Brian Koopman
brian@social.briankoopman.com
<p>Assoc. Research Scientist at Yale working on the Simons Observatory and ACTPol. Focusing on data acquisition software and Cybersecurity. PhD from Cornell.</p><p>Bari sax player in The Simulators and Viva Mayhem.</p><p>Profile picture is a selfie taken in a highly reflective aluminized mylar polarization wiregrid inside of the old Atacama Cosmology Telescope.</p><p>Posts auto-delete after 6 months.</p><p><a href="https://social.briankoopman.com/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://social.briankoopman.com/tags/ska" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ska</span></a> <a href="https://social.briankoopman.com/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://social.briankoopman.com/tags/selfhosted"
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Post #1173506
To contrast yesterday&#39;s physics colloquium, I attended a talk and conversation with Adam Becker about his book, &quot;More Everything Forever&quot; tonight. One take away for me, that I also saw discussed here in recent days, is the importance of calling &#39;bullshit&#39; on AI, and more broadly on the ridiculous claims made by folks like Sam Altman. I&#39;m not much of a poster here, but think I should start working on that
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Post #1173503
I&#39;m still thinking about the &quot;AGI on top of LLMs&quot; talk I saw on Monday, especially after the Claude leak. The speaker was describing LLMs as &quot;trying to predict the next word on the Internet&quot;, and claimed as fact that as LLMs got better, &quot;in order for them predict that next word, they have to understand the universe&quot;. He was talking to a room full of physicists and was clearly trying to mirror the famous Carl Sagan quote, but it just...
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Post #1173499
Been in a bit of a funk lately, but as a result have been trying to get out of it with lots of exercise. Just went fairly hard on the erg with some interval training, feeling good 💪🏻🚣🏻♂️
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Post #1173497
Just upgraded my old Unifi USG with a new UCG-Max. Pretty simple switch over. Just had to get the UCG-Max online with the WAN connection and restore all my settings from backup. Everything else &quot;just worked&quot;. Step one in my plan to upgrade my home network to 2.5G! #homelab #networking #unifi