Christopher Berry
@cjpberry.bsky.social
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If you just woke up in ET, there’s 80 minutes, 12 flash talks coming up, then keynote, then the last sessions with industry. It’s better than your standing Thursday AM meetings.
causalscience.org
#CDSM25
causalscience.org
#CDSM25
Causal Data Science Meeting - Home
Fostering a dialogue between industry and academia on causal data science.
causalscience.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
If you just woke up in ET, there’s 80 minutes, 12 flash talks coming up, then keynote, then the last sessions with industry. It’s better than your standing Thursday AM meetings.
causalscience.org
#CDSM25
causalscience.org
#CDSM25
Waking up to Marco Barbero Mot and Danilo Messinese’s preso on unsupervised discovery of causal mechanisms. Pleasantly surprised that they used clickstream data! #cdsm25
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Waking up to Marco Barbero Mot and Danilo Messinese’s preso on unsupervised discovery of causal mechanisms. Pleasantly surprised that they used clickstream data! #cdsm25
Day 2 of #CDSM25 kicks off at early ET / Centre Of The Universe Time. I’m aiming to be awake by “Unsupervised Discovery of Causal Mechanisms for Management Research” Marco Barbero Mot (Vanderbilt University) , Danilo Messinese (IE University)
www.causalscience.org
www.causalscience.org
Causal Data Science Meeting - Home
Fostering a dialogue between industry and academia on causal data science.
www.causalscience.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Day 2 of #CDSM25 kicks off at early ET / Centre Of The Universe Time. I’m aiming to be awake by “Unsupervised Discovery of Causal Mechanisms for Management Research” Marco Barbero Mot (Vanderbilt University) , Danilo Messinese (IE University)
www.causalscience.org
www.causalscience.org
Doing night three of The Hinton Lectures (TM). Likely with a lot of the usual #AIGS suspects.
After having been spoiled all day by the best intermission music in science (feat @p-hunermund.com at #CDSM25), I’m somewhat assaulted by the light Canadian hotel jazz for the pre-show.
After having been spoiled all day by the best intermission music in science (feat @p-hunermund.com at #CDSM25), I’m somewhat assaulted by the light Canadian hotel jazz for the pre-show.
November 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Doing night three of The Hinton Lectures (TM). Likely with a lot of the usual #AIGS suspects.
After having been spoiled all day by the best intermission music in science (feat @p-hunermund.com at #CDSM25), I’m somewhat assaulted by the light Canadian hotel jazz for the pre-show.
After having been spoiled all day by the best intermission music in science (feat @p-hunermund.com at #CDSM25), I’m somewhat assaulted by the light Canadian hotel jazz for the pre-show.
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An analysis of 47,000 publicly shared ChatGPT conversations: ~10% related to emotional or mental health, ChatGPT exhibits a "default to yes" behavior, and more (Washington Post)
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November 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
An analysis of 47,000 publicly shared ChatGPT conversations: ~10% related to emotional or mental health, ChatGPT exhibits a "default to yes" behavior, and more (Washington Post)
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“Based on spatial distribution of ATP and explored areas, Physarum can perform up to ~10^36 logical operations in 24 hours, scaling linearly in the non-equilibrium steady state.“
New preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.19976
"Morphological computational capacity of Physarum polycephalum"
Suyash Bajpai, Aviva Lucas-DeMott, @msahsorin.bsky.social, Philip Kurian
arxiv.org/abs/2510.19976
"Morphological computational capacity of Physarum polycephalum"
Suyash Bajpai, Aviva Lucas-DeMott, @msahsorin.bsky.social, Philip Kurian
Morphological computational capacity of Physarum polycephalum
While computational capacity limits of the universe and carbon-based life have been estimated, a stricter bound for aneural organisms has not been established. Physarum polycephalum, a unicellular, mu...
