Implementation started with Prop 13, which decimated public education. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_Ca...
"By severely curtailing the ability of community college districts to levy property taxes, Proposition 13 shifted the state's contribution to community colleges from 38% to 78% of their revenue."
I've been saying in public that this is the only plausible endgame since July 2024.
Indeed. Open to suggestions for improvements...
Motivation is a ubiquitous, yet still mysterious phenomenon. Its dictionary definition, “the (conscious or unconscious) stimulus for action towards a desired goal” is often operationalized in psychology and neuroscience as the willingness to expend energy for an anticipated future return. All living things demonstrate motivated behavior. There are disagreements about whether artificial intelligence systems, thermostats, or other inanimate objects might also be said to be motivated, so the boundary between what is and isn’t a motivated system remains fuzzy. Even more troubling for scientific accounts is the uncertainty about how motivated action could be compatible with physics.
I'm working on a theory of motivation, and this is a frustrating problem. Here's the current version of the opening paragraph.
Exciting and good news from the Glaze/Nightshade UChicago team!
They are releasing a new non-profit, ETCH, whose mission is specifically to assist and prioritize humans in this GenAi era!
One of the first public releases of ETCH is Quicksilver, an solid GenAi detector for music!
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Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.
With our billionaire class, every word they say is projection.
If there's a culture that has caused harm and regression, it's theirs.
Second time I've been reminded of this classic song this week...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnCo...
Killer robots are already in service. The running thing isn't relevant to how they work. If you prefer reality to doomer imagination, consider:
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New OpenFold3 preview out! (OF3p2)
It closes the gap to AlphaFold3 for most modalities.
Most critically, we're releasing everything, including training sets & configs, making OF3p2 the only current AF3-based model that is functionally trainable & reproducible from scratch🧵1/9
Sunset with a few clouds behind palm trees. A crescent moon and Venus shine above
Such a beautiful sky tonight
One of the heroes of my youth was an LA School Board president named Dr. Doctor.
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mRNA technology may be THE most underrated and unfairly scrutinized (fuck you COVID antivax crew) medical breakthrough in my lifetime.
Like... The things this is already showing it can do in the last 5-7 years is incredible.
We’re hiring! The University of Pittsburgh is recruiting a tenure-track faculty member in pain research to join the Department of Neurobiology and the Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research—an outstanding and highly collaborative community.
Please share. More here: cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
Absolutely love this album, and pretty much everything Frank Black/Black Francis (and Kim Deal and even David Lovering, the Scientific Phenomenalist) has ever done.
Would you like to live on a mountain in Hawaii? Do like lasers and nocturnal life? I have a job for you. www.governmentjobs.com/jobs/5272683...
I'm hiring a postdoc (start date flexible) and a PhD student (for Fall 2027) to work in any area of computational phylogenetics! More info here:
mhibbins.github.io
I will be attending both PEQG and Evolution in June, so please reach out if you want to chat at these meetings!
Would love to get some colleagues at the intersection of NLP and CogSci. Reach out if you have any questions! Deadline: 31-Jul-2026
Come join us at the 2026 GoldLab Symposium, May 14-15. Check out this amazing lineup of speakers! Free, and in person attendees get lunch provided! Streaming option, too. goldlabfoundation.org/2026-agenda/
Come join us at the 2026 GoldLab Symposium, May 14-15. Check out this amazing lineup of speakers! Free, and in person attendees get lunch provided! Streaming option, too. goldlabfoundation.org/2026-agenda/
Satisfied Kagi user, especially when combined with ad blockers
Prop 13, passed when I was in high school, didn't just result in unfair taxes. It was the first shot across the bow from the modern right. Decimated public education funding, which in California comes from property taxes. Ronald Reagan was elected 2 years later. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_Ca...
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺
We're looking for a new colleague at @amlab.bsky.social: Assistant Professor in AI for Science 🔬🤖
World-class ML research, Amsterdam's thriving AI ecosystem (ELLIS, startups, big tech), and some of the best academic labor conditions in Europe ❤️
Deadline: May 30 👉 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
'The article pointed out that China’s R&D expenditure increased sixfold between 2007 and 2023, overtaking the EU. China surpassed the US on this metric in 2024, according to the OECD, spending $1.03tn compared to the US’s $1.01tn.'
www.ft.com/content/47c7...
Faculty Portrait of Prof Tsosie (Dine/Navajo Nation) Indigenous Genetic Epidemiologist & Bioethicist At ASU; Talk Title Indigenous Genomics in Cohort Models: Insights, Gaps, & Emerging Approaches in Health
Please join us on Thursday, April 16 at noon (AZ time!) for our next CEMinar with Dr. Krystal Tsosie @kstsosie.bsky.social #EvMed asuevents.asu.edu/event/cemina...
Rectangular slice of thick pizza on a cutting board. Thin sliced potatoes on top with bits of parsley. A little pick soppressata peaking out
This is what comes to mind when I hear “focaccia pizza”. Made one today, although I forgot to take a picture until this was all that was left. Crust is crunchy and airy.
www.americastestkitchen.com/recipes/1140...
And it's free!
