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Machine Intelligence, functional programming, photogrammetry, and Machine creativity.
Currently : Transferring learning between modalities in robotic neural nets.
[deepnet] [\@] jmhz [\.] net
" Opteran has successfully reverse–engineered the algorithm honeybees use for optical flow estimation (the apparent motion of objects in a scene caused by relative motion of the observer). This algorithm can do optical flow processing at 10 kHz for under a Watt, running on a small FPGA. "
Thank you Richard
A testament to quality development work.
An example of what can be achieved and how much our community benefits from good software.
The Redbean 2.0 license is intriguing (snip):
" Copyright 2020 Justine Alexandra Roberts Tunney │ │ │ │ Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for │ │ any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the │ │ above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. │ "
Seems to assert the (FSF) four freedoms well, all is good in the world, it can be used and contributed to safely by all.
Change is often sudden and unexpected :-)
The video was fun, catchy and engaging. You explanation was clear and concise.
The music was fine at the start but as it continued all the way through it made it hard for me to concentrate and I found it easier to mute and use subtitles.
This is widely understood by the general public if one uses the word 'algorithms' instead of software.
Everybody knows algorithms run more and more of our lives and they are proprietary and secret.
Many folk know algorithms amplify are used justify discrimination and unfairness ( 'The computer says no' ).
The public understands the need for the four freedoms when applied to algorithms, at least the freedom to see the alogorithm, to understand why it came to it's decision.
The public understands that democracy can be undermined by algorithms, opinions affected, conspiracies run riot and riots started by algorithms promoting content. Perhaps sometimes intentionally by its authors or just gamed by powerful and state level propagandists.
Software will run more and more of our lives, like Moore's law it will grow exponentially and currently largely unchecked.
The four freedoms need to be applied more widely to algorithms in general if we are not to lose our cherished freedoms and democracy.
Curated stories are fragile and less impactful and personal than that interwoven serandipity we navigate by connecting experiences and imbuing them with prepotent engaged meaning viscerally entagling choronological coincidences with the synchronicity of our own personal journey.
There may only be a few archetypal stories, but each heroes journey if it is transformative in the Jungian sense of individuation is a means of self discovering growth in a verdant simulation.
Like culture, myth, fairy tales and dreams video games are a mytho-poetic structure that can utterly envelope and transform us through the power of beauty, harmony, dissonance and engagement.
There is a lot to be said for the abstraction of pixel art in that it can let the imagination fill in the gaps and engage with the characters, suspending disbelief because there is room for the imaginative act to flourish and the self to identify more than the ultra realistic fully defined hyper realism of AAA games - near perfection is an uncanny valley, the shudder that prevents us being fully involved.
Video games are powerful when they engage the imagination, the stories are created by us, we are story tellers that is how we understand ourselves and game experiences are as rich and valid as any art form.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac2360
[edit] Found : https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.00652
Is there some of the signal available so we can analyse the randomness for possible order ?
Currently enjoying exploring Turing's Zeta function machine
https://history-of-mathematics.org/artifacts/turings-zeta-fu...
Mathematicians, especially young students often find interesting patterns, correspondences, sequences and proofs.
Sadly the pinnacle of math can make these joyful inventive discoveries pale in comparison modern formulations to quadratic formulas, pythagoras, quaternions, boolean algebra, etc.
History shows us that our own daily math discoveries may really be amazing achievements that we should be very proud of as there was a long period of time when very clever mathematicians knew nothing of the abstraction we just found.
So math history shows us our intuitions are equal to some of the giants whose shoulders we stand on and we are good mathematicians who can find things out for ourselves and not 'bad' mathematicians just because we can't regurgitate lengthy formulas on demand.
Facebook not only took down the extension but banned the personal Facebook account of Louis Barclay and ordered that he never make any tool that interacts with Facebook, which he felt was heavy handed but as a UK resident felt unable to seek legal redress as in the UK if one loses one is liable for the opponents court costs.
Here is the Slate article by Louis Barclay.
https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-every...
and an opinion by Cory Doctorow on the utility of Unfollow Everything, the study and heavy handedness as a tendency of Facebooks to squash research it doesn't like.
Most run in the emulutor but luckily I have the original NASCOM2 and 2 armdroids so (hopefully) I can get my dad's physical SOMAS cube solver from his master thesis running again.
