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Jan 3, 2024

There are certain ancient Egyptian texts from long before Set of Avaris and his later monotheist avatars (Aten, Jehovah, Allah) known as Resurrection texts‘

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This track by multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, Prof Steve Nichols, is inspired by Utterance 437 from the Old Kingdom Egyptian Pyramid Texts.\

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Jan 3, 2024

Consciousness is a Big Suitcase

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“[People] like themselves just as they are,” says Marvin Minsky. “Perhaps they are not selfish enough, or imaginative, or ambitious. Myself, I don’t much like how people are now. We’re too shallow, slow, and ignorant. I hope that our future will lead us to ideas that we can use to improve ourselves.”

Marvin believes that it is important that we “understand how our minds are built, and how they support the modes of thought that we like to call emotions. Then we’ll be better able to decide what we like about them, and what we don’t—and bit by bit we’ll rebuild ourselves.”

Marvin Minsky is the leading light of AI—artificial intelligence, that is. He sees the brain as a myriad of structures. Scientists who, like Minsky, take the strong AI view believe that a computer model of the brain will be able to explain what we know of the brain’s cognitive abilities. Minsky identifies consciousness with high-level, abstract thought, and believes that in principle machines can do everything a conscious human being can do.

Jan 3, 2024

Paper page — DocLLM: A layout-aware generative language model for multimodal document understanding

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Join the discussion on this paper page.

Jan 3, 2024

We’ve never understood how hunger works. That might be about to change

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Scientists have spent decades trying to unravel the intricate mysteries of the human appetite. Are they on the verge of finally determining how this basic drive functions?

Jan 2, 2024

After 34 Years, Someone Finally Beat Tetris

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The first ever “True” Killscreen was just reached in NES Tetris. Can this record ever be broken?

Jan 2, 2024

Diagnostic Accuracy of a Large Language Model in Pediatric Case Studies

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This diagnostic/prognostic study evaluates the accuracy of a large language model against physician diagnoses in pediatric cases.

Jan 2, 2024

The Apple Vision Pro 2 tipped to have more advanced, brighter displays

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Here’s what’s coming.

Jan 2, 2024

Brazil’s Hydrological Wonder: Unraveling the Secrets of Cabo Frio’s Cool Waters

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People have long noticed that the waters around Cabo Frio are unusually cool.

When European explorers first surveyed the coastline of what is now the state of Rio de Janeiro in the early 1500s, they encountered white sands, turquoise waters, shallow lagoons, and lush green mountains rising from the sea. The waters in one area, however, were unusually cool—so much so that the promontory in southeastern Brazil shown above was named Cabo Frio, Portuguese for “Cape Cold.”

Landsat 9’s OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) captured this image of Cabo Frio’s diverse coastline on September 16, 2023. The map (below) shows that surface waters that day were cooler off of Cabo Frio than in the surrounding waters. The pattern is common: Upwelling of cold water from deeper in the ocean to the surface often chills Cabo Frio’s surface waters by several degrees.

Jan 2, 2024

Google Settles $5 Billion Privacy Lawsuit Over Tracking Users in ‘Incognito Mode’

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Google settles a $5 billion class-action lawsuit over tracking in ‘incognito mode.’

Jan 2, 2024

11 Scientific Reasons Why Attractive People Are More Successful in Life

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Attractive people had higher-rated communication skills than unattractive people.

“Physical attractiveness raises social and communication skills, which in return raise an employer’s estimate of the worker’s productivity,” researchers Mobius and Rosenblat write. “We assume that the employer is unaware of these biases and hence does not correct for them.”

This has a major impact over the course of a career. Research shows that raising kids’ social skills is a better predictor of lifetime earnings than raising their intellectual ability.

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