Wall to Wall Non Fiction bits of interest from deep dives into Science (Brain/Physic/AI/VR), History (BBC4/Etc), & StartUp. Syncing to Obsidian.
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Daniel Kahneman on Making Intelligent Decisions in a Chaotic World - Part 1

The Pattern Noise Problem in Decision Making

47sec
AI Key Takeaways
  • The diversity of perspectives and opinions is often celebrated as beautiful and creative, but when it comes to medical diagnoses, differing opinions can be seen as conflicting and potentially incorrect.
  • This conflicting information is referred to as pattern noise, where individuals project their own biases and experiences onto a situation.
  • Pattern noise in medical diagnoses can lead to uncertainty and potential misdiagnosis.
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Is time an illusion?

Time Perception as an effect of The Increase of Entropy in the Universe -Sean Carroll

2min
AI Key Takeaways
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78 | Daniel Dennett on Minds, Patterns, and the Scientific Image

Recursion and Language in Shaping the Human Brain for Consciousness

4min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Stephen Pinker believes that language plays no role in consciousness, but the speaker disagrees and believes that language allows humans to be conscious of things that other animals are not aware of
  • Recursion and self-representation are crucial for understanding consciousness and language is a tool that enables us to create recursive levels in our own brains
  • Language permits the development of a place to stand in our own cognition and explore our own brains, which creates recursion and other subjective properties like qualia
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Can Neurotechnology Already Read Our Minds?

John Stewart Mill's Theory of Liberty and new congntive digital rights

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • John Stuart Mill's book on liberty provides insight into the fundamental aspects of liberty in the digital age
  • An update to our basic conception of what liberty means is necessary
  • The autonomy of individuals over self and fundamental aspects of freedom of thought are important considerations when navigating the relationship between individuals, society, corporations, and governments in regards to accessing brain data
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Can Neurotechnology Already Read Our Minds?

Decoding Imagined Thoughts: Mind Reading Possible with fMRI

4min
AI Key Takeaways
  • EEG picks up basic brain waves to tell basic brain states
  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) can image what's functionally happening inside the brain
  • fMRI can pick up differences in blood oxygenation levels in active regions of the brain
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#674: Neuroscientist David Eagleman — Exploring Consciousness, Sensory Augmentation, The Lazy Susan Method of Extraordinary Productivity, Dreaming, Improving Hearing with a Wristband, Synesthesia, Stretching Time with Novelty, Lessons from Titans of Science, and Much More

The Lazy Susan Method for balancing attention in Projects

56sec
AI Key Takeaways
  • Lazy Susan method can be effective for managing multiple projects
  • Walt Whitman used the Lazy Susan method with his writing projects
  • Jumping to different projects when feeling stuck can help maintain momentum and maximize resonance
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#123 Aidan Gomez: How AI Language Models Will Shape The Future

Taking AI Uncertainty Seriously along with Jeff Hinton

3min
AI Key Takeaways
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MPT-7B and The Beginning of Context=Infinity — with Jonathan Frankle and Abhinav Venigalla of MosaicML

Random Lottery Ticket Sparsity in Deep Learning and the Hardware matching constraint

3min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Mosaic doesn't focus on sparsity and discourages the use of lottery tickets in their work
  • Hardware limitations have made it difficult to accelerate sparsity
  • Cerebrus architecture may be an exception in accelerating sparsity
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MPT-7B and The Beginning of Context=Infinity — with Jonathan Frankle and Abhinav Venigalla of MosaicML

Improving Training Efficiency and Speed with Next-Gen Hardware and FP8 Floating Point Format

59sec
AI Key Takeaways
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MPT-7B and The Beginning of Context=Infinity — with Jonathan Frankle and Abhinav Venigalla of MosaicML

Coexistence of Open Source and Closed Source in AI & Tech Industry

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Coexistence is an important idea in open approaches.
  • Different tools serve different purposes in the open vs closed source debate.
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MPT-7B and The Beginning of Context=Infinity — with Jonathan Frankle and Abhinav Venigalla of MosaicML

Technical Challenges in Pre-Processing Language Dataset Assessment

4min
AI Key Takeaways
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#662: David Deutsch and Naval Ravikant — The Fabric of Reality, The Importance of Disobedience, The Inevitability of Artificial General Intelligence, Finding Good Problems, Redefining Wealth, Foundations of True Knowledge, Harnessing Optimism, Quantum Computing, and More

The inverse hierarchy effect and Humanities influence on Astrophysics

7min
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