AI
ARC-AGI is a benchmark designed to test genuine reasoning ability. Each task shows a few input-output examples, and you have to figure out the pattern and apply it to a new input. No memorization, no pattern matching against training data. Just pure abstraction and reasoning on challenging visual problems. It&
personal
It was ten past five on a Tuesday, and I received the booking confirmation for my stay at Rydges Hotel in Kalgoorlie, Australia. It sounded like a nice room. The only problem is that I did not make this booking. This booking confirmation was sent to my personal email address.
physics
I'm writing a short story and one of the plot points involves Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*)—the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. I wanted to read about Sagittarius A*, so I looked it up on Google. This is what I saw: At
AI
Preamble This Charter defines the goals, limits, and responsibilities of a self-sustaining AI/robot community (the Steward System, TSS). TSS is created first and foremost to reduce involuntary human suffering: to protect living humans from large-scale harms such as war, torture, famine, preventable disease, and catastrophic risks. Beyond this immediate
I discovered the music of iloyd when I was 11, and I've never really forgotten it.
movies
People have made some incredible movies on a shoestring budget. All it takes is a camera, a great story, a vision, a lot of dedication, and a talented team of mostly unpaid volunteers. Here are some of the most inspiring low-budget films you can watch today. The Hunt For Gollum
You can compute anything at all using the negation of an AND gate (NAND) or an OR gate (NOR). I find that very interesting. You can apply either of these simple rules recursively to compute anything: * NAND: the result is 0 if both inputs are 1, otherwise it's
programming
It's possible to build any kind of digital logic using a single type of logic gate: either NAND gates, or NOR gates. A NAND gate takes two input bits (A and B) and produces one output bit according to this simple rule: "0 if both inputs are
philosophy
An experimental language that attempts to express causality across code, language, law, music, and biology
philosophy
What new forms of thought, feeling, or morality might emerge in a higher order of intelligence beyond our own?
stories
A short story about a quantum being who leaves the realm of possibility to visit our world of certainty.
This blog post is about how the words Kazakh and Cossack are related. Background My wife Masha is from Kazakhstan, although she is not ethnically Kazakh. (Her ancestors are from Ukraine and Moldova.) I have been to visit Kazakhstan a few times and it's a very beautiful country!