a significant portion of what we perceive as consciousness arises from computational activity within the circulatory system, specifically the way blood vessels dynamically dilate and constrict in response to predictions and unexpected stimuli.

the body performs sophisticated calculations through blood flow, and that these processes directly structure subjective experience.

OpenStack

Anthropic Uncovers AI Personality Crisis as Models Secretly Switch Identities. They've made progress on understanding where an LLM's default persona comes from, and how to track when it “drifts.”

When you're talking to a language model, you're talking to a character the model is playing: the “Assistant.” Who exactly is this Assistant? And what happens when this persona wears off?

This is interesting for a lot of reasons, including explaining how model personality drift happens (& a way to mitigate that) as well as more exploration into the “Assistant” the key personality of basically every AI you work with, but which is not well understood.

a fun set of experiments - we find a single axis in activation space modulates between assistant & base model behavior, and by applying relatively gentle caps on that axis we can keep the model in the assistant basin w/o compromising intelligence!

https://www.anthropic.com/research/assistant-axis

yet to see the video ሲቧቀሱ😅

heard folks atገቢዎች here will start wearing body cam and if such ድብድብ heppen with startups here... coz they don't understand innovation and tech trends would be recorded and we will get to see it.

remember Better-Auth folks explaining to ERCA 'we are like ፋይዳ but for the world' 😅

One of my fav AI Company Osmo debuts AI-enabled scent authenticator.

A pair of genuine Nike ‘Chunky Dunkys,’ for instance, is often distinguished from knockoffs by its “animal fur” scent – the fakes, according to trained authenticators, smell of factory glue.

Dollar hegemony remains strong in transactions:
Despite talk of de-dollarization, the U.S. dollar still dominates global foreign exchange trading and international trade invoicing, and most cross-border liabilities and debt issuance are dollar-denominated.

Central bank reserves are shifting:
The share of the U.S. dollar in official foreign exchange reserves has fallen to its lowest level in about two decades as central banks diversify into other currencies, gold, and alternative assets.

Foreign holdings of U.S. debt are declining:
Over the past 15 years, foreign ownership of U.S. Treasury securities has steadily fallen (from above 50 % to around 30 %), signaling reduced reliance on dollar-denominated bonds among international investors.

Commodity markets show clear de-dollarization trends:
A growing portion of global commodity trade, especially energy, is being priced and settled in non-dollar terms (e.g., local currencies or yuan), reflecting a substantive shift in how some markets transact.

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Dario at Davos taking a shot at Sam🤣😂😅

Ethiopia requires a vast amount of capital to fund economic growth, which calls for foreign capital (FDI).

Global capital seeks the highest post-tax risk-adjusted return. If Ethiopia imposes source-based taxation -- taxing foreign investors at our borders -- we reduce their post-tax returns. Catch 22.

To compensate for this tax cost, global investors demand a higher pre-tax return from Ethiopia assets, like they do when they invest in Dubai or Hong Kong.

Night reading: on market inefficiency

AWS' S3 holds 500 Trillion objects
- Hundreds of Exabyte
- Serving hundreds of millions transaction per second
- processing Quadrillion request every year
- 10s of million of hard drives.
- across 120 avilablity zones in 38 region.

at the core of it its just Disks on Racks.

Doing the obvious things right at scale.🤯

From Data Warehouse to Data Lake to Data Ocean