E.O. Wilson, who must have spent much of his life thinking about comparisons between ants (one of the major subjects of his research) and humans, once said:
“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.”
Here's a video showing our winning solution to the "Quantum Communications Constellations" #GECCO2023 competition: https://youtu.be/AyzC81jT2BI
#EvolutionaryComputing #satellite #constellation #trajectory #optimization #EuropeanSpaceAgency #ESA #SpOC
"Your first draft isn’t an unoriginal idea expressed clearly; it’s an original idea expressed poorly, and it is accompanied by your amorphous dissatisfaction, your awareness of the distance between what it says and what you want it to say. That’s what directs you during rewriting, and that’s one of the things lacking when you start with text generated by an A.I."
Author #TedChiang on #ChatGPT and what #writing really means
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web
What fool called it Glorot Initialization of Weights and not Weighting for Glorot
epic summary of an epic debate: https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-debate-3-everything-you-need-to-know-about-artificial-general-intelligence/
Building "anything" in Conway's Game of Life with only 15 gliders! Incredible!!
https://btm.qva.mybluehost.me/building-arbitrary-life-patterns-in-15-gliders/
So sad to hear the news of Greg Bear's passing. One of the giants of #scifi.
If you work in #AI, check "Queen of Angels", if you haven't done so already: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/410766.Queen_of_Angels
