t-bacteriophage viruses injecting their dna into an e. coli to replicate within the bacterium using their tails as syringes (magnification 63,000x). There are more bacteriophages on the planet than every other organism, including bacteria, combined. What is their agenda?
RIP Niklaus Wirth (1934 -2024)
A true giant. He lived just down the road from here. Fondly remember learning Pascal as kid & discovering Wirth's law, which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster. Writeln ('Bye, world')
"The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore" - Rumi
PK-Politics
The phenomenon of SA (special ability) gained acceptance within the Academy of Science in 1978, when the political group headed by Mao’s widow lost its power & Deng Xiaoping was reinstated & began to advocate the movement to “love, learn & utilize science” in China.
Practising the Jhānas - Dharma Talks - by Rob Burbea
“Sooner or later we come to realize that perhaps the most fundamental, and most fundamentally important, fact about any experience is that it depends on the way of looking. That is to say, it is empty. Other than what we can perceive through different ways of looking, there is no ‘objective reality’ existing independently; and there is no way of looking that reveals some ‘objective reality’.” — Rob Burbea
ZEN-RRNN - On Meditation & Machines - by Samim, 2015
9 years have passed since the unveiling of ZEN-RRNN, and people still think it was a joke. However, this notion belies its true significance as an eloquent summary of the core discoveries made by the Advanced AI Committee. This international group, under the auspices of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's and Agent's Republic of China, wrapped up its ambitious, multidisciplinary research project in 2039, marking a pivotal moment in AI and consciousness research history.
