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A potentially habitable star system candidate that may have been the origin of the “Wow! signal"
 
https://t.co/ybau8oWUr7

RT @oneunderscore__: I want to tell a quick story.

The Buffalo shooter had a toothache.

Tales from the robot apocalypse: A non-technical introduction to Gato
https://t.co/fwn8If6o33

"DeepMind attempted to mitigate harms by filtering sexually explicit content and implementing safety measures for their robotic systems. However, given that the paper did not discuss other mitigation attempts, harmful output is still a concern."

RT @dpcarrington: Climate sceptic thinktank reported to charity commission over fossil fuel interest funding

Story by @horton_official…

"…there is no known research on net-zero emissions goals and the proceeds of crime."

https://t.co/jbpJGMmtA3

Machine Learning is only just starting to make an impact in #Chemistry but there are some major developments incoming.

I'm curious about the ways ML solutions might contribute to mitigating the #ClimateCrisis. Materials? Control Systems? Suggestions?

https://t.co/zSvUAVndtq

Love me a good library. https://t.co/M4fGNIlJox

An effort in use machine learning to find catalysts in transforming renewable resources like solar and wind into other fuels such as hydrogen for clean energy usage and storage.

https://t.co/hoJ1kgDJ1l

#machinelearning #ai #ml

Regret and the foregone alternatives.

https://t.co/KTRR7blZce

Blimey. https://t.co/2xCTdX5kpm

It's all in the word 'could'. Gene editing could have disastrous unintended consequences.

https://t.co/yuwbeRjZlE

Before the robots take over they'll be making memes.
https://t.co/78j7LSDbIV

While I'm on the topic again:

#AI trained on astronomical observations now outperform astronomers in identifying new #exoplanets.
https://t.co/JkCkcKucdp

#MachineLearning #ML #astronomy

According to @TaxJusticeNet Britain is the biggest tax evasion enabler on the planet.

https://t.co/j7SG4XV7tI

Yet more notes from the inevitable robot uprising!
Neuromorphic hardware for #MachineLearning
https://t.co/ak0zqZVD08

"World Builders Put Happy Face On Superintelligent AI".

The Future of Life Institute contest is actually a thing.

https://t.co/DwAOPLskFb

#MachineLearning #ai #scifi #utopia

“Interventions targeting agreeableness may be an effective way to help reduce dark traits in a way that people may be likely to cooperate with.” 

https://t.co/TRBmyjqLXr

@BBCr4today That point made by the estate agent that landlords get the pick means that discrimination legislation is being ignored, essentially because it can't be enforced.

I saw this bit of footage of Roald Dahl and his writing hut when I was very young and it stayed with me for a long time. Then I remembered YouTube.

https://t.co/RUmlpLaBwC

#writing #roalddahl

RT @TheFractalist: #fractal #fractalart #digitalart #art #geometry #geometricart #complexity #artist #abstractart #abstract #math #mathemat…

RT @thePiggsBoson: A brief history of Physics https://t.co/hV1NC8AM52

Today's update from the impending machine uprising is straight out of Terminator.
https://t.co/OmRbH4Lck7

RT @OliverBullough: How it started How it's going.

(h/t @kathrynwestmore) https://t.co/pXufsHZggK

My Mum is 70 today and the whole family is getting together for the first time in 4 years: 2 Grandparents, 7 Children, 5 Partners and 13 Grandchildren! https://t.co/tRs18NvXoU

The transcript of the conversation with the "Sentient" AI was heavily edited, Dave.

https://t.co/A3oT404KFD

"Primal World Beliefs"

https://t.co/GgdZhlTYu8

"Kurt Gödel revolutionized the study of mathematics with his famous incompleteness theorem, but the most compelling implications of his hypothesis might be in what it means for the study of the mind and consciousness."

https://t.co/xLg69S58EX

@FirstBSA what happened to the last x7 on Thursday?

"a more complex role for oxytocin"

https://t.co/VD9bjb6JgG

Contrary to Sagan's 'billions and billions' of galaxies remark, estimates now put the number of galaxies in the observable universe at between 6 and 20 trillion.

https://t.co/yKPzFwRwx7

So many scammers calling from '@VirginMedia Technical Support' at the moment. 5 in 24 hours. I've taken to suggesting they might think about getting a different job but heartbreaking to get the response, 'can you give me one?' It's basically #organisedcrime built on #poverty

I'm assuming that the more people talk to it about being sentient, the better it will get at talking about being sentient.

https://t.co/FNDvF267Io

#MachineLearning #ai

This is an interesting question because what does it mean to be good at talking about being sentient? Do you have to be sentient to be good at talking about it? Could a machine get so good at talking about sentience that we could learn from it?

#Philosophy #philosophyofmind

RT @scottedelman: The Onion isn't taking any prisoners today. https://t.co/qB9JWZQq6f

New rules on fixed recoverable legal costs mean solicitors will no longer be able to afford to take on housing cases

https://t.co/2DegqvufLr

"… two studies support an association between conspiracy mentality and a general mistrust of others, rather than a higher sensitivity to untrustworthiness cues or a lower sensitivity to trustworthiness cues."

https://t.co/80f2cUTepM

When it comes to moral choices both anxious and avoidant attachment styles are associated with reduced deontological AND utilitarian decision-making.

https://t.co/hto9JVan7j

#moraltheory #psychology #Philosophy

RT @xkcdComic: Periodic Table Changes https://t.co/pWCax5Jk13 https://t.co/MSD3ZI5i88 https://t.co/hMOPptNOUF

Multi-generational estrangement

https://t.co/orqSIuPosj

"…a causal link between intellectual humility and the desire to investigate political misinformation…"

https://t.co/2mlrK6njJa

I knew there was a US army unit stationed in #Clevedon before D-day but just discovered it was called The Publicity and Psychological Warfare Battalion.

https://t.co/1u8YnTDDMJ

Grant Shapps? Is that his real name?

