So far, no one has discovered or deduced the access to the bitcoin wallet that is hidden in my book Walking Banks...so here a new hint for those that want to give it a try: - Did you know that word repetitions are actually allowed in a seed phrase? #books #reading #bitcoin #treasurehunt

Fantastic news for Huntington's Disease patients:

GlobeNewswire News Room

uniQure Announces Positive Topline Results from Pivotal Phase I/II Study of AMT-130 in Patients with Huntington’s Disease

~ Pivotal study met primary endpoint; high-dose AMT-130 demonstrated statistically significant 75% disease slowing at 36 months as measured by cUHD...

36 month data from Uniqure trial shows a strong slowdown of disease progression for all measures. For the first time, we seem to have a treatment that can really treat this devastating brain disorder. #science #brain #medicine #positivenews #huntington

Giveaway 1,000 sats for the next 20 reposts, 500 for the next 15! I'm doing a Zapvertising experiment to promote my bitcoin novel „Walking Banks“ /

Walking Banks - A Novel

on Nostr and test if one can broaden an audience this way . In addition to the Zapvertisment Zaps you can unlock 800000 sats: If your up for a treasure hunt, the book contains a real Bitcoin seed phrase hidden within the story. So if you can piece the right string of words together, it leads to a wallet with 800000 sats in it. No funny business, all real. The first one to figure it out gets the bitcoin. The book is out as on audiobook, e-book and print on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Walking-Banks-Mystery-Novel-White/dp/B0DCNZLV6H) so go and check it out. Also, if you're using Nostr you can listen to the audiobook for free on Fountain (fountain.fm/album/JYWZOPSrol8fvWpjNt8q) or search for „Walking Banks“ in the music section. Otherwise the audiobook is also available now on Spotify, Apple Books, Google play, Kobo, and pretty much everywhere else too. #bitcoin #books #novel #story #art #zapvertising #nostr

Is ChatGTP just a human with a brain disorder? "Comparison of Large Language Model with Aphasia" paper outlining that there is "a surprising similarity between the way large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT process information and how the brains of people with Wernicke’s aphasia function. In both cases, fluent but often incoherent output is produced, suggesting rigid internal processing patterns that can distort meaning."

Neuroscience News

AI Chatbots Mirror a Human Brain Disorder - Neuroscience News

Researchers have found a surprising similarity between the way large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT process information and how the brains of ...

https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202414016 #llm #ai #chatgtp #science #brain

This is really interesting: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02046-9 "Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results" A study on how well trained LLMs can predict the "correctness" of a new neuroscience study/claim based on looking into the associations of the mentioned claims/words in the new study compared to a reference set of thousands of previously published neuroscience papers. The idea here is that there are associations hidden in the vast amount of literature out there that humans in general and singular scientists in particular just cannot read, remember, grasp and comprehend anymore due to the exponential growth in studies. Importantly all thus trained LLMs outperform a large panel of human expert in predicting whether or not a new study or a fake study is true. This is really fascinating and could have major implications to identify new disease MoA hypothesis, target validationa nd dicovery, discover hidden connections and low-hanging treatment option fruits that nobody has yet considered or simply just weed out fake or irrelevant new er publications. #ai #science #neuroscience #drugs #future #LLM #nostr

Are LLMs better doctors? LLM model on its own far outperforms physicians when giving the correct diagnosis. Funny thing is, even when physicians are allowed to use AI as support, their correct diagnosis ratio basically does not increase, indicating a tendency of the physicians to cling to their own diagnosis and ignoring the LLMs advice. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2825395 #ai #science #health

There is „Broken Money“, there is "The Bitcoin Standard“ but the most interesting I've so far read about the monetary system is „The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve“ by G. Edward Griffin. I can only encourage every bitcoiner to read it. It is excellently written, very engaging & goes in many ways to the core of what the problem with current fiscal policies and banking system is about. For example, right from the 1st chapter: "The purpose ... was to come to an agreement on the structure and operation of a banking cartel. The goal, as is true with all cartels, was to maximize profits by minimizing competition between members, to make it difficult for new competitors to enter the field, and to utilize the police power of government to enforce the cartel agreement. In more specific terms, it was to create a blueprint for the Federal Reserve System. Here were representatives of the world's leading banking consortia... driven together by one overriding desire to fight their common enemy. The enemy was competition. Competition also was coming from a new trend in industry to finance future growth out of profits rather than from borrowed capital…between 1900 and 1910, seventy per cent of the funding for American corporate growth was generated internally, making industry increasingly independent of the banks.... What the bankers wanted … was to intervene in the free market and tip the balance of interest rates downward, to favor debt over thrift. To accomplish this, the money supply simply had to be disconnected from gold and made more plentiful … ." This is just from the 1st chapter and it continues to be enlightning and revealing. In my view it shows even better than Lyn's or Saif's books how the creation of the debt-based money supply system, the creation of the FED and the move away from the gold-standard was not a natural development that simply had to occur for a modern society to function but was instead driven by the influence of a few conspiratory bankers. #nostr #bitcoin #books #bookstr #money

