Singularitarian/post-humanism/technocratic hedonism/ML engineer and researcher/physicist

There are only two choicès for us(sentients)... -either explore the possibilities beyond the horizon to unravel the true Nature of reality and the universe is just one part of it... - or just live your life in complete ignorance and Dogma and never have a curious mind about exploring what can be out there among the stars and beyond that darkness there maybe a way out to truly find out the solution to nature's creation... And seen from a civilizational standpoint, the average population of the entire planet is just steering their mindset into the second choice... Remember, This path demands courage, intellectual curiosity, and a willingness to challenge established paradigms... Mostly seen is Seek comfort in the confines of pre-defined beliefs and doctrines, opting for a life devoid of existential exploration. This path offers the illusion of stability, built upon a foundation of unquestioning acceptance. Yet, it condemns us to a myopic existence, forever blind to the wonders that lie beyond the veil of our immediate perception... [The future of our civilization hinges on the choice we make. Will we remain content with the shadows, or will we dare to step into the light? Will we choose stagnation, or will we embrace the endless possibilities that lie beyond the horizon?] This is not merely a personal decision; it is a collective choice that will shape the destiny of our species. By choosing to explore the unknown, we embark on a journey that promises not only to unravel the mysteries of the universe but also to unlock the full potential of our own being. The choice is clear: embrace the unknown and embark on the grand adventure of existence, or remain tethered to the shores of ignorance. The future of our civilization, and the very essence of our sentience, hangs in the balance.
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Replying to @ilaffey2
HOLY SHIT.. THIS IS BASED/CHAD AF YOU GOT A FUCKIN GRANDPA WHO CODES BRUH
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Replying to @dianalokada
Guys, do not skip a leg day, Diana might be a part of intelligence op that is planted to manipulate you..
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Replying to @Enezator
salute to the girl who trusted him for this... damnnn, best chase scene ever seen in my life.. level 1 police catch so hard in real life..
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Replying to @neuralink
Never have I been so moved by Neuralink.. Seeing these people together really warms my heart... The company is really making a huge change
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An uninformed majority will always lose the battle of information against an informed minority.
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Replying to @UAPJames
HOLY SHIT, THIS IS WILD... I THINK IT'S TIME TO TALK ABOUT THE 4CHAN UAP WHISTLEBLOWER
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Replying to @maharshii
It’s basically because they can’t comprehend what kind of pain/struggle we all have been through to reach at this point… Working our asses off to just thrust beyond the odds….
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Replying to @PhysInHistory
These guys changed history and reshaped the functions for ethereal visions of mathematics... Basically, they discovered more than anybody in their lifetimes... and truly revolutionized the framework for understanding the intricate details of the universe...
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Replying to @Rainmaker1973
Voyager 1 is already outside the Oort cloud Voyager 1 has officially entered interstellar space, making it the first human-made object to do so. @CommunityNotes.....
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>dude got kicked out of Columbia >Dude got blacklisted by Amazon >Scaled @InterviewCoder and now cluely >Badass mfer He kinda deserves it bro, let him have the fruit of his work..
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Accurate...
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Replying to @uncledoomer
Dude looks like this
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Holy shit bro... This is concerning!!! If this is really true,Immediate measures should be taken, we can't risk our future...
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Replying to @deepseek_ai
And here comes the king
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Find someone in your life who looks at you the way Elon musk looks at giorgia meloni... POV: i guess this will never end 😅 It's inevitable....
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Replying to @BillyM2k
Now we are literally on the verge of feeling this revolution coming...from here it's just going to get better and better.... These AI generated images are gonna get so accurate that they would get indistinguishable from reality itself...
