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KasianFranks

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https://cymetica.com https://vectorspacebio.science
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KasianFranks··on Claude Opus 5.5
Back to Fable 5.1 - Opus 5.5 is now taking 10x longer just as Opus 5.
KasianFranks··on Watch AI materials-science and bioscience abilities closely
The positive impact on human aging/lifespan/healthspan is not being talked about enough when it comes to AI+biosciences.
KasianFranks··on Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
Guess my OS?
KasianFranks··on Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended
This what's called a golden share.
KasianFranks··on LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders
I'll bite. Can you send us 1% back?
KasianFranks··on GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years
So has the church of the subgenius.
KasianFranks··on I think I have LLM burnout
Burn out? This guy is weakling with zero experience in full QA and validation.
KasianFranks··on I think I have LLM burnout
It's amazing how many do not have experience with the full pre and post SDLC.
KasianFranks··on Developers Are Solving the Wrong Problem
What really needs to be done is to stop using the term “vibe coding” for what really is similar to the “owner-builder” movement in the general contracting/construction industry. Foreman and GCs are not owner-builders. We need another name.
KasianFranks··on Tcl-Lang Showcase
In 1996/7 I had a chance to use Tcl/Tk to build one of the first stock tickers on the web called DigitalTrader [1], after that we used it to build some of the first vector embeddings in 2005 for early biological language models at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab [2,3] for space biosciences. Still a fan.

[1] https://www.orafaq.com/usenet/comp.databases.oracle.misc/199...

[2] https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2005/03/31/a-search-engine-that-t...

[3] https://patents.google.com/patent/US7987191B2/en

KasianFranks··on LLM Embeddings Explained: A Visual and Intuitive Guide
Agreed. Vector embeddings along with which distance calculations you choose.
KasianFranks··on I don't think AGI is right around the corner
How can it be if we have yet to fully define what human intellect is or how it works? Not to mention consciousness. Machine intelligence will always be different than human intelligence.
KasianFranks··on Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook
Ahh yes, the lost art of UNiX sys admin always comes back.
KasianFranks··on What even is a small language model now?
This is also where MoE shines with a mixture of small and large language models.
KasianFranks··on Stargate and the AI Industrial Revolution
Unique specialized high-value hard-to-duplicate data and datasets will be frontline moats and provide new competitive edges.
KasianFranks··on Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction
And, at the heart of AlphaFold2 is the language model, the tip of the spear in AI today. 'Language' can come in many forms e.g. a protein or amino acid sequence.
KasianFranks··on The human heart shows signs of ageing after just a month in space
Yep, Scott Kelly, after a year in space, lost about 30% of his hearts muscle mass. Ref: https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/nasas-twins-study-resul...
KasianFranks··on The Lunacy of Artemis
This person is forgetting the entire operation is based on space biosciences, not just space. Vector Space Biosciences presents at DeSci London March 2024 - Min: 4:27:33 https://youtu.be/fbnFEvfKRO8?t=16052
KasianFranks··on Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer
They are named 'feature' vectors with scored attributes, similar to associative arrays.Just ask MI. Jordan, D. Blie, S. Mian or A. Ng.
KasianFranks··on About That OpenAI "Breakthrough"
Operation Smokescreen
KasianFranks··on Billionaires should face a minimum tax rate, report says
So what?
KasianFranks··on Crypto Fooled Us Once. It Will Fool Us Again
The days of the tired overblown mantra among certain software engineering camps, many of which are funded by public capital markets, continuing to beat the drum of "all crypto is a scam" are over. Having an understanding and appreciation of how public capital markets work is key. Not many have this understanding and appreciation. The capital markets were designed to enable a company to raise capital aka funding. Crypto now represents a truly global capital marketplace accessible to all, not just to accredited investors in the US. Bottom line.

Key points to remember:

1. Crypto is not a currency, it's a trading vehicle similar to a stock, junk bond, debenture, options or futures contract.

2. Regulated security tokens/crypto that represent equity ownership in a company with real products and with real revenue generating capability is the future of crypto.

It's important to realize the advantage of a truly global capital marketplace represented by regulated security tokens connected to the equity of a company/startup which provide a company/startup the ability to raise funding, create jobs, get salaries paid, fund operations in science and techology in any indusrty which provide a return on investment capital (ROIC) to stakeholders and shareholders at the same time.

KasianFranks··on We Don't Know Enough About the Biomedical Challenges of Deep Space Exploration
"“What we do not know about human physiological limitations hinders our ability to plan a human exploration campaign beyond LEO,” the team said in their paper. “The most limiting factor that makes human space exploration a risky endeavor is strictly dependent on safety issues. Therefore, the principal barriers to human exploration far from LEO are those given by the limits of medicine." - There will be no space race without space biosciences which also result in new marketable therapies and precision medicine for everyone on the ground.
KasianFranks··on New exoplanet found orbiting twin suns
No reference to light years for the general public?
KasianFranks··on Genes down-regulated in spaceflight are involved in longevity in C. elegans
Connected to some of our early work in language modeling applied to space biosciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/DOE with Saira Mian, Michael I. Jordan and David Blei: "Statistical modeling of biomedical corpora: mining the Caenorhabditis Genetic Center Bibliography for genes related to life span" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1533868
KasianFranks··on AI That Powers Chatbots and Search Queries Could Discover New Drugs
Unpaywalled: https://archive.ph/bTVsu
KasianFranks··on Chernobyl black frogs reveal evolution in action
"In addition, it opens the doors to promising applications in fields as diverse as nuclear waste management and space exploration."
KasianFranks··on The final frontier: health in space
SciHub: https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-673...
KasianFranks··on Terraform should have remained stateless
I would not argue against maintaining state. Immutable state is key to security.
KasianFranks··on SEC Charges Nvidia with Inadequate Disclosures about Impact of Cryptomining
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