Here ya go. The representative theme song for the day and age.

Should NOT have direct access to production + backups, or at LEAST permissions. #Claude #genAI #Anthropic #LLMs #vibecoding

So uh.... we 3 Body Problem now? "Mysterious deaths, disappearances of 10+ elite US scientists fuel a storm of UFO-related conspiracy theories in media reports; White House breaks silence and launches joint investigation with FBI" #scientists #missing #UFO #UAP #FBI

Wonder what's the latest gossip in the Mariana Trench these days? #whales #phonology #language #linguistics #research

Looking grand. Those lanterns were swinging! lol #drones #China #BookofWorldRecords

Good effort. "An economics student from the University of the Philippines Diliman released an interactive map that visualizes education data across more than 42,000 barangays using the 2020 Census of Population and Housing from the Philippine Statistics Authority." — Radar.ph #education #Philippines

Domesticated dogs were already widely distributed in western Eurasia at least 14,200 years ago, according to two studies published in Nature. The papers report the oldest known dog genomes to date. go.nature.com/4lWrxBe go.nature.com/3NPY9zE 🧬 🏺 🧪

lmao #AI #genAI

Turns out there may be invariance in the aesthetically pleasing. Hmm. #music #science

Creating sophisticated analytical & generative processes from Bakhtin's #Chronotopes is just... quite fun :) Also, for anyone interested: "Chronotopic Cartographies: An Emerging (Processual) Method for Literary Mapping" #Bakhtin #LancasterUniversity

That's interesting but also the "bouba-kiki effect" sounds kinky. --> Naive baby chicks’ spontaneous bouba/kiki sound–shape matching indicates that sound–shape crossmodal mapping is at least partly experience-independent and predisposed rather than purely learned.

Gentner beat me to it... by around 5 years before I was even born lol * highlights not mine XD

Hmm. #Gemini 3.0 is outperforming #GPT5.1 for me so far. Interesting.

So... lost in the semantic sauce recently. PSA: an untold retelling ALWAYS exists (ad infinitum), but it's IMPOSSIBLE that there's a REtelling of the UNtold. Also, 1st Oxford def. of "untold" is better suited for "untolled." "unspoken" =/= "untold" I actually don't like the word "untold." lol

"Where the AI really struggles right now is knowing where it's made a wrong turn." The discussion on being superficially flawless and AI generations being "odorless" in terms of #codesmell or "mathematical smell" is right on the money. #TerenceTao #GenerativeAI

While not yet peer reviewed (& heavily reliant on self-reports); doesn't seem surprising that "affective" power-users on voice mode would be more emotionally invested & attached. The interface is conversation, after all. Hmm. #GenAI #OpenAI #AI #ChatGPT

Interesting precedent.

Hmm. I sense a coming market for genetically altered pets. As though selective breeding wasn't enough for us to fuck animals up. To be fair they're unbelievably cute. Source: www.iflscience.com/colossal-cre...

This is confirmed; and also why it's getting review-bombed on Steam. lol It kinda feels like the Old School R-Type and Final Fight II games on SNES. You gotta just be slightly masochistic and driven to a fault. lmao #DeltaForce #BlackHawkDown #Gaming

Science illusion: science & scientific language "as a brand, not necessarily in substance." Goodness illusion: "the illusion of goodness doesn’t represent what the science says." Opinion illusion: "opinions commodified and marketized and weaponized." bigthink.com/thinking/sci...

More than 150 bombs from World War II have been found under a children’s playground in northern England, with concerns that more may remain, officials said.

"The period between the early 1940s and the mid-1960s is called “the Golden Age of Antibiotics” ... (when) almost two-thirds of all antibiotic drug classes were developed... Most are still used today." #Antibiotics Source: ourworldindata.org/golden-age-a...

#Upskill to be able to surface genuine takeaways from the noise and synthesize relevant and coherent insights from contemporary silos.

Seems pretty rad, really. More of these directions would be nice.

Hmmmmmm

Dropped by Booksale and found a couple of gems lol

“It remains an open question whether we need foundation models … that can engage in human-like conversations and write Shakespearean sonnets if what we want is reliable information useful for educators, healthcare professionals, electricians, plumbers and other craft workers.”

Love it. Would be awesome to see actual pine cones and these do the same thing at the same time of day and weather conditions.