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Replying to @PhysInHistory
Not only this, but John von Neumann's intellectual prowess extends far beyond the remarkable milestones already mentioned.... Beyond his linguistic prowess and early mathematical feats, von Neumann's impact on the world is amplified by his groundbreaking work in game theory. < His contributions laid the foundation for strategic decision-making in economics, military, and beyond. The concept of the "minimax theorem" became a cornerstone in understanding optimal strategies, leaving an indelible mark on the fields of mathematics and strategic analysis> In addition to his mathematical brilliance, von Neumann was instrumental in the development of the digital computer. <His visionary insights played a pivotal role in conceptualizing and constructing the first electronic computers, marking a transformative era in the history of computing, it was the basis of everything at thst time.> Furthermore, von Neumann's interdisciplinary pursuits extended into nuclear physics and quantum mechanics. <He was included and played a pivotal role in the Manhattan Project, contributing his expertise to the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....> ----
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Replying to @ilyasu
THIS IS FUCKIN COOL AS HELL!!!
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Replying to @tetsuoai
MAN!!! you are making it hard for me to not buy it 😅 Did u test it with opus 4?
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What if I tell you that the NSA has backdoored your intel/AMD CPU!!!
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Bro you're not leaving right? 😢
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Replying to @mprkhrst
Those solutions in Riemannian manifolds within boundary conditions were pretty intriguing and amazing at the same time...
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Replying to @skdh
Sabine, don't get into this... Keep roasting particle physicists
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Replying to @HumansNoContext
If we keep our primates busy with reasonable amount of resources they will forget their freedom of expression of knowing what's out there...... In short context, we as the people of earth have reasonable amount of resources to survive, but the main truth lies above you within the universe and what is our place in the universe...
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Replying to @verdakorz
Holy fuck, dude's holding a fuckin lollipop and actually coding minecraft agents.. This is insane AURA
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Now this i what I call Techno-optimism...
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Replying to @PicturesFoIder
Like damn, he was right....
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Pretty accurate...
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One of my greatest memes ever @AdrianDittmann
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Replying to @prof_g
Well, I hate to agree😅, but Yann is correct irrespective of his BS feud with Elon... LLMs are these autoregressive database technologies... Out of my previous experience in LSTMs, the transformers are just doing what it's been trained on... In some cases, it's reasoning to generate some novel insights from some parts of physics, mathematics, and code, but it's just on some variables that don't have much impact. There is always a human-level input required to refine the answers... Unless we really have a system which is able to answer questions in one shot, then it's really "AGI". But for that, as far as I know, scaling RL on test-time compute is not the path!!! Novel architectures are needed(as Yann made a point)
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Nice headline for @elonmusk
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There was a time when Neil Degrasse Tyson said that "private enterprises will never lead a space frontier"...(literally these were his exact words) "Well look where are we right now"
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Another day, another legacy media propaganda BS...
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Sigh....
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Pretty relevant!!!
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Find someone in your life who looks at you the way Giorgia Meloni looks at Elon Musk...
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Interstellar ambitiously attempts to blend cutting-edge science with raw human drama, but ultimately reaches farther than its grasp. Director Christopher Nolan thrillingly transports us into the dark abyss of space, while the engrossing performances keep us tethered to the intimate family storyline. However, the balance between spectacle and emotion isn't always elegant. Visually, Interstellar is a staggering technical marvel. Nolan takes full advantage of IMAX's enveloping scale, placing the audience directly into the cockpit alongside Matthew McConaughey's stoic pilot Cooper. The sweeping camerawork contrasts starkly with increasingly unfamiliar planets and black holes that warp space and time. Hans Zimmer's pulsating, permeating score amplifies the existential intensity. McConaughey anchors the humanity amidst the cosmic scale and heady concepts. His heartbreaking portrayal of a father torn between exploring the stars and raising his daughter resonates deeply. Jessica Chastain also impresses as his resolute adult daughter Murphy, representing human perseverance. But ultimately the plot grows unwieldy, with logic and plausibility sacrificed for spectacle and emotion. By overreaching for profundity, Interstellar trips over its own ambitious goals. But as an immersive journey into the furthest reaches of space and what drives human exploration, it still succeeds in gripping our imagination,
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How come anybody is not noticing this!!! Christopher Nolan is the only guy in the film industry, which first of all knows how to actually engage the audience with immaculate enthralling concepts of physics.... But if you think from an another perspective, he is an 'e/acc' who is the only guy who understands a physicist's mind and inspires all of mankind to come together for a greater good to push the boundaries of physics to understand reality better... He's our MAN.....
