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Evan Lin

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  • So how do you build something that has an architecture like the brain's? Here's DARPA's gambit: Change your architecture to merge memory and computation.
    MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors - IEEE Spectrum
  • A true artificial intelligence could hypothetically run on conventional hardware, but it would be fantastically inefficient. Inefficient hardware won't stop us from running neuromorphic algorithms (such as machine vision), but we would need an entire massive cluster of high-performance graphics processing units (GPUs) to handle the parallel computations, which would also come with the power requirements of a midwestern college town.
    MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors - IEEE Spectrum
  • In the last few years, MESO has become a frontrunner in this research. Its appeal arises from its architecture that uses a traditional electronic input and output, but with a conversion to magnetism, and then back to charge, that takes place in the device itself. Furthermore, as a spintronic device, MESO can be used to build majority gates. This could make it especially suitable for applications in AI, since fewer transistors would be required to create such circuits compared to standard CMOS
    Intel looks beyond CMOS to MESO | VentureBeat
  • Intel intends for MESO and CMOS to “coexist on the same chip.”
    Intel looks beyond CMOS to MESO | VentureBeat
  • By 2025, it’s going to be the biggest thing.”
    Intel looks beyond CMOS to MESO | VentureBeat
  • There is intellectual fun, and there is fun—old-fashioned, forget about the world, I could do this forever type fun. You might think you could spend the rest of your life debating AGI, but you’d be missing out on the fun that lets you surrender to life.
    Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - LessWrong
  • It’s not about what you find intellectually cool, or what seems like the best “opportunity.” Those things can be important too, but they don’t matter if you hate doing the thing… You have to do the thing you actually enjoy doing, not the thing you find conceptually exciting.
    Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - LessWrong
  • The obsession with interesting makes me uneasy. Friends aren’t resources for intellectual stimulation or new insights. I don’t want my friends to like me because I read niche blogs or have things to say about crypto.
    Stop trying to have "interesting" friends - LessWrong
  • I believe what looked like a mutual lack of respect was actually the manifestation of both groups being intimidated by the other and retreating more and more into pockets of people that validated them — even if that meant artificially limiting their own growth. The hostility stemmed from insecurity and from a perceived lack of belonging.
    Put on your beginner hat! - by Joss - box.
  • I don’t sneer at simple things, and take more time to learn them well. It’s easy for a system to get complex, but difficult and painful for that same system to pare down to simplicity. Where there is rote learning there cannot be elegance, or beauty, or discovery. Mechanical learning gets the grade, but insight and intuition take a tremendous amount of time and sheer effort. Honing that instinct is why great inventors or writers or artists spent so much energy and focus on true, fundamental, bedrock understanding: Edwin Land (inventor of the instant camera) before trying to even experiment wit…
    is work worship? - by Nix 🕊 - starting from nix
  • These days I’m coming around to the idea that the elusive notion of ‘fit’ is very real. You could probably be really competent at whatever it is you want to do but if it’s not the right fit, you’re always struggling against the tide. Why put yourself through a marathon if you don’t even like running? Same applies to people, jobs, hobbies. Ultimately, difficulty should be the route toward something that feels right, not merely suffering to suffer.
    when the fun things are also hard - by Nix 🕊