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SANTA CLARA - MARCH 29: Dolph Ziggler reaches for the Intercontinental championship belt as it hangs in the air with Daniel Bryan winds-up to punch him on top ladder during ladder match at Wrestlemania 31 with crowd in the distance at the Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California on March 29, 2015.
He saw me at the same time I saw him. A welcome smile and a wave after a long three weeks away from home.
From 139- 078q. "Dod or Ḥatan Dod, or Chathan. = The beloved; or, The bridegroom going forth for his bride. And looking out for his Japhejaphitha [Hebrew] his faire one, or, his church, adorned with double beauty and excellency. Viz. Spirit and truth in these latter dayes. Wherein you have his appearance out of his chambers, which have hid him for many ages past, who now comes forth in power and great glory, like the sun, ab ardore [Hebrew] & calore [Hebrew] in his glistering ascension towards noon. ... Or else more properly. The first part of Iren. Evangel. or Church-discipline in the theory. Of the matter, form, end, object, rule, ruler, extent, foundation, and priviledges of a true Church of Christ, according to Gospel-institution, and different from all of false constitution. Declaring, what is to be done before beleevers embodying together, and in order to it, how it is Christs own work, who is both the author and finisher of our faith· Shewing his orient approach [Hebrew] Which makes the churches look in these dayes like the morning [Hebrew] faire as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners, Cant.6.10." shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=145108
Sir Demis Hassabis has the rare distinction of being both a builder of minds and a student of them. When I met him at the Google campus, it was a late afternoon in July. He arrived at the lobby with the remnants of a banana in one hand, a quick snack between what I imagined were a string of deeply technical and intensely consequential meetings. Despite his schedule, surely one of the most overbooked in the world, he greeted me with unhurried warmth. His eyes met mine, clear and thoughtful, and he offered a genuine smile as we shook hands.
We sat for portraits in a quiet space before climbing the stairs into a scene that felt half research lab, half speculative fiction. Rows of humanoid robots stood in various states of readiness. Some were engaged in games of chess, others tidied desks or rearranged objects on shelves. A small team of engineers hovered nearby, tweaking, observing, taking notes. It felt almost like a hospital ward, each robot surrounded by an entourage of curious and caring doctors. The robots were not science fiction. They were real, and they were learning.
As the photo session continued, a crowd began to gather. Googlers quietly filed into the lab, clearly excited to see Demis in person. He lives in London and only occasionally visits this side of the ocean. Their admiration was unmistakable. It carried the quiet weight of reverence, a deep respect that went beyond titles or achievements.
It is not hard to understand why. Demis is kind, quick to laugh, and never puts on airs. But underneath that charm is a mind that is, without exaggeration, reshaping our understanding of intelligence itself. A former child chess prodigy, he went on to study computer science at Cambridge, and then cognitive neuroscience at UCL before co-founding DeepMind, the company that would change the landscape of artificial intelligence.
DeepMind’s rise is the stuff of legend. AlphaGo’s defeat of a human world champion Go player in 2016 signaled a turning point, not just for AI, but for how humans think about mastery. It was not brute force that won. It was intuition-like pattern recognition, developed through reinforcement learning and deep neural networks. Then came AlphaZero, MuZero, and most significantly, AlphaFold, which solved the decades-old problem of protein structure prediction. That breakthrough may someday lead to cures for previously untreatable diseases.
For these extraordinary achievements, Hassabis was knighted and, more recently, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold. His name now sits alongside others who have altered the course of medicine and biology. But talking to him, he seems far more interested in what comes next.
We spoke about the future of artificial general intelligence, a phrase that carries both promise and a thrum of anxiety. Can we build machines that not only learn specific tasks, but adapt across domains, reason abstractly, and make sense of the world as we do? And if we can, should we?
Demis approaches these questions with a mix of optimism and caution. He believes in the capacity of science to do good, but he is not naive about its unintended consequences. He has long advocated for safety research in parallel with capability development and has surrounded himself with ethicists, philosophers, and scientists from every corner of academia.
