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Illustrations of electrical sparks from Memorie - Classe di scienze fisiche, matematiche e naturali ser.3:v.1:disp.1 (1877).
Full text here.
from letterarii
Basket star (Euryalidae)
Photo by Loh Kok Sheng
yknow "fossil words" where theyre words that only appear in phrases and not really on their own. like in "eke out" or "bated breath." well i have an example of a fucking fossil PHRASE which is an entire PHRASE that only appears in a single context and no one has ever fucking used outside that context. and that's "roam the earth." which literally nobody has ever said about anything thats not dinosaurs
“Imagine what it would look like if ChatGPT were a lossless algorithm. If that were the case, it would always answer questions by providing a verbatim quote from a relevant Web page. We would probably regard the software as only a slight improvement over a conventional search engine, and be less impressed by it. The fact that ChatGPT rephrases material from the Web instead of quoting it word for word makes it seem like a student expressing ideas in her own words, rather than simply regurgitating what she’s read; it creates the illusion that ChatGPT understands the material. In human students, rote memorization isn’t an indicator of genuine learning, so ChatGPT’s inability to produce exact quotes from Web pages is precisely what makes us think that it has learned something. When we’re dealing with sequences of words, lossy compression looks smarter than lossless compression.”
— Ted Chiang’s essay about ChatGPT is required reading
“You look at trees and called them ‘trees,’ and probably you do not think twice about the word. You call a star a ‘star,’ and think nothing more of it. But you must remember that these words, ‘tree,’ ‘star,’ were (in their original forms) names given to these objects by people with very different views from yours. To you, a tree is simply a vegetable organism, and a star simply a ball of inanimate matter moving along a mathematical course. But the first men to talk of ‘trees’ and ‘stars’ saw things very differently. To them, the world was alive with mythological beings. They saw the stars as living silver, bursting into flame in answer to the eternal music. They saw the sky as a jeweled tent, and the earth as the womb whence all living things have come. To them, the whole of creation was ‘myth-woven and elf patterned’.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien, from ‘Mythopoeia’
Aperiodic Monotile
Super big news from this lot. (ArXiv)
A monotile that admits no periodic tilings, but uncountably many aperiodic tilings. WOW.
And they're calling it the Hat.
And Craig announced it with an animation!
cestum veneris
Birthday presents ✨️
stars
shit man this got me emotional
🤍
Robert Anton Wilson, Quantum Psychology
Wake up babe new aperiodic tiling dropped
Aperiodic tiling with only one tile!
na bachlóga
the buds
What is quantum cognition? Physics theory could predict human behavior. | Live Science
Philosophy of science - Wikipedia
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.
C.W. Leadbeater
