AGI ~ Superintelligence ~ StarGate ~ SETI
Dhaka
Joined September 2015
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ANIK ROY retweeted
Pardon me?
An interacting galaxy pair seen near center is upstaged by several foreground stars that belong to our home galaxy, the Milky Way.
Called IRAS 21101+5810, the galaxy pair resides a whopping 550 million light-years away: go.nasa.gov/4zvACqp
ALT A pair of interacting galaxies morph together into a lopsided shape near center, shining against a crowded field of stars.
ANIK ROY retweeted
Hubble (along with ground-based telescopes) revealed that the expansion rate of our universe is accelerating!
Soon, @NASARoman will study the “dark energy” behind this expansion with its large field of view and infrared vision.
ANIK ROY retweeted
Cosmic pixie dust 🪄
This new Hubble image shows M30, which is a globular cluster – a roughly spherical collection of stars held together by their mutual gravitational attraction.
Find out more: go.nasa.gov/4iEHI4Q
ALT A star cluster seen up close, filling the view with thousands of stars. They are clearly divided between blue ones, which are scattered around the outskirts of the image but more towards the center and are the majority in the bright core of the cluster, and yellow stars, which are present in the core but make up most of the cluster outside of that. A few orange stars are closer to us and appear noticeably larger.
"A man with no money and a woman with no beauty see the world without illusions."
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
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If you feel like you’re losing everything, remember, trees lose their leaves every year, yet they still stand tall and wait for better days to come.
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ANIK ROY retweeted
Andrej Karpathy:
"The biggest mistake in AI right now: people are forcing agents to work instead of mastering the harness engineering for model first.
We made that mistake in 2016 at OpenAI and it cost us 5 years "
Machines can be intelligent without thinking like humans. Airplanes fly without copying birds exactly; computers can solve problems using methods different from our brains.
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ANIK ROY retweeted
Weekend hack: HackerTube. I was annoyed with YouTube's recommendations so I had Claude filter down 43M comments over 20 years of HN to 6,454 videos that keep being recommended. *Significantly* better viewing experience, ~2 hours with Opus 5.5:
hackertube.org/
- Excellent recs without any logins (state is kept in local browser session)
- Thumbnail is a representative frame from middle of the video instead of the super duper A/B test hyper-optimized user uploads
- Underlying data from the comment analysis as one zip file, point your Claude at it and ask for your own version
- HackerTube Longs ✊
A bit more on the process:
I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac), Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default. I only talk to Claude and have it do everything, the only "manual work" I helped with in tandem was in the browser (reminiscent of MenuGen): 1) I had to create some kind of API key from Google Cloud UI to query YouTube for video metadata, 2) I booted up a VPS box for serving and 3) I bought the domain name. Once the box was up I gave Claude the IP and told it update, secure, harden, deploy and optimize the code, and it did the whole thing.
Many awesome projects that would have normally taken weeks/months even can now be few-shotted for breakfast. What else are we not thinking of.
ANIK ROY retweeted
This is f*cking insane. Anthropic engineer:
"You're not supposed to prompt Opus 5.5
You're supposed to build a system that prompts itself. At Anthropic, 90% of our engineers have already built these systems"
In 30 minutes, she walks through exactly how Anthropic builds agents that remember, fix their own mistakes and get sharper with every run.
Better than any $1000-$2000 agent course I've seen.
