8 December 2023

It's been quiet about Q* recently. After Altman's return OpenAI, this topic has dropped off the radar. Here's more about Q*, but after reading this, it doesn't seem major enough to warrant what Sutskever did. Maybe it really was all just a clash of personalities.

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Fascinating geological and geographical mystery. Definitely worth 25 min of your time.


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This tech writer was not impressed with Gemini's debut yesterday.  Sure enough, Google admits to staging much of it. They haven't created a positronic brain after all. And some people wonder if A.I. is just a "Clever Hans". Sometimes I feel the same way.

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Just as you can use A.I.-generated pictures free of copyright concerns, you can to the same with music. There's an A.I. stock music generator now. Probably good for video background music.

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This story is BIG! Nature published a report with a title that makes it seem like just another obscure technical publication. It's titled N1-methylpseudouridylation of mRNA causes +1 ribosomal frameshifting. But what it reports is that the mRNA COVID-19 vax product is associated with a very serious side-effect of common frameshift mutations that cause the ribosome to transcribe random proteins, in addition to the spike protein that it's supposed to code for. And some of these random proteins can resemble some important proteins that are involved in the immune system.  So you might be inadvertently immunized against something you're not supposed to be. Here's a tweet that discusses this.  The vax really needs to be taken off the market ASAP, and people informed about it. 

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Gender detransitioning lawsuits are on the rise.

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One of the reasons that Multnomah County ambulance service is running short is because the director, Dr. Jon Jui, insists that there be two paramedics on each ambulance, instead of one paramedic and one EMT, like in other cities. He's pretty insistent on that, so the effect is that we are often at zero status, with no ambulances to go around.
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Here's a weird worm.  Its butt develops its own brain, detaches itself and swims away. Reminds me of some of the people in the news, whose brains seem to be strongly connected to their butts (and genitals).

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The Journal of Universal Rejection. Every issue is empty. Nothing is worthy.

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Just as I thought. Rocking motions synchronize brain waves. I find that with gentle rocking, I can meditate much easier and be free of distracting thoughts. You can focus on a candle flame, on a bell tone, on a mantra, or you can focus on rhythmic motions.

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How to spot exceptionally talented people. You know them by their actions.

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