We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Turns out that the glass ceiling for women has been not being able to join the club of abusing little girls.

s/OSS security/research papers/g s/maintainers/reviewers/g devansh.bearblog.dev/ai-slop/

RIP 🖤 Brian was my first area manager at PARC. I have found memories of him. Very warm, very smart, and full of life stories.

In this day and age, it is almost charming to come across papers with completely broken English :)

The decentralized Internet was such a good idea...

Interesting initiative from Cloudfare: an extension of robots.txt for the age of AI blog.cloudflare.com/content-sign...

My current academic children 🥰👩🏻‍🎓👨‍🎓

I just got an electric bike, and I plan to test whether it's now possible to live comfortably in SoCal without a car, within a radius of ~6 miles. [empty-nester here]

Peak Swiss: my daughter, who lives in Switzerland, got a speeding ticket because of an excess speed of… 4km/h. And the letter was sent to… California. They found her! 🤣

Granite and my Serra da Estrela shepherd baby

Harvest. In a modern world that’s increasingly going insane, I find peace in these millennia-old activities.

Falamos que parecemos viver numa época de estupidez, e creio que estamos lentamente a admitir a causa. Este é um óptimo artigo sobre o fenómeno open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...

What horrible tragedy in Lisbon yesterday... www.bbc.com/news/article...

Survey papers are the boundary. They used to take a long time to write. Now I look at a survey paper and I wonder how much of it was written by the authors vs. by Deep Research. Even if it was all manually produced, the doubt is unsettling. We really need to catch up to the disruption of AI.

Updating University web sites. I guess this will do for the next 20 years... ☺️❤️SE @ UCIrvine

I know this has been said before but, man! It's really hard to be as bad as Google when it comes to naming products. I wonder what the process is that ends up with this portfolio of names...

My team at Apple is currently hiring for a role that focuses on compiler tools and infrastructure. If you’re interested in this opportunity, please take a look at the job posting here: jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail... #llvm #swiftlang

We are hiring for a tenure track position as Assistant Professor at FEUP U.Porto. Topic: Cloud and Trusted Computing. Deadline mid August. sigarra.up.pt/spup/en/noti...

My latest video for @propublica.org

If you have high school aged kids, I need your help! I'm working with a group of them. Part of the work is a survey designed to collect [anonymous] data on the use of AI by HS students around the world. If you could ask your kid(s) to fill it out, it would be super! 🙏 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

To be fair, when everything is deleted on your disk, it means that there are no problems on your computer, so there's that 🤷 forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-yol...

I'm supervising a group of high school kids this summer and omg these kids are amazing! Some of them could skip undergrad and go straight to a PhD program, and they would be fine. One of them showed up to the meeting with the complete outline of the research paper we're going to write, and it was 💯.

This is a really nice blog post, and I'm touched that what I wrote back then had an impact in someone's life! Always humbling to hear these things, many years later. faingezicht.com/articles/202...

What should happen: emergency investigations resulting in impeachment of T and of half of Congress. What will happen: Musk will lose all gov contracts and subsidies, and will mysteriously fall off a balcony

Traveling? No. Giving a good old fashioned paper-based exam to a class of 250 students

Looks like Musk was taken for a ride, hey? They got his $ and his followers for the election, gave him his pet project for 5 months, and then got of rid of him. Bit of a fool.

An accurate and apt description of my PhD 😅 (cries in ::dissertation writing::)

I am running a summer program for high school kids who want a research experience. It's not CS-specific, and it's remote, although there is already a cluster of kids in the Bay Area. If you have kids in this age range who are interested and motivated, hmu.

A student and I are doing something crazy with LLMs, and I swear we have unlocked a very creative mode of these machines. One of the best quotes so far, out of many: (context: student assignments) "You are not here to succeed. You are here to oscillate." Profound and True! 😀

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

I suspect there will come a time (in the near future) when I will be completely uncapable of working with software that only provides white background. Looking at you, Google Docs.

The summer is shaping up to be a trip…

Can anyone explain to me the phenomenon of private professional networks that seem to have popped up in LinkedIn? Every week I receive invites and messages to join this or other network, usually of women. What's the point?

@anthropic.com put out a study on educational uses of Claude by students based on half a million conversations coming from edu addresses. By their account, the results are concerning -- a lot of offloading high-order cognitive skills. I suspect they underestimated. www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...

A lecture is a live performance act, somewhere between classical theater and improv. Proper preparation is key, both for the performer and the audience.

The New York Magazine story about college students cheating their way through college using AI was heavy on anecdote, light on comprehensive data. Here's a terrific overview of what we know right now about such use (hint: it's a lot). aiandhowweteach.substack.com/p/how-are-st...

Sounding the alarm about use of unconstrained chatbots by students to University administrators feels like shouting in a sound-proof room. They are either absolutely enamored by the hype, or too busy with all the other existential disasters coming their way.

The reason why they hide this is not that they're in Africa. It's because the the whole mystic aura that's driving the AI hype will be shred to pieces when ppl understand that the "intelligence" in "AI" comes from humans creating training/testing datasets for specific intelligent behaviors.

For the longest time I've had a homework policy in one of my courses that says "I don't care how you write/get the code, as long as you understand it and are able to defend it when you meet with the TA. If you didn't write it yourself, you need to disclose the source." This has worked well so far.

Anthropic blames Claude AI for ‘embarrassing and unintentional mistake’ in legal filing

And we thought there will not be any more jobs for software developers vibecodefixers.com

RIP peer recommendation. They may still ask us to review for technical soundness but looks like funding decisions will move to this new obscure [political] committee.

so sad

At the CCC Symposium, big round of applause 👏 to the NSF leaders and PMs in the room. They need it.

This is hilarious

Holy smokes. When @mrose.ink and I started debating whether AI companies or rightsholders might be at the root of the Library of Congress/Copyright Office blowup, I did not predict that we *both* might be right. A wild report from Tina Nguyen at the Verge

Context: just a few days ago, the Copyrights Office released a technically and legally sound report www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright... It looks like these cases are now going to be decided by Executive Order.

Was this study performed and written by ChatGPT itself? Just poking at it for 20 minutes: 1) Table 3, the entry for Bašić et al. (2023a) says n=12. That paper used n=9 2) Almohesh (2024) used the "Chat GBT" (?), different learning methods, gamification, should have been excluded

Interesting choice by the cardinals