I wish you all a very delightful, peaceful and serendipitous July!
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A schematic representation of the personality system.
A schematic representation of the personality system. 'Biological bases' (such as genes) and 'external influences' (such as cultural norms) are inputs to the system. Personality traits are found in the category of 'basic tendencies', which are influenced by biological bases, but not external influences. Causal paths are indicated by arrows, and show that, over time, traits interact with the environment to produce 'characteristic adaptations' (such as attitudes), and these in turn interact with the situation to produce the output of the system, the 'objective biography'. The 'self-concept' is a subset of characteristic adaptations of particular importance to self theorists. Adapted from McCrae & Costa (1996)
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Claude 3.5 Prompt: "I am using a video generator. Please give me a map of all the different types of shots and things I can enter for my prompt."
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We find ourselves in a peculiar predicament: if time travel is theoretically possible tomorrow, it has, in practice, already been happening since yesterday. The implications for linear time technologies, including today's AI, are profoundly comedic.
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What is rarely considered in the context of Kolmogorov complexity is that the shortest possible description of anything is nothing. Silence is bliss.
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It's high time to disrupt the real estate markets globally. Cheap prefab housing combined off-grid energy and manufacturing, enabled by robotics will become the norm in many places.
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Researchers at ETH Zurich develop the fastest possible flow algorithm
Rasmus Kyng has written the near-perfect algorithm. It computes the maximum transport flow at minimum cost for any kind of network – be it rail, road or electricity – at a speed that is, mathematically speaking, impossible to beat.
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Unko Tamarashi - a fictive word for a imaginary brand that my lovely 4 year old invited
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"The device works works just as well when it is not plugged into the power supply as when it is"
'"How is phenomenal space related geometrically and topologically to physical space?" ... The Cartesian error that no mental elements can be extended has crippled progress in this field for three centuries.' – JR Smythies, 1992
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The full absurdity of the world we inhabit in one sentence about Landauer's Limit
Is there a physical limit to absurdity?
Landauer's principle is a physical principle pertaining to the lower theoretical limit of energy consumption of computation. It holds that an irreversible change in information stored in a computer dissipates a minimum amount of heat to its surroundings
