The consistent framing of "AI does X" seems to feed into the sentiment "The Great and Powerful AI is here!!". I know headlines/retweets/etc. have character limits that restrict them from putting the full context, but this framing makes it hard to have rational discussions about AI with non-experts.

just imagining this "tools make discovery" frame applied to historic scientific achievements

"Bread discovers miracle mold"
"Kite finds lightning is actually electricity"

We introduce epiplexity, a new measure of information that provides a foundation for how to select, generate, or transform data for learning systems. We have been working on this for almost 2 years, and I cannot contain my excitement! arxiv.org/abs/2601.03220 1/7

How many workers will die in orbit so random people can ask Gemini to do their homework

3D printed Song Sparrow finished!

Sur #R d'Happy Halloween animé #rstats #gganimate

I heard about the weird evolution pieces, but I didn't know about the good math pieces!

Inference Review just wasn't evil enough 😞

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

Blue Apron "Bang Bang Chicken" but it's made with Dino Buddies

Blue Apron didn't give us the chicken that was supposed to come with this, but life finds a way

This horse from the desert DOES have a name–Equus Scotti 🐎 🏜️

This #IceAge #fossil horse from Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument lived during a time when Nevada was much cooler and wetter than it is now.

Explore the 3D model: bit.ly/equus-jaw-tule-springs

#FossilFriday #NPS #Paleontology

I assume this is a picture of Jensen Huang is shooting GPUs into the audience.

I haven't read the article, and don't want anyone to tell me I am wrong. I won't believe you anyway.

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‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD

Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!

This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

8 Cool US Mammals You Haven’t Seen Search for these cool but cryptic mammals across the United States.

8 cool US mammals that few people know and even fewer have seen. Here's where to go on a critter quest to find them. #mammalwatching

Github pages is a little clunky, but once it's in place it's super handy. Then you can get a domain name for cheap if you want it to be a snappier URL (eg I think I pay $50-60 a year for my domain okray.ml, it's pretty affordable and I like it more than aokray.github.io)

3-panel comic. (1) [two people laying on the grass on a curved surface, oriented vertically] PERSON 1: I don’t like being stuck to this orb, but I guess falling off would be worse. (2) [the surface has rotated slightly] PERSON 2: I wouldn’t mind if it pulled a little less hard, though. I have places to be. I shouldn’t just lie around in the grass. (3) [the surface has rotated a little further] PERSON 1: Maybe the pull will weaken if you wait a little longer. PERSON 2: Good idea. I’ll give it another five minutes.

Pull

xkcd.com/3136/

Delighted to announce I have joined the board of the Association for Computational Learning (ACL) as Diversity and Inclusion Officer!

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> See laptop is running slow
> Check processes, notice that Zoom is taking up 300% CPU
> Kill Zoom process
> Immediately drop from the Zoom meeting I was in

Why am I like this?

Remote-Controlled Badger Helps Study Prairie Dog Alarm Calls Researchers in Montana use a taxidermied badger and remote-control car to show how long-billed curlews listen in on prairie dog alarm calls.

Who doesn't need a remote-controlled badger?

“A major report for government by Deloitte is littered with citation errors prompting concern it may have been generated by AI, but the consultancy claims it merely got the titles and, in some cases, dates and publishers incorrect.”

Oh. "Just" the titles, dates, publishers?

Really sweet stuff here; makes you wonder whether there are other similar combinatorial tricks that could be used in the same context.

"Fast Computation of Leave-One-Out Cross-Validation for
k-NN Regression"
- Motonobu Kanagawa
openreview.net/forum?id=SBE...

Pokemon's "I choose you" meme, with Ash throwing a Pokeball, but the legend says "n choose twooo"

Sorry, it's the trauma

New ChatGPT data just dropped

GPT-5 is so amazing it can make 52.8 higher than 69.1 on a bar chart

It can even make 69.1 and 30.8 THE SAME SIZE

“Beyond Averages: Measuring Consistency and Volatility in NBA Player and Team Offense”
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/08/06/b...

Colorado’s groundbreaking law provides a range of common-sense, baseline transparency and accountability requirements for the use of AI in consequential decisions such as housing and employment.

Look at how exercising close to bedtime can destroy your sleep quality.

r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto • 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

You're so close

New post on the Learning Theory Alliance blog, by Arsen Vasilyan. This covers the recently introduced testable learning paradigm of Rubinfeld and Vasilyan, from their STOC 2023 paper. A great chance to catch up on all the exciting work that's happened in this area!
www.let-all.com/blog/2025/07...