Burny
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Burny
@burnytech.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Hey! Follow me for explorations of intelligence, mathematics, science, engineering, technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, physics, computer science, (not only computational) neuroscience, cognitive science, transhumanism, AI engineering, AI's benefits, risks, impact and future, etc.
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New from me at @scishow.bsky.social! In news stories, why do quantum computers look like a 'steampunk chandelier'? Well, turns out: that's not the computer!
(But that's all just setup for my rant at the end about how so much quantum tech is way over-hyped 👀👀👀)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhou...
(But that's all just setup for my rant at the end about how so much quantum tech is way over-hyped 👀👀👀)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhou...
Quantum Computers Look Like Chandeliers. This is Why.
YouTube video by SciShow
www.youtube.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
New from me at @scishow.bsky.social! In news stories, why do quantum computers look like a 'steampunk chandelier'? Well, turns out: that's not the computer!
(But that's all just setup for my rant at the end about how so much quantum tech is way over-hyped 👀👀👀)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhou...
(But that's all just setup for my rant at the end about how so much quantum tech is way over-hyped 👀👀👀)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhou...
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"CreativityPrism: A Holistic Benchmark for Large Language Model Creativity." Ambitious new benchmark for creativity attempts to decompose the concept into three dimensions: quality, novelty, and diversity. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.20091
October 27, 2025 at 3:52 AM
"CreativityPrism: A Holistic Benchmark for Large Language Model Creativity." Ambitious new benchmark for creativity attempts to decompose the concept into three dimensions: quality, novelty, and diversity. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.20091
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it's depressing watching people who are lonely and so desperate for connection be afraid to be vulnerable with others because it's scary and uncomfortable
like, you don't need to be impressive or do free labor for others for them to like you; rather, you need to be emotionally open and authentic
like, you don't need to be impressive or do free labor for others for them to like you; rather, you need to be emotionally open and authentic
October 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
it's depressing watching people who are lonely and so desperate for connection be afraid to be vulnerable with others because it's scary and uncomfortable
like, you don't need to be impressive or do free labor for others for them to like you; rather, you need to be emotionally open and authentic
like, you don't need to be impressive or do free labor for others for them to like you; rather, you need to be emotionally open and authentic
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What if we did a single run and declared victory
October 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
What if we did a single run and declared victory
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Autism Has No Single Cause, Research Shows
Autism Has No Single Cause. Here’s How We Know
Scientists 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
www.scientificamerican.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Autism Has No Single Cause, Research Shows
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Scientists 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
Autism Has No Single Cause. Here’s How We Know
Scientists 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 comp...
www.scientificamerican.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Scientists 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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Today LHCb presented a new measurement of the decay of a B meson into a K* and a μ+ μ- pair
Previous results disagreed with the Standard Model prediction for the branching fraction and angular distribution
The new measurement has almost twice as much data and still disagrees!
🧵1/6
Previous results disagreed with the Standard Model prediction for the branching fraction and angular distribution
The new measurement has almost twice as much data and still disagrees!
🧵1/6
September 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Today LHCb presented a new measurement of the decay of a B meson into a K* and a μ+ μ- pair
Previous results disagreed with the Standard Model prediction for the branching fraction and angular distribution
The new measurement has almost twice as much data and still disagrees!
🧵1/6
Previous results disagreed with the Standard Model prediction for the branching fraction and angular distribution
The new measurement has almost twice as much data and still disagrees!
🧵1/6
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There's a particular facile critique of RL that goes "optimal control can solve task X instantly, PPO takes 10k trials." It's facile because no one cares about task X, if we knew how to apply optimal control to say, whole-body humanoid control, we'd just do that! But we don't know how yet.
September 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
There's a particular facile critique of RL that goes "optimal control can solve task X instantly, PPO takes 10k trials." It's facile because no one cares about task X, if we knew how to apply optimal control to say, whole-body humanoid control, we'd just do that! But we don't know how yet.
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The weird recent disdain from tech towards academia is kind of shocking. Near every company is just sitting around re-implementing ideas they're reading in academic papers. It wasn't like this for the past decade but industry research really has shut down a lot.
July 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
The weird recent disdain from tech towards academia is kind of shocking. Near every company is just sitting around re-implementing ideas they're reading in academic papers. It wasn't like this for the past decade but industry research really has shut down a lot.
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Another JWST Surprise! Seeing Into a Galaxy at The Edge of the Universe
YouTube video by Anton Petrov
youtu.be
December 25, 2024 at 6:30 AM
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)
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)
July 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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)
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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I've just finished watching this - youtu.be/M802ElI4u4k?... - trilogy of lectures. All very interesting stuff (and exceptional blackboard work!) - well worth a look (as are a few of the other videos from this same Summer School).
Satya N. Majumdar - 1/3 Nonequilibrium Point Processes with Long-range Correlations (...)
