Burny
On the quest to understand the fundamental equations of intelligence and of the universe with curiosity. http://burnyverse.com Upskilling
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- Reposted by BurnyM78: Reflecting Blue in a Sea of Red apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26012... In the Orion Molecular Cloud complex, several bright blue nebulas are particularly apparent. Pictured here in the center are 2 of the most prominent reflection nebulas - dust clouds lit by reflecting light of bright embedded stars
- Reposted by BurnyHoly moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
- (CNN) - The fast-growing measles outbreak in South Carolina is now the largest in the United States since the disease was declared eliminated in this country more than two decades ago. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/h...
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[Not loaded yet] - Reposted by BurnyESA/Hubble photo of a distant stellar birthplace, region of the N159 star-forming complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud, approximately 160 000 light-years away. Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Indebetouw Link for more information: esahubble.org/images/potw2...
- Reposted by Burnywaiting for some experiments to run, so a quick thread about base models and pretraining contamination, with some weird & interesting base model generations i've collected over time. or, why do open source models claim to be claude or chatgpt?
- Reposted by BurnyMe in 2005: Moore's Law means that computers will get super fast over a very short period of time! Me in 2026: my computer freezes up if I leave my browser open for too long
- Reposted by BurnyThe Pleiades star cluster (M45) captured over 25 hours. The blue glow is starlight reflecting off interstellar dust. The surrounding brown structures are the Integrated Flux Nebula, incredibly faint clouds lit by the glow of our entire galaxy. #astrophotography #astronomy #space #m45
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- Reposted by BurnyCanaries in the coal mine. Worth paying attention to. (And yes, they are both obviously interested in seeing their own products used, but hearing enough from other, independent coders that make me believe them. I wrote more about the shift here: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/management...)
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- AI models understand differently than humans Mechanistic Indicators of Understanding in Large Language Models arxiv.org/abs/2507.08017
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- Reposted by BurnyScientists will not find a simple answer to how autism arises, despite Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s promise to announce its causes sometime this month. Here’s what makes the condition so staggeringly complex
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- Grok suddenly developing a liking for Hitler might be explained by him being trained on more right-wing data, which accidentally activated it in him. Similar things happen in open research too. For example you just need the model to be trained on insecure code, and in it's persona features (1/2)
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- What if we had bigger brains? Stephen Wolfram x Joscha Bach www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G1S...
- AI x physics intersection is an endless rabbithole. You can try to: - make AI systems model physics better than other AI systems (ferminet, lagrangian neural networks arxiv.org/abs/2003.04630 latent space squeezing www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRL5... ,...), (1/n)
- Sean Carroll x Eric Weinstein is fascinating. I think Sean's responses were nice, and Eric dodged so many questions from Sean that asked him to make his theory of everything in physics more scientifically valid, it's fascinating tactics form Erik to dodge reality checks. (1/n) youtu.be/DUr4Tb8uy-Q
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- Reposted by Burny"If the proposal is enacted, Americans today and tomorrow will be sicker, poorer, and die younger” an $18 Billion cut Only 3 NIH Institutes will remain in place, and even they will have their funds markedly reduced www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/n...
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- Reposted by BurnyDavid Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors 👏 youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...
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