futurism – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:17:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Cascadia earthquake turns 325. Here’s what we know https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/cascadia-earthquake-turns-325-heres-what-we-know https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/cascadia-earthquake-turns-325-heres-what-we-know#respond Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:17:42 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/cascadia-earthquake-turns-325-heres-what-we-know

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – January 26 marked the 325th anniversary since the last earthquake struck the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Centuries later, the ancient quake has left clues for scientists to prepare for the next one.

The massive magnitude 9 quake stretched from Northern California to British Columbia, and sent a tsunami to Japan, researchers have found.

“The last Cascadia earthquake and tsunami occurred on January 26 in the year 1700 and it reached the shores of Oregon at approximately 9 p.m. The reason we can constrain it so tightly to that time of day even is in part because of Japan, who had very detailed records at that time of what they were experiencing on their coastline,” Laura Gabel, a geologist with the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries told KOIN 6 News Monday. “Also, Native American lore talked about the tsunami, the large shaking event and then water coming onshore.”

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IBM Newsroom https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/ibm-newsroom https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/ibm-newsroom#respond Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:07:12 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/ibm-newsroom

Review all news, announcements and videos from the 2024 IBM Think Event.

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Qwen2.5-Max: Exploring the Intelligence of Large-scale MoE Model https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/qwen2-5-max-exploring-the-intelligence-of-large-scale-moe-model https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/qwen2-5-max-exploring-the-intelligence-of-large-scale-moe-model#respond Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:23:34 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/qwen2-5-max-exploring-the-intelligence-of-large-scale-moe-model

Qwen ChatApiDemoDiscord

It is widely recognized that continuously scaling both data size and model size can lead to significant improvements in model intelligence. However, the research and industry community has limited experience in effectively scaling extremely large models, whether they are dense or Mixture-of-Expert (MoE) models. Many critical details regarding this scaling process were only disclosed with the recent release of DeepSeek V3. Concurrently, we are developing, a large-scale MoE model that has been pretrained on over 20 trillion tokens and further post-trained with curated Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) methodologies. Today, we are excited to share the performance results of and announce the availability of its API through Alibaba Cloud. We also invite you to explore on Qwen Chat!

We evaluate alongside leading models, whether proprietary or open-weight, across a range of benchmarks that are of significant interest to the community. These include MMLU-Pro, which tests knowledge through college-level problems, LiveCodeBench, which assesses coding capabilities, LiveBench, which comprehensively tests the general capabilities, and Arena-Hard, which approximates human preferences. Our findings include the performance scores for both base models and instruct models.

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Optical Frequency Combs https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/optical-frequency-combs https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/optical-frequency-combs#respond Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:20:51 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/optical-frequency-combs

What do optical frequency combs do?

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LIVE! Boom XB-1 1st Supersonic Test Flight https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/live-boom-xb-1-1st-supersonic-test-flight https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/live-boom-xb-1-1st-supersonic-test-flight#respond Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:17:29 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/live-boom-xb-1-1st-supersonic-test-flight

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The Anthropic Principle & Super Intelligence https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/the-anthropic-principle-super-intelligence https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/the-anthropic-principle-super-intelligence#respond Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:10:47 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/the-anthropic-principle-super-intelligence

The Anthropic Principle and Super-Intelligence, or SI, are vital concepts to understanding the Universe and our future place in it.

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Rediscovered 45-million-year-old skull turns out to be a large, extinct bird species https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/rediscovered-45-million-year-old-skull-turns-out-to-be-a-large-extinct-bird-species https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/rediscovered-45-million-year-old-skull-turns-out-to-be-a-large-extinct-bird-species#respond Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:45:41 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/rediscovered-45-million-year-old-skull-turns-out-to-be-a-large-extinct-bird-species

A forgotten fossil in a German museum turned out to be a rare Diatryma skull. Scientists corrected a decades-old misidentification.

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The Human Far Future With Isaac Arthur https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/the-human-far-future-with-isaac-arthur https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/the-human-far-future-with-isaac-arthur#respond Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:20:14 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/the-human-far-future-with-isaac-arthur

Does humanity face a bright future? What will it be like? We ask these questions in a discussion with Isaac Arthur host of Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur. Other topics include, uplifting of intelligent species like Dolphins, Chimpanzees, and locked in water world aliens on exoplanets. As well as blackhole farming and if alien civilizations will decide to come together when the lights go out.

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Uplifting Animal & Aliens, Part 1 of 2 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/uplifting-animal-aliens-part-1-of-2 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/uplifting-animal-aliens-part-1-of-2#respond Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:19:49 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/uplifting-animal-aliens-part-1-of-2

The concept of enhancing and augmenting animal minds & bodies to be able to use and understand human technology, known as Uplifting, has long fascinated us. Today in this two-part collaboration with John Michael Godier, we will explore this concept as well as the possibility of using such technology with alien races, the polar opposite of the classic Star Trek Prime Directive.

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Matrioshka Brains: Star-Powered Computers https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/matrioshka-brains-star-powered-computers https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/matrioshka-brains-star-powered-computers#respond Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:17:30 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/matrioshka-brains-star-powered-computers

God?


The Matrioshka Brain is a computer or artificial mind powered by an entire star.

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