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by robwwilliams 9d ago
Yes, and genetic variant generally do not act in isolation. We currently focus on the small additive effects of variants because we can with small sample sizes—and 1 million humans is marginal using a GWAS cohort to dive into epistasis. But
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by robwwilliams 24d ago
van Creveld is correct spelling.
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by robwwilliams 24d ago
Two other great books on failures in inevitably complex military operations are: 1. Command in War (1985) by Martin van Creveldt. He dissects may complex but common military failure causes up to the Vietnam War. 2. Team of Teams (2015) by S
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by robwwilliams 1mo ago
Poor commentary with no documentation or citation. At least point to the source of data for 200 plus countries. Presumably from IHME at the University of Washington. This paper is worth reading. The caricature is not. Global, regional, and
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by robwwilliams 1mo ago
I have started beating the hell out of Claude with stylometric analyses of writers I admire; usually technical writers like Terry Winograd, Leslie Lamport, Rodney Brooks. Then the “no or minimal rhetorical flourishes” rule; no British em-da
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by robwwilliams 1mo ago
Yep. Such a classic Claude flavored product. Good ideas wrapped in cotton candy. I often read as much as 1000 words thinking to myself: “this is smooth”, but then think to myself “Is this my friend Opus 4.8 or now Opus 5?. In this case the
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by robwwilliams 2mo ago
Easy enough to change. I have a Stylometry Skill fit to my preferred style—a mix of me and Terry Winograd. Give Opus 10 of your best paper thst you wrote and tell it to build a model of your style. hHard to distinguish except I make way mor
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by robwwilliams 2mo ago
You patent and protect (as best you can) the missing ingredients needed to get to AGI. Only half joking and also scary to contemplate. Qualcomm’s CDMA patent is on example. ARM and Texas Instruments two other examples.
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by robwwilliams 2mo ago
There is no one-size-fits-all, even for programming.
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by robwwilliams 2mo ago
For my quirky workflows I need 100K even to prep Opus 4.8 or higher to begin good work. Not programming, but a complex synthetic architecture for implementing more attentional autonomy for machines.
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by robwwilliams 2mo ago
Not how I view it as a 74 yo. Patients get what their doctors want as part of a culture of minimal preventive care (it does not pay) and massive medical care (procedures pay handsomely). Try to get a unilateral diagnostic mammogram. Sorry i
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by robwwilliams 2mo ago
Funny: This title is a classic statement of Martin Heidegger’s. Go programmers!
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by robwwilliams 3mo ago
Share your concern. One point is that this is not “mind reading”. This is “motor command reading”. This is really no different than placing recording electrodes near motor neurons that direct vocalization. Or in terminal nerve fibers that m
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by robwwilliams 3mo ago
In academic research I have seen this same trend, particularly intensely in IT and security. Lock it down, lock it up, and slow down research. A hierarchy of admins and techs taught to cover their asses.
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by robwwilliams 3mo ago
I initial thought this was a great tongue-in-cheek comment. I still think it is a joke.
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by robwwilliams 3mo ago
Not how I see it. And I have seen Europe close up for 60 years. It is wealthier and happier than it was even 15 years ago. Visit Spain, Portugal, Greece, and of course the other larger northern states; no comparison. Immigration has served
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by robwwilliams 3mo ago
Yes, sure, but not efficiently. Even Pops will not want to run four hair dyer GPUs 24-7 in the garage.
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by robwwilliams 3mo ago
I think you are right when you factor in the much more efficient newer high end GPU. That is what may make the current GPu investments obsolete in 2-4 years.
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by robwwilliams 3mo ago
Yann is on the mark. Almost amusing to see the EU along with its many former “subjects” realize they are at great risk of joint Chinese-American hegemony in AI. We should all be more terrified of a few nation states defining the agendas and
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by robwwilliams 3mo ago
Completely agree. This is what Hofstadter means by a strange loop. Our current LLMs have no attentional autonomy by design. The recursion is superficial and without its own Now. Adding attentional autonomy is The frightening alignment issue
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by robwwilliams 3mo ago
You nailed it. Asking the question is asking to define from the outside what is an inner recursive process. The question is a simple confusion of domains. This is Humbert Maturana’s main point in Autopoiesis and Cognition (1980, now reissue
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by robwwilliams 3mo ago
Great, and won’t we all be just as surprised when human self-attentional control turns out to be just as simple or just as complex! Our minds as a strange fabric built of threads of recursions without the benefit of any explicit clock.
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by robwwilliams 4mo ago
Diderot’s Jacque, The Fatalist is a great example. Perhaps even moreso of endless recursion to the end.
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by robwwilliams 4mo ago
Living downwind of Colossus I and Colossus II in Memphis has orders of magnitude more weight than even a convention large data center. On par with a large cargo airport like MEM (FedEx hub).
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by robwwilliams 4mo ago
What was the specific mathematical or factual error? It is not theoretical for me.
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by robwwilliams 4mo ago
The newer location is about 3 miles southwest of the Memphis Airport (MEM), one of the world’s largest cargo airports and the center of FedEx operations (500 take-off and landings per day most concentrated in a 6 h FedEx window with lots o
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by robwwilliams 4mo ago
Not in my fields of science: Genetics and neuroscience. The combination of Opus 4.7 Adaptive used with well structure project folders is amazingly useful.
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by robwwilliams 4mo ago
Completely on the mark! Algorithms can differ qualitatively. Recursion.
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by robwwilliams 4mo ago
It would have to explain how we construct “Now” from atemporal cells that are without a clock.
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by robwwilliams 4mo ago
Mainly because of recursive processes that modulate attentional focus, but of a special sort that we are just beginning to understand.

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