Large language models are not improving exponentially Applying a skeptical eye to rising benchmark scores of generative AI

#NewFromMe: upward trends in AI benchmark scores, compiled to demonstrate exponential improvement in AI, suggest the opposite.

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Big thanks for the birthday wishes! Dakota’s just turned 30, got fun stuff planned for Bald and Bonkers, hunting cowboy treasure, and there's a commemorative album! #updates #newfromme

1% of all of the men Donald Trump pardoned for January 6 have been busted for child-sex crimes 5 years on from the January 6 assault on the Capitol, I've identified 15 pardonees, all men, arrested for child-sex crimes

#NewFromMe: an updated accounting reveals that at least 15 of the men Donald Trump pardoned for involvement in the January 6 lynch mob have also been arrested for sex crimes against children — including rape.

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Donald Trump is probably a pedophile Trump pardoned multiple known pedophiles who were at the Capitol on January 6, but there's much more

#NewFromMe: an extensive compilation of the evidence implicating President Donald Trump in pedophilia.

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In the Race Against Time for Fusion, a New Reactor May Break the Final Barrier Still, the hope of limitless energy clashes with the realities of scientific hurdles.

#newFromMe: nuclear fusion is still "30 years away" despite what you continue to be told by the fusion industry echo chamber.

#energy #nuclearFusion #sciComm

Mathematicians Solved a Notorious Old Problem, Shaking Up Abstract Algebra And they didn’t stop there.

#newFromMe: one #Rutgers mathematician has helped to solve TWO big outstanding problems in #abstractAlgebra this year. his field, representation theory, is niche and very collaborative -- everyone's work helps propel everyone else forward together.

#math #sciComm

You Aren’t Dehydrated “Hydration” was invented by bottled beverage manufacturers and heightened by the weight loss industrial complex. Are you losing ~3.5 cups…

#newFromMe: You Aren't Dehydrated

No, There’s Not a New Unified Theory of Physics It was always too good to be true.

#newFromMe: a wild, very wrong new paper claims to show a unified theory of physics. experts say "wrong" is the nicest version of what it is -- it could even have been AI generated. how do papers like this make it into "peer reviewed" (elsevier) journals? and who's writing them?

Scientists Did the Near-Impossible by Creating the Heaviest Antimatter Particle. Woah.

#newFromMe: meet antihyperhydrogen-4, a brand new antimatter isotope that's the heaviest ever. antimatter is already a part of everyday life, including in medicine.

www.popularmechanics.com/science/ener...

How Mayonnaise—Yes, This Is Absolutely True—Will Control Nuclear Fusion at Last Scientists are ... spreading their findings on the condiment’s role in stabilizing chaotic reactions.

also, LESS #newFromMe, but still recent and fun: How can studying mayonnaise help scientists as they work toward stable nuclear fusion reactors?

#science #physics #sciComm #nuclearFusion #food

Scientists Could Circumvent the Fifth Form of Matter to Revolutionize Superconductor Production One weird phenomenon could totally change the game.

#newFromMe: A new study looks at a less understood way for a superconducting material to work. This type can operate at much higher* temperatures (* slightly less absolute zero temperatures haha)

In which I share my Comcast story: associationsnow.com/2014/09/customer-service... #NewFromMe

This is how Weird Al won the internet: associationsnow.com/2014/07/content-marketin... #NewFromMe

True story: The best part of getting married is writing about it ahead of time for work. https://manifest.com/ #NewFromMe