Hello, World! Welcome back! I have new blog :-) tracesofhumanity.org/hello-world/

Q: Suppose you’d like to rump up your cognitive powers, so that you could catch up with the front line of todays science (Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology) - how would you do that? Assuming you don’t have 5-10 years to spare for each discipline ;-)

I’d like to share some thoughts on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Not about state of the present LLMs and how smart or dump they really are, but rather about the _Why_ of creating it. So, here goes:

I plan on trying to use BSky as an alternative to Twitter for updates of my work. So, a question to folks here: are there some BSky/AT bridges/etc which I could use to get a publicly visible, publishable links to my BSky tweets?

I feel honored & stunned that the organizers of this year's Chaos Communication Camp named one of the streets with my name! ❤️ (Especially that other streets were named after some true legends!) At the same time, I'd like officially announced that I'm not dead yet, nor even retired from IT ;-p

We'll soon be launching a sandbox environment to begin the testing phase of federation for the AT Protocol with allow-listed servers. In advance of this launch, here are some technical details about our design decisions. https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture

Fyi, Bluesky has a web app! It's https://staging.bsky.app. For an MVP it works great and is pretty functional. Kudos to the Bluesky team!