Luminiferous aether Updated +Created
Can you just imagine what if luminiferous aether was one single fixed rigid body? This is apparently what Maxwell believed, Subtle is the Lord by Abraham Pais (1982) page 111 quoting his entry to Encyclopedia Britannica:
There can be no doubt that the interplanetary and interstellar spaces are not empty but are occupied by a material substance or body, which is certainly the largest, and probably the most uniform, body of which we have any knowledge.
Then it would provide a natural space coordinate for the entire universe!
Apparently Einstein was the first to completely say: let's just screw this aether thing completely then, it's getting too complicated, and we don't really need it. As Wikipedia puts it well, in very unencyclopedic tone[ref]: Aether fell to Occam's razor.
History of AGI research Updated +Created
Tesla Dojo Updated +Created
Shahidah Cawley Updated +Created
Allen Mouse Brain Common Coordinate Framework Updated +Created
Guerilla Open Access Manifesto by Aaron Swartz (2008) Updated +Created
Hmmm, he does not know how to spell guerilla? sic? www.quora.com/What-is-the-correct-spelling-guerilla-or-guerrilla
Note to self: if you are going to commit a crime, don't publish your plans online.
Ross Ulbricht's diaries come to mind.
That's how Russian shadow library maintainers do it, they know how to crime good old Russians. Maybe there is a good thing about having dictatorships in the world that give zero fucks about American copyright laws. There will always be some random Russian academic who will implement this and not go to jail. Maybe it's even state sponsored.
The Internet's Own Boy (2014) Updated +Created
Lymphocyte Updated +Created
Hanford site Updated +Created
The B Reactor of the facility produced the plutonium used for Trinity and Fat Man, and then for many more thousand bombs during the Cold War. More precisely, this was done at
Located in Washington, in a dry place the middle of the mountainous areas of the Western United States, where basically no one lives. The Columbia river is however nearby, that river is quite large, and provided the water needed by their activities, notably for cooling the nuclear reactors. It is worth it having look on Google Maps to get a feel for the region.
Unlike many other such laboratories, this one did not become a United States Department of Energy national laboratories. It was likely just too polluted.
Placozoan Updated +Created
Now that's some basal shit! It's basically a fucking blob!!! Except that it is flat. No nervous system. Not even tissues. It is basically a multicellular
Tensor Processing Unit Updated +Created
Procedural AI training game Updated +Created
We define a "Procedural AI training game" as an AI training game in which parts of the game are made with procedural generation.
In more advanced cases, the generation itself can be done with AI. This is a possible Path to AGI which reduces the need for human intervention in meticulously crafting the AI game: AI training AI.
Valentine Cawley Updated +Created
He's an actor and producer apparently: www.imdb.com/name/nm3438598/
Algebraic function Updated +Created
TODO understand.
Transcendental number Updated +Created
Sometimes mathematicians go a little overboard with their naming.
Cluster decay Updated +Created
Alpha particle Updated +Created
Amazon custom silicon Updated +Created
Like Google custom silicon, Amazon server operations are so large that with the slowdown of Moore's law, it started being worth it for them to develop custom in-house silicon to serve as a competitive advantage, not to be sold for external companies. Can you imagine the scale required to justify silicon development investment that is not sold externally!
Jerry Sanders Updated +Created
Video 1.
AMD Founder Jerry Sanders Interview (2002)
Source. Source: exhibits.stanford.edu/silicongenesis/catalog/hr396zc0393. Fun to watch.

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