arxiv.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 AM
“Based on spatial distribution of ATP and explored areas, Physarum can perform up to ~10^36 logical operations in 24 hours, scaling linearly in the non-equilibrium steady state.“
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New preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.19976
"Morphological computational capacity of Physarum polycephalum"
Suyash Bajpai, Aviva Lucas-DeMott, @msahsorin.bsky.social, Philip Kurian
arxiv.org/abs/2510.19976
"Morphological computational capacity of Physarum polycephalum"
Suyash Bajpai, Aviva Lucas-DeMott, @msahsorin.bsky.social, Philip Kurian
Morphological computational capacity of Physarum polycephalum
While computational capacity limits of the universe and carbon-based life have been estimated, a stricter bound for aneural organisms has not been established. Physarum polycephalum, a unicellular, mu...
arxiv.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
New preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2510.19976
"Morphological computational capacity of Physarum polycephalum"
Suyash Bajpai, Aviva Lucas-DeMott, @msahsorin.bsky.social, Philip Kurian
arxiv.org/abs/2510.19976
"Morphological computational capacity of Physarum polycephalum"
Suyash Bajpai, Aviva Lucas-DeMott, @msahsorin.bsky.social, Philip Kurian
What a read Tanya Talaga’s “The Knowing” is. There’s a passage about identity and persistence that hit.
I don’t know how I’d recommend the sequence. Probably do The North-West Is Our Mother first, as it’ll make the Métis references in Northern Ontario gel a bit maybe.
I don’t know how I’d recommend the sequence. Probably do The North-West Is Our Mother first, as it’ll make the Métis references in Northern Ontario gel a bit maybe.
November 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
What a read Tanya Talaga’s “The Knowing” is. There’s a passage about identity and persistence that hit.
I don’t know how I’d recommend the sequence. Probably do The North-West Is Our Mother first, as it’ll make the Métis references in Northern Ontario gel a bit maybe.
I don’t know how I’d recommend the sequence. Probably do The North-West Is Our Mother first, as it’ll make the Métis references in Northern Ontario gel a bit maybe.
Down at the centre of the Universe for The Hinton Lectures.
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Down at the centre of the Universe for The Hinton Lectures.
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To give you an update, I have to do a little background on decoding. 🧵
At the end of the forward pass, the model produces a last hidden state, which is a vector. Cosine similarity measures how parallel that vector is to all the token embeddings. Each token gets a score called a logit based on this.
At the end of the forward pass, the model produces a last hidden state, which is a vector. Cosine similarity measures how parallel that vector is to all the token embeddings. Each token gets a score called a logit based on this.
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
To give you an update, I have to do a little background on decoding. 🧵
At the end of the forward pass, the model produces a last hidden state, which is a vector. Cosine similarity measures how parallel that vector is to all the token embeddings. Each token gets a score called a logit based on this.
At the end of the forward pass, the model produces a last hidden state, which is a vector. Cosine similarity measures how parallel that vector is to all the token embeddings. Each token gets a score called a logit based on this.
Back at Shopify tonight. 10th floor. AI Tinkerers is good one, grassroots, quite a few serious builders come out.
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Back at Shopify tonight. 10th floor. AI Tinkerers is good one, grassroots, quite a few serious builders come out.
I support both public broadcasting and a system of private competition. Both the public system and private system (of tainted access journalism) has its own pros and cons. To be consistently pluralist, both need to thrive for us all to flourish.
I reckon a shared national popular culture is just as important (if not more important) than a fact based, impartial news service for liberal democracy to work.
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I support both public broadcasting and a system of private competition. Both the public system and private system (of tainted access journalism) has its own pros and cons. To be consistently pluralist, both need to thrive for us all to flourish.
Packed floor in spite of the snow today. Demo was well received in that the signal hit the intended target and I got a lot of real feedback. Appreciative for those gifts. And the disclosure of thoughtcrime.
Friends, you know who you are, thank you!
Friends, you know who you are, thank you!
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Packed floor in spite of the snow today. Demo was well received in that the signal hit the intended target and I got a lot of real feedback. Appreciative for those gifts. And the disclosure of thoughtcrime.
Friends, you know who you are, thank you!
Friends, you know who you are, thank you!
