Panika ap atsevišķiem ielidojušajiem droniem ir saprotama, tomēr tas ir klasisks pieejamības heiristikas gadījums jeb "bailēm lielas acis". Nav pamata pieprasīt notriekt jebkuru klaiņojošu dronu, kas nerada draudus. Pat ja tas ir militārs. ir.lv/rubrika/vied...

My first Substack post asks a question that has followed me since I started thinking within an evolutionary framework: how do ultimate motivations connect to the everyday things we choose to do? open.substack.com/pub/edgardub...

Skatoties, cik depresīvas ir no krievu valodas tulkotās anekdotes jaunākajā "Ir" numurā, Krievijā šobrīd patiešām ir nobriedusi krīze.

Aktuāla problēma: MI rīki personāla atlasē. Kā citēts rakstā, pašlaik saskatu būtiskas problēmas, kuru dēļ to lietošanu nevaru rekomendēt. Arī dokumentu analīzē, zinot, cik bieži MI izdara nekorektus secinājumus. Apmācībās - jā, tur cita lieta. lvportals.lv/norises/3855...

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

Politiķiem ir grūti izkāpt no skatījuma caur pierasto prizmu. Taču šobrīd nevajadzētu iet pa priekšu ar "ASV/NATO ir mūsu vienīgā iespēja un cerība". Pirmkārt, ir reāla iespēja, ka NATO var kļūt par pagātni. Otrkārt, apgalvojums vienkārši nav pareizs. Jākoncentrējas uz reģionālajiem partneriem.

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/conspi... #smbc

By the beginning of the Holocene, dogs already displayed extensive variation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Genomics of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder www.nature.com/articles/s41... - comprehensive new review from Michael Owen and colleagues

Pārdomas. Folkloristu viedoklis, ka ķekatas ir pieļaujamas no Mārtiņiem, līdzinās situācijai, kurā valodnieki uzstātu, ka motocikls ir jādēvē par šķērsduceli, bet dators nav jālieto nemaz. Viena lieta ir zināt tradīcijas, cita - saprast, kā tās ir pielāgojamas mūsdienu apstākļiem.

"feminist studies have increasingly prioritized ideological narratives over empirical inquiry... rather than serving as a neutral academic discipline, feminist studies now functions predominantly as an advocacy platform – one better suited to political settings"

Viena no nelāgākajām lietām, kas var notikt ar sabiedrību - ja protestu laikā tā sāk pulcēties ap apšaubāmām personām ar apšaubāmiem sakariem un uzskatiem.

“To leave our students to their own devices—which is to say, to the devices of #AI companies—is to deprive them of indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought.” #HigherEducation #academia www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Briti vēlas mainīt vēlēšanu sistēmu - uz tādu, kāda ir Latvijā.

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

This piece highlights how discussions about the genetic underpinnings of complex social traits have barely moved on in 30 years: "the conversation remains chock-full of bad assumptions, thin foundations, and dangerous social and political implications" undark.org/2025/10/16/o...

"gender stereotypes cannot satisfactorily account for the Gender‐Equality Paradox"

Fun write up of Imagination/perception work from @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social and others: www.scientificamerican.com/article/newf... I was just live on Canadian Breakfast radio chatting about it. Bad pun, but this work really has captured the public imagination!

🚨 first time ever full brain-wide map of the activity of single neurons during decision-making. 600k+ neurons covering 279 brain areas, which together represent 95% of the mouse brain volume! Exciting times ahead! 🐭🧠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spot on!

An unfathomable humanitarian crisis is unfolding in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher. RSF forces are refusing to allow in food The BBC has some of the only video www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Vai es tiešām šorīt Latvijas radio dzirdēju ziņu sižetu, kurā bez komentāriem tika atreferēts "Krievijas gubernatoru" teiktais par to, ka ukraiņu droni nogalinātajuši tik un tik cilvēkus? Man trūkst vārdu, lai šo pieklājīgi komentētu.

My quote of the day Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead

Crisis in science has previously turned out to be useful. The end of the Byzantine Empire and the exodus of scholars led to the Renaissance; the exodus from Nazi Germany led to a significant boost of science in America. It can be a personal and national tragedy, but for science, shakeups are useful.

Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:

Vēl viens, mazāk zināms dzimstību ierobežojošs faktors: parastā mašīnā ērti pārvadāt var 2 bērnus, ne vairāk. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Researchers in Estonia created a logic game that requires creating a mental model of a haunted house. It's not easy! Only 31% of humans can solve it. But that's way better than generative AI models. The game is fun, try it via the link below. Whatever we mean by reasoning, this is reasoning.

Smieklīgi lasīt šādas ziņas - par 500 palielināt karavīru skaitu esot reāli, līdz 38000 tikai vairāku gadu periodā. Protams, ka 500 ir smieklīgi, bet 38000 ir reāli, un ne tik vien. Pajautājiet ukraiņiem. Bet Aizsardzības ministrijai ir jāpadomā par savu komunikāciju. www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas...

Mēdzu kritizēt, bet šoreiz uzslavēšu - izsvērts raksts, aplūko dažādas pozīcijas, nemēģina iet pa priekšu ar vienīgo pareizo viedokli - savējo. www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas...

The belief that artificial consciousness is coming crucially depends on the assumption that consciousness is a computation. In this new paper, we'll try to convince you that consciousness cannot be a computation w Albert Gidon and M.Larkum www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu... #neuroAI #consci

You might miss the gorilla, but your brain didn’t. New research shows that people who say they didn’t see something during inattentional blindness tests can still guess its color, shape, or location.

While AI chatbots may be beneficial as a therapy replacement with acute mental issues, they can seriously harm mental health in longer term. They are not a replacement for therapy!

Russia has a pattern: attacking Ukrainian civilians on Christian holidays. Easter. Christmas. Palm Sunday. It’s not a coincidence. 🧵 1/3 ⬇️

Es vienkārši nemāku atrast vai LSM mājaslapā par šo tēmu ir kapa klusums? Gribēju pārliecināties, vai LSM.ru tā ir pienācīgi pieminēta, bet neredzu ziņu ne tur, ne pat pamata plūsmā.

"It’s the murder pathway of domestication"

Bluesky takes the throne as the go-to platform for researchers. Academics are abandoning Elon Musk’s Twitter in droves, flocking to Bluesky to share their work and build real networks, as data confirms the exodus. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/xs-domi...

Dzimumu kvotas ir briesmīga ideja dažādu iemeslu dēļ. Rakstā ir uzskaitīti daži no tiem. Manuprāt, vēl svarīgāks ir fakts, ka vīriešu un sieviešu VĒLME pēc dažādiem amatiem un nodarbošanās tipiem atšķiras*. www.delfi.lv/898102/versi... *Vajag ekspertu, kas to izklāstītu sabiedrībai saprotami.

“People are getting worse at reading, math, and reasoning, and struggling more to concentrate and learn things... Burn-Murdoch attributes the decline to the fact that people are reading less and spending more time passively consuming social media.” www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/a-new-cure...

Steven Pinker on postmodernism. www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/top-20-ste...

My fellow people, Trump is a salesman. Whatever he does, don't believe in what he is saying, he is inventing facts on the go. What you can believe though, is what he is selling. He wanted to sell ending military support to Ukraine, hence the spectacle of the past days.

Te nu esam. Tātad ātru risinājumu trampismam varam negaidīt. Varbūt drīzāk kaut ko līdzīgu Orbāna režīmam Ungārijā vai Ušakova periodam Rīgā. Un tas vēl nav sliktākais variants. www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas...

Ar Vāciju nav (nebūs) labi.

If this strategy turns out to be successful against Ukraine, who believes that Trump and Putin will stop there?

While absolutely agreeing to the point, I also feel a need to add that the duty of the science is to stay away from political stances itself. To be able to differentiate a solid science from opinion based theorizing that avoids criticism. And distance itself from the latter.

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

Can damage to a specific brain circuit cause psychosis? New paper out today by @andrewpines.bsky.social @shansiddiqi.bsky.social says Yes! Hub of the circuit is in the hippocampus - great alignment with NMDA encephalitis. @braincircuits.bsky.social

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

Tensions escalated when Musk’s aides were discovered at OPM accessing systems, including a vast database known as the Enterprise Human Resources Integration (EHRI), which contains sensitive information such as

Wow! Exemplary research by Dorsa Amir ‪@dorsaamir.bsky.social and Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social, highly relevant to the study of cognition and culture