hrheingold

hrheingold, 1 day ago to ai

Introducing AlphaFold 3, a new AI model developed by Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs. By accurately predicting the structure of proteins, DNA, RNA, ligands and more, and how they interact, we hope it will transform our understanding of the biological world and drug discovery.

#ai

https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-deepmind-isomorphic-alphafold-3-ai-model/

hrheingold, 8 days ago to Futurology

"The structure of the universe and the laws that govern its growth may be more similar than previously thought to the structure and growth of the human #brain and other complex #networks such as the Internet or a social network of trust relationships between people, according to a new paper published in the science journal Nature’s Scientific Reports."

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressreleases/human_brain_internet_and_cosmology_similar_laws_at_work#.UMKYXrOqyFc.twitter

hrheingold, 13 days ago to random

#OnlineCommunities

http://communalytic.org

hrheingold, 14 days ago to magick

I made a portal to another dimension

#artwork #magick

hrheingold, 15 days ago to random

When I was being irradiated, the radiology crew commented on my painted shoes, so I gave them a link to some of my paintings online. The next day, I saw that they had downloaded one painting and were using it as a screen saver in their control room. So the day after that, I gave them the original, which they hung in the control room. Then they were told they couldn't hang things there, so they put it in the treatment room,

(1/2)

hrheingold, 15 days ago to KindActions

I made this for the radiology crew who helped cure my cancer 14 years ago. On top is the Islamic design known as "breath of the compassionate."

#artwork #gratitude

hrheingold, 15 days ago to internet

The work of running a small social media platform is primarily social, rather than technical.

Unlike big platforms, which are largely differentiated by technical affordances and whose work mostly involves building and maintaining technical infrastructure, small platforms are largely differentiated by social factors and most of their work involves building and maintaining social infrastructure.

#OnlineCommunities #socialmedia

https://idpi-umass.beehiiv.com/p/8020-rule-small-social-media

hrheingold, 16 days ago to random

Silicon Valley thrived while the previous tech center outside Boston failed to thrive because Massachusetts enforced non-competes and California engineers were able to walk out the door and cross fertilize skills and knowledge in a growing ecology of start-ups. So stopping enforcement of non-competes can have long-term consequences.

hrheingold, 16 days ago to random

Eyes wide shut: Why closing your eyes intensifies psychedelic trips
A recent study suggests that exposure to visual stimuli can diminish the effects of #psychedelic drugs.

https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/eyes-wide-shut-psychedelic-trips-intensify-with-eyes-closed/

hrheingold, 16 days ago to LLMs

Like words, molecular sequences in biological components are tokens that can be manipulated by #LLMs:

“Here, using large language models (LLMs) trained on biological diversity at scale, we demonstrate the first successful precision editing of the human genome with a programmable gene editor designed with AI.”

#ai #technologyinnovation

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.22.590591v1

hrheingold, 16 days ago to internet

We Need To Rewild The Internet

The #internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet

hrheingold, 21 days ago to random

In many group-living species, high-rank individuals bully their group-mates to get what they want, but their contribution is key to success in conflict with other groups, according to a study that sheds new light on the evolutionary roots of cooperation and group conflict.

#cooperation

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/657299

hrheingold, 22 days ago to ai

artificial intelligence-generated content is now widely being used to spread misinformation, as well as to confuse and entertain voters. Throughout 2024, Rest of World is tracking the most noteworthy incidents of AI-generated election content globally.

#ai #misinformation #elections

https://restofworld.org/2024/elections-ai-tracker/

hrheingold, 1 month ago to random

On the advice of https://mamot.fr/@doctorow I've switched my default search engine on my devices to kagi.com

hrheingold, 1 month ago to random

Western agronomists changed the traditional agricultural system in Bali, and when that caused crops to increase and then the whole system collapsed, Stephen Lansing from Santa Fe Institute organized an interdisciplinary effort to find out why. They discovered that the quasi-religious traditional water temple system was a sophisticated socio-cultural solution to complex social dilemmas.

#cooperation

Perfect order -- recognizing complexity in Bali: John Stephen Lansing

https://t.co/nNo8pUwjUc

hrheingold, 1 month ago to random

If you are fortunate enough to share a neighborhood with a leafy elm, a gnarly oak, a soaring redwood, take another look at its silhouette against the sky. That self-similar 4-D explosion of branching branches is a clue to a cosmic riddle or two and a key concept in fields as unrelated as vascular surgery and software design.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/shape-of-15315190

hrheingold, 1 month ago to random

#psychedelics and the Mind—Now open for enrollment! UC Berkeley

http://bit.ly/BCSPcourse

hrheingold, 1 month ago to random

A pair of my painted shoes. "Snakeyes"

#artwork #painting

hrheingold, 1 month ago to random

Darwin's Cathedral: Evolutionary Advantages of Religion

Wilson argues that religious systems (sets of belief and moral codes) are biological adaptations that allow individuals to act collectively and survive in distinct social and economic contexts relative to other groups.

#cooperation

summary:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/100607735

hrheingold, 2 months ago to ai

Why crap-detection literacy is essential, not only for online info, but for using LLMs

Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817

#ai #llm

"In this paper, we formalize the problem and show that it is impossible to eliminate hallucination in LLMs."

hrheingold, 2 months ago to internet

Mindful Disconnection: Counterpowering the Panopticon

(2006!)

"In this article, media experts Howard Rheingold and Eric Kluiten­berg ask us to consider if unques­tioned connectivity – the drive to connect everything to everything, and everyone to everyone by means of electronic media – is necessarily a good thing. "

#socialmedia #OnlineCommunities #media

https://www.patreon.com/posts/mindful-28281965

hrheingold, 2 months ago to ai

The Risks of Autonomous Weapon Systems: Self-Preservation Technologies and Proliferation

#ai #technology

https://theintellectualist.com/risks-autonomous-weapon-systems-proliferation/

hrheingold, 2 months ago to random

So I made a lightweight wearable spaceship for my grandson

hrheingold, 2 months ago to random

When I was Howard K. Martian, I had a tiny wearable space ship that i used to race cable cars on Nob Hill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU02D6Pg1RE