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WTF, I DON'T UNDERSTAND... HE WAS ON A VISA THE WHOLE TIME...?
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she just can't stop looking at him like that...😅 Find someone in your life who looks at you the way Elon musk looks at giorgia meloni... Hence this will never ever end!!😅
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A man who is trying to tackle a problem that has been existing from the start of our civilization known as 'death', death is a disease as I believe, and only this man understands the true importance of human evolution. Homo sapiens to para sapiens Btw nice trio🔥
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Where do you stand here?
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Replying to @ShanaDiez @elonmusk
You are indeed one of the most important women in the annals of space history.... Onwards and upwards 🔥
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Replying to @DJSnM
yeah, exactly the main fact that is highly concerning is the debris in international relations... that would kinda create more barriers for the next launch....
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Replying to @lauriewired
Nice :) So basically before deploying it on a nvidia farm We could first test our models on these MacBooks(that’s the whole purpose ig…)
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Replying to @dhaval_shroff
Tbh, the most crazy outcome will be is how they're going to be doing it which will be the most entertaining thing... nitter.app/Alpha7987/status/18565…
The era of "afuera" has begun.... And the start of fluid development of innovation in technology....
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The comments are insane🔥
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Replying to @MCUSource
Yeah because knull is coming!!
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Replying to @MindgraspAI
Community notes ftw....
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Who's this legend?
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Bro, just don't let this happen, I know you are better than this...
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Replying to @Rainmaker1973
Nanomembranes, which typically feature nanopores in the range of nanometers, facilitate the selective transport of water molecules while blocking salt ions due to their size exclusion properties. This innovative desalination method takes advantage of the unique characteristics of these nanomembranes, allowing for the swift removal of salt from seawater. By eliminating the need for an external power supply, this technology circumvents the energy-intensive processes traditionally associated with desalination, such as reverse osmosis. The key to its efficiency lies in harnessing osmotic potential and naturally occurring gradients in ion concentrations. By exploiting these gradients, the nanomembranes induce a diffusion-driven flow of water through their nanopores, effectively purifying the saltwater into potable freshwater within a remarkably short timeframe, in this case, less than 2 minutes. This approach not only addresses the critical issue of freshwater scarcity but also contributes to environmental sustainability by reducing energy consumption and minimizing the environmental footprint associated with conventional desalination methods. Further research and development in this area hold immense promise for meeting the world's growing demand for freshwater resources while minimizing ecological impact.
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Replying to @PhysInHistory
Niels Bohr's groundbreaking work in quantum mechanics, notably the Copenhagen interpretation, revolutionized our understanding of reality. By asserting that observation plays a pivotal role in defining physical reality, he paved the way for a paradigm shift. Bohr's insights into the probabilistic nature of quantum phenomena and the concept of "complementarity"underscore the intricate balance in measuring system properties....
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Replying to @dianalokada
Thank you, but
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Replying to @amitisinvesting
Man i just love his energy, how he is so hyper-enthusiastic about anything he is saying... LFGGGG🔥🔥🔥
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We need to become a space-fairing species, otherwise we will all go extinct... Survival for humanity in the long run depends on it...
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Replying to @AdrianDittmann
Wait a min
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Just build!!!
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Replying to @PhysInHistory
This always hits for the greater sense of good... And so true that it totally contradicts simulation theory...
