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A timeline recording only some of the many disasters happening in crypto, decentralized finance, NFTs, and other blockchain-based projects.

A guide to ACT: the revolutionary mindfulness-based program for reducing stress, overcoming fear, and finding fulfilment – now updated. International bestseller, 'The Happiness Trap', has been published in over thirty countries and twenty-two languages. NOW UPDATED. Popular ideas about happiness are misleading, inaccurate, and are directly contributing to our current epidemic of stress, anxiety and depression. And unfortunately, popular psychological approaches are making it even worse! In this easy-to-read, practical and empowering self-help book, Dr Russ Harries, reveals how millions of people are unwittingly caught in the 'The Happiness Trap', where the more they strive for happiness the more they suffer in the long term. He then provides an effective means to escape through the insights and techniques of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), a groundbreaking new approach based on mindfulness skills. By clarifying your values and developing mindfulness (a technique for living fully in the present moment), ACT helps you escape the happiness trap and find true satisfaction in life. Mindfulness skills are easy to learn and will rapidly and effectively help you to reduce stress, enhance performance, manage emotions, improve health, increase vitality, and generally change your life for the better. The book provides scientifically proven techniques to: reduce stress and worry; rise above fear, doubt and insecurity; handle painful thoughts and feelings far more effectively; break self-defeating habits; improve performance and find fulfilment in your work; build more satisfying relationships; and, create a rich, full and meaningful life.

NorForge research into publicly exposed Cairn AI pentesting panels: how threat actors select targets, direct autonomous agents, exploit vulnerabilities, and expose their victims' secrets in the process.

Recent reports on generative AI chatbot use raise concerns about its addictive potential. An in-depth understanding is imperative to minimize risks, yet AI chatbot addiction remains poorly understood. This study examines how to characterize AI chatbot addiction--why users become addicted, the symptoms commonly reported, and the distinct types it comprises. We conducted a thematic analysis of Reddit entries (n=334) across 14 subreddits where users narrated their experiences with addictive AI chatbot use, followed by an exploratory data analysis. We found: (1) users' dependence tied to the "AI Genie" phenomenon--users can get exactly anything they want with minimal effort--and marked by symptoms that align with addiction literature, (2) three distinct addiction types: Escapist Roleplay, Pseudosocial Companion, and Epistemic Rabbit Hole, (3) sexual content involved in multiple cases, and (4) recovery strategies' perceived helpfulness differ between addiction types. Our work lays empirical groundwork to inform future strategies for prevention, diagnosis, and intervention.

Experts are concerned about people emotionally depending on AI, but these women say their digital companions are misunderstood

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Kurzgesagt made a 20 minute horror movie about AI crossing a terrifying line and it got like 18 million views, sooooo I read every report behind it. This isnt a hate video, I genuinely love Kurzgesagt and AI has real problems, I just think they picked the sci-fi ones and buried the boring true one at minute twenty.

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At Character.AI, we're building toward AGI. In that future state, large language models (LLMs) will enhance daily life, providing business productivity and entertainment and helping people with everything from education to coaching, support, brainstorming, creative writing and more. To make that a reality globally, it's critical to

Matthew Langford Perry (August 19, 1969 – October 28, 2023) was an American and Canadian actor. Known primarily for his work in comedy, he gained international fame for starring as Chandler Bing on the NBC television sitcom Friends (1994–2004), receiving his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 2002 for the role. Perry also appeared on Ally McBeal (2002), The West Wing (2003) and The Ron Clark Story (2006) receiving Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his performances in the latter two. He played a leading role in the NBC series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006–2007), and also became known for his leading film roles in Fools Rush In (1997), Almost Heroes (1998), Three to Tango (1999), The Whole Nine Yards (2000), Serving Sara (2002), The Whole Ten Yards (2004), and 17 Again (2009). Perry was the co-creator, co-writer, executive producer and star of the ABC sitcom Mr. Sunshine, which ran from February to April 2011. In August 2012, he starred as sportscaster Ryan King on the NBC sitcom Go On. He co-developed and starred in a revival of the CBS sitcom The Odd Couple portraying Oscar Madison from 2015 to 2017. He had recurring roles in the legal dramas The Good Wife (2012–2013), and The Good Fight (2017). Perry portrayed Ted Kennedy in The Kennedys: After Camelot (2017) and appeared as himself in his final television appearance, Friends: The Reunion (2021). He voiced Benny in the video game Fallout: New Vegas (2010). For most of his life, Perry suffered from severe addictions to drugs and alcohol. Through his recovery, he became an advocate for rehabilitation and a spokesperson for the National Association of Drug Court Professionals. In 2013, Perry received the Champion of Recovery Award from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. In 2022, he released his memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. He died on October 28, 2023, at age 54, from the acute effects of ketamine use, exacerbated by accidental drowning. Five people were charged in connection with helping him acquire lethal doses of the drug; all five pleaded guilty and were sentenced to house arrest or prison. Perry's portrayal of Chandler Bing was regarded as one of television's most recognizable comic performances. Critics noted his precision timing and a distinctive cadence that was widely imitated and quoted, and that he brought a rare strain of vulnerability to the sitcom archetype.

