And the equivalent toolkit.ssp.sh for data engineers.

Can we please not do that?

Not the same, but related: one weird thing that I noticed recently is that DeepSeek is really bad in math (college-level) in German. It makes weird logical erros in proofs, mangles assumptions, violates definitions etc. Same exact task in English - no problem at all.

Reminded me of a figure from the PhD thesis of Ferenc Huszar

😮 Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China! The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more. www.focus.de/panorama/wel...

A nopert!!! I love that math questions, like that still exist! That some problems can still be described in simple words, that they can still be unsolved, then solved, and with solutions so unexpected and unintuitive :)

Another street where Berlin govt wants to chop (!) 116 old trees as they can't close the cycling lane, but don't want to limit parking. So they replace trees with a biking lane. These cases are getting so common, it feels like a plan to punish the Greens by forcing some "Sophie's Choice" on them

You are a Post-Padawan now!

Just learned this (that Louvre's security password was Louvre)

Another dumb example of why democracy (broadly defined) is good, while tyranny is crap. With all resources on earth, trains won't be coming on time, cities won't blossom in the desert, and Twitter won't get profitable as long as power-drunk murderous randos are in power. Empires inherently suck.

It's also fun that in the past learning "from the ground up" (books, courses) vs "learning through projects" presented 2 distinct strategies. You either take some time off, but learn the right things, or get ur hands dirty, but develop suboptimal habits. Now you can combine the best of both worlds!

Governments, major politicians, members of Parliaments, official institutions, media, should not be on X. They should be on ATProto! Brands may of course stay on X: that Nazi-themed lineup won't sell itself. But woke brands would much rather ATProto

A cool feature of "For you" feed: unlike "Discover", it doesn't care about how old the post is! Which means that if a few people that share your like patterns suddenly liked a really old post, it will nonchalantly show up in your "For You" without any reposting! (The 1st post of Mamdani on bsky :)

Excited to release our new work: Petri Dish Neural Cellular Automata! pub.sakana.ai/pdnca We investigate how multi-agent NCAs can develop into artificial life 🦠 exhibiting complex, emergent behaviors like cyclic dynamics, territorial defense, and spontaneous cooperation.

I both love and hate things like that. They exist, they are not even too far away, relatively speaking, they are not even completely abstract (like, it's a stable conductive metal, right?), but at the same time completely unperceivable, unattainable, unfathomable.

Network science meets semantic search: if your RAG is knowledge-graph-powered, then finding relevant nodes in it becomes a fun graph problem! (I can't tell if this repo is novel, promising, effective, or not, I just love the vibe of it!) github.com/glacier-crea...

IBM was on a downwards swampy slope spiral for years, which may mean (i don't know for sure, but it may mean) that it kinda selected for slower, less ambitious workers on average... But stil sad. Both for the people, and for the olden good days when IBM sounded proud and cool

Very much looking forward to presenting at this tomorrow. I will be making my usual pitch that datasets are the foundational infrastructure for cultural heritage to benefit from and create useful AI models and tools. Be warned, I did fire up the meme generator for my slides...

In a world where fossil fuels didn't exist, they'd be invented in fantasy as a fictional trope oh yeah, of course the dominion of the evil sorceress powers their machines with black sludge that is literally made from death and decay, what else would they use?

> This view was summed up by Noam Chomsky .. “the correct explanations of language are complicated and cannot be learned just by marinating in big data. Wow. If I had to guess his view, I'd assumed the opposite: that once a network learns a language, it becomes a classical Chomskian "substrate"!

Wait, i somehow assumed that transitional expenses are still payed by the old city government, normally. Is he fundraising coz he plans to go way above the budget, or because he knows that the budget was set at near-0 by the previous mayor, or because he is afraid of some pressure from the old govt?

In German, the meme about right-wing going further and further right, and demanding "a compromise" with the left, has red for left (coz Soviets), and brown for right (coz Nazis)!

UI friction, by increasing the threshold for knee-jerk reposting, reduces misinformation

I sure hope German politicians pay attention to this. So far center-left had moved to the center; center-right had moved to the right, normalizing the far-right (Nazis), and increasing their support, but NOT winning any of their voters back (it is routinely monitored by polls)

The way US ppl use the word "socialist" for a social-democrat policitian is so annoying. Like, yeah, sure, technically social democrats are socialists, but consciously going for a word with a toxic double meaning is just weird

This is the best figure I’ve seen in a whitepaper in a long time, bravo @ai2.bsky.social, delightful.

