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Yes, just why assume a multiverse and not a megaverse? Of course, the superhero movies (which I enjoy) give an unrealistic view of what a multiverse would be.

Instead of one big bang, imagine an infinite number of big bangs, all colliding on a cosmic scale in time and space. That’s not necessarily a multiverse, but it is a megaverse with universe as the old paradigm.

I was raised on this era - you could go down quite the rabbit hole branching out from McClelland and Geoff Hinton. They were trying to reflect the brain and so backprop was initially seen as a shortcut that could be done away with once more complex models could be supported by processing power and inputs.

I buy this argument by pointing out the necessity of sleep for core brain functions. Good luck living or working well if you’re not sleeping well. And yet, how many of us have gone years without good sleep?

How is your sleep? If you’ve gone years without good sleep, the damage could be accumulating into cognitive functions.

Coming from cognitive neuroscience surprised that Explorations in Parallel Distributed Processing by McClelland and Rumelhart doesn’t get more attention as a classic in bridging old school AI approaches with the modern paradigm.

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1988-97441-000

I thought the same, but he actually supported it as a way to drive the marketing.

I believed our potential audience would be more attracted to seeing how the most badass killing machine could become a hero than they would be to just another kill-fest in the same vein as the first film. Sequels have to strike a delicate balance between honoring the most loved elements from the first film but also promising to really shake things up and turn them upside down. Our marketing campaign was exactly that promise, and it worked.

https://www.slashfilm.com/1118938/why-james-cameron-spoiled-...

Noise ordinances.

You have a say - go to your town’s planning and zoning commission, find others with similar concerns, and force votes on the legality of a full-time hotel next door.

That’s a great one. I’ve been looking for something that links the physiology with knowledge work and life demands, but I haven’t found it yet.

The autonomic nervous system and the adrenal cortex. Homeostasis is taught as a textbook fact, the body reverting to a baseline over time. What’s not taught is how much the impacts of daily life events drive a continuous stress response. Fight or flight is not just a reaction to deadly threats. It’s active every moment of every day to ensure survival. The adrenal cortex is always active, to traffic, your boss and colleagues, relationship struggles, and overall health and wellness like sleep and nutrition. Yes, the system reverts to a baseline over time but how much that baseline varies is obvious in tracking resting heart rate.

Yeah, this should be regulated. If electricity and water are public utilities, housing should be too.

How many don’t sleep well or not enough?

Yes, more city housing is the answer.

Co-sleeping has much more of a basis in human history. The challenge is transitioning.

Another stat I read recently: Parents spend ~75% of their child’s life with them before the age of 12. Puts into perspective the good and bad influences long before they fly from the nest.

Great point, any way to know if MSG makes more in beer sales than they do in ticket sales? And it must really threaten Dolan if lawyers can show the venue is overselling to already drunk and rowdy attendees.

So true, when to interrupt or work together or stay focused is the biggest productivity challenge for teams. Technology is just a communication medium today, intent is the holy grail of collaboration.

Dexterity without sight or sensation is pretty useless. Try finding a quarter in pocket full of change with gloves on.

Reading is input, writing is output. The transformation between the two is where humanity grows.

Don’t we read Plato’s writings of what Socrates said?

From the title I knew it was about LeCun. Why does it seem like Meta’s culture is riven by sycophants who are unable or unwilling to make work better through criticism?

Love the utility, but there’s clearly little business value. Great example where “making something people want” doesn’t alone support the bottomline.

Still amazing to me that the neurophysiology dictates that slower breathing lowers heart rate and faster breathing increases heart rate.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5709795/

Really impressed how Apple is leaning into unregulated “safety” features. Fall detection for grandma, crash detection for drivers, now this for adventurers. When you’re doing as well as Apple is, small reasons for consumers to buy keep adding up over the competition.

Where the concepts of majors and minors helps at university. You focus on a topic over weeks and months and years with an experienced guide. Doing that on your own is tough because even if you stick with the material, who do you ask questions of?

No, all cars depreciate. But my happiness is inversely proportional to customer support headaches.