present study examine…

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-12-15 14:58:23

Er zijn goede argumenten om russische tegoeden niet in te zetten ten behoeve van Oekraine. Tegelijk is het alternatief ook duidelijk, dan gaan de europese burgers het betalen met belastingverhoging, korten op voorzieningen, uitkeringen etcetera. Tenzij een slimme financieel expert nog een andere truc bedenkt? 🤔
(Oekraine opgeven/laten verliezen kost nog veel meer geld overigens, los van het morele aspect)

@roelgrif@mstdn.social
2026-01-03 23:12:00

In diplomatieke kringen is sprake geweest van een deal waarbij Rusland zijn gang kon gaan in Oekraine en de VS in Venezuela.
Stukje uit het verhoor van Fiona Hill in het impeachment proces in Trumps eerste termijn.
Bron: pbs.org/newshour/poli…

n MR. ZELDIN: That's why I'm asking the question. [E) So specifically with regards to the first round of 13 questions, you stated something avout Venezuela and Russia. 1 Do you recall talking about some type of -- 15 DR. HILL: Yes. I said that the Russians signaled, 16 including publicly through the press and through press 7 articles -- that's the way that they operate -- that they 18 were interested in -- they laid it out in articles, I mean a 19 lot of them in Russian -- but. you know. obviou…
@crell@phpc.social
2026-02-12 15:37:37

I for one do not welcome our upstart AI agent would-be overlords:
github.com/matplotlib/matplotl
Seriously, that issue should have just been closed instantly. Markov chains pretending to act like a sentient being and writing shit-posting character a…

[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib
This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2026-02-08 18:27:55

And another #superbOwl
Eastern Screech Owl. December 2025

Closeup photo of an Eastern Screech Owl sitting on a gloved human hand. Mottled brown and tan feathers, dark background. This little one is a rescue at the Northern Colorado Raptor rehab center, recovering from injuries sustained being hit by a car, a common occurrence for raptors of all sizes. Although fully recovered she cannot be returned to the wild because her injuries mean she can’t fly well enough to survive. Instead she’s an ambassador, and goes on field trips with the rescue crew when …
@ocrampal@mastodon.social
2026-01-29 13:48:02

Excel didn’t kill accountants; it gave them better tools. Yet, with AI, we’ve abandoned this logic in favor of a collective fantasy. We’re treating a sophisticated calculator as a human replacement rather than a human multiplier.
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The Shared Delusion: Both doomers and dreamers assume current technology leads to AGI. They’re both wrong
Excel didn’t kill accountants; it gave them better tools. Yet, with AI, we’ve abandoned this logic in favor of a collective fantasy. We’re treating a sophisticated calculator as a human replacement rather than a human multiplier. The reason for this shift is the "2-to-5-year" horizon. For decades,

@ocrampal@mastodon.social
2026-01-02 17:50:54

The Master Key: One Secret to Solve Every Philosophical Mystery. Dissolving the Dualities: Why Concepts are the Foundation of Thought.
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How Solving the Concept Problem Unlocks Philosophy's Greatest Mysteries
Philosophy has wrestled with seemingly intractable problems for millennia: How does mind relate to body? What makes knowledge objective rather than merely subjective? How do we bridge the gap between inner experience and outer reality? These questions have spawned countless theories, debates, and entire philosophical traditions, yet they remain as

@ocrampal@mastodon.social
2026-01-21 11:58:17

Why does calling out a hallucination feel like calling someone’s kid "ugly"?
We’ve stopped treating AI like software and started treating it like a protégé. Here’s why criticizing an algorithm has suddenly become so personal.
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Why Criticizing AI Feels Like Criticizing Someone’s Child
I’m not questioning the usefulness of LLMs and AI in general. What I am questioning is its ability to achieve intelligence. Large Language Models (LLMs) are remarkable tools—tools to augment one’s intelligence—just as a search engine, or Wikipedia have done before them. I use them daily.