This is an incredible image of comet 3I/ATLAS, taken by Satoru Murata ICQ Comet Observations group on 16 November 2025 from western New Mexico. Structure within the major dust tail from the comet is clearly visible, together with two smaller jets trailing the nucleus and maybe even an anti-tail.

The way python and R foster inclusion directly contributes to their success: joyful places to exist, a steady flow of new maintainers, and a delightful collection of niche tools empowered by wildly different expertise coming together Watch the new python documentary for more on PSF’s work here

A speech about what drives me, how science and open source are bitter victories, unable to make improve the world if society does not embrace them for the better: gael-varoquaux.info/personnal/a-...

For those who want to know about how I chop vegetables between meetings, or grind my coffee, have I got the article for you www.businessinsider.com/day-in-the-l...

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

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Look at that. And New Mexico is not a rich state. Just one that figured out some priorities.

Meta trained a special “aggregator” model that learns how to combine and reconcile different answers into a more accurate final one, instead of relying on simple majority voting or reward model ranking on multiple model answers.

Simpering cowards one and all. This is almost unbearable to watch.

Hallucinations are accidentally created by evals They come from post-training. Reasoning models hallucinate more because we do more rigorous post-training on them The problem is we reward them for being confident cdn.openai.com/pdf/d04913be...

Plugging something into the tiny computer that you keep in your pocket. That one that has all your passwords, information, and location.. and giving control away to a random ai and company you know nothing about…

A nasal spray reduced the risk of Covid infections in a double blind, placebo controlled randomized trial jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Exactly. Keep the pressure on. Trump will not stick with anyone he thinks may be dragging him further down. That was the beginning of his distancing from Elon. Keep the pressure on. RFK must go.

It's fine if this is all seven overvalued companies in an AI trenchcoat, right? Right?

"When in doubt, don't ask ChatGPT for health advice."

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

I have some academic lady friends I’ve known for 20+yrs. This industry can be so cold, competitive, and selfish, but these women are so kind, generous, steadfast, and fun. We’ll sometimes get busy and go months without chatting, then reconnect as if no time has passed. I’m so grateful for them…

"Capitalism is temporary. Dykes are forever" Seen in NYC

Anyway just saying

What--and I say this with my chest--the hell are we doing here people

Maybe if your country is the wealthiest in the world but the richest tenth of the country have two thirds of the wealth and the bottom 50% only have 2.5% of the wealth, you don't have the wealthiest country in the world, you just have feudalism.

ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It 🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-hall...

In a stunning moment of self-delusion, the Wall Street Journal headline writers admitted that they don't know how LLM chatbots work.

It is *bananas* that they would give vibe coding tools (and _Replit_, of all platforms 🤣) production deploy access! With no backups! We gave better backup tools to teenagers on Glitch remixing apps a decade ago.

This thread is incredible.

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it. (1/2)

If you grew up around or spend a significant amount of time talking to people who participate in cultic, occult, or conspiratorial cultural milieus, it’s very easy to understand the pathways by which a person talking to a chatbot could end up in exactly the same type of disordered cognitive state

universal healthcare & universal basic income are literally the main 2 things that should have come out of the covid lockdown era— instead we just got twice as many nazis

This is my most confrontational post of the day: please watch Armond’s video & think on it. It isn’t at all progressive or leftist to spread disabling disease in an ongoing pandemic. There are more Armonds than you know, & folks who don’t mask are making more each day bc most spread is asymptomatic

If you're at @icmlconf.bsky.social this week, come check out our poster on "Position: Evaluating Generative AI Systems Is a Social Science Measurement Challenge" presented by the amazing @afedercooper.bsky.social from 11:30am--1:30pm PDT on Weds!!! icml.cc/virtual/2025...

This was such a wonderful discussion, if anyone has any ideas for helping build curiosity in the classroom please share!!

If you thought men writing women was bad, get ready for men prompting women

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

GenAI suggesting 'rm' is a big red flag for me. I'll always remember my @carpentries.carpentries.org instructor saying something like "rm exists, but there is no recycle bin, so probably best not to use rm". Pair programming with GenAI requires some ability to understand the output, the red flags.

As fog blanketed Seattle, @knibbs.bsky.social's waited to meet @jay.bsky.team—CEO of Bluesky. Fittingly, just before she arrived, the skies cleared. It felt poetic. Her name, Lantian, means “blue sky” in Mandarin. And her mission? Clear the smog from social media.

Your choice in the Trump administration: flight crashes or deadly illness that has been eradicated.

“They seem to be on a quest to totally destroy the infrastructure of the nation's public health system.”

NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.

@womeninaiethics.bsky.social is delighted to announce the AI Ethics Book Festival this Friday from 11am to 6pm ET. 🎙️Join us to hear from pioneers and scholars whose work reflects a deep commitment to diverse and vibrant technological futures for everyone! 👇Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

In order to better align with our mission to support all underrepresented genders in the R community, R-Ladies is re-branding to R-Ladies+! 💜 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ⚧️ ✨ R-Ladies is rebranding to R-Ladies+ rladies.org/news/rebrand... ✨ Rebranding Call For Proposal rladies.org/news/rebrand... #rstats #rladies

We put up a proposal that lays out a way for users to declare whether/how they want their data to be used by things like generative AI or public archives, check it out on github: github.com/bluesky-soci...

Scientists that partner with the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute received new instructions that eliminate mention of “AI safety,” “responsible AI,” and “AI fairness” in the skills it expects of members @willknight.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...

It's amazing how far back ideas go. This paper from 1984 by @f2harrell.bsky.social discusses the need for train/test data splits and the importance of assessing model calibration and discrimination and instability in variable selection methods. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...