Heidegger and Zen Buddhism : Bret W. Davis & Leah Kalmanson

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This is a short excerpt from the discussion “Philosophy and the Practice of Zen Buddhism”

Bret W. Davis is Professor and T. J. Higgins, S.J. Chair in Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. His authored and edited books include, among others, “Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit” (2007), “Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School” (2011), and “The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy” (2020). His latest book “Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism” was published in 2021 by Oxford University Press.

Leah Kalmanson is an Associate Professor and the Bhagwan Adinath Professor of Jain Studies at the University of North Texas. She works at the intersection of comparative philosophy and postcolonial theory, with special interests in the liberational philosophies of China’s Song dynasty and related discourses on issues of cultivation and transformation in philosophy more broadly, both personal and socio-political. She is the author of “Cross-Cultural Existentialism” (2020) and co-author (with Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach) of “A Practical Guide to World Philosophies” (2021).

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Interesting Facts About SEA SPONGES

In today’s episode on the Dive SAGA channel, PADI Platinum Course Director Nick Derutter dives into the mysterious would of SPONGES! So get ready to learn some interesting facts about Sea Sponges, or Phylum Porifera!

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🔥The perfect resting spot- a thousand year old barrel sponge

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Geoffrey Hinton | On working with Ilya, choosing problems, and the power of intuition

This conversation between Geoffrey Hinton and Joel Hellermark was recorded in April 2024 at the Royal Institute of Great Britain in London. An edited version was premiered at Sana AI Summit on May 15 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Geoffrey Hinton has been called “the godfather of AI” and is considered one of the most prominent thought leaders on the emergence of artificial intelligence. He has served as a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon and a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He is now Emeritus Professor at the University of Toronto. In 2023, Geoffrey left his position at Google so that he could speak freely about AI’s impact on humankind.

Joel Hellermark is the founder and CEO of Sana. An enterprising child, Joel taught himself to code in C at age 13 and founded his first company, a video recommendation technology, at 16. In 2021, Joel topped the Forbes 30 Under 30. This year, Sana was recognized on the Forbes AI 50 as one of the startups developing the most promising business use cases of artificial intelligence.

Timestamps
Early inspirations (00:00:00)
Meeting Ilya Sutskever (00:05:05)
Ilya’s intuition (00:06:12)
Understanding of LLMs (00:09:00)
Scaling neural networks (00:15:15)
What is language? (00:18:30)
The GPU revolution (00:21:35)
Human Brain Insights (00:25:05)
Feelings & analogies (00:29:05
Problem selection (00:32:58)
Gradient processing (00:35:21)
Ethical implications (00:36:52)
Selecting talent (00:40:15)
Developing intuition (00:41:49)
The road to AGI (00:43:50)
Proudest moment (00:45:00)

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First Reactions | Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 | Telephone interview

How could I be sure it wasn’t a spoof call?” 2024 physics laureate Geoffrey Hinton received the phone call from Stockholm at around 2am in a hotel room in California, and multiple Swedish accents helped reassure him that his Nobel Prize in Physics was real. Greatly surprised, he talks to the Nobel Prize’s Adam Smith about the state of machine learning, the pressing need for safety research, and his hopes that the award might make people take the fears he voices more seriously.

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David Deutsch – AI, America, Fun, & Bayes

David Deutsch is the founder of the field of quantum computing and the author of The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality.

Read me Contra David, on AI: https://dwarkeshpatel.com/universal-e…
Buy The Beginning of Infinity: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143121359/

Episode website + Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/david…

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Sandy Reflection

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EarthPix 🌎 Travel (@earthpix) | Baking Armenian lavash bread

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Eating sugar statues

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Animal Lovers Community (@wild_animalsgram) | Aww🥹 The cutest helper ever ❤️ 📸 @akck.gt0126

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