Kurt VanDusen

Tell Congress to Oppose Cuts to Medicaid Medicaid is a critical source of health care coverage for half of children and one-third of adults living with cystic fibrosis. But Congress has proposed massive cuts that would impose significant adm...

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‘Brilliance and genius’: Iconic musician to be honored in Alabama with new festival Organizers plan a multi-day event celebrating the music and legacy of Sun Ra, a jazz pioneer from Birmingham.

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Great Lakes Plastic Pollution - Alliance for the Great Lakes More than 22 million pounds of plastic end up in the Great Lakes every year. Learn how to help stop Great Lakes Plastic Pollution. Get involved today!

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Listening to Beethoven's 6th and 7th lately

The Art of Disclosure – An Auction for the New Paradigm

We’re excited to announce an online auction to benefit the New Paradigm Institute.

Simply email a high-resolution image of your original art piece (no AI), your bio, and a brief note to: Anna@newparadigminstitute.org

YouTube video by Welch Labs ChatGPT is made from 100 million of these [The Perceptron]

From the Perceptron to Attention is All You Need. youtu.be/l-9ALe3U-Fg?...

I enjoy Bluesky, but I miss having a social network feed that is all friends (like Myspace and Facebook before they rotted). Is there a way to customize my Bluesky feed more?

Looks like Jaba encased him in carbonite

GitHub - equationalapplications/eqapp-agent: Equational Agent Equational Agent. Contribute to equationalapplications/eqapp-agent development by creating an account on GitHub.

I am working on an app so that you can run an agent in your browser
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And setting up a concentration camp out of view in Guantanamo Bay

Do you drink caffeinated beverages? That all goes together for me.

Northern Michigan town announces 15 free summer concerts Bring your own chair for this outdoor concert series in Gaylord.

Music in my hometown in the auspiciously named Claude Shannon Park www-mlive-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.mliv...

Oh, there you are!

Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier granted clemency by President Biden The outgoing administration has released Leonard Peltier from prison. Numerous activists and tribal officials have requested the release of Peltier, whom they believe to be innocent of killing two FBI...

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Computer coding?

Don't we all

I don't think I will be using Facebook much anymore. I don't feel good supporting their ad revenue with my eyes.

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- It has an attention system to assign weight to portions of the inputs to "focus" on relevant things.
- It creates an "attention schema" that is a simplified, very coarse representation of the attention system.
- When the attention system focuses on the attention schema, this is consciousness.

Michael Graziano's Attention Schema Theory (AST)

- A neural network processes input.
- It creates a "world schema" that is a simplified version of the world.
- It likewise creates a "body schema" that is a simplified representation of what the body is doing.