gargablegar
Joined 3 years ago
Joined 3 years ago
I often wondered what happened to this piece of hardware… I still hold a deep belief that our current input methods are flawed(as amazing as they are) and we are in need of another leap forward.
Anyway great read - thank you again.
With the remember by association I realised I think I can recall the layout of any building I’ve ever been in. I don’t get lost once I’ve explored once.
I did a thought exercise and it’s not validated - but I could “imagine” walking through my pre primary school. But in darkness. So when I have a memory from long ago I now try walk the area I was in when it happened.
It brings up other surprising memories I had forgotten about that were like geo specially tied to the location.
Ask me about it while dreaming and it’s a full on 3D movie/VR experience.
Music too I can play that in my head no problem like my own radio (unless it has words then I can’t imagine it at all) - so I suck at karaoke. Even trying to sing with songs I can’t process it correctly unless it’s tonal sounds from the words.
For a neuroscience background we are certainly not all wired the same. You are correct though that aligning those descriptions and untangling social meanings and words from experience is tricky.
Comparing it to Stalin is pretty apt - communist party with a figure head trying to hold onto power. Seems like more than just one person vanished and it’s all under totally opaque circumstances.
The trouble these days if I’m honest is either people are laser focused on the latest new toy (llm this year) or too new to the field that they don’t have a grounded understanding in what they are doing (ie they will all be trying to remix new models that have actually already been tried)
All of this while AI is still gate kept by companies with huge amounts of compute.
I will say that each new ai summer has gotten more and more dramatic though.
I have several times in my life figured out “algorithmic” problems and sorted out solutions to things (like a list of things to do next) while sleeping in a lucid state.
It’s really awesome when it happens but I don’t think it would be healthy and sustainable.
1) I think you have a little bit of imposter syndrome happening - so check on yourself there
2) start small. For you I would suggest maybe a notebook (like Jypter) and just do one on say matrix cross products (linear algebra). Each time you hit a new concept make a fresh note book and write it down in code. Push yourself here so for example don’t just use a cross product function actually write one.
You will find the note books show your progress and give you some dopamine hit for each task.
3) if you really taking it seriously you will need to do the same with pen and paper small tasks at a time
I have a patent which involves a formulaic approach to measuring and classifying certain “stuff” It is filed as data compression and being able to represent the same thing in a compressed way is why it can be protected.
AI will give you multiple wrong answers and a possible correct one.
Filtering through these needs education and understanding. Which perhaps can be done but maybe not in the best way.