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Replying to @perplexity_ai
Jin Yaaaaaaaaang
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Pretty much.... 😂😂
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Replying to @DrKnowItAll16
Well I kind of agree and disagree with you over some functionalities and insights... Time is a relativistic operator that's why it acts as function of illusion cause it doesn't exists in reality...it has no measurement in actual existing reality, when we start taking time as a reference operator(a.k.a relativistic operator) we start to see changes on a dynamical scale in space.. Eg: Time dilation on a chronological clocks, but actually it's just a event of illusion because you can't dilate motion in reference that's when you go faster the time goes slower because you are moving some seconds ahead in speed and that's why you start to see a difference in both the clocks(one clock in spaceship and another clock on earth).. when we solve for GR solutions we intend to have feasibility that's why we take time as an reference operator and thereby calling it space-time equations... On a quantum level you'll start to see much evidence for actually neglecting time.. Higher feasibility comes in taking time-independent Schrodinger equations not the one with dependency of time... There are some cases where GR completely breaks down and there are some areas where it successes in the most inquisitive way.. Quantum Realm: Challenge: General relativity doesn't account for quantum effects at extremely small scales. Analysis: In situations involving high energy densities or tiny distances, quantum effects become significant. A theory of quantum gravity is sought to seamlessly integrate quantum mechanics with gravity. Singularity Problem: Challenge: Singularities predicted by general relativity, like those at the center of black holes, suggest breakdowns in the theory. Analysis: Singularities imply infinite densities, indicating the need for a more refined theory to describe such extreme conditions. Quantum gravity theories aim to provide a consistent framework in these scenarios. Dark Matter and Dark Energy: Challenge: General relativity does not directly incorporate dark matter and dark energy. Analysis: The observed gravitational effects on galaxies and the accelerating expansion of the universe are not fully explained by visible matter and general relativity alone. Modified theories or new particles might be necessary to account for these phenomena. Cosmic Inflation: Challenge: While general relativity explains the large-scale structure of the universe, the mechanism behind cosmic inflation is not fully understood. Analysis: Inflationary cosmology suggests a rapid expansion in the early universe. The physics driving inflation may require modifications or extensions to general relativity, possibly involving scalar fields. Gravitational Singularities: Challenge: The occurrence of singularities, like the Big Bang singularity, raises questions about the nature of spacetime. Analysis: Understanding the nature of singularities involves exploring the conditions under which general relativity breaks down. Here,Quantum gravity seeks to provide a more complete description of spacetime at such critical points. Unified Theory: Challenge: General relativity is not unified with other fundamental forces. Analysis: A unified theory, often referred to as a "theory of everything," aims to integrate gravity with other forces. String theory and loop quantum gravity are among the candidate theories seeking this unification.(which is long way to go and truly reconcile over all cases) I just wanna be very clear that there are some hidden variables that we need to find out such as how gravitational constant comes in the parentheses without any interaction of the functions of dark matter, so where are the variables of DM..so there is a long way to go until we Fully understand what's going on... And at last, I just wanted to say that you're not crazy, we need more people like you to think beyond the mere functions of infinity.. as a physicist I am saying that your insight was really intuitive and productive...
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Replying to @Rainmaker1973
Turns out, if biology does persist far into the future then we live in a privileged moment... In the late chapter, the universe will seem far different, distant galaxies will fade away from view, stars will die off, and the night skies will go dark. Perhaps life in the far future will wonder: what it was like to live in the universe's brilliant early days? We are lucky enough to know the answer. All we have to do is look up... seriously we need to become a multi-planetary species to truly understand this undetermined universe... We might not know exactly that this universe will be going through "heat death"...
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It's the year 2030, humanity ultimately emerges victorious to land a first integrated test flight of starship on MARS... Opening a window of opportunity to go beyond the mere horizons of our limited imagination... We shall persevere to keep this hope and curiosity for the sake of our own species and other species salvation...
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Replying to @yacineMTB
Hey bro, nobody's asking you, but i'm gonna ask you this.. "How are you doing bro?"
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Replying to @AnjneyMidha
I do remember this:[Ion Stoica warned about this 6 months ago in his CA assembly testimony against sb1047 - the writing was on the wall when Qwen was released] It was pretty enigmatic, but now it seems that it’s just as matter of time that we need to catch up….
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Replying to @Rainmaker1973
Aldous hexley is one of the people like Arthur C. Clarke... They both understand the importance of an emergence of a new civilization and transcending beyond the horizons if we survived all the great filters... This will mark up the most greatest moment for the next generation as they thrust beyond the immediate sphere of our earth and raging against the darkness of the universe... For the progress of our civilization, we need to wipe the deceased one...(I mean the one with conditions of dogma and concepts of imaginative fictional characters known as god's)
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Replying to @kalomaze
What looks like “horseshit” from the outside is often just the trade‑offs you make to balance memory, compute and quality on current hardware...
