"It makes no difference what men think of war. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was & will be. That way & not some other way." - Cormac Mcarthy, Blood meridian
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The butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.
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Biologists Discover Four New Octopus Species in the Deep Ocean Off Costa Rica - One species was found brooding eggs near low-temperature hydrothermal vents, a rare sight that could unlock new information on deep-sea cephalopods.
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Chronomancy is divination of the best time to do something, the determination of lucky and unlucky days, especially popular in ancient China. The term "chronomancy", stemming from the Greek word chronos (meaning time), and the word manteia (meaning divination) is also used in fiction to refer to a school of magic involving supernatural manipulation of time. Because there is clock-time and then there is time.
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ISPA (Inter-Species Phonetic Alphabet) (code)—an AI-based, concise, and interpretable system designed to transcribe animal sounds into text.
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Lots of comparisons are being made between Cisco and Nvidia. Cisco provided the backbone to the internet, and Nvidia is doing the same for AI today. Cisco's products got commoditized, and margins went to zero over time. The current expectation is that the same thing will happen with Nvidia.
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BrainNet: A Multi-Person Brain-to-Brain Interface for Direct Collaboration Between Brains - The scaled up private version of this are truly wild.
