SCP-055 is an unknown object that causes anyone who examines it to forget its various characteristics, thus making it indescribable except in terms of what it is not.
-
-
Kenneth O. Stanley - Novel Opportunities in Open-Endedness @ UCL DARK
As interest in the field of open-endedness expands, ideas like continual discovery and increasingly complexity have gained significant attention. The aim of this talk is to bring attention to two lesser-known facets of open-endedness that nevertheless merit significantly more attention. First, evidence so far suggests that representations achieved through open-ended processes seem radically different from representations discovered through optimization, even if they solve the same problem. The implications of this observation are unknown but potentially significant. Second, while the agents themselves in an open-ended system are of course critical, in processes analogous to civilization (as opposed to evolution), the artifacts those agents put into and leave in the environment (e.g. houses and cars for humans) are also critical to the trajectory of the system, yet little studied or understood. New advances, such as Evolution through Large Models, make studying this issue more feasible. The hope is that this talk will inspire further investigation into both considerations.
-
Excerpts from a Wang Xiangzhai newspaper interview, on putting attention on perceiving "the delicate motion and stillness inside the body" during Zhan Zhuang
“ The basic training In daily life, the student should, at any place or time, pay attention to his body postures in walking sitting, standing or lying and regard them as part of proper training. It is done based on Zhuang Fa (Stake Standing Method) – the skill to keep steadfast like a post under all circumstances. One sets all parts of his body to an appropriate state and keeps body erect, with a mind free from any distractions, regulates the mind and breath, conserves the muscles so that he can direct the natural energy of cells from inside to outside, through the whole body. In so doing, he has all his muscles, bones and nervous system trained without his knowing it. What is crucial here is that he should concentrate his mind on perceiving the delicate motion and stillness inside the body. When such a realm is reached, one will certainly understand the magical effect of stake standing. So Zhuang Fa is the first thing one should learn to practice.”
-
"The lottery is actually used to catch time travels" - "Standard O.R.A.N.A.U. stuff" ("Oikeiotic Retrocausal Anomaly Nerping Arcane Union.")
-
Deep Neural Networks for Form-Finding of Tensegrity Structures
This paper proposes a new form-finding method based on state-of-the-art deep learning techniques. One of the statical paradigms, a force density method, is substituted for trained deep neural networks to obtain necessary information of tensegrities. It is based on the differential evolution algorithm, where the eigenvalue decomposition process of the force density matrix and the process of the equilibrium matrix are not needed to find the feasible sets of nodal coordinates.
-
Tensegrity is a structural principle based on a system of isolated components under compression inside a network of continuous tension, and arranged in such a way that the compressed members do not touch each other while the prestressed tensioned members delineate the system spatially.
-
Tree in Muckross Abbey - one of major ecclesiastical sites found in Killarney National Park, County Kerry, Ireland. It was founded in 1448 as a Franciscan friary for Observantine Franciscans by Donal McCarthy Mor.
-
What's happening? Not much really. You know, same same but different.
Meme via John from Savannah, who is a reader of this site that kindly reached out to say hi. Hi John!
-
Atoms in Two Dimensions Could Mark a Strange New State of Matter, Physicists Say
Qubits can spin in two dimensions, instead of just one, and it could be revolutionary for quantum computing. A different pattern of laser pulses could make quantum computers way more stable.
New research uses a Fibonacci-inspired, non-repeating sequence to keep qubits spinning.
This creates a quasicrystal effect, with support in two dimensions instead of just one.
-
The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End
In a landmark series of calculations, physicists have proved that black holes can shed information, which seems impossible by definition. The work appears to resolve a paradox that Stephen Hawking first described five decades ago. Growing evidence supports what physicists have long suspected: In some way or other, space-time itself seems to fall apart at a black hole, implying that space-time is not the root level of reality, but an emergent structure from something deeper.
At Long Last, Mathematical Proof That Black Holes Are Stable
The solutions to Einstein’s equations that describe a spinning black hole won’t blow up, even when poked or prodded.