Writing used to be a costly signaling mechanism. And not only for cover letters: books, articles, blog posts, reddit and stackexhange - much of the loss is not even that of content, but of social signaling of effort that was intertwined with this content. We'll need to find a replacement

One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed

💡 The takeaway: Democracy needs competition—especially in "symbolic" institutions. When established parties neglect these elections, they become vulnerable to populist mobilization. Link to study: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (3/3)

omg I haven't seen this before, and this is such a high bar, I don't think most improv professionals (!) wouldn't be able to clear it. Once he wins, the problem will be not to emulate him (impossible), but to translate it into something a normie boring politician can do 🤯

happy 11th anniversary to this email sent to all staff at the School of Mathematics and Statistics

Why Bsky is good (and I hope is the future) As the old medums died, desperate academics repurposed a job board into a pseudo-social-network to exchange publication alerts It's impossible to use for altmetric tho (see response) as they are closed-platform and don't expose APIs ATProto for the win!

Thank god, better news as least: Berlin will start planting trees finally! Don't get me wrong, Berlin is not the worst city in this regard, but trees are like bridges and rail, you need to plant them NOW to reap the rewards in 20-30 years. And Berlin didn't do it for decades. Stumps on every street!

These comparative graphs for unit nuclear costs mirror unit subway construction costs too. With the US building at reasonable costs in the 70s. Then costs in the US skyrockets and the US gives up building anything since. While China builds an ungodly amount at stable reasonable prices since the 90s.

bluesky is a very good compromise to a problem that is inherent to text microblogging: the conflation of sharing information and socializing in a community

Oh no. It would be a second one in my lifetime to burn down :( I don't like them burning down. Unlike evil flying matchboxes, these titans are nice!!

Can you build a laser from birch leaves and peanuts? Yes, you can! If by FROM you mean "extract atomic carbon from this thing", and by LASER you mean "teeny-tiny nanostructure that technically Amplifies a few photons of Light, using smth that technically counts for -SER" 😉

u shaped AND inverse u shaped!!!!! holy regional heterogeneity batman

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Following @jefferyharrell.bsky.social is like liking to cook curry, being ok at it even, but then following someone who regularly posts "True chicken corma uses tarmagoth flurfluence of grabbable Kantonians in L-15 space", accopanied by a pic of plasma, but with "rice" and "tofu" on coordinate axes

I simply can't. Torstraße in Berlin has lots of cafes, some trees (could use more), no cycling paths. The previous govt (Greens) signed a plan to add biking lanes, limit cars, add more trees. The new right-wing govt wants to cut down trees (!!!), ban outdoor cafes (!!!), to add extra car lines 🤯

most people would have their minds blown about how scientists and philosophers are still debating endless about the definition of 'species'

Related: when I was but a wee kid, I was expecting three things from the future: 1. Robots 2. Cheap space travel 3. That once Salinger dies, I finally get to read more of him ok, 1 is weird, 2 is not happening, but what's the status on 3? Did the estate promise ANYTHING interesting at all?..

One of my favorite effects. They sense the environment with electricity and if both use the same frequency, signals collide. So they have to detune. But who goes up and who goes down on a matter of social dominance!! Oscillation as a social construct!!

Mind it I don't mean sports (I know neither the rules nor the teams haha), but it's even more true for things like idk Eurovision, nobel prizes, or random historical events. An ability to quickly reconfigure from a thoughtful digest to a realtime arena is priceless

Brb, rolling a D6 to pick this week's hyperfocus: 1 Cryptozoology conference papers 2 Moral injury research 3 Emelia Airheart 4 Eel reproduction cycle 5 Failed cryogenics companies 6 Georgian orthography

got it, line 80 was wrong.

I'm glad the topic of toxic blocks is resurfacing, as I think the irreversibility of a block is a real problem for real people. And nothing prevents us from writing a followship predictor and then matching it against block lists. A tool to flag to you which lists may be having false-positives

Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble. You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”