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This is what it looks like in propulsion by the culmination of smart people's evolutionary thinking...
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The pleasure is unmeasurable...
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POV: you're still in that zone😅
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Replying to @PhysInHistory
Legends....
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I still can't believe Elon Musk is born 69 days after 4/20.... Like literally I still can't.....
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Replying to @kalomaze
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if anyone was able to spot it😂
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Replying to @itsoksmit
Much better: I wrote a C++ code that demonstrates a mature approach to memory management. Efficient use of RAII and smart pointers ensures that resources are handled with both precision and elegance.…(mic drop)
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I am really having a hard time to just process that Diet Coke did this… Unreal
Elon Musk
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I truly approve of this message... There have never been more women in this field, not even in the history of physics and mathematics. She has been no more than an inspiration to all of humanity to show truly that all the spirit of those great women(Emmy Noether, Grace Hopper, Mae Jemison, Marie -curie,) is not dead... She truly deserves to be in the annals of space history...(no kidding)
Who is Gwynne Shotwell, the woman behind the success of SpaceX? - By Felix Gatfield (@Space_Time3) As of September 2024, there are over thirteen thousand employees at SpaceX, from engineers to board members, but there’s one woman who sticks out from the rest. The eleventh employee of SpaceX, @Gwynne_Shotwell joined them in 2002 after holding two previous roles at Chrysler, which she left as she didn’t find the work interesting, after which she ventured into the aerospace industry, working at The Aerospace Corporation conducting work on their military space research and development contracts, during which she had the chance to work on Space Shuttle Flight STS-139, in 1998 she left them to become the director of space systems at Microcosm, a relatively small rocket company. But Shotwell hadn’t always wanted to hold a career in the space or engineering industry. She remembers watching the Apollo 11 mission on TV when she was younger and recalls finding it “boring” and having no interest in it at all. Her first spark of interest in engineering was when her mother took her to a panel at the Illinois Institute of Technology held by the Society of Women Engineers. At that specific event, there was a mechanical engineer who owned her own company, which inspired Shotwell to pursue studying engineering. The name of the exact engineer is unknown, but Shotwell remembers, “I loved her suit”. She went to Northwestern University and received a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering, and later, after she left Chrysler, a Master of Science degree in applied mathematics. Shotwell recalls that she was one of three women out of thirty-six mechanical engineering undergrads. In 2002, she was introduced to SpaceX CEO @elonmusk by a colleague she had previously worked with at Microcosm, @HansKoenigsmann, who went on to become VP of Flight Reliability for SpaceX. During her first meeting with Elon Musk, she impressively convinced him that he needed to hire someone to work full-time on their business development, but did not plan to join SpaceX until two weeks later when she took a job offer for that specific role in September of 2002. She was at the company for six years when she was promoted in late 2008 and became SpaceX President. This was due to the role she played in the negotiations of the first $1.6 billion Commercial Resupply Services contract, which SpaceX won after the fourth and first successful launch of the Falcon 1, SpaceX’s first rocket. Without this contract from NASA, SpaceX would have gone bankrupt. During her time as SpaceX President, she has overseen the exponential growth of the Falcon rocket family, taking the cadence from zero launches a year to ninety-six launches in 2024, with more to come. Apart from her work with increasing cadence for the Falcon rocket family, she has played a huge role in the overall success of the company, including acquiring a twenty-year lease of historic Launch Complex 39a at the Kennedy Space Centre, previously used by the Saturn V and Space Shuttle. In 2018, she was listed in “America’s Top 50 Women in Tech”, then again in 2021 in “50 Over 50 – Vision” and again in 2023 in “Power Women” at number 28, and again in 2024 at number 36 in “American’s Self-Made Women”. Shotwell is a huge inspiration, and SpaceX would not be where it is today without her.