This is gonna be great. I mean ChatGPT already speaks better than him so it's actually an improvement.

Well look who's back. Every Frame a Painting. lol #FilmMaking

Mofo's got jokes. #Gemini #LLMs #GenAI

Very nice writeup on #GestaltPrinciples in #design, particular #UI #UXdesign #UIdesign medium.muz.li/gestalt-prin...

More system 1, less system 2 — with all the good, bad, & ugly that implies. Younger folk are, as always, more affected. If AI tools are causing you to offload instead of redirect #CognitiveLoad, you're happily walking into a fluency trap. #CognitiveOffloading #AI #CriticalThinking

💉 Medical AI: Poisoned Data Risk A new study highlights how deliberate misinformation can compromise medical AI models. Even 0.001% poisoned data increases harmful outputs. Proposed solutions include real-time validation with knowledge graphs. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #AI 🧪

#Hallucination is one thing, but incorrect #retrieval multiplies the possible sources of where-the-fuckup-is. If it's not an #embedding, then it's a simple scrape. Is THAT the issue? I've seen screenshots of crisp text fail in OCR but if it's the same resource in PDF with strings, there's no issue.

So who makes shit up less? Google's Gemini Flash 2.0 ties with Chinese LLM Zhipu AI GLM-4 9B (chat), reportedly according to Vectara. #GenAI #GenerativeAI #Gemini #LLM #Hallucination #OpenAI

One one hand, I probably would have tried too, if I could. On the other........ No see, both my hands are free because it's an AI-powered turret. That's the point. #OpenAI #AI #GunTurret?

My mood these past few days: The Moment by Saint Motel All This Time by Skindred Sleep Now in the Fire by Rage Against the Machine lol #SaintMotel #Skindred #RageAgainsttheMachine

Hunch.tools is where it's at. #UI for #GenerativeAI pipelines, #AgenticOrchestration, even just single use cases (e.g. clean scraping or QC-ing / QA-ing repeatedly). Made a "re-voicer" that restyles an artic from a URL into Pirate, Valley Girl, or I'm 14 and this is deep style. lol

That title is wild lmao [Shown in mice] Unborn babies use paternal genes to influence their mothers' bodies, demanding more nutrients via the placenta. It's a fascinating "nutritional tug of war" between maternal health and fetal growth. #Genetics #Pregnancy #Science #Parenting #Health

Whoever was that ancestor who looked at #pineapples and thought, "you know what, I'd eat that" — and THEN continued to eat it even as the flesh-melting enzyme #bromelain in the damn thing hurt their tongue — they're a real pioneering #madlad. I aspire to that level of "dude, WTF?"

Luckily, I draw like shit, so I got a leg up on this. lol The #VisualMetaphors point is salient for me now where category and network theories' semantic charts and graphs are top of my mind — that move from mathematical, #AnalyticalThinking to #GeometricIntuition (visually) is powerful.

"The publication had been knocked off its feet by an “unprecedented increase” in submitted commentaries that appeared to be “driven by” advances in artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT" #LLM #ChatGPT #GenerativeAI #Academia #ArtificialIntelligence

My word of the day: Growlery. May we start our new years by successfully architecting our internal growleries — mindful, safe spaces for grumbling at the world and empathizing with ourselves. Heavens know I fucken need it. lol #Growlery #SafeSpaces #Mindfulness #Psychology

Happy New Year, world. :D

Video mentioned importance of #language, but I'd like to emphasize it's more the importance of a robust #KnowledgeRepresentation (KR)... which language is, but in this case it just coincidentally worked out that way (well, language and math — #symbols / #semiosis).

Quick and dirty, AND informative. Kewl. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eMA...

🏃‍♀️💡 Exercise & Weight Loss: Key Insights A review of 116 trials found 150+ minutes of moderate aerobic exercise weekly (like cycling or running) helps people with BMI over 25 lose 5% of body weight in 3 months. Less than 30 min/day has minor effects. 🔗 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #SciComm 🧪

Good stuff. Now to apply my grad student buddy's "conceptual lifting"... I'll do my own version. lol #TeamOnboarding #Onboarding #Figjam #Template

PSA: #electrons are moody hyper-introverts #Physics #PhysicsMemes