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Fuck a birthday I celebrate my life every day


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One last treat. Ever curious about the fights I had with the censors on Gravity Falls? I probably shouldn't share this buttttt here are some REAL NOTES from DISNEY S&P and my REAL REPLIES. You are not prepared #10YearsOfGravityFalls


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This discussion between a Google engineer and their conversational AI model helped cause the engineer to believe the AI is becoming sentient, kick up an internal shitstorm and get suspended from his job. And it is absolutely insane. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

tomgara's tweet image. This discussion between a Google engineer and their conversational AI model helped cause the engineer to believe the AI is becoming sentient, kick up an internal shitstorm and get suspended from his job. And it is absolutely insane. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
tomgara's tweet image. This discussion between a Google engineer and their conversational AI model helped cause the engineer to believe the AI is becoming sentient, kick up an internal shitstorm and get suspended from his job. And it is absolutely insane. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
tomgara's tweet image. This discussion between a Google engineer and their conversational AI model helped cause the engineer to believe the AI is becoming sentient, kick up an internal shitstorm and get suspended from his job. And it is absolutely insane. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
tomgara's tweet image. This discussion between a Google engineer and their conversational AI model helped cause the engineer to believe the AI is becoming sentient, kick up an internal shitstorm and get suspended from his job. And it is absolutely insane. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

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Thread of DALL-E AI generated images and their prompts


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The humans don't get smarter but their tower of knowledge grows exponentially

waitbutwhy's tweet image. The humans don't get smarter but their tower of knowledge grows exponentially
waitbutwhy's tweet image. The humans don't get smarter but their tower of knowledge grows exponentially

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Do you remember the world’s very first nuclear meltdown? That time the US President, an expert in nuclear physics, heroically lowered himself into the reactor and saved Ottawa, Canada’s capital? Sounds like schlocky action movie, but it actually happened!

LundeenOttawa's tweet image. Do you remember the world’s very first nuclear meltdown? That time the US President, an expert in nuclear physics, heroically lowered himself into the reactor and saved Ottawa, Canada’s capital? 

Sounds like schlocky action movie, but it actually happened!
LundeenOttawa's tweet image. Do you remember the world’s very first nuclear meltdown? That time the US President, an expert in nuclear physics, heroically lowered himself into the reactor and saved Ottawa, Canada’s capital? 

Sounds like schlocky action movie, but it actually happened!
LundeenOttawa's tweet image. Do you remember the world’s very first nuclear meltdown? That time the US President, an expert in nuclear physics, heroically lowered himself into the reactor and saved Ottawa, Canada’s capital? 

Sounds like schlocky action movie, but it actually happened!

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there are tons of these lmao


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this video literally gets funnier with each watch


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Another fascinating mind-bending illusion. There is no yellow in the circle below (!). Instead, our brain very confidently fills the gap of the colour scheme. by @AkiyoshiKitaoka

page_eco's tweet image. Another fascinating mind-bending illusion. There is no yellow in the circle below (!). Instead, our brain very confidently fills the gap of the colour scheme.
by @AkiyoshiKitaoka

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All chess positions with 7 pieces or less have been solved. But a sliver of that solution space is just beyond human understanding

rickyflows's tweet image. All chess positions with 7 pieces or less have been solved. But a sliver of that solution space is just beyond human understanding

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“The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.” — Steven Weinberg


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1/ Without knowing why we saw progress its impossible to figure out how we can see it again! One way I think about this is Newton Hypothesis - how standing on the shoulders of giants is key to understanding innovation and growth! An exploration of the thesis below.


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as described this is killer work. worth reading wired.com/story/the-teen…


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"Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience? People have the right to resist annihilation." - Arundhati Roy. This quote knocked like 16 years of liberal pacifism out of me in one go.


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🧵 Taylor Swift, intellectual property law, and due dilligence disasters In 2005, 13-year-old aspiring country singer Taylor Swift signed a record deal with 0-year-old aspiring label Big Machine Records.


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This is my annual plea for help digging up info about obscure theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, born #OTD in 1879. His contributions, while minor, are still of some interest to me personally, so I’d appreciate your help tracking down any of his work.

mcnees's tweet image. This is my annual plea for help digging up info about obscure theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, born #OTD in 1879. His contributions, while minor, are still of some interest to me personally, so I’d appreciate your help tracking down any of his work.

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The latest generation of adversarial image attacks is, uh, somewhat simpler to carry out openai.com/blog/multimoda…

moyix's tweet image. The latest generation of adversarial image attacks is, uh, somewhat simpler to carry out openai.com/blog/multimoda…

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