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> Born in Malaysia, educated in Singapore, Tan studied at MIT and earned a master’s in nuclear engineering. He moved to San Francisco and joined the Walden Group, one of California’s early venture firms. Rather than stay in Silicon Valley, he headed to Taiwan and later invested in China’s deep-tech companies.

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@ramin_hal9001 Corpos already steal copyrighted text & code with LLMs, they don't care about the license at all.

BSD isn't to protect my code from ever being used by a corpo, which I know can't be stopped. It's to make it convenient for other people to use. I care about the teams of ONE or TWO who want something.

I can't use GPL shit, unless I make everything GPL. Or AGPL. Or v2 or v3. Or LGPL. Can I link to the proprietary library I need? NOPE.
#bsdlicense #bsd #mit #mitlicense #gpl

This MIT study suggests to me that the race for AI is one against time. If it's accurate (This was a small sample with a larger study in the works.) the people using Ai (presumably including those working to build AI for Microsoft, Meta, etc.) are undergoing rapidly deteriorating brain function.
This also puts into question plans to use AI in schools.
media.mit.edu/publications/you
#MIT #AI #Programmers #LLM #Cognitive #Education

MIT Media LabYour Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine…

Scientists stripped the double-slit experiment down to its quantum essentials using individual atoms as slits and single photons. The result? Reality is still wonderfully weird - the more you peek at light's particle nature, the more its wave side vanishes. Even Einstein didn't see this coming! 🌊⚛️

science.slashdot.org/story/25/

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I ended up joining for this #LupeFiasco x #MIT art tour - his project #GHOTIING is site specific - he wrote and recorded songs on site and about several sculptures displayed on campus. You can listen to the songs on the linked site. Like plein air painting compared to a location, you get quick notes about what the artist noticed. The tour also got us in to the #SolLewitt installation that is normally off limit to the general public.

I got sunburned forearms biking to campus, though. Oops.

listart.mit.edu/ghotiing-mit-p
#Boston #CambrigeMA #BostonHipHop #HipHop

Sculpture made of tainless steel, white enamel paint featuring collages of letters, numbers, or symbols that appear to be in the process of organization.
MIT List Visual Arts Center · GHOTIING MIT: Public Art | MIT List Visual Arts CenterA collaboration between Lupe Fiasco and the MIT List Visual Arts Center, GHOTIING MIT: Public Art is a site-specific rap and field recording project that explores the relationship between rap and MIT’s public art collection.
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#BostonWeekend 13/x FRI HIPHOP x ART beloved hip-hop head #LupeFiasco wrote songs about MIT public art - walking tour of them around #MIT, - Noon-1, free tickets are sold out, boo, I hope to crash it because 😻 however a couple years ago he leaned into google x LLMs to write lyrics - I'm so tired, y'all 😢 youtube.com/watch?v=tZVw06KceX eventbrite.com/e/ghotiing-publ #HipHop #BostonHipHop #CambridgeMA

In a rambling ‘word salad’ ‘weave’ of nonsense about #AI spewed by the #StableGenius #POTUS , #Trump hallucinated a bogus story of him talking with his great uncle, who was a Professor at #MIT , about the #Unabomber as a student in his uncle’s class. independent.co.uk/news/world/a

Like almost *everything* #Trump says, it was all made up. Ted Kaczynski was NEVER a student at MIT.

The Independent · Did Trump’s uncle teach the Unabomber? No. Here’s what really happenedBy James Liddell