| defining new musical language in the context of a song or piece |
January 12, 2025 |
January 12, 2025 |
#music #idea #musing |
| the simplification and weaponization of art, music, literature |
November 29, 2024 |
December 05, 2024 |
#musing #society #art |
| the difference between biology and mathematics |
November 28, 2024 |
November 28, 2024 |
#musing #meta |
| an n-torus is just a higher order hypercube |
November 27, 2024 |
November 27, 2024 |
#math |
| why do we create genres (music, movies, books) |
November 19, 2024 |
November 24, 2024 |
#musing #writing/science #writing |
| why do we partition our language into words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, books... and what comes after? |
September 30, 2024 |
September 30, 2024 |
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| fidelity and relative entropy (KL divergence) inequalities for post measurement distributions |
September 23, 2024 |
September 23, 2024 |
#math #physics |
| what are all the quantum states that can arise as the fourier transform of a boolean function? |
September 23, 2024 |
September 23, 2024 |
#math |
| why is position and momentum the right parametrization for mechanics? |
September 23, 2024 |
September 23, 2024 |
#physics |
| 202409211708 how long will the longest memory from today last? |
September 21, 2024 |
October 20, 2024 |
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| what's in a place |
September 17, 2024 |
September 17, 2024 |
#philosophy |
| what does it mean that the brain is generating information? that to some extent, it has more information than our sensory neurons do? |
September 13, 2024 |
September 13, 2024 |
#neuroscience |
| are there regulatory (autonomic) mechanisms in our bodies which behave in a decentralized manner? |
September 12, 2024 |
September 12, 2024 |
#neuroscience |
| does the autonomic nervous system work like financial markets? |
September 12, 2024 |
October 15, 2024 |
#biology #economy #systems |
| will there be an incentive to write more due to LLMs? |
September 11, 2024 |
September 11, 2024 |
#ai |
| can art and science be separated? |
September 10, 2024 |
September 10, 2024 |
#meta #creativity |
| how important is the social aspect to our sense of self? |
September 10, 2024 |
September 10, 2024 |
#psychology |
| are the examples of stories with multiple conflicts (say internal vs external) but the conflicts instead of paralleling each other, are contrasting? |
September 10, 2024 |
September 10, 2024 |
#story |
| are the characters in our dreams part of our selves? |
September 10, 2024 |
September 10, 2024 |
#psychology |
| how do we learn hierarchical relations between concepts? how does this apply to the self? |
September 10, 2024 |
September 10, 2024 |
#experiment |
| so many things are possible, and how to increase what feels possible |
September 10, 2024 |
September 12, 2024 |
#observation |
| the effectiveness of habituation |
September 09, 2024 |
September 10, 2024 |
#observation |
| is there a proof of the central limit theorem via max entropy |
September 09, 2024 |
September 10, 2024 |
#math |
| who we are is what we choose to be blind to |
September 08, 2024 |
September 10, 2024 |
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| names are like fiat currency |
September 05, 2024 |
September 05, 2024 |
#observation |
| are domesticated plants alive? |
September 02, 2024 |
September 09, 2024 |
#biology #science |
| what's worth writing down |
August 29, 2024 |
August 29, 2024 |
#meta |
| 202408280942 knowledge, data structures, and entropy |
August 28, 2024 |
August 28, 2024 |
#connection |
| why are there many elements |
August 26, 2024 |
August 26, 2024 |
#physics |
| multilevel selection, and symmetry breaking vs topological order |
August 14, 2024 |
August 19, 2024 |
#crazy |
| consciousness, many worlds, anthropic principle, and fermi paradox |
August 12, 2024 |
September 27, 2024 |
#idea #crazy |
| thoughts on quiet quitting |
August 08, 2024 |
August 08, 2024 |
#society |
| 2024-08-04 thoughts - iPad kids, change vs continuity, competition, and what qualifies as creation and new |
August 04, 2024 |
August 04, 2024 |
#daily #meta |
| what is purely symmetry breaking vs actually fundamental and new |
August 04, 2024 |
August 04, 2024 |
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| emergence of top down constraints and incentives on large platforms |
August 02, 2024 |
August 07, 2024 |
#society |
| market for long term social externalities |
August 02, 2024 |
August 02, 2024 |
#idea #economy #society |
| time exists because there are hard functions to compute |
August 02, 2024 |
August 02, 2024 |
#theory #crazy |
| does how many foundation model layers are required for a particular competency correlate with evolution |
July 31, 2024 |
July 31, 2024 |
#idea #ai #interp |
| the platonic representation hypothesis and what it says about the world |
July 31, 2024 |
July 31, 2024 |
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| the feudal stage of the internet |
July 31, 2024 |
July 31, 2024 |
#society |
| we've outsourced emotion to TV and movies |
July 28, 2024 |
July 28, 2024 |
#society |
| how do higher levels of agency arise |
July 11, 2024 |
October 02, 2024 |
#theme |
| if there was a drug to make people “better suited for a large, interconnected society” would you take it? |
July 03, 2024 |
July 26, 2024 |
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| godels incompleteness theorem tells us that magic does exist |
February 02, 2024 |
September 24, 2024 |
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