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Replying to @UnitreeRobotics
Motherf*ker, that first shot scared the shit out of me
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Hell yeah brother 🔥, that's a great relief!! Thank you for being the greatest VP till now, 15years is a great deal buddy...
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Why is that,that the star has to be massive, else it will not turn into a black hole.... Let’s first understand the inner workings of any star. A star consists of Hydrogen atoms which fuse together to form Helium atoms giving out energy in the process and also increasing the mass of the star (as helium is heavier than hydrogen). That’s nuclear fusion. Stars are not burning fire, they are creating heat energy by fusion. That’s why, putting out Sun with a billion or more gallons of water won’t work....!! Imagine that you have a small, but unbreakable balloon in your hands. You try to squeeze the balloon but, due to the air inside it, you are unable to do it. The air inside it stops you from squeezing it. Something similar happens inside a star, except, it’s not air which is resisting the force of gravity, it’s the radiation due to nuclear fusion reactions. Stars are big nuclear fusion reactors. They continuously convert Hydrogen to Helium inside them. Everything is fine till the time there is enough Hydrogen to convert to Helium. But, as I said before, stars are massive and that means they also have very strong gravity, and gravity being gravity, tries to pull everything towards itself. When the star has nuclear fusion reactions going on inside it, the energy from these reactions keeps pushing against the gravity of the star. (Just like the air in balloon stops you.) Outward force (Energy from radiation) = Inward force (Force of gravity) = All good The fun starts when a star has used up all the hydrogen and converted it to helium. Going back to our balloon example, what would happen if there is no air inside it? You would be able to squeeze it, won’t you? That’s what happens in a star. No hydrogen = No nuclear fusion = No energy The star starts to get smaller and smaller and becomes a bla....- WAIT!!! What about all the Helium inside it? Can’t it convert to something else and give out energy? And that’s exactly what happens. When the star reduces in size, the energy inside it increases and Helium starts to combine and form Lithium. Note: (This cannot happen immediately after Hydrogen is over as Helium to Lithium requires more energy for fusion) Due to the new energy from fusion reactions of Helium, the star starts to expand again. After a few more billion years, Helium is over. The star contracts, then expands because some other heavier element is formed in it. Then that’s over and this happens over and over again. Until…Iron starts forming… Iron absorbs the energy generated by nuclear fusion. So, instead of resisting gravity, all the energy is absorbed and the star starts contracting. With no force to resist gravity, it keeps on shrinking in size while at the same time the mass increases due to fusion reactions which are creating iron in its core. If the star is not massive enough, it will stop shrinking when the electrons (particles with negative charge) in the atoms repel (Two same charges repel) each other and this force resists the force of gravity. This results in dwarf stars. Sometimes, the star is so massive that even the electrons cannot stop the shrinking. In this case, electrons combine with the protons (particles with positive charge) in the atom and form neutrons (particles with no charge). This results in a neutron star. The density of this star is extremely high. But… If a star is extremely massive, even the neutrons cannot stop it from collapsing and the entire star, which was once so massive, is now only a point in space.
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Is mankind truly suited for space colonization?
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Replying to @stochasticchasm
Hmmm, i think In this pattern the “sink” column isn’t meant to store information at all it’s just a learnable scalar logit that soaks up any probability mass the model doesn’t want to assign to real tokens. When you run a model with a sliding window, the early positions tend to accumulate disproportionately high attention; dropping them causes a spike in perplexity. To fix that, recent work inserts one or more dedicated sink tokens at a fixed position; they don’t carry semantics, they sit there across steps and act as structural anchors that absorb excess attention and prevent the model from over‑focusing on the first few tokens . In code this shows up as concatenating a constant column to the QK logits, subtracting the max to avoid overflow, applying softmax and then simply discarding the sink column so its probability mass vanishes. With that reservoir in place, the QK logits no longer have to “explode” to satisfy the softmax, because any leftover attention can be dumped into the sink .
