Engineering lecturer (The University of Adelaide). Into: magnets; vibrations; biomechanics; typesetting. Onetime yogi.
Adelaide, Australia
Joined March 2007
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I posted a brog about summary of my creations of September 2023 and my current situation
Monthly blog | September 2023
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Ok this is so cool. I was reading a paper which included a table. I wanted to reproduce that table in my LaTeX document. So I took a screen shot of it, pasted it into ChatGPT, and asked ChatGPT to give me the LaTeX code for it. And it did.
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Out of office has engaged.
(pro tip - set it two days early and two days after your return to help ease in and out of a work absence)
time is a constant - work is not – at Adelaide, South Australia
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I’d always wanted to see one of these in real life: an incredible Chinese ‘banquet’ composed of natural stones that resemble food! I had seen the occasional photograph of similar banquets, but this was better than any of them. What a feast!
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Just so you all know…when you floss every day your dentist doesn’t ask “are you flossing every day?” They just know. And instead they say, “good hygiene.” And it’s like meeting God.
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The end of an epoch: TeX Users Group will no longer ship TeX Collection DVDs to the members (but they still can download and make them).
TUG started as a group for distributing TeX tapes. Internet made this activity redundant, and we now have different tasks.
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Arm chip’s main design feature of low-power consumption happened by accident.
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"Consciousness" has been the taboo "C-word" in AI.
This 88-page paper, coauthored by Turing Prize laureate Yoshua Bengio, is a systematic survey of the scientific theories of consciousness, as well as possible implementations in today's AI stack.
I commend their courage to address such a controversial topic that most researchers shun. Here's what the paper concludes: quote "Our analysis suggests that no current AI systems are conscious, but also shows that there are no obvious barriers to building conscious AI systems."
It's a long read - will share notes later, bear with me.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2308.08708
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Conversational, non-authoritative communication requires more qualification - and more parenthetical components - than punctuation rules that were established in print can support, and so I guess what I'm saying is use the em-dash as much as you like and never feel bad about it.
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i fixed matrix multiplication notation, you can thank me later 😎😎
ALT a polynomial, its matrix form, and a cursed matrix form where the matrices are rotated, but so that their common terms align spatially
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lowercase e actually sucks it's got *three* stacked lines that need to be legible with proper spacing between each, like ??? what were you thinking
ALT a list of all lowercase letters in the English alphabet from a to z, sorted by the amount of vertically stacked horizontal lines required to be legible within the same vertical space: 0 to 1: h i j l m n r u v w x y 2: a b c d g k o p q s t f z 3: e (cramped af)
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“It is impossible for individuals to examine the huge number of new books that are published every day.” - René Descartes, 1642 – at Rudersdal, Danmark
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The most important thing about this amazing Paris transformation is how fast it happened — how fast people on bikes “appeared” — once streets were transformed. You can’t write this off as “#Paris was always this way,” because it wasn’t. It took leadership.
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ALL IN THE SAME BOAT
Stop me if you've heard this one before.
A few months ago some rich people paid a company called OceanGate a whole lot of money to get into a submersible to go to the bottom of the ocean in order to see the wreckage of the Titanic.
armoxon.substack.com/p/all-i…
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And the biggest perspective shift for me here is...we shouldn't be asking whether we should be doing geoengineering...we already are, we have been for a century. We should be asking...should take a huge step and do it intentionally and thoughtfully...because WE CAN SEE IT WORKS.