2025-04-15
Microsoft pulls out of two big data centre deals because it reportedly doesn't want to support more OpenAI training workloads
Though still notes it's committed to further $80 billion investment in AI infrastructure, saying: 'We will continue to grow strongly in all regions.'
Debunking the Hard Problem: Consciousness as Integrated Prediction
Published on April 15, 2025 8:38 AM GMT(Epistemic Status): This post synthesizes insights from predictive processing, self-modeling theories, functionalism, and evolutionary thinking to propose a mechanistic framework for consciousness. Confidence...
How to tumble launch in REPO
Dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge.
What empirical research directions has Eliezer commented positively on?
Published on April 15, 2025 8:53 AM GMTI'm interested in both work that he's commented on positively after the fact and any comments might have made on what directions are...
The new Asus ROG NUC is a mini PC with an Arrow Lake CPU and RTX 5080 laptop GPU, and is going to be very, very, VERY expensive
We're expecting at least $3,500 USD for these little babies and googling the potential Aussie price made me cry like one.
How to Setup a CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions
This guide shows you how to set up a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions to automate Python code checks with PyLint. It covers creating a YAML configuration file, setting up...
Nihilism Is Not Enough By Peter Thiel
Published on April 15, 2025 12:13 AM GMTDiscuss
The TechBeat: Google Gemini Did Not Disappoint on These Blockchain x AI Use Cases (4/15/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set...
$500 bounty for best short-form fiction about our near future world; $100 for recommending winning piece: new “Art of Near Future World” quarterly art project
Published on April 15, 2025 12:46 AM GMTI’m launching a new project called “Art of the Near Future World” to celebrate and encourage short-form fiction about the world a few...
A Talmudic Rationalist Cautionary Tale
Published on April 15, 2025 4:11 AM GMTThe following is a translated famous passage from the Babylonian Talmud (Bava Metzia 59a–b) that I believe has a good implicit rationalist intepretation....
Creating 'Making God': a Feature Documentary on risks from AGI
Published on April 15, 2025 2:56 AM GMTPlease donate to our Manifund (as of 14.04.25 we have two more days of donation matching up to $10,000). Email me at connor.axiotes...
MindEye2 (Not Pretrained) vs. MindEye1
In this section, we show how MindEye2 outperforms MindEye1 even without pretraining on other subjects.
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A Dissent on Honesty
Published on April 15, 2025 2:43 AM GMTContextDisney's Tangled (2010) is a great movie. Spoilers if you haven't seen it.The heroine, having been kidnapped at birth and raised in a...
MindEye2: Shared-Subject Models Enable fMRI-To-Image With 1 Hour of Data: Single-Subject Evaluations
In this section, we show more exhaustive evaluation metrics computed for every subject individually using 40 hours and 1 hour of fine-tuning data, respectively.
How AI Agents Could Have Supercharged Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Development
AI agents are systems that can reason, act, and learn over time. They aren’t just passive tools. They’re active collaborators. We use them in software engineering to automate code reviews,...
Reconstruction Evaluations Across Varying Amounts of Training Data: Mindeye2
Here, we present a further analysis of how model performance scales with training data.
Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman
To justify Medicaid cuts, House Speaker Mike Johnson says the healthcare program leads to "able-bodied young men" playing videogames instead of working.
MindEye2 Dataset: fMRI Preprocessing and Normalization
Provides further details about the fMRI dataset used in MindEye2, including preprocessing and normalization procedures.
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