Author: robert.adlington
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Luca is the progenitor of all life on Earth. But its genesis has implications far beyond our planet | Biology | The Guardian
If it holds up, the antiquity of Luca seems to overturn some earlier arguments for why the universe is largely lifeless. “These have been based on the evidence that it took about a billion years for life to emerge on Earth, meaning that these early steps were hard and/or unlikely,” says Donoghue. But a 4.2bn-year-old…
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Comment le « free speech » est devenu l’arme des conservateurs aux Etats-Unis
la conviction de John Stuart Mill, rappelée en 1919 par Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, est mise à mal par le développement des plateformes. Lorsque des informations non vérifiées ou délibérément fausses sur le Covid ou l’assaut du Capitole se répandent massivement, le « marché des idées » reste-t-il vertueux ? Une question essentielle se pose : où se situe…
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« Twin Peaks », le livre des morts de David Lynch
transformer les objets et les occurrences les plus banales en hiéroglyphes qui composent un autre texte que celui qu’offre la réalité. — Read on www.lemonde.fr/series-d-ete/article/2020/07/28/twin-peaks-le-livre-des-morts-de-david-lynch_6047523_3451060.html
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From Mulholland Drive to Twin Peaks via Lost Highway: all David Lynch’s films and TV shows – ranked | David Lynch | The Guardian
The great American film-maker died this week, leaving behind a body of work unmatched in its seductive strangeness and transcendent mystery. We put it in order — Read on www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/17/david-lynch-films-and-tv-shows-ranked
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David Lynch: the great American surrealist who made experimentalism mainstream
Lynch saw that if the US dreamed of safety and prosperity and the suburban drive and the picket fence, it also dreamed of the opposite: of escape, danger, adventure, sex and death. And the two collided and opened up chasms and sinkholes in the lost highway to happiness. Lynch was a film-maker who found portals…
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David Lynch: The blinding light of love
Lynch appreciated robins and worms equally, as few others have before. — Read on www.avclub.com/david-lynch-death-earnestness-blinding-light-love
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David Lynch Dead: ‘Blue Velvet,’ ‘Twin Peaks’ Director Was 78
“Well,” Lynch said, “imagine if you did find a book of riddles, and you could start unraveling them, but they were really complicated. Mysteries would become apparent and thrill you. We all find this book of riddles and it’s just what’s going on. And you can figure them out. The problem is, you figure them…
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AI as Accelerated Cultural Progress
We’re running through generations of cultural learning within each cycle. Like selective breeding of the mind We, as intentional creators, can force AIs to learn our 50k years of intellectual development in a fraction of the time. Every problem that an o1 solves is now a training data point for an o3 (eg. any o1…
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AI’s Uneven Arrival – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
…most great people actually are ammunition. But what you need in your company are barrels. And you can only shoot through the number of unique barrels that you have. That’s how the velocity of your company improves is adding barrels. Then you stock them with ammunition, then you can do a lot. You go from…
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Working with an LLM: komoroske.com/bits-and-bobs
You can’t mindlessly use an LLM and hope to get anything more than mindless results. The mindset and concepts you bring to the LLM determine whether it gets good results. o If you have a coherent worldview and concept, the LLM can help you fill it in. o If you don’t, the LLM will hallucinate…