YouTube video by Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES)
youtu.be
July 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I've just finished watching this - youtu.be/M802ElI4u4k?... - trilogy of lectures. All very interesting stuff (and exceptional blackboard work!) - well worth a look (as are a few of the other videos from this same Summer School).
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great post that attempts to get to the heart of what human intelligence is doing
tl;dr the key is short feedback loops. very short. even shorter!
and humans achieve that through intrinsic rewards
tl;dr the key is short feedback loops. very short. even shorter!
and humans achieve that through intrinsic rewards
June 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
great post that attempts to get to the heart of what human intelligence is doing
tl;dr the key is short feedback loops. very short. even shorter!
and humans achieve that through intrinsic rewards
tl;dr the key is short feedback loops. very short. even shorter!
and humans achieve that through intrinsic rewards
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Here’s a new article where I talk about the factors which lead to the current demographics of AI media makers right now.
somewheresystems.substack.com/p/who-is-win...
somewheresystems.substack.com/p/who-is-win...
Who is winning the race to AI videos?
Be careful: slop jockeys might not have values like yours.
somewheresystems.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Here’s a new article where I talk about the factors which lead to the current demographics of AI media makers right now.
somewheresystems.substack.com/p/who-is-win...
somewheresystems.substack.com/p/who-is-win...
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Heart disease is still the #1 killer in the United States, but it's no longer from heart attacks...instead it's from heart failure and arrhythmias
ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
June 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Heart disease is still the #1 killer in the United States, but it's no longer from heart attacks...instead it's from heart failure and arrhythmias
ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
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On "honest yet unacceptable research practices" - HURPs pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Are HURPs the new QRPs?
June 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
On "honest yet unacceptable research practices" - HURPs pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Are HURPs the new QRPs?
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Gm fellow self-perpetuating patterns
June 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Gm fellow self-perpetuating patterns
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Our immune system is incredibly complex. Well suited for A.I. to help deconvolute.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
June 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Our immune system is incredibly complex. Well suited for A.I. to help deconvolute.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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A drug with the potential to “end the HIV pandemic,” that was just approved by the FDA, will launch in the US this week, as a new study reveals it could be sold for 1,000 times less than its possible price tag. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘HIV-ending’ drug could be made for just $25 per patient a year, say researchers
As regulator prepares to approve Lenacapavir in the US, campaigners are urging the manufacturer, Gilead, to make it ‘available and affordable for all who need it’
www.theguardian.com
June 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
A drug with the potential to “end the HIV pandemic,” that was just approved by the FDA, will launch in the US this week, as a new study reveals it could be sold for 1,000 times less than its possible price tag. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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An absolutely fantastic textbook on statistics and machine learning by Prof. Yuan-Sen Ting came out this week - and it's free! #astromethods ☄️
I had a read and it's incredibly comprehensive and well-written - I expect this to become *the* foundation book on stats & ML basics in astro.
I had a read and it's incredibly comprehensive and well-written - I expect this to become *the* foundation book on stats & ML basics in astro.
Statistical Machine Learning for Astronomy -- A Textbook
This textbook provides a systematic treatment of statistical machine learning for astronomical research through the lens of Bayesian inference, developing a unified framework that reveals connections ...
arxiv.org
June 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
An absolutely fantastic textbook on statistics and machine learning by Prof. Yuan-Sen Ting came out this week - and it's free! #astromethods ☄️
I had a read and it's incredibly comprehensive and well-written - I expect this to become *the* foundation book on stats & ML basics in astro.
I had a read and it's incredibly comprehensive and well-written - I expect this to become *the* foundation book on stats & ML basics in astro.
What if we had bigger brains? Stephen Wolfram x Joscha Bach www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G1S...
Salon with Stephen Wolfram × Joscha Bach_What if we had bigger brains.
YouTube video by California Institute for Machine Consciousness
www.youtube.com
June 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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)
- 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)
Lagrangian Neural Networks
Accurate models of the world are built upon notions of its underlying symmetries. In physics, these symmetries correspond to conservation laws, such as for energy and momentum. Yet even though neural ...
arxiv.org
June 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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)
- 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
youtu.be/DUr4Tb8uy-Q
June 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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
youtu.be/DUr4Tb8uy-Q
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Perplexity launches agentic workflows
it’s an extension of Deep Research, framed as an easy way to create “apps” within the perplexity app
x.com/perplexity_a...
it’s an extension of Deep Research, framed as an easy way to create “apps” within the perplexity app
x.com/perplexity_a...
x.com
June 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Perplexity launches agentic workflows
it’s an extension of Deep Research, framed as an easy way to create “apps” within the perplexity app
x.com/perplexity_a...
it’s an extension of Deep Research, framed as an easy way to create “apps” within the perplexity app
x.com/perplexity_a...