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The Sudden Savant Syndrome is a rare phenomenon in which an otherwise normal person gets some kind of brain injury and immediately develops a new skill. The linked article tells the story of a 40-years old guy who banged his head against a wall while swimming, and woke up with...

Disclaimer: I don't have access to GPT-4 There's a lot of discussion these days about technological unemployment due to LLMs. For example, someone could observe that GPT-4 scored better than average at the US Medical License Examination, but human doctors are obviously not going to be obsolete in the short...

The Queen of England (age 95) recently celebrated her 70th anniversary on the throne. The average life expectancy in the UK is 81.3 years[1], and we all know that her longevity is the subject of many jokes. But is she that much of an odd outlier compared to other Heads...

The recent DeepMind paper will presumably generate a lot of discussion, and I'm not an expert enough to completely understand the technicalities. But I still wonder how much of the breakthrough could be reduced to "tune GPT-3 for code generation instead of general text prediction". Did they basically hammered GPT-3...

> The good is the idea, or unity of the conception of the will with the particular will. Abstract right, well-being, the subjectivity of consciousness, and the contingency of external reality, are in their independent and separate existences superseded in this unity, although in their real essence they are contained...

In my social circles, I frequently tell a joke making fun of the awful lot of cute kitten pictures available on the internet ("somewhere in the world, a whole server farm is doing nothing but storing pictures of cute kittens"). Joking apart, there are thousands of data centers around and...