Jeffrey Bowers
@jeffreybowers.