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Sparky

@tbc0

@[email protected] is a technologist serving God FS&HG with technology, science, theology, philosophy, civility, podcasts, etc. in mind. On @ks_found board. ✞🇺🇸

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Sparky

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10 Nov 2015

This #poem must exist. The dishwasher is a marv'lous machine! Put dishes in dirty—and out they come, clean! #marvelous

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Speaking as the guy you’re agreeing with, it wouldn’t hurt for you, @ElonMusk, to get behind the Knowledge Standards Foundation. Encyclosphere.org. Decentralize knowledge (in the old-fashioned way, by spreading out and duplicating the data).

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14 Nov

These ones are updated with v1.1, tested, and ready to ship! Funds go to support the 501(c)(3) Knowledge Standards Foundation.

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14 Nov

Re-launching ZWIBook (version 1.1)! 69,020 books on a 128GB flash drive. Now with built-in EPUB export! Transfer books to your phone to read there! All the public domain books (classics) from Project Gutenberg through June 2024. I wrote the reader software. It's solid. I'm…

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5 Nov

After 16 years of operation, the #LHC collider has not discovered any new physics beyond the Standard Model. While it is possible such physics does not exist, it is also possible that we have not used the right methods to find it. A recent article demonstrated that the LHC data…

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Sparky

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26 Nov 2021

TIL you can't trump Johnny Gentle. Or can you? And today I join the ranks of Tweeps who have mentioned David Foster Wallace aka DFW aka qqDFW aka D18e / referred to his work. A clever bunch. 1/2

Sparky

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10 Nov

Here language is perfected as a sequence and becomes speech and reply. — Martin Buber tr. Kaufmaann

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9 Nov

Kudos @WNGdotorg for chapters in The World and Everything in It podcast. I'm behind this week. Chapters allow me to skip old news and still catch up on your other features!

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9 Nov

I just published a new one-page booklet bit.ly/tbc0l1108a2 It's a conversation I had with Google Gemini to calculate the area of polygons on a map. It did it right! Check out the Babe reference at the end. All my booklets can be found at bit.ly/m/tbc0

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8 Nov

Search for "simple bench" ai benchmarks here. As for me, I'm most impressed with simple-bench.com b/c it shows what bots are still bad at compared with human beings: spatio-temporal reasoning, social intelligence, and linguistic adversarial robustness (trick questions).

Sparky

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7 Nov

biblechat.ai dropped this in my app feed. To which I say, Amen! Lord, help us to discern and follow Your will in all things. Teach us to trust Your plans, surrender our desires, and walk in Your ways. May Your will be done in our lives. In Jesus' name, Amen.