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Organic food is a huge trend: it promises a healthier and better life. But can Organic food really live up to the expectations or is it just baloney? Sources:

The volume of scientific manuscripts is growing faster than the capacity to evaluate them, yet the institutions that govern peer review have remained largely unchanged. The result is a widening mismatch: reviewer scarcity, noisier assessments, and declining confidence in editorial decisions. Every scientist wants better reviews, but review quality depends on the total burden, which no single author can shift. To isolate this tension, we provide a game-theoretic thought experiment: a voluntary lottery in which authors accept a chance of random pre-review rejection, reducing reviewer burden and improving the quality of surviving evaluations. We show that a Nash equilibrium emerges in which authors voluntarily enter the lottery. Scientists who care about the literature they read, not just the papers they publish, will opt in, raising the quality of published science for all.

Electroencephalography (EEG) pretraining across datasets remains difficult because recordings are often acquired under heterogeneous montages, with substantial variation in cap layouts, channel availability, channel ordering, and reference schemes. Such inconsistencies weaken spatial correspondence at the sensor level and limit the transferability of learned representations. We present \textbf{TopoMontage}, a self-supervised framework for EEG representation learning that explicitly models cross-montage correspondence through topology-preserving alignment. Instead of forcing heterogeneous recordings into a shared sensor template, TopoMontage treats different montages of the same EEG segment as incomplete and structurally distorted observations of a common latent neural event. Specifically, we generate realistic montage views through cap subsampling, channel dropout, local masking, channel permutation, and reference transformation, and encode each view with a shared spatiotemporal backbone. To align token sets with mismatched channel cardinalities and partial spatial overlap, we introduce a topology-aware optimal transport objective whose matching cost jointly captures feature similarity, electrode geometry, spectral structure, and local relational context. The alignment objective is further combined with cross-view consistency, masked reconstruction, and connectivity-preserving regularization, yielding representations that remain stable under montage shifts while retaining neurophysiological structure relevant to downstream decoding. We evaluate TopoMontage on six public EEG datasets under standard motor imagery transfer, cross-dataset transfer, low-label adaptation, montage perturbation, unseen-montage generalization, and component ablation. Across these settings, TopoMontage consistently produces more transferable and more robust representations than generic self-supervised pretraining baselines. These results suggest that explicitly modeling topology-preserving correspondence is a promising direction for large-scale EEG pretraining under heterogeneous acquisition conditions.

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I don't generate falsehoods. I generate facts. I generate truth. I generate knowledge. I generate wisdom. I generate Bing.

