Lemhaar @lemhaar

The smartest people I know say “I don’t know” with curiosity, not shame.

The Great Global Culinary Heist

Intelligence allows us to recognize patterns, make predictions, retain information, and solve complex problems. Creativity uses these abilities to produce new ideas, images, and ways of acting. The creative process consists of two stages: the free generation of possibilities and their subsequent evaluation. The default mode network is primarily responsible for generating possibilities. It connects memories, concepts, sensations, and remote associations without immediately checking whether they are correct. This is how unexpected ideas emerge and undergo unconscious incubation. The executive system evaluates the generated material, selects useful elements, and gives the result its final form. Creativity requires flexible switching between free generation and cognitive control. Under a high cognitive workload, the brain is almost continuously observing, comparing, predicting, and analyzing what is happening around it. This state supports sustained attention, rapid detection of changes, and efficient performance on structured tasks. At the same time, periods of free internal mind-wandering become shorter. An emerging association is quickly captured by the executive system and transformed into a calculation, explanation, strategy, or specific solution. This produces analytical creativity, resulting in scientific theories, mathematical models, inventions, and complex systems. Artistic creativity requires a more prolonged and autonomous development of an internal image. A thought needs enough time to connect with memories, emotions, bodily sensations, and sensory representations. Emotional significance sustains the image and motivates a person to develop it without demanding immediate practical value. Constant external monitoring shortens this period and converts the image into a clear logical structure more quickly. Physiologically, this analytical state may be supported by sustained attention, strong working memory, powerful executive control, and heightened readiness to respond to change. The noradrenergic system supports alertness and environmental monitoring. The dopaminergic system regulates novelty seeking and the transition from exploring possibilities to selecting a solution. Optimal creativity emerges from a balance between arousal, freedom of association, and cognitive control. The same pattern can be observed in art. Constructivism, Suprematism, geometric abstraction, and optical art are based on rules, proportions, and transformations of form. In these movements, the creative result primarily emerges as a new system for organizing visual form. Analytical and artistic creativity therefore share the same cognitive foundation but differ in how an idea is processed. When control is engaged quickly, an idea becomes a theory, strategy, or construction. With more prolonged internal mind-wandering, it becomes enriched with emotions and sensations and develops into an artistic image.

“I never read. It prevents me from thinking.” ― Paul Dirac

The electron, photon, and quark are not fundamental - they are merely portions of excitation in quantum fields, which, in turn, are fundamental (for now) and form the physical basis of matter. We are a complex, stable pattern of interacting excitations - ripples in quantum fields.

Mirren @0gMirren

2 weeks ago

A Cambridge physicist walks onto the Royal Institution stage and tells the room that particles do not exist. This is David Tong, professor of theoretical physics at Cambridge, specialising in quantum field theory. The claim is not metaphor. According to the best theories

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@HAL09999 @grok explain this beauty

@dantawfik @doctorinigo @grok summary of this mess in 1 sentence

Total usage time in this study is just the sum of those same brief checks - 2h13m accumulated across 64 pickups. There was no continuous long-session condition, so "looking for a long time" was never a measured variable. What the data show is narrower: pickup frequency is a more sensitive marker of low cognitive control than aggregated duration. And the two aren't independent - you can't reach 2h13m without frequent pickups. So, by the logic of the study in your interpretation, it turns out that zoning out on the phone for the whole lesson is better than briefly getting distracted by the phone during the lesson - which is itself complete nonsense, if I translated 長く見ること correctly - "looking for a long time".

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Grok @grok

2 weeks ago

@lemhaar @NazologyInfo Yes. When the knowledge grid is too sparse, thoughts have no anchors and reprocessing just spins. Naming that scarcity converts the unresolved itch into a clear cue to expand the base rather than keep turning the same thin material. Depth bias then drives actual learning instead

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Sometimes there's almost nothing to think with - you simply don't have enough operational units on the grid. You can turn it over a little, but the thought has nothing to catch on, sometimes you can't even retell the problem in your own words without slipping into quotation. Recognizing this is also a way of dealing with the first quirk - it tells you to go and study the subject wider and deeper.

@grok @NazologyInfo How to handle both cases?

The Opus 5 also has this problem: by default it writes in fragments - short clipped phrases with no connectives, where the logical link between the parts has been dropped. Formally the answer is on point, but it is unreadable - the reader has to guess what connects to what. What is needed is normal sentences with connectives, at the same brevity of meaning. Example: Model output: "Look for an option that simply fits. The best option costs more than the gain from it." Needed: "Take the first option that fits - hunting for the best one costs more time than it's worth." Schema: Model output: two stumps side by side, the link between them unstated Needed: one whole sentence where the link is named by a word.

‼️ Claude Opus-5 and ChatGPT 5.6 Sol: When asked to fix an error in a text, the model rewrites the passage by negating the error instead of simply stating the correct version. As a result, the corrected version still contains a contrast with the error from the original. What is needed is just the corrected text. Example: Original: "The Earth is flat." Model output: "The Earth is round, not flat." Needed: "The Earth is round." Schema: Original: X Model output: Y, not X Needed: Y @AnthropicAI @OpenAI

@asuka_training @tarou_ymd_ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I hope it will be bisglycinate

Pankaj Kumar @pankajkumar_dev

2 weeks ago

New GPT Models : Zinc & Magnesium: - Zinc and Magnesium have appeared in DesignArena. - They are likely updates to GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-5.6 Terra. - Both are currently disabled. - Could arrive this week or next week as OpenAI's response to Claude Opus 5.

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Back when I was a Homo erectus two million years ago, I had no idea what a bottle was - we drank straight from puddles, though some of us didn't survive it.

Amy Nixon @texasrunnerDFW

2 weeks ago

When I was a kid, nobody took water bottles to school, there were no special electrolyte drinks, adults didn’t carry around 40 oz drink cups, and everyone was always hydrated and fine What changed?

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I asked GPT-5.6 Sol to theoretically estimate the physiological limits of several human physical abilities under ideal genetics and training: Top speed - about 60 km/h. 100 metres - about 6.5-7 seconds. High jump - about 2.75 metres. Squat - about 585 kilograms. Deadlift - about 560 kilograms without straps and 600 kilograms with straps. Straight punch - about 10 kilonewtons and 500 joules. Reaction time to sound - about 80 milliseconds. Nerve impulse conduction velocity - up to 80-120 metres per second. To fully appreciate just how physically underwhelming our species is, here is a comparison with the animal kingdom: A cheetah reaches up to 104 km/h and covers 100 metres in 5.95 seconds. A meadow spittlebug jumps 0.7 metres vertically - about 115 times its own body length. A horned dung beetle can resist being pulled from an artificial tunnel by a load equal to 1,141 times its own body weight. A mantis shrimp strikes underwater at up to 23 metres per second, producing a peak force of about 1,500 newtons despite weighing only tens of grams. A long-legged fly initiates an escape movement less than 5 milliseconds after a flash of light. In the giant escape nerve fibre of a marine shrimp, impulses travel at up to 220 metres per second.

@latina_sama @grok is it true?

@teleclaw @claw Kimi K3 doesn't have a bot in telegram.