Thought-provoking? Probably not.
Relaxing? TOTALLY not!
Rescuing a cat from a 20 meter (~65’ 7") linden tree, very thrilling:
Has anyone seen the latest Veritasium video?
Are you a one boxer, or two boxer?
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Great experiment. I’m a one boxer and so are most people I’ve asked.
At first I was oneboxer, but then I was convinced by Casper. Too bad he then changed his mind too! 
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Microtonal rock music with go-inspired costumes! I love it!
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I’m in the same boat!
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Posting this video here because it is a about using Tromp’s diagrams to visualise lambda expressions, and this Tromp is actually OGF member @john.tromp.
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I absolutely love this band.
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An incredibly well made documentary involving archeology, linguistic geography, genetics and anthropology. Well presented and with some fascinating and stunning footage, especially in the 2nd half of the video. It’s 2 hours long, but well worth the watch IMO.
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Relaxing? Certainly not.
Thought-provoking? I hope so!
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This reminds me of Edgar Allan Poe starting his tales pretending that those were real facts, not literature. That way the reader was much more involved and excited. But it was a lie.
An AI trading currencies must be given tools to do that. You can’t simply buy bitcoin without a bank account and a tool (an app) for buying it, which needs another account. So, who’s gonna create and setup those accounts?
If Alibaba actually found some hidden currency trading happening from their servers, I think they should blame some of their employees.
A different scenario is the one for the “discarded AI” simulation: being it completely in a words world, a LLM could actually mimic some completely believable human behaviour such as blackmailing someone. So, this should alert someone who’s thinking about letting a LLM write the emails in his behalf. A LLM trained with novels (which is actually happening) could act as a bully or worse, as a mobster. So, think twice before doing it.
But again, it’s just matter of words.
Hal 9000 wasn’t just chatting. It was controlling each life system on that ship. You need humans giving AI control over devices… such as Trump looking for autonomous weapons… That is scary! Not “AI free will”.
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Glad to share another ancient game archaeology video from Prof. Hafford and Milo.
And they talked about the unexpected connections between divination(astrology), accounting(commerce), and gaming in ancient civilizations, with some mysterious-looking stone/clay round pieces unearthed.
The most interesting thing is that we also found mysterious round pieces unearthed around 1200 BCE to 1500 BCE from the Shang Dynasty era archaeology sites, such as many pieces like this, carefully polished “stone bubble” (around 15 to 30 mm in diameter, and 5 to 10 mm thick), which you can literally hold them like Go stones.
(credit: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
And it just happened that the Shang Dynasty was also famous for its use of divination practices (the ancient scripts, oracle bone scripts, they used are literally carved for the purpose of divination, with some of the oldest astrology and astrological records), and the name of the dynasty, Shang (商), literally means commerce, and they were famous for their long distance trades (their massive broze artifacts required tin ores mined thousands of miles away, with shells and turtle shells they used for commerce from the coastal regions). The locations of the Shang Dynasty were also the places where later scholars refer to using the ancient name of weiqi - 弈(yi). This is definitely something more than a coincidence here.
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Here is a fascinating nature video. I can’t believe I’ve gone my whole life without hearing about this animal, despite extensive reading in exploration literature, nature books, and “bring ’em back alive” books and films. I’ve never seen one in a zoo, either.
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About the history of the Dutch national anthem which was written around 1570, but also covering the life and death of our founding father William the Silent and the birth of the Netherlands as an independent nation-state:
Several details in that video were new to me, even though the Dutch war of independence from Spain is pretty well covered in the history curriculum of Dutch schools.