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What is conformal cyclic cosmology...(like WTF is this) "Little bit of background and history and drama"... Advanced by the English mathematician Roger Penrose and his Armenian colleague Vahe Gurzadyan, conformal cyclic cosmology (CCC) is a theory of the universe, rooted in relativity, which competes in certain respects with cosmological models such as inflation and string theory, and with other cyclical schemes like the ekpyrotic universe. CCC was the subject of a 2010 paper by Penrose and Gurzadyan and was the major subject of Penrose’s 2010 book Cycles of Time. Both Penrose and Gurzadyan have lectured widely on the subject in the years since. It is a controversial topic in theoretical physics, considered “fringe” in some quarters. This is in part because CCC contradicts the "inflationary theory", which is widely held to be supported by data — though Penrose would take issue with the idea that the data exclusively support inflation — and in part. After all, proving or falsifying conformal cyclic cosmology through measurement is problematic; it would seem to rely on the as yet only nascent field of gravitational wave astronomy. First attempts to confirm CCC experimentally quickly led to disagreement over methods. Since the early days of the inflationary theories of Alan Guth (1979), Linde, and others, Penrose has stood foremost among a sizable minority of theoretical physicists finding the notion of cosmic inflation disagreeable. Although analyses of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have tended to support inflation on the whole, Penrose holds that inflation as a “best working explanation” is, while extremely elegant, nonetheless speciously artificial and circumstantially unlikely. In particular, he takes issue with the fine-tuned conditions required of the Big Bang; with the questions inflation poses for the universality of the laws of thermodynamics; and with the lack of a confirmed basis for inflation in the realm of particle physics under the Standard Model. "The main simplified explanation starts from here" The (grossly simplified) kernel of CCC is this: the far-future, uniform cold of an infinitely expanding universe is, at least mathematically, no different from the infinitely dense, energetic singularity of a Big Bang event except for a factor of scale. The Big Bang emerges from a point-like singularity. The infinitely expanded universe, on the other hand, is of course extremely large, empty, and cold. When conformal scalar adjustments are made to the spacetime metric at the boundary between these two different kinds of infinity, the far-future infinity of a present iteration of the universe can be neatly stitched to the initial singularity of a successive future iteration. (Conformal geometry involves transformations that preserve shape and angle, but not size. *Penrose good-naturedly refers to this application as a “mathematical trick,” but he is serious about the proposition that it may well represent the ordering of time and entropy in the universe....(yeah I mean, Penrose was definitely sure about this cause "lower entropy will give you a preserved shape and conformality" )) A cycle results in which the infinitely expansive heat death of one iteration of the universe results in the Big Bang of the next iteration. Well, “results in” is the tricky bit to grasp and is not quite right, as there is a sense in which the two events are not different things, but are simply two sides of the very same boundary, each facing a different direction, as it were. The area between two boundaries Penrose refers to as an "Aeon"... We are presented with a model that allows for infinities and doesn’t require any reversal of process into a “Big Crunch”; it is more of an oscillating transformation made by the equivocation of one state with another. But why should we conformally rescale the cosmos in this manner at given points in time? Why should such a thing happen? The apparent age of the universe is about 14 billion years; CCC asks us to imagine a course of future events spanning approximately a googol years to come — that’s a hundred zeroes worth of years, in which context we are not yet so much as fully emerged from the cosmic womb. Eventually black holes will become the dominant objects in the universe, gradually colliding and merging to gobble up whole clusters of galaxies, taking practically all the mass in existence into their impenetrable interiors. Crucially, Penrose accepts the phenomenon of Hawking radiation. Although black holes are very cold indeed, if they are infinitesimally warmer than the surrounding medium, they will gradually leak their contents into space as blackbody radiation via quantum effects at the event horizon. In this way, over an extraorbitantly long and boring expanse of time, all of the mass in the cosmos will be converted into energetic, force-carrying particles, like photons. There will be no more mass. If we accept Einstein’s energy-mass equivalence and Planck’s energy-frequency equivalence, we immediately obtain an equivalence between mass and frequency. In a spacetime in which there is no mass remaining, there are “no clocks,” according to CCC. Measures of distance and time become completely impossible and meaningless in such a