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@alephneuro

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We recently obtained the highest-resolution 3D images of the human brain ever taken from outside the skull. This is the first look. Introducing Aleph, a research lab building brain interfaces for the telepathic future. (1/n) ...

@alesfav

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AI needs vastly more data than we do. One idea might close the gap: don't predict raw signals (tokens), predict your own abstract latent representation (JEPA, data2vec). With @DanKorchinski @MatthieuWyart, on a toy model, we prove how much that helps: the gap is exponential. 🧵 ...

@efemarq

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"Botigues tancades a la Barcelona mercantil. Cases endolades a la Barcelona obrera. Síntesi viva de l'essència pairal. N'havia sortit dilluns, tot sol. Hi tornava dissabte, acompanyat de tot un poble." Totes (o quasi) les fotos de l'enterrament de Gaudí: <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/efe...

@efemarq

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dimecres 9 de juny, cap a les 04:00h Al llarg de la nit es va despertant de tant en tant i després cau "en un fort sopor", un son letàrgic a mig camí entre l'ensopiment i el coma. Segueix tenint deliris i quan es desperta diu coses "sense coordinació". Està a les últimes....

@k4tzye

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#DARLENTINA AU Bryan works as a school guard at NVSU, Regina is a professor of Biology who constantly gets mistaken as a student. Bryan wants to quit and Narda is jobless. What happens when Narda meets Prof. Vanguardia and stops her at the entrance to check her ID? ...

@ihtesham2005

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A Stanford psychologist spent 4 years proving that the simple act of walking generates 60% more creative ideas than sitting, and the experiment she designed to kill every alternative explanation is one of the most decisive findings in modern psychology. Her name is Marily Oppezzo. She got the idea...

@cremieuxrecueil

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I simulated 100,000 people to show how often people are "thrice-exceptional": Smart, stable, and exceptionally hard-working. I've highlighted these people in red in this chart: ...

@brethrenfpurity

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Revelation and Falsification (Tanzīl wa Taḥrīf) of Qur'an in Shī'ī Corpus: From the earliest times, Shī'īs held the view that there were multiple readings of Qur'an and the Qur'anic message had been altered. The later Shī'īs denied this view but in the early Shī'ī milieu......