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Anne Hoff retweeted
Annemiz doğduğumuzda bizim için dünya demek. Yavaş yavaş, büyüdükçe, dünyaya açılıyor ve onun geri kalanını tanımaya başlıyor olsak da çocuklukta annemizin dünyaya ve bize bakışı, bizi değerlendirişi, bize sevgisi ya da öfkesi bizim kim olduğumuza dair fikrimizin üzerinde en büyük etkenlerden. Ayrıca bizi, biz kendimizi bilmezken de biliyor, bizim hikayemizi bize anlatan kişi oluyor. Ne kadar güçlü bir pozisyon, anlayın işte...
Annenin çocuğa bakışı bazen öyle içselleştiriliyor ki kişi yaşadıklarını, başarılarını, hatta anılarını bile bu bakışın içinden değerlendiriyor. Annenin gözündeki çocuk, insanın kendi zihnindeki benliğine dönüşüyor.
Kathy Bates'in örneğinden gidersek belki anne bu teşekkürü duymadı, fark etmedi çünkü kendisi sevilmediğine inanıyor, belki anne bu teşekkürü beğenmiyor ve hiçe sayıyor çünkü onun layık olduğu teşekkürün bu olmadığını düşünüyor. Öyle ya da böyle, sonuçta çocuğun ne söylediğinin, ne yaptığının pek önemi kalmıyor.
Çünkü bazı ilişkilerde çocuk ne kadar verirse versin, anne hep - hatta bu örnekte olduğu üzere - öldükten sonra bile alacaklı kalıyor.
Kathy Bates says she was sure she never thanked her mother in her Misery Oscar speech, then the interviewer showed her the tape
"She gave up her retirement because I was born so late in life to them."
"When I won the Oscar for Misery, she said, I don't know what all the excitement about, you didn't discover the cure for cancer."
"Why did I think I didn't thank her?"
"Because she should have had my life."
"I wanted her spirit to come into me and enjoy everything I was enjoying because of what she'd given up."
Her mom's whole review of the Oscar was that she didn't cure cancer, and Kathy still believed she had shorted her that night. Then she watches herself thank her mom at home, right there in the speech. Some people never stop trying to pay their parents back. You can hear it in how quiet she gets at the end.
ft: @CBSSunday CBS Sunday Morning on youtube
Anne Hoff retweeted
This is excellent too.
Mark Cuban on AI:
Humans will always be a step ahead of it:
Anne Hoff retweeted
JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”
Anne Hoff retweeted
This is a little bit of comfort for those who need it.
Yo-Yo Ma performance Over the Rainbow🔥❄️🌨️
Anne Hoff retweeted
The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet.
1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output.
The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice.
Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet.
And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.”
This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one.
We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that.
The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.
Anne Hoff retweeted
This statue is over 2300 years old.
It's one of the very few ancient sculptures left with its original eyes, and I can’t get over how real they look...
The statue is the Antikythera Ephebe, a Greek bronze of a young man made around 340 to 330 BC, and strangely enough, the reason it survived is because it sank. In antiquity, bronze statues were constantly melted down for their metal, turned into weapons and coins, which is why almost none survive.
This one went to the bottom of the sea in a shipwreck around 60 BC and lay there for nearly two thousand years, until sponge divers found it in 1900.
But let’s go back to my favorite detail: the eyes.
When a bronze statue is made, the eyes are often set separately, inlaid with glass, stone, and colored paste to make them lifelike, and over the centuries almost every ancient bronze has lost them, leaving those hollow, blank sockets we think of as classical.
The Ephebe still has his original eyes, made of glass paste, one of only a handful of ancient Greek bronzes in the world that do. And it changes everything because he does not gaze blankly into nothing, he seems to be looking, intently, at something that vanished more than two thousand years ago...
Anne Hoff retweeted
The surreal sight of Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia after rainfall.
📽: gabrielaalvarez31/ig
Anne Hoff retweeted
This is 100% true. Always look for naturally brewed soy sauce. Because if it doesn’t say that, it isn’t. And if you’re a celiac, or gluten intolerant, make sure it’s Tamari or one brewed without wheat (like most are).
The soy sauce packet in your takeout bag isn't soy sauce. The biggest maker, Kari-Out in New Jersey, lists water, salt, hydrolyzed soy and corn protein, caramel color and sodium benzoate. No fermentation, no brewing. It's made in a couple of days by boiling defatted soy meal in hydrochloric acid, neutralizing it, then adding color and corn syrup so it looks and tastes close enough.
A lot of the bottles on the grocery shelf are the same thing. Kikkoman and the Japanese government went to the UN food standards body years ago and asked that the chemical version not be allowed to use the name soy sauce. The hydrolyzed protein industry and the USDA pushed back and it stayed. The brewed ones say naturally brewed on the label. If the bottle doesn't say it, it isn't.
Anne Hoff retweeted
A blue whale, the largest animal ever to have lived, viewed from above.
📽: Delaney Trowbridge
