tag > Creativity
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The power and challenge of simple solutions to hard problems
One of the most challenging things to accept, especially for "smart" and "powerful" people, is that most of the really hard "problems" which humanity faces, have profoundly simple solutions. While simple solutions are highly effective, many flat-out dismiss them as they seem "trivial" and often do not lend themself well to concepts like commercialization, ownership or innovation.
Related: Decomplication: How to Find Simple Solutions to “Hard” Problems
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The Problem With Beauty Equations - @sam_goree on the ‘aethetics gap’ & subjectivity in beauty.
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"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
" - M. C. Escher
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Speaking of weird experiences...
This morning at 6 i was in the kitchen with my daughter. We looked out of the window and saw something strange flying above the neighbors balcony. At first I thought it is a butterfly. But no, that's a lot too big. A bird? No, it moved a bit like a helicopter. Then after a long confusing moment, the "thing" starts to fly hectically into a nearby bush. If I did not experience it myself, I wouldn't believe what we saw...
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AI cannot be the inventor of a patent, appeals court rules (BBC)
Artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be the inventor of new patents, the UK Court of Appeal has ruled. Patents assign the ownership of a new invention to its creator. At its core, the argument is about whether a law written for human inventors can be applied to machines. The appeal court ruled against Stephen Thaler, creator of a system called Dabus, who took a case against the UK's Intellectual Property Office (IPO) which refused patents to his AI.
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Stupidity, Intelligence, Indifference, Empathy and Compassion
Related: Think of the current time as the world’s largest ever human IQ test..
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A Recipe For Arbitrary Text Style Transfer with Large Language Models
Uses 137B LMs on zero-shot text style transfer and gets promising results w/ "augmented zero-shot learning". Even works on prompts like “make this melodramatic” or “insert a metaphor.”
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Vuja de - Déjà vu occurs when we encounter something new, but it feels as if we’ve seen it before. Vuja de is the reverse. In the words of Adam Grant: “We face something familiar, but we see it with a fresh perspective that enables us to gain new insights into old problems.” (via)
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“The brain does not simply represent the world in a disembodied way as an intellectual construct… Our mind is body-bound. We think, feel, and act with our body in the world. All experience is embedded in this body-related being-in-the-world.”
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Praxis: Knowledge isn't power until it is applied.
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What does the square root of minus 1 and fairies have in common?
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Everything is a game!
