tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 5hthe absolute focus of performance driving is a zen flow state that is difficult to approach by other means 110
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 7hanybody want to update on the old rhetorical question of whether the Sun is conscious 1270
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 13hle chaton fat vs el nino super, who can keep track of all these Marvel characters anymore 010
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 14hsometimes I think about how everything I've ever thrown out, even in childhood, is still out there right now, in a landfill somewhere 291
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 15hthis is also another angle on the answer to your line of questions on altitude profiles bsky.app/profile/norv... 010
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026@andymasley.bsky.social more folk dualism for your collection 140
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It is extremely standard to assume that the brain activity encodes imagery and all other sensory modalities, the contrary position would be fringe 100
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026That is a good paper for showing what is possible, not as much how it works. Nonetheless this kind of work is standard; what's different about this paper is that their source measurements are MEG rather than neural multiunit activity. See e.g. for more open detail: neurips.cc/virtual/2024...neurips.ccNeurIPS Poster MonkeySee: Space-time-resolved reconstructions of natural images from macaque multi-unit activityNeurIPS 2024 030
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We can! In the linked study, it was done in realtime with human subjects! 120
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Not a joke. Are you just trying to be dismissive without having any substantive reply? 160
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026unfortunately the heuristic of personally disliking meta doesn't tell you much about whether the research is legitimate. This is all very standard in the field Here is a result from a completely different lab: neurips.cc/virtual/2024...neurips.ccNeurIPS Poster MonkeySee: Space-time-resolved reconstructions of natural images from macaque multi-unit activityNeurIPS 2024 100
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There is remarkable correspondence between the receptive fields in the visual cortex and the receptive fields of a modern multi-layer convolutional artificial neural network 3370
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Hi, I work at a BCI company, and this take is completely wrong. We can read complete imagery straight out of brains. Here is a recent example: ai.meta.com/blog/brain-a...ai.meta.comTowards a Real-Time Decoding of Images from Brain ActivityUsing magnetoencephalography (MEG), Meta showcases an AI system capable of decoding the unfolding of visual representations in the brain with an unprecedented temporal resolution. 5551
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026this project continues; astra reverse engineered the ECU's security challenge and I now have R/W access to the firmware next step: transmit my own vectorized high-rate telemetry for training 61238
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026we've had superhuman AI chess for decades, and yet the chess community continues unabated 120
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026if this comic is true (and I believe it is), then AI does not threaten it. the presence of AI in the world cannot stop people from wanting to do these things on their own terms 110
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026a person surrounded mostly by LLM takes not survivorship selected by Feed incentives would probably be pretty normal, I think 030
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I think people want to fit in, and will largely conform to the beliefs they think they're surrounded by which I think this means it comes down to whether social media continues to exist in its current form, which incentivizes attention-grabbing and id-validating 140
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026literally warmer in the bay area right now than it was in Hawaii a week ago 000
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I think we're past the point where "industrial revolution" scale change is baked in; I take seriously that we are now "emergence of multicellular life" scale 1120
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026there is no resolution to that constraint. either you think everything will be business as usual, which is an insane thing to think given how the tech is progressing, or you think that nothing will be the same ever again, which (even if true) means you have insane millenarian beliefs 2170
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026in 2026, when I have a dozen active projects in the pipeline, I do not have a finished remote agent orchestrator 🥲 120
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026this would probably also be a fun video game for models to play 020
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026factorio except you start with a full map and suddenly supply technologies stop working one by one 120
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026solar flare or nuclear war knocks human industry back to early 20th century; story told from the perspective of an AI swarm rushing to bootstrap its own industrial supply lines before it runs out of parts or functional power or the ability to replace those things & die forever 120
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've been hearing a lot about this "artificial intelligence". perhaps I'll give it a try 000
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026the AIs far surpass humans, get bored of us, and decide to fuck off to outer space, leaving us here 140
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026the UI should control the harnesses through an API; agents do not need the UI. but bytes are not a particularly human friendly way to visualize and control state 120
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I think we should be distinguishing the harness (headless thing that exposes the agent to the host machine) and the UI (how users control harnesses). you should be about to put a harness anywhere and control it from anywhere 1150
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026We all have TUI stockholm syndrome, and this is all going to seem very silly in a year or so 9593
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026when I can have a proper whiteboard session with an agent, that's when it's over for humans 1140