Blimey. A bit of everything in here.

#computing #materialsscience #environment #energyefficiency
#opticalcomputing #graphene #QuantumComputing

https://t.co/MeDbas7SHw

100 billion pieces of plastic packaging. A year.

https://t.co/VI2zJkcsfE

RT @moneyscience: Academic economics, not exactly covering itself in glory. How often does this sort of thing happen?

https://t.co/788IIw…

Finite Resource Economics: What does life look like after resource depletion? 

https://t.co/Aedl13K2ob

This is pretty crazy – Anatomy of a Threat Group – Cyber-threats-as-a-service

https://t.co/iHxvqEUo6A

"inherited family wealth is fast becoming.. the most important determinant of how well-off a person will be later in life.. 1 in 10 UK adults born in the 1980s.. will inherit… more than half as much money as the average person earns in a lifetime"

https://t.co/jWrwzFx2WS

Yikes @sophiejerrold – this isn't great.

https://t.co/UJCVSiLO1J

A recent experiment from the philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel, Anna Strasser, and Matthew Crosby quizzed people on whether they could tell which answers to deep philosophical questions came from Daniel Dennett and which from #GPT3

#AI #MachineLearning

https://t.co/lotnbCfoUJ

RT @marcusleroux: Earlier this month I did a bit of digging into two offshore businesses linked to Nadhim Zahawi, the Chancellor. One was B…

How much should we talk in conversations?

https://t.co/G9dMLkGqC6

New research finds that chaos plays a bigger role in population dynamics than decades of ecological data seemed to suggest.

https://t.co/lw64xRiMDE

In the onward march towards the machine uprising, MIT claim to have successfully created analog synapses that are one million times faster than those in our human brains.
https://t.co/NmuhBNPbkh
#machineuprising #ai #robotapocalypse

"There have been some inventive twists on the basic method for DNA storage in recent years."

https://t.co/XHAideVhOz

A new theory in the journal Frontiers in Psychology claims to solve the hard problem of consciousness in a purely physical way.

https://t.co/OYKUR5jMz9

RT @Feargal_Sharkey: So government's much trumpeted plan to stop water companies dumping sh*t into our river has been quietly shelved. What…

Mandelbrot’s Fractional Dimensions –

“In the mind’s eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.”

https://t.co/3WKTmOd519

#fractalgeometry #mandelbrot

How Autistic People Experience Sensory Processing Issues

https://t.co/exFBZjazJ8

RT @flying_rodent: Like I say, we’re about to be bombarded with messages about the virtues of being poor, hungry, cold and sitting in the d…

Comically tiny. Horrifically gelatinous.

https://t.co/pU5LHJ4gOp

RT @larrylamb47: What a disgrace https://t.co/B7NT9FlDS8

Does the word 'happy' make you smile

Cognitive Fatigue (and how to survive it)

https://t.co/dv0uHiQuXY

Interesting.

"Reading fiction early in life is associated with a more complex worldview"

#reading #fiction #psychology @DrAaronB

https://t.co/4hDht3U97p

This tweet should have been:

"Scientists Cook horrifyingly gelatinous Lab-Grown Hamburger" https://t.co/Hrj4UWixVh

RT @dorfman_p: Ground-mounted solar panels currently cover just 0.1% of all land in the UK. And plans to expand solar would only bring this…

"Toxic Positivity"

https://t.co/X0kLtqCzqP

RT @DrAaronB: “Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find, behind all the discernible concatenations,…

A study of the runtime, memory usage, and energy consumption of 27 well-known #software languages…. 𝗣𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗹 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀.

https://t.co/NqRq8w0Fxj https://t.co/2D6dsTk1Ac

These #Clevedon #Sunsets https://t.co/8PDkPCS85t

RT @doug_parr: Energy analysts look at global performance of carbon capture and storage. Conclusion?

“Many international bodies and nati…

I was starting to wonder if @FirstBSA had finally just given up. Driver shortages are creating cancellations and delays but the lack of live updates is a real problem. People would be more sympathetic if they weren't being kept in a state of suspended tension about whether 1/n https://t.co/n9co4Y4CJC

their busses were actually going to turn up. It's not the drivers' fault; they're a stretched workforce & there are sensible legal requirements that limit the number of hours they can work, but the lack of live or reliable info about services (especially late at night) means 2/n

Investors on the one hand and on the other report depleted resources and unprofitable routes to local users. This isn't illegal – and no doubt some people would approve of it as sound business practice – but I think you can question the ethics and legitimately ask 4/n

"… the subversive potential of friendship"

https://t.co/LcfoviMAqf

@FirstBSA can you confirm if there are any bus services running between Clevedon and Bristol tomorrow? Neither the app or website are showing anything and there are no timetables available for the dates starting September 4th.

RT @IMLPO: The Institute Committee are pleased to present the final outline of our Member Meeting this Thursday, September 8th.

A big than…

RT @Cthulhu4PM: A cabinet of hollowed-out automatons, mouthing meaningless slogans; no soul, no intelligence, no life. That was MY idea!