Looking forward to this one in particular: “Forests for Differences: Robust Causal Inference Beyond Parametric DiDHugo Gobato Souto (Luizalabs) and Francisco Louzada Neto (University of Sao Paolo)”
#CDSM2025
#CDSM2025
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Looking forward to this one in particular: “Forests for Differences: Robust Causal Inference Beyond Parametric DiDHugo Gobato Souto (Luizalabs) and Francisco Louzada Neto (University of Sao Paolo)”
#CDSM2025
#CDSM2025
Maybe there are 8 aubergine democratic senators? And maybe they’re capable of calculus. Maybe some of them are blundering by misestimating the cleavage and the valence of the situation?
youtu.be/qHhsc4lYamc?...
youtu.be/qHhsc4lYamc?...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Maybe there are 8 aubergine democratic senators? And maybe they’re capable of calculus. Maybe some of them are blundering by misestimating the cleavage and the valence of the situation?
youtu.be/qHhsc4lYamc?...
youtu.be/qHhsc4lYamc?...
Deep into Tanya Talaga’s “The Knowing” and it’s incredibly well written, deep. Not sure how to sequence with Jean Teillet’s “The North-West Is Our Mother” but they pair.
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Deep into Tanya Talaga’s “The Knowing” and it’s incredibly well written, deep. Not sure how to sequence with Jean Teillet’s “The North-West Is Our Mother” but they pair.
“…the MP says Conservative House leader Andrea Scheer and party whip Chris Warkentin “barged” into his office, pushed open the door — almost knocking down his assistant— and yelled at him about “how much of a snake” he was.”
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Barging into office, yelling from Conservative leadership ‘sealed the deal’ on defection: d’Entremont | CBC News
Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont says the barging into his office and yelling from Conservative Party leadership ‘sealed the deal’ on his choice to cross the floor to the Liberals earlier this week.
www.cbc.ca
November 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
“…the MP says Conservative House leader Andrea Scheer and party whip Chris Warkentin “barged” into his office, pushed open the door — almost knocking down his assistant— and yelled at him about “how much of a snake” he was.”
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Too soon for this. November 9. WTF.
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Too soon for this. November 9. WTF.
There’s an exchange in “They Thought They Were Free” that me frappe.
The German says to the American, ~ You had a free press and knew about the Japanese internment. And you did nothing. We did not have a free press, did not know, and did nothing.
The American says “A jap is a jap.”
The German says to the American, ~ You had a free press and knew about the Japanese internment. And you did nothing. We did not have a free press, did not know, and did nothing.
The American says “A jap is a jap.”
November 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
There’s an exchange in “They Thought They Were Free” that me frappe.
The German says to the American, ~ You had a free press and knew about the Japanese internment. And you did nothing. We did not have a free press, did not know, and did nothing.
The American says “A jap is a jap.”
The German says to the American, ~ You had a free press and knew about the Japanese internment. And you did nothing. We did not have a free press, did not know, and did nothing.
The American says “A jap is a jap.”
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Here is my full report at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...
Trump admin goes to SCOTUS to try and stop order that it pay full SNAP benefits this month
DOJ asks the justices for an order by 9:30 p.m. Friday — as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments, under a court order to finish Friday.
www.lawdork.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Here is my full report at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...
The casting on Death By Lightening (Netflix, 2025) hits right in my demo: Macfadyen, Gilpen, Offerman.
Fantastic writing. Now I’m curious about the book.
Fantastic writing. Now I’m curious about the book.
November 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The casting on Death By Lightening (Netflix, 2025) hits right in my demo: Macfadyen, Gilpen, Offerman.
Fantastic writing. Now I’m curious about the book.
Fantastic writing. Now I’m curious about the book.
Milton Mayer’s “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45” is a brutal read. Well written. It’s the content.
It changed my mind.
Worth a look.
It changed my mind.
Worth a look.
November 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Milton Mayer’s “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45” is a brutal read. Well written. It’s the content.
It changed my mind.
Worth a look.
It changed my mind.
Worth a look.
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Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do
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November 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM