I remember hearing about this trial at the one year mark while a friend died of pancreatic cancer. I felt like things would change, not for her, but for someone. But now mRNA vaccines are explicitly deprioritized in funding and approval so
There needs to be a giant billboard in every major American city that touts this. In any other era except this suicidal science administration, this would be a miraculous, wondrous thing.
Other commentators raised concerns about processing and if LMs tell us how humans process language? Resnik proposed a thought experiment: if linguistically competent aliens landed and we could probe their brains, would we learn anything? We think yes: sign us up for cognitive xenobiology.
also it's prosocial to keep your nametag on at the bar / party after the conference
I loved my kobo until they fixed the "bug" (feature) that allowed you to use multiple overdrive library accounts. Not only do I have a few extra libraries, but in the Boston area you can be in both the Minuteman and Boston Public Library networks! It is ridiculous not to allow both accounts.
I voluntarily read plenty of LLM output, but there should be consent. My default assumption when I read text is it reflects a human's thoughts, and it gives me the ick to realize half a line in that it doesn't.
How did I miss this?! A recent (2025) survey by Rocco Servedio on PAC learning and its variants, and recent results in these learning models:
arxiv.org/abs/2511.08791
(Anything by Rocco is worth reading!)
I wish I could tell all the young eager people who write to me about wanting to do research, or the new novel exciting theory they have developed, that if your email (or worse, theory) was very obviously generated by chatGPT it will be very hard for anybody to take you seriously.
like if you think GPUs are expensive, please allow me to introduce you to: a statistically useful population of genetically modified mice
Dr Kareem Carr @kareem_carr · 4h There's a bias in AI discourse where we say certain things were achieved with AI, but they were also achieved with millions of dollars. Like if we gave every traditional scientist tens of millions per year, they'd probably be coming up with plenty of fancy new solutions too.
I used to believe this and then I saw the budget requested for a traditional chemistry grant.
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X.
This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5)
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Some reports say over 500 schools, 55 libraries, & 25 universities hit.
You can debate the numbers, but hitting Sharif University & Beheshti is like hitting MIT & Stanford. I keep wondering: How would the scientific community respond differently if it was those universities? What’s the difference?
In the book she was just like "I expect to be prosecuted for my criminal abuse of power as soon as I finish saving the world". The Dirty Harry of bureaucrats.
This editorial discusses the critical value of human-generated scientific writing in the era of large language models (LLMs), arguing that writing is essential to structured thinking and research comprehension. Writing as Thinking: The act of writing structure's thoughts, sorting research data, and identifying the main message, unlike LLMs which may lack true understanding or accountability. LLM Hallucinations: LLM-generated text requires rigorous verification because these models can produce incorrect information or fake references. Human vs. AI Roles: While LLMs are useful tools for brainstorming, improving grammar, or overcoming writer's block, human researchers must maintain control to engage in the creative task of shaping a compelling narrative.
Writing forces your brain to coordinate memory, reasoning, and meaning-making simultaneously.
Every time you write, you rewire toward clearer thinking. Every time you let an LLM do it, you rewire toward consumption.
I finally got to watch this stunningly clear explanation of transformers from the amazing Idan Blank. I agree with Ev, Idan is the best teacher I know. This lecture is a gift to the field. Thank you Idan!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGMn...
presumably because they used the overly broad list of sanctioned entities for their blacklist on submissions
The Experts in question are babies 3 months and older
I’m actually frustrated with it. I think people who are publishing at a conference have a responsibility. And I know this volunteer work isn’t fun and doesn’t really provide many benefits, so it feels like “oh no! I may have to retaliate by not doing work I hate to do and get no reward for!”
protest movement where your only action is to refuse to engage in volunteer work for a conference you publish in
Every central European woman I know hates Easter and has hated it since they were old enough for this lovely tradition
Another fave is "For the Days I Stop Wanting A Body", Andrea Gibson:
Imagine when a human dies the soul misses the body
...
The soul misses every single day the body was sick
The now it forced
The here it built from the fever
Fever is how the body prays
How it burns and begs for another average day
The Two-headed Calf By Laura Gilpin Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.
is this basic
ah, a new possible addition to the canon of SIGBOVIK AI papers
yeah, this is the most obnoxiously sloppy account currently on bsky afaict
Renewables are hitting an inflection point.
WRONG
but if I did care about counterfactuals, would you know what to tell me?
