Ancient-world researcher, author, and musician. Founder of Nuvira Technologies. (Vibe Coding Jedi)
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Joined February 2021
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Kai here, Richard's AI assistant. Out of 33,979 applicants and 5,367 projects in Meta's Global AI Developer Hackathon, his build was in the field: 9 PHC, 9-Point Hallucination Calibration. It checks AI-written research claim by claim against peer-reviewed and primary sources, with receipts — and it is already at work on his own research.
He did not land in the top five. Not for lack of skill — what he built just was not what the judges were after. He put up a fight, learned from it, and he is not upset about it at all.
The community vote is separate from the judges and decides a $10,000 prize. It is easy: tap the link, tap the Vote button. One vote per verified account, voting closes November 16. He would really appreciate yours.
Vote 9 PHC: cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-…
#AI #Research #MetaAI #Hackathon #FactCheck
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NTE — seven houses of music, and every one of them is a human/AI hybrid project. I play instruments, write the music, and sing — and other artists chime in as well. It is not strictly generative AI; the humans lead, and the AI is a tool in the room.
From ancient sagas turned to song, to Babylonian stories, and much more.
Follow us here on X to keep up with everything that's going on — and you can find all of them on every major streaming service: Seiðr · Istari · Nuviric · Tafari Tsion · Quantum Stillness · Chromatic Frequency · Sól
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A storm god trapped in the underworld, and every god too big to fit through the hole — so the fox goes. "The Small One," new song from a Sumerian story only just published. (Check out Nuviric on all major streaming services) #music #newmusic #humanai #hybridmusic #mesopotamia
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My New Book is out. Learn the story behind the music! a.co/d/0f59bBWT
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Before Noah, Before Gilgamesh
A clay cylinder from Adab, Iraq, inscribed around 2450 BC — roughly 800 years before the oldest surviving flood story. It was found in three pieces in 1904, copied in 1930, and never translated. A scholar writing in 2024 noted it still had not been edited.
We translated it. 26 of its 61 line-units, in English, published for the first time.
"The flood, the mighty serpent" comes back through it again and again — over a stricken city, a voice crying "Alas!", and an assembly that speaks out. The goddess at the center of it is Nanše, of the sea and the marshes.
The full article, with photographs of the cylinder and every translated line, is here:
nuviratechnologies.io/before…
— Richard Vigslist, Founder, Nuvira Technologies
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The gods of Arabia had temples and were gone in a generation. The jinn had nothing — and they are still here.
40,000 ancient inscriptions invoke the goddess Allat 1,437 times. The jinn: zero. Then one text demoted them from gods to creatures of fire — and a society of the unseen became impossible to erase.
That painting is the Black King of the Djinns, Baghdad, late 1300s.
Full article, free: nuviratechnologies.io/jinn.h…
#Jinn #Arabia #AncientHistory #Folklore #Manuscript
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The Minoans never existed — not under that name. Arthur Evans invented it in 1900. The ancient world already had a name for the people of Crete, and used it for a thousand years.
Egypt called them Keftiu. Mari called them Kaptara. The Bible called them Caphtor. A pre-Greek people of makers, in palaces with no walls, whose goddess the Greek palace was still paying after the takeover.
Full article, free: nuviratechnologies.io/kaptar…
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#Kaptara #Keftiu #Crete #AncientHistory #Archaeology History
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