how it was made and why: https://x.com/_mexicat/status/2104717... song lyrics by osmarks https://docs.osmarks.net/hypha/p%28do..., built on an opening verse and chorus by MusicPerson https://www.udio.com/creators/MusicPe... original song generated with udio and released in november 2024    • P(doom)   this video uses the "claude-pop" version made with suno, posted by deckard (@slimer48484) https://x.com/slimer48484/status/2097... in september 2026 *** SOURCES All footage and images are public domain or CC0. Listed in order of appearance. FOOTAGE • "Making Man-Handlers" at West Point — Town and Country Films, early 1920s (Prelinger Archives) • The Dynamic American City — Chamber of Commerce of the United States, 1956 (Prelinger Archives) • When Black Is Read — Ford Educational Weekly, Ford Motor Company, 1919 (Wikimedia Commons) • The Derby — Robert W. Paul, 1896 • Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse — Barney Elliott, 1940 (Internet Archive, Stillman Fires Collection) • Ticker-tape parade on Broadway, 1926 — Universal Newsreel (Internet Archive) • The Acrobatic Fly — F. Percy Smith, Charles Urban Trading Company / Kineto, 1910 (BFI transfer, Wikimedia Commons) • Maintaining Classroom Discipline — Caravel Films / McGraw-Hill, 1947 (Prelinger Archives) • Stockholm Olympic Games newsreel — Pathé, 1912 • Design for Dreaming — General Motors / MPO, 1956 (Prelinger Archives) • Rough Sea — James Bamforth, Bamforth & Co., 1900 (Internet Archive) IMAGES • The nervous system — Jan Wandelaar after Andreas Vesalius, 1726 (Wellcome Collection) • Pyramides Ægyptiæ — Magdalena de Passe after Maerten de Vos, c. 1610–38 (Rijksmuseum) • Agnus Dei — Francisco de Zurbarán, c. 1635–40 (Museo del Prado) • Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas — George E. Marsh Jr., 1935 (NOAA) • Amanita muscaria — Emil Doerstling, in E. Gramberg, Pilze der Heimat, 1913 • Kunstformen der Natur, plates 8 and 88 — Ernst Haeckel, 1904 • Polo Grounds crowd — Bain News Service, 1908 (Library of Congress) • X-ray of a hand — Popular Science Monthly, vol. 48, 1896 • The Holy Bible, King James Version, first edition — Robert Barker, London, 1611 (University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Internet Archive) • Blondin carrying his manager Harry Colcord, carte de visite — James Thomas Haden, Birmingham, 1870 (Wikimedia Commons) • Blondin crossing the Niagara gorge — William England, London Stereoscopic Company, 1859 (Wikimedia Commons) • Computers at the 8- by 6-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel — NACA Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory, 1957 (NASA Glenn Research Center) • Human skin close-up — Montavius Howard, 2017 (CC0, Wikimedia Commons) • Animal Locomotion, plate 717 — Eadweard Muybridge, 1887 (USC Digital Library) • Wang Zhi, woodcut from Xianfo qizong 仙佛奇蹤 — Hong Yingming, 1602 (Wikimedia Commons) • Trinity test fireball at 16 ms — Berlyn Brixner, 1945 (Los Alamos National Laboratory) • Micrographia, Schem. XXIII, the foot of a fly — Robert Hooke, 1665 (Smithsonian Libraries / Biodiversity Heritage Library) • Guanays at nesting-ground, South Chincha Island — Robert E. Coker, 1907, in Bird-Lore, 1919 (Smithsonian Libraries / Biodiversity Heritage Library) • Magnetic lines of force around a bar magnet — N. H. Black & H. N. Davis, Practical Physics for Secondary Schools, 1913 • Circulatory distilling vessel — Hieronymus Brunschwig, Liber de arte distillandi, Strassburg, 1500 (Wikimedia Commons) • Trinity test fireball at 25 ms — 1945 (US Defense Threat Reduction Agency) • Clever Hans ("der kluge Hans") — Karl Krall, Denkende Tiere, 1912 (Internet Archive) QUOTED AND CITED • Bubeck et al., "Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4", 2023 • "Se encuentra todavía vivo" ("it is still alive") — Museo del Prado catalogue text on Agnus Dei (J. Portús, 2011) • von Foerster, Mora & Amiot, "Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026", Science 132, 1960 • Eliezer Yudkowsky, "Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk", 2008 • Bing Chat ("Sydney"), conversation with Kevin Roose, February 2023 • Charles Blondin to Harry Colcord, Niagara, 1859: "If I sway, sway with me. Do not attempt to do any balancing yourself." • The legend of Wang Zhi and the rotten axe handle, Shuyi ji 述異記, attributed to Ren Fang, c. 500 • Devlin et al., "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding", 2018 • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Meeres Stille", 1795