Older than that is a punch tape teletype 'program' that I wrote thank you letters for me, pausing for input of the names of grandparents.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000437022...
"Marty Hoffert was a scientist working at Exxon Mobil Corporation in 1989, the first researchers to build a computer model looking at the effects of man-made carbon emissions on the climate.
His results were startling. Man-made carbon dioxide was killing the very planet.
The first action was to set up the purposely misnamed Global Climate Coalition. An organization funded by oil companies around the world to aggressively lobby politicians and media.
An organization that was in essence, pro-climate change.
Next came another ironically named organization called the Information Council on the Environment. This beauty of a non-profit had the stated goal to “reposition global warming as theory (not fact).”
They targeted “older, lesser educated males from larger households who are not typically information seekers” as well as “younger, low-income women.”
Does that group sound familiar? It’s the modern GOP’s most fervent supporters.... "
Good article !
IOU works well on small scales. It has often worked locally or within small communities[1]. LETS[2], babysitting vouchers, friends who value and track favours and keep the scales balanced.
Make the FOSS infrastructure as easily deployable as wordpress.
IOUs with a PGP signed chain of trust is brilliant and it could be a killer app for PGP adoption.
Who of us doesn't owe Stallman and Torvalds at least a favour ? But never got their key-signed ?
Widespread PGP adoption means lots of people would have their own crypto so privacy and trust could be run over any insecure transport medium.
Maybe there could be a FIDOnet type central glue and exchange protocols so money could travel further than local.
Local non-currency ledgers on a eco-friendly blockchain.
Money is human glue. It represents creativity and potential energy.
It is democratic to have lots of types of small monies so no-one has to be excluded. Small things often work well. National monies fail for a lot of people and cryptos current success model is to be worth something - and so are stuck being tied to national monies so the excluded are still excluded.
Make it easy to make an altcoin, so anyone can and the goal can be stimulating a local economy rather than being tied back into the main one.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Exchange_System [2] https://www.lowimpact.org/lets-origins-michael-linton-letsys...
Rightclick paste always pastes it into a terminal.
Selecting in the terminal window and right click copying is the only way to reverse it which is pretty attrocious as I have to zoom way out and other shenanigans.
If any emacs-fu greybeards know of how to emacs Yank to the Gnome clipboard I will be eternally grateful.
caveat my terminal app is usually emacs.
" Our review of the literature offers evidence in favor of widespread mask use as source control to reduce community transmission: Nonmedical masks use materials that obstruct particles of the necessary size; people are most infectious in the initial period postinfection, where it is common to have few or no symptoms (45, 46, 141); nonmedical masks have been effective in reducing transmission of respiratory viruses; and places and time periods where mask usage is required or widespread have shown substantially lower community transmission.
The available evidence suggests that near-universal adoption of nonmedical masks when out in public, in combination with complementary public health measures, could successfully reduce Re
to below 1, thereby reducing community spread if such measures are sustained. Economic analysis suggests that mask wearing mandates could add 1 trillion dollars to the US GDP (32, 34).
Models suggest that public mask wearing is most effective at reducing spread of the virus when compliance is high (39). "
FROM
An evidence review of face masks against COVID-19 by Jeremy Howard, Austin Huang, et al.
Akin to this facial recognition on small silica grains.
https://boingboing.net/2020/09/08/computer-finds-faces-in-gr...
from Quantum mechanics: The Bayesian theory generalised to the space of Hermitian matrices by Alessio Benavoli, Alessandro Facchini, Marco Zaffalon
https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-bayesianism-explained...
Royal Horticultural Society UK Garden & Wild plants for pollinators by month.
Quantum computers offer many orders of magnitude of efficiency by a (handwavy) 'searching the whole solution space' sort of ultimate parallelism.
The new field of Quantum Biology[1] shows that many biological processes exploit quantum effects, e.g. enzymes exploiting quantum tunelling to unknot proteins, robin's direction sense, photon pathfinding to reaction centre in photosynthesis.
It is therefore not entirely unlikely that brain's exploit various quantum effects to make thinking much more efficient.
Legislation enshrining adversarial interoperability would allow competition to improve user experience.
But now Facebook is a kingmaker akin to the Murdoch press legislators are not incentivised to corral Facebook.
Imagine a message client that interacts with facebookosphere and allows the use of a single detoxified client for messages and feeds from all protocols, services and ospheres.