In between our portraits, we worked with a small menagerie of props. A sculptural chessboard of brushed metal. Molecular models of folded proteins. A vintage Robby the Robot replica. Each item, in its way, felt like a nod to the great questions that animate his work. What is intelligence? How does it arise? Can we use it to help rather than harm?
As the light softened through the high windows, we wrapped up. Demis lingered a bit longer than I expected, chatting with a few engineers, asking questions, listening closely. Watching him, you could forget for a moment that you were in the presence of one of the most influential minds of our time.
But then again, perhaps that is exactly what makes him so.
October 30 304/366 - 5 Pointz in Queens is the coolest place ever. I took many more photos, of course, because I was in awe.
Today's We're Here Challenge: Freedom! Everybody should be free.
I Googled "Freedom" and soon found myself on my way to Freedom Park in Palm Desert. This was my first visit to this park. It seems to be dedicated to people that gave up their lives for our freedoms. I explored the park, took some photos and then headed shopping. When I was headed into the store I patted my pocket to make sure I had my wallet, but it wasn't there. After not finding it I stopped to think when was the last time I saw it. I remembered using it at the park to take a couple selfies and then picking up my phone & heading off. OMGosh! I hurried back to the park (about 25 minutes away) praying that it would be there. It was not! I sat down thinking of having to replace or cancel my cards, get a new licence....etc.. There was a park gardener spraying the sand off the sidewalk and sat and watched him for a minute. I went to him and asked if he knew if anyone had found a wallet. He said, "Si", reached in his shirt pocket and showed me my wallet! HALLILULAHHHHHH I only had $20 to give him, but I showered him with Thank-yous.. There ARE honest people in the world.
Eris' eyes never left him as he grew closer to her fallen comrade. I didn't think it possible, but, even more slowly than he had already been moving, Tracks reached down and gently removed the beanie hat from Basher's head.
Eris looked as if she were about to protest, but an idea had suddenly come to me.
Tank: "No, wait..." I urged quietly as Tracks studied the hat carefully. It was a long shot, but the idea in my mind would make sense. Both One and Basher had been plugged into the same system before they had collapsed...
Thursday 8 November 2018: Chule (3350 m) - Mu Gompa (3700 m)
Tsum Valley Day 4
Chule / छुले (3350 m) - Mu Gompa (3700 m)
Camp: below Mu Gompa
Trail runners (French race) at Mu. Dhephu Doma Ani Gompa. High climb above camp with Val for views of the trail to Tibet.
The road building around Mu Gompa broke my heart.
I first trekked here with Hazel back in 2015, just before the first 2015 Earthquake which struck this area very hard. Read more about my 2015 trek: Tsum Valley trek with Val Pitkethly.
Read more about my November 2018 trek in Nepal on SparklyTrainers: Manaslu & Tsum with Val Pitkethly.
Guenter Seyfferth’s Die Berge des Himalaya (The mountains of Himalaya) is always invaluable in identifying peaks in Nepal. His page on Ganesh Himal + Shringi Himal covers the first part of our route, including the Tsum Valley.
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All the Domos were of course eager to meet Sunny and introduce themselves. Before they all bombarded him Domo and Sherbet managed to do some domocrowd control and get them to line up.
Voyage au Népal au cours du mois d'août 2017 - Katmandu - Bandipur - Pokhara - Mardi Himal trek - Jomsom - Muktinath - Pokhara - Katmandu
This is my cousin's Flickr, and he just joined today. You may know him on Minecraft as Hockeyaddict23. Please add him, because he deserves attention as a builder and Minecraft player. He's good at both.
Offered him some ants just to see but the ball was more interesting.
Cinco got left on the shelf last night. Looks like it's his new playground. I though she mistakenly left him there after she ate but she maybe did it on purpose as she looked at him later but didn't come get him.
I waited till he tired out and quit playing then I put him back in the hammock with Aurora.
I guess Aurora needed a break or expected him to climb in on his own. When I put him back he went right to nursing. He got left a couple more times too but once she came back and he got on and the last time she asked me to get him for her. She couldn't get him to climb back on when she visited the clothes basket so left him but then complained till I put him back in the hammock with her.
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