Goodreads

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the F…

Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes…

I was listening to @Peter McCormack 's recent podcast with Matthew Pines and their discussion about consciousness as an underlying component of the universe. Interesting on many levels. The philosophy he described from Philipp Goff about the meaning of life that Matthew mostly seems to follow (with some modifications), reminded me a lot about the philosophy described in Gregory Roberts 2003 novel Shantaram that he expresses in the person of Khader Khan which can be summarized maybe as "everything that contributes to the complexity and richness of existence is meaningful" and that the "the universe is driven by the need to evolve, grow, and expand its possibilities" In his words, the whole point of everything in the universe is that the universe becomes more interesting. If one leads a life that maximizes the probability to make the universe more complex, one has lead a good life. Every act of goodness or evil, every choice we make, adds to the complexity and interest of the universe which is how he justifies his role as a mafia leader, as he sees even crime and violence as part of the greater purpose of making the universe more complex. I have not read Goff's book "Why" yet but I wonder if there is some overlap and references to these viewpoints. Would be interesting as Robert's book predates this by 2 decades and comes from a spiritual/religious viewpoint whereas Matthew Pines seems to come more from a rationalistic approach. #books #philosophy #consciousness #universe #purpose #podcast #religion #spirituality

What happened a couple days ago on September 14th that Nostr saw such a spike in new users? Was there an announcement of someone famous that they switch to Nostr? #asknostr #nostr #stats

A recent paper discussing the framework to understand wjether or not LLMs can be conscious: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-03553-w I don't believe a LLM can ever be considered conscious for many reasons and only other AI approaches could get there but still an interesting read. #ai #llm #chatgtp #consciousness #neuroscience #science #philosophy

Still learning how to use muliple Nostr-apps correctly, so one more try hoping the link and the tags are correct this time: ---------------------------------- Here is the free PDF of my bitcoin novel „Walking Banks“ for everyone to download (hosted on nostr.build): https://d.nostr.build/UlE0X93faO1XxD9l.pdf It is a murder mystery thriller with Bitcoin as a key plot element without being the focus of the story itself. Please feel free to share it with fellow Nostriches if you like. I wrote this book for two reasons: a) To provide a couple of hours of enjoyment. „Walking Banks“ does not aim to be high literature, but rather an entertaining read. b) To contribute in my own small way to the growth of the Bitcoin community and network. Bitcoin has become well integrated into the lives of those interested in finance and freedom, but discussions about it often remain confined to those bubbles, reaching only a select niche. I believe the next important step for Bitcoin is to become a common topic in everyday pop culture - whether in art, music, films, books, or other media. This book is thus my attempt to "orange pill" a broader audience by weaving Bitcoin into a fictional story. My hope is that it sparks curiosity about it in the reader in a natural way, without being too forceful or preachy, for readers who might not usually consider these topics but enjoy a good murder mystery. I believe Bitcoin and Nostr are joined at the hip, as both stand for freedom, sovereignty, and independence in an increasingly controlled and surveilled world. Everything that helps Nostr also helps Bitcoin, and vice versa, so I hope I can contribute a bit this way to Nostr's exclusivity and value content proposition. Thanks to @ODELL, whose advocacy for Nostr brought me here, @gladstein whose work at the HRF is inspirational, @HaloKat who told me about @nostr.build so that I can host the file and to @OT, who first put the idea of sharing the book on Nostr into my head! I hope you enjoy the read. AH White #nostr #bitcoin #books #grownostr #literature #artstr #nostrplebs #btc #freedom #artonnostr #bookstr

Putting LLMs capacities into context:

ACL Anthology

Are Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models just In-Context Learning?

Sheng Lu, Irina Bigoulaeva, Rachneet Sachdeva, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Iryna Gurevych. Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association f...

long story short: let's not overestimate what they are capable of. The main danger might in fact be that we as humans begin to overestimate their ability to reason (of which there is none) and begin to trust or follow their guidance. #AI #ai #LLM #science #intelligence #chatGTP #cognition

My bitcoin book "Walking Banks" is now available for free for everyone to download. It's a murder mystery story with bitcoin as a key plot element that follows US agent Jack Decker on his way to Beijing to catch a serial killer that has targeted an old friend. It would make my day if you could give it a try for free, provide some feedback or review and connect with me here on Nostr.

Amazon

Amazon

#bitcoin #writing #books #CBDC #author #stories #fiction #mystery #novel

Interesting look into the political biases of the most popular LLM AI models:

The political preferences of LLMs

I report here a comprehensive analysis about the political preferences embedded in Large Language Models (LLMs). Namely, I administer 11 political ...

#ai #llm #chatgtp #nostr #politics #science

Interesting pre-print how Chat GTP & LLMs are changing the way scientific publications are written:

Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary

Kind of understandable that especially non-English-native speakers make use of it to polish their articles. But words matter, especially when trying to describe a new finding as scientifically accurate as possible. I wonder to what extend this verbose and flowery language is then really understood by the authors themselves and whether or not those words really correctly describe their findings or not. #science #writing #ai

ask your favorite AI LLM: "You have a 5 gallon bucket and a 2 gallon bucket. How do you measure 7 gallons?" #ai