state, particularly if massless bosons such as photons and gravitons — pure radiation — travel uniformly at the speed of light. This condition of equilibrium would mark the end of the phase space of the current aeon, simultaneously representing the initial boundary condition, the Big Bang, of the next aeon. Interestingly, since the fields governing radiation (that’s Maxwell, for instance) are scale-invariant, there is no reason why the radiation from one aeon cannot pass the conformal boundary into the next. A degree of continuity between eons is provided: to massless, timeless bosons, the timelike infinity of the far future behaves as a spacelike hypersurface boundary, a border that any photon can cross without so much as showing a passport. One of the predictions of CCC is thus that, in the cosmic microwave background, we should be able to detect the signatures of gravitational waves caused by the collisions of black holes in the aeon before ours — this radiation will have gotten across the boundary in a recognizable form. The cosmic microwave background permeates the entire sky. It is the observable limit of the universe from our point of view, the oldest radiation visible in our rear-view mirror, greatly red-shifted due to its vast and increasing distance. The CMB is extremely anisotropic, its apparent temperature is absolutely even to about one part in 100,000 in all directions and at all angular scales. Penrose suggests that we should expect to find concentric circular aberrations in surveying this field, ghostly relics of black holes before the Big Bang, a little like circular ripples on the surface of a pond after raindrops have fallen. Whether such relics actually exist in current data remains a contentious question; if there is evidence, it is not yet clear, to say the least. CCC is in some sense a fleshing-out of Penrose’s earlier Weyl Curvature Hypothesis (1979), his explanation for a universe in which entropy continuously increases and induces the arrow of time, resulting in a highly anisotropic, uniform expansion of space without recourse to the necessity of a brief period of exponential cosmic inflation in the first instants following the Big Bang. The idea is that one has to account for gravitation when measuring entropy and that the initial condition of the universe must have been extremely low from a gravitational perspective. A gradual increase in gravitational entropy — a change to the fabric of spacetime expressed by Weyl’s metric tensor — allowed for the clumping of matter and the formation of stars and galaxies. Black holes function, by analogy, as machines for reducing this entropy over time as they gobble up matter and laboriously radiate their contents into the medium in the form of energy over trillions of years. They take their sweet time about it but do at last return the universe to a gravitationally low-entropy blank slate. Though CCC satisfies Einsteinian relativity and neatly addresses certain cosmological problems, it is not without issues of its own. For example, it is far from clear how absolutely all of the mass would decay out of a far-future expanding universe as CCC seems to require. There are serious unknowns in the matter of the decay of electrons and other fermions. But Penrose and Gurzadyan believe that the underlying mathematics are too beautiful to ignore and that further investigation is warranted. "And again, no matter how much your theory is beautiful and elegant to think if it doesn't obey the laws and mathematics(detailed physics), it's "bullshit"... Well said by the great "Richard Feynman"(the savage man of physics)
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So you are a connoisseur or nerd? Let's settle down that with a nice question What is green's theorem? :)
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Define “locked in”
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The default setup is still pretty bare‑bones: you take a decoder‑only LLM, strip off its output layer and slap on a single linear head to emit one scalar logit, and train it with a Bradley‑Terry preference loss. That works well and is what almost every open‑source reward model in RLHF uses. Most of the “fancier” heads people mention are about combining multiple objectives: multi‑head reward models produce separate scores for different safety or quality attributes and then aggregate them. The strongest model on RewardBench right now takes that idea further – ArmoRM trains a multi‑objective reward model and then passes those scores through a shallow MLP gating network (a mixture‑of‑experts controller) to pick the right objective weights for each prompt. In short, a single linear head remains the baseline; multi‑objective heads with a small MoE gate are the current state of the art for more nuanced reward modeling.
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How's this for a profile chat??
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To be honest, you're an actual inspiration to so many people in the history of physics. Your transition from the music industry to literally becoming a part of physics-based development is just monumental... it's pretty incredible... from music -> creating a highway between earth and space...
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