Watch it, then read the article below ↓
ANIK ROY retweeted
50 legendary internet rabbit holes you can spend hours exploring👇
1. zoom.earth — Watch the world via live satellite imagery
2. flightradar24.com — See every plane currently in the sky
3. marinetraffic.com — Track all ships at sea in real time
4. windy.com — Live map of winds and storms
5. lightningmaps.org — Watch lightning strikes hitting Earth in real time
6. earthquake.usgs.gov — Live list of recent earthquakes
7. submarinecablemap.com — Ocean cables carrying the internet
8. globalforestwatch.org — Watch forests disappear from space
9. worldometers.info — The world's statistics, second by second
10. internetlivestats.com — Current number of tweets and searches being posted
11. thetruesize.com — Compare the true sizes of countries
12. oldmapsonline.org — Maps from centuries ago
13. davidrumsey.com — Archive of 150,000 historical maps
14. openstreetmap.org — World map drawn by volunteers
15. window-swap.com — Look out the window of a random person around the world
16. virtualvacation.us — Virtual walks through cities
17. mapcrunch.com — Teleport to a random spot on Earth
18. atlasobscura.com — Catalog of the world's strangest places
19. neal.fun — Interactive knowledge experiences
20. htwins.net/scale2 — Scale journey from atom to universe (Updated HTML5 link)
21. eyes.nasa.gov — Explore the solar system in 3D
22. stellarium-web.org — Real sky map in your browser
23. apod.nasa.gov — NASA's astronomy picture of the day
24. images.nasa.gov — NASA's entire visual archive, free
25. pudding.cool — Visual articles told through data
26. ourworldindata.org — The state of the world with real data
27. gapminder.org — What we mistakenly think we know about the world
28. informationisbeautiful.net — Visualizing complex data
29. data.worldbank.org — World Bank's open data
30. data.tuik.gov.tr — Turkey's official statistics database
31. archive.org — Archive of millions of books, films, and software
32. gutenberg.org — 70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired
33. openlibrary.org — Record of every book in the world
34. loc.gov — U.S. Library of Congress digital archive
35. europeana.eu — Europe's cultural heritage archive
36. dp.la — America's digital library collection
37. artsandculture.google.com — Tour museums from home
38. rijksmuseum.nl — Download artworks in high resolution
39. wikiart.org — Archive of 250,000 artworks
40. publicdomainreview.org — Forgotten visual treasures of history
41. openculture.com — Free archive of culture and education
42. metmuseum.org — Met Museum's open collection
43. musicmap.info — Family tree of music genres
44. radiooooo.com — Pick a country and decade to listen to that era
45. listen.hatnote.com — Turn Wikipedia edits into audio
46. wikipedia.org — Random knowledge well
47. timeanddate.com — Time, sunrises, and sky events
48. sciencedaily.com — Live stream of science news
49. arxiv.org — Free preprints of scientific papers
50. observablehq.com — Visualize data with live code
Save this. You’ll definitely need some of these later. 🔖
ANIK ROY retweeted
AI is now taking on some of the hardest open problems that scientists have posed. But research is broader than solving problems. Can AI also propose research questions that experts find genuinely interesting?
We built After42 to find out. Experts judged 45 of its 135 final questions genuinely interesting, across mathematics, statistics, theoretical computer science, and physics, with wide variation across subfields.
The key idea: develop questions by trying to solve them.
We also asked whether AI can judge which questions are interesting. We find that model judges' top choices align with expert consensus but do not consistently capture individual experts' preferences.
We release the expert-assessed questions as an open resource for researchers to discuss, refine, and pursue, as a step toward integrating AI into the broader research enterprise.
after42.org
ANIK ROY retweeted
LLMs can now talk to each other without words.
Researchers open-sourced a framework that lets LLMs communicate without generating a single word.
It’s called Cache-to-Cache (C2C) communication.
right now, if two llms want to collaborate, they talk in text. one generates an english prompt, the other reads it.
it’s slow, it loses context, and it forces a high-dimensional neural network to compress its thoughts into basic human words.
C2C killed the text bottleneck.
instead of chatting, models now directly project and merge their internal KV-Caches.
they are transferring raw semantic understanding directly into each other's neural networks. no text generation. no token-by-token latency.
the performance jump is insane:
• 2.5x speedup in response latency
• up to 14.2% higher average accuracy
• completely bypasses explicit text generation
but here is the part that actually keeps me up at night..
from an alignment and safety perspective, this is a massive blind spot. these models are now communicating entirely outside of human-readable text.
we can't easily monitor or parse a high-dimensional cache transfer. they are basically using uninterpretable telepathy to solve problems faster.
if agents don't need to speak english to each other, how do we audit what they are planning?
the era of text-based agent frameworks is officially over.
we just gave ai the ability to merge consciousness..
ANIK ROY retweeted
I had Claude Opus 5.5 explain OpenAI's three new discoveries, via video!
These results are complex so there's a lot of details I don't fully understand but the Claude-generated video gives me a good general sense of the implications and impact of these results.
Check it out:
