For anyone uncertain of terminology, "organic" does not mean or even necessarily imply life.
For example, "organic" molecules -- tholins -- are the reason Pluto's got red on it, and there's pretty close to zero speculation of life out there. In Pluto's case, they form just from UV interactions with methane. Both methane and the tholins produced from it are fairly abundant in our solar system out past the sun's frost band.
What this does indicate is even more evidence that Mars at least has at some point been a place suitable for life. These are among the ingredients you need to make a big old bowl of primordial soup.
*The world 3 months ago:*AI is growing exponentially and might take over the world soon. It can do everything you can, but better, and some even seem almost centient.
*The world today:*Turns out the large language model made to fool us tried to fool us by ‘unexpectedly’ exhibiting behavior it was made for.
This is definitely interesting... However I would caveat this with the fact that in the past, Nature & Science have both previously published more than their fair share of studies that would later be retracted for lack of reproducibility.
Most of this is due to the fact that when you're a publication on the bleeding edge and there's a lot of mid-term name and career recognition that comes with being published there, there's also a higher level of academic fraud that can happen to get there.
I would keep a cautious eye out for retractions as well as labs that attempt to reproduce results... I also want to dig deeper and see if the mouse studies done had replication attempts by different labs as well and I won't have a ton of time to do that today, but regardless it's certainly a potentially a large breakthrough in cognition if it holds up.
Definitely. I just found the whole thing odd tbh... First of all, Nature is extremely rigorous with their review (because they only publish highly novel/interesting findings and is very thus susceptible to fraudulent stuff). Yet this paper passed for a Nature-branded journal (albeit a newer one, I think Nature Aging is only like 1yr old or sth) with doing only one experiment (a monkey trial), and they don't even know what this "klotho" thing is... My suspicion is that the aging field is just too small so Nature Aging is lowering their standards? They've accepted less than stellar works before too.
The results seem fine to me & I really hope this is something real since I'm also studying aging, but as someone with some medicinal chemistry training... Nothing is confirmed until you get a positive phase 2 clinical trial result, otherwise we'd have cured all cancer and Alzheimer's a long time ago lol... I'm not putting my eggs in this basket just yet
"The world has grown old, does not enjoy that strength which it formerly enjoyed, and does not flourish with the same vigor and strength with which it formerly prevailed ... The farmer is vanishing and disappearing in the fields, the sailor on the sea, the soldier in the camp, innocence in the marketplace, justice in the courts, harmony among friendships, skill among the arts, discipline in morals."
Fun fact: there's a name for the phenomenon of instantly recognizing the number of objects when it's fewer than five. It's called "subitizing."
There's a pretty interesting overview of what we know about math on the brain (or at least knew as of its writing) in the book "Where Mathematics Comes From" by Lakoff and Nuñez.
Well which neurons immediately decide to shove it off to the 4 or less neurons or the 5 or more neurons? Because they must be the ones running the show.
Talking out of my ass here but I guess the initial information from the eyes goes to many pathways and reaches both and more. It's just a question of which ones react.
I mean, from my understanding of Japanese, this makes sense. There's certain humor and puns that exist due to the usage of Kanji and its meaning (that typically get lost in translation).
Makes sense. I live in Colombia and sometimes I have to look up a word in a dictionary or online translator if I don’t know the word in Spanish. Problem is Spanish is not one language. Some words mean very different things depending on which country you’re in and most dictionaries only give you the meaning from Spain. This can be a bit of a problem when you run into issues like the word “coger”. Here in Colombia it means “to grab or hold”. Most of the rest of the Spanish speaking world it means “to fuck”.
So yeah, we’re better off with multiple LLMs since bias sucks.
Note that in Spain "coger" also means "to grab or hold" just like in Colombia. So most dictionaries are likely to use that.
But you are completely right.
I mean, "una polla" in Spain would be "a penis"... but everywhere else it means either "a female chicken" or, in some places, "a girlfriend". In others it means "a bet", and I think in Mexico it's the name of an egg-based drink.
since the reference detectors and the receiver detectors are connected with physical cables
Key limitation, so while somthing like a tunnelling machine this is great way to allign (but we already do that perfectly with lasers) for things like submarines and cave explorers not wanting to lay a line it is not the silver bullet it sounds like
In its first phase of development, these reference detectors had to be connected to the receivers via a wired configuration to guarantee precise time synchronization. This work describes more versatile, wireless muometric navigation system (MuWNS), which was designed in conjunction with a cost-effective, crystal-oscillator-based grandmaster clock and a performance evaluation is reported for shallow underground/indoor, deep underground and undersea environments.
A wireless master-detector connection is bound by the same limitation: radio waves don't propagate well in water and rock.
This could work underground for commercial operations via a combination of wired or wireless relays, but not for submarines or in other recreational situations, like spelunking.
The digital Through-The-Earth (TTE) communication system can be used to provide communications links from the surface to below-ground locations. The system can be used to provide real-time monitoring of equipment sensors. The TTE communication uses very low frequency (VLF) transmission (transmission is usually done with magnetic induction, at frequencies below 30 kHz) to provide reliable data links through environments surrounded by rock, but this system in turn severely limits the bandwidth available for information transmission with data rates ranging from 9 bps to 1 kpbs43. However, since both reference and receiver detectors have their own clock, the information that would have to be transferred to the counterpart detector to be effective is just n and t. Therefore, this data rate is sufficient for MuWNS communication requirements.
How can you have "reference" detectors if they are not talking to the differential as providing the accuracy. or maybe it can be used to tell you where you were when you come back to the surface and compare notes, but I dont see how it can see where you are now? However, mapping the seabed with a UAV if it can produce a this is what a saw, is an interesting project.
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