No, I’m not gonna stop talking about the Epstein Files. I’m sharing my experiences as a model in the 80s & 90s and how I saw the way the fashion industry supplies young, vulnerable women to wealthy predators. This has been going on for decades & there is a reckoning to come! youtu.be/8eg1afaQYC0?...
😂 it's a club and we are all in it 😆
1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...
Yeah this is exactly the thing. Increasingly you are telling people to not believe their lying eyes when you tell them LLMs are useless. Their actual lives will directly contradict this. They will likely discount most other unrelated things you say as a result. This can’t become a left/lib dogma.
Extensive lecture of Eric W. Tramel (Nvidia) on synthetic data: "Synthetic pretraining is the way frontier models are built" scalable-ai.eecs.berkeley.edu/assets/lectu...
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
See, entry 3 in the bibliography is "Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrizations of Infinitely Differentiable Riemannian Manifolds" by one N. Lobachevsky.
And if you've ever heard Leher's song "Lobachevsky", you may have just finished that title with "Bozhe moi!"
These are the ML feeds I've pinned that now get mixed into my main feed:
- ML Feed: Trending bsky.app/profile/smcg...
- MLSky: bsky.app/profile/alex...
- GenAI Bluesky Network: bsky.app/profile/hell...
- Nuanced AI Commentary: bsky.app/profile/dame...
If it's helpful, I followed the recommendations in this post from @nsaphra.bsky.social and as a result have a much more interesting and ML-focused feed: nsaphra.net/post/bsky/
New post by me:
The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking. We shouldn't minimize the very real impact of many contributors — including improvements in diagnosis, medical and surgical innovation, vaccination against cancers, and more — to the reduction in cancer death rates.
I recommend this article, in which I teach information theory+molecular biology from scratch, argue that existing definitions don't capture the intuitive idea of "information", propose a new definition that does, and argue it lies outside the current human knowledge frontier. dynomight.net/dna
DumPy: Like NumPy except it's OK if you're dum dynomight.net/dumpy/
Richmond deer spotting. Geared up, sun up to sun down. The best part? When I got completely surrounded by deer, like I accidentally RSVP’d to a secret deer gathering. 🤣 I felt like a princess in a Disney movie! 😍🥰
This is very much on point. As Geoffrey Hinton put it:
"The problem is most people have a hopelessly wrong view of how people work."
Despite not knowing how their own brains work, they invent comforting stories how AI surely doesn't work in the same way.
AI is the mirror most don't want to see.
It was always inevitable that AI would be trained on all our work whether we liked it or not. There's too much money at stake in this. It's also always been inevitable that job displacement will happen. We have to make sure that AI works for all of us via universal basic income. AI was fed OUR data.
Well Rachel, you're in the right job.
The place to start is in the Treasury, where group-think had done so much harm to our economy over the past 15 years.
Horrible take. American companies still have so many advantages over Chinese AI companies -- access to the world's top talent and capital -- and should just compete on merits
techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/o...
Sama and Dario are becoming part of the Military-Industrial Complex in real-time. Turning "Open-" into "Closed-" AI was bad enough. Their transmogrification into Iznogoud cartoon figures shot the last of the trust. Cooperation—yes, sure, but doomer idea of cooperation is "do as I say, or else..."
Nah—pass. Enough doomerism. Time is better spent watching Richard Sutton's "Intelligence, Cooperation, and Human Flourishing" here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGi1...
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took aim at the Meta CEO during a panel at the South by Southwest festival by wearing a t-shirt with a latin phrase aimed at Zuckerberg.
Shirt says "A world without Caesars" in Latin, in the style of Mark Zukcerburgs recent appearances.
techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/b...
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the single candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Author unknown
Engineering mtDNA deletions by reconstituting end joining in human mitochondria: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Engineering mtDNA deletions by reconstituting end joining in human mitochondria: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Great job! Many have tried, many have failed.
There's a price tag when buying services from US firms too. Yes-new price maybe higher. But you get more for your money: reduced risk, investment in your own pple. Long term-it maybe better? (or not) May even turnout the price to be lower. You got AI to help your writing. Do better in the future pls
🌱 Boosting Biodiversity & Clean Energy in Oxfordshire! ☀️🌿
A 49.9MW solar farm in Burcot has been approved, set to power 13,000 homes with clean energy! 🏡
This site can showcase how well-managed solar farms support biodiversity while generating renewable power 🌼🐝
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Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge. C.G. Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (1875–1961)
Van Gogh "Cafe Terrace at Night"