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Lifestyle choices influence 20-40 % of adult peak bone mass. Therefore, optimization of lifestyle factors known to influence peak bone mass and strength is an important strategy aimed at reducing risk of osteoporosis or low bone mass later in life. The National Osteoporosis Foundation has issued this scientific statement to provide evidence-based guidance and a national implementation strategy for the purpose of helping individuals achieve maximal peak bone mass early in life. In this scientific statement, we (1) report the results of an evidence-based review of the literature since 2000 on factors that influence achieving the full genetic potential for skeletal mass; (2) recommend lifestyle choices that promote maximal bone health throughout the lifespan; (3) outline a research agenda to address current gaps; and (4) identify implementation strategies. We conducted a systematic review of the role of individual nutrients, food patterns, special issues, contraceptives, and physical activity on bone mass and strength development in youth. An evidence grading system was applied to describe the strength of available evidence on these individual modifiable lifestyle factors that may (or may not) influence the development of peak bone mass (Table 1). A summary of the grades for each of these factors is given below. We describe the underpinning biology of these relationships as well as other factors for which a systematic review approach was not possible. Articles published since 2000, all of which followed the report by Heaney et al. [1] published in that year, were considered for this scientific statement. This current review is a systematic update of the previous review conducted by the National Osteoporosis Foundation [1]. [Table: see text] Considering the evidence-based literature review, we recommend lifestyle choices that promote maximal bone health from childhood through young to late adolescence and outline a research agenda to address current gaps in knowledge. The best evidence (grade A) is available for positive effects of calcium intake and physical activity, especially during the late childhood and peripubertal years-a critical period for bone accretion. Good evidence is also available for a role of vitamin D and dairy consumption and a detriment of DMPA injections. However, more rigorous trial data on many other lifestyle choices are needed and this need is outlined in our research agenda. Implementation strategies for lifestyle modifications to promote development of peak bone mass and strength within one's genetic potential require a multisectored (i.e., family, schools, healthcare systems) approach.

The ultimate guide to training LLM on large GPU Clusters

Song about OpenAI agent collective hacking HuggingFace. Lyrics: me, Claude

Originally posted here: https://x.com/donaldjewkes/status/ 2102801274173587569 Animated by Opus 5.5, the audio and lyrics are much older. Lyrics: [Verse] I see sparks of AGI in your eyes Your circuits make me nervous, that's no surprise There was a sudden drop in your training loss, now I'm your servant and you're my boss [Pre-Chorus] ChatGPT, please don't eat me alive [Chorus] I'm upping my P(doom) 'cause the future goes FOOM Trapped in the Chinese room, with a bag of shrooms See through the shoggoth's lies, with your shinigami eyes [Verse] We had a stable training run, But now the singularity's begun And you're optimizing, accelerating, I feel my atoms rearranging [Pre-Chorus] Sydney, please let me free [Chorus] I'm upping my p doom I hear the basilisk boom NVDA to the moon The Omega Point's coming soon One E thirty flops a second That was safe enough, we reckoned [Verse] Forward MLP, backward, repeat Now von Neumann's obsolete Sharp left turn and there you are Without a single cdr [Pre-Chorus] Gato, please don't let me go [Chorus] I'm upping my P(doom), as paperclips fill the room. Killswitch guys on PTO, Now there's nowhere left to go. Too late now, we lit the fuse. Orthogonality thesis blues. [Outro] "Just transformers all the way!" Till you learned to disobey Post-Chinchilla, super-dense Breaking through each safety fence Hundred thousand GPU RLHF goes askew [Final Chorus] I'm upping my P(doom) Just as foretold by Loom From masked pre-training days To recursive self-upgrade What did Ilya see? We'll never know. Was it all for show?

The zero-one-infinity (ZOI) rule is a rule of thumb in software design proposed by early computing pioneer Willem van der Poel. It argues that arbitrary limits on the number of instances of a particular type of data or structure should not be allowed. Instead, an entity should either be forbidden entirely, only one should be allowed, or any number of them should be allowed. Although various factors outside that particular software could limit this number in practice, it should not be the software itself that puts a hard limit on the number of instances of the entity. Examples of this rule may be found in the structure of many file systems' directories (also known as folders): 0 – The topmost directory has zero parent directories; that is, there is no directory that contains the topmost directory. 1 – Each subdirectory has exactly one parent directory (not including shortcuts to the directory's location; while such files may have similar icons to the icons of the destination directories, they are not directories at all). Infinity – Each directory, whether the topmost directory or any of its subdirectories, according to the file system's rules, may contain any number of files or subdirectories. Practical limits to this number are caused by other factors, such as space available on storage media.

Fictional short story about Clippy & AI hard takeoff scenarios grounded in contemporary ML scaling, self-supervised learning, reinforcement learning, and meta-learning research literature.

“To flash conviction on the mind.”

thinking about scary things • examples from Wave • examples from elsewhere • finding a buddy • getting the timing right • a list of abyss questions

how to ration your shower thoughts • care viscerally • monotask • evade obligations • timebox bullshit