“Gaybraham twinkin”

Took Chavismo quite some time to destroy Venezuela

dudes rock

I miss machine learning as the buzzword. It promised less

Happy Pythagorean triple day (9/16/25) y'all's

I thought I wouldn‘t be one of those academics super into outreach talks, but I just put together something about understanding LLMs for laypeople and I get to talk about results that I don’t really focus on in any of my technical talks! It’s actually really cool. I made this lil takeaway slide

Doc I trust more than RFK Jr

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Really really good book (and short), give it a read

The Kant Car

Definitely thought this said “suggested by Nietzsche” at first and wondered if nobody told me they’d invented time machines

If you make an inflated claim about a historical fact and then block people who procide academic literature contradicting you, you’re an unserious clout farmer @erinbiba.bsky.social

The first rule of NYT is that NYT doesn’t make mistakes, peasant “Her emails,” what? What are you talking about?

Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok

a suitcase word "means nothing by itself, but holds a bunch of things inside that you have to unpack". when you're trying to be precise you should avoid them, or define them in detail per use. some examples:

RFK must go. Please contact your congresspeople about this. Ask them why RFK was allowed to unilaterally fire a senate appointee because she contacted senators – the appropriate oversight body – after the HHS secretary demanded that she break the law & betray Americans’ public health.

ME: hey so what's this process consuming all my CPU WINDOWS: oh that's our Microsoft Search Indexer, it's building a search index of your files ME: neat, so if I do a search on my files, will I get prompt, useful resul— WINDOWS: [punches me in the face]

Sci fi novel idea: anprim death cult that first sets about trying to make the world safe for anprims before killing everyone Kill the megafauna, eradicate the diseases, genetically engineer the “wild” plants

If you block someone for posting this innocuous observation in response to your claim that cities have a lot of crime, you may be a huge NIMBY

US media is in the fetal position, living in a delirious haze, desperately trying to pretend everything is normal and this is all boring everyday politics, even as federal troops flood into DC and the entire western world mounts emergency missions to slow Trump down

"It's not MSNBC anymore, Lemon. It's MS NOW. We bought the name off of a defunct multiple sclerosis awareness organization. It wasn't cheap, but we were able to save some money by selling Brian Williams to a Saudi prince who wanted to expand his harem."

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

I’d much rather live in a world where this isn’t true but at the moment the panopticon is alive and well

Tea, Earl Grey, hotLY CONTROVERSIAL

IT'S THEM! THE 30-50 FERAL HOGS! AS THE LEGENDS FORETOLD!

*getting dragged off by goons* Nice try but i'm not taking the bait

now more than ever, now-more-than-ever-ism is crucial

👀 Deeper look the source at Hierarchical Reasoning Model's performance on ARC-AGI: arcprize.org/blog/hrm-ana...

it finally happened www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

i think we have an excess of cautionary tales and we should stop writing them. they don't work anyway.

In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who get sandwiches thrown at them, and the DOJ attorneys, who throw the sandwiches. These are their stories. DUNN DUNN

Different intuitions perhaps. One appeals to your intuitive theory-of-mind for people and one gets you thinking about geometry. Sometimes one or the other perspective will be more useful

GORDON RAMSEY: and, one more thing, where are you honouring - in the observence, right? MILDLY EMBARRASSED COOK AT SOME SHITHOLE: ah no, generally uh, generally we are honouring in the breach GORDON RAMSEY: in the breach. fuck me.

I like crime even less when it's the president doing it

I'd expect that if this is the right way to think about it, models with math-focused post-training should have shorter reasoning traces on math problems than models without. I don't know if that's true - if not, seems pretty dissimilar to caching?

i believe that short form video is maybe one of the worst things people have ever come up with and it should be regulated at least as much as cigarettes

Sci fi stories can though! Premise: I find a box of tape giving the first quadrillion decimal digits of Chaitin’s constant. What happens next?

The level of intellectual honesty (i.e., lack thereof) from a lot of people here as regards AI is not great. You don’t have to like it, you do have to not do the AI equivalent of “wave a snowball in the Senate to show global warming is fake”

d&d game where the characters pursue the "bonelord" assuming that he is a necromancer only to discover he is a frat guy

Hon wakeup, new Bronstein textbook just dropped

I am not sure why the first week of August is Everyone Releases Big AI Stuff Week, but here we are. And, if it makes you feel better, no one is keeping up right now.

five facts + a theoretical framework explaining each of those five facts typically has less information content than five facts, and it is this parsimony which leads to, e.g., polysemanticity in neural networks

We should add a "yikes" button next to the "likes" button

(2026, dark alley) Me: hey, man, you got the stuff Dark Figure; I might, but only if you got money Me: (shoves $6 billion credits in a bag at him, the price of a hot dog) Him: (slips me a thumb drive with the real unemployment data)

Persona Vectors brb 👀👀👀👀👀👀 Anthropic just dropped this paper. They can steer models quite effectively, and even detect training data that elicits a certain (e.g. evil) persona arxiv.org/abs/2507.21509

When asked about the radioactive insects, the masked and costumed man seen swinging between buildings in Manhattan earlier today refused to comment