Буки/Buki is already better than the transcription models of Meta and Open AI
If you are a Macedonian speaker, donate your voice for Buki 2.0
https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/mk
We can never remember how many Gauss are in 1 Tesla (10,000) and how many satoshis are in 1 bitcoin (100,000,000).
Today we realized that bitcoin/satoshi = (Tesla/Gauss)^2 and our mnemonic needs are satisfied for the day
There's a popular theory by Erik Hoel that we stopped producing Einsteins because we perverted the concept of tutoring and mentorship. In the past tutors were world-class scientists who expanded the horizons of their gifted students. Today tutors are pragmatic professionals who help our children score high on standardized tests.
Our Foundation is providing mentorship of the old-school kind. Our director’s essay on this topic is personable, eloquent, and inspiring
https://umno.mk/naukata-e-prijatelka/
Кој донира (не) транскрибира
Донирајте го вашиот глас (или пари) за да го усовршиме Буки и да го направиме достапен за сите
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/buki
Four events and a preview
Our foundation is gearing up for a fun month ahead, including NeuroLibre day, European research night at Europe House Skopje, the Parlez-vous fran-sci collaboration with the Skopje French Institute, and the third Science for kids conference.
That, plus a sneak preview of a special project, at the link below
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/libra-net-18-four-events-and-a-preview
“I won’t live to see the era of routine genetic engineering. But its eventual arrival is vastly more certain than that of superintelligent AI, or of the colonization of distant plans, or of finding a cure for death.”
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/education-and-genes-grab-bag
Our Foundation KANTAROT announced an award for best science reporting by an elementary school student in Macedonia.
The award honors the legacy of Aleksandar Stikov and hopes to promote science journalism in Macedonian
https://naukazadeca.mk/kolegastikov
Thanks for sharing this, it is a fascinating read!
Our favourite bit is when you are brainstorming about giving bitcoin traction. Still relevant, even after creating a trillion dollar market
https://twitter.com/qantarot/status/1761402472587825354/photo/1
Announcing #MRathon 2024, a hackathon for increasing MRI accessibility!
Join us for socializing (May 2) and hacking (May 3) in the beautiful Jackie Chan Heritage house at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. The hackathon is a collaboration with the ezyMRI NerdFest, big thank you to our local organizers Huang Shaoying and Le Thu Thao!
Registration is based on a voluntary donation. $50+ donations get you a VIP ticket to the MRathon Highlights after-party on May 9, celebrating 40 years of the journal Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
Share this post to help us spread the word, and join us by registering or pitching a project at the link below
https://mrathon.github.io/singapore2024/
“Height is so socially valuable and so utterly outside of our control that it feels like God invented it to demonstrate the folly of meritocracy.”
Freddie de Boer on being weird
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/weird
"... what one regulator thinks about bitcoin is irrelevant. I am celebrating the right of American investors to express their thoughts on bitcoin by buying and selling spot bitcoin ETPs."
Commissioner Hester M. Peirce on the recent SEC decision:
https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/peirce-statement-spot-bitcoin-011023
"The truth hidden below the surface of the story is a hard one: Nothing makes any sense. We do not get what we deserve. If we are lucky, we get more. If we are unlucky, we get less [...] That's the system."
Roger Ebert on the one thing we all talk about
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/13-conversations-about-one-thing-2002
'[The] screenwriting lacks a shade in clarity, but then, so do the lives of these characters.'
Roger Ebert about Bellflower, a mumblecore rom-com with flamethrowers
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/bellflower-2011
"Or maybe it's a tripleheader: Maybe the environment is poisoned, and the group is phony, and Carol is gnawing away at her own psychic health. Now there's a fine mess."
Roger Ebert on Todd Haynes' "Safe", a subversive take on our modern illnesses
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/safe-1995
Our answer to the question of reproducibility, transparency and innovation in academic publishing
42 co-authors, 94 datasets from 18 sites, 5 interactive figures and an award-winning dashboard, all bundled in our most ambitious NeuroLibre preprint yet.
Check it out at the link below!
https://preprint.neurolibre.org/10.55458/neurolibre.00014/
We poured our heart and soul in this two-minute video summarizing our Science for Kids initiative.
Big thank you to the marketing agency Publicis for making the video and to the band Bei the Fish for providing the soundtrack!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuGeNj-NGBA
Зборот инфлуенсер не постоеше тогаш, но Аце Стиков беше токму тоа, човек кој можеше со еден збор да влијае врз симпатиите на милионска публика. Можеше, ама не го правеше тоа.
https://qantarot.substack.com/p/kolega-stikov
“The internet has been from its beginning an all-consuming, collectively-generated information swarm. It changes over time, expunging old corridors or gardens or cities, while raising new playgrounds and towers and stadiums, and it remembers nothing.”
Bitcoin to the rescue!
https://www.piratewires.com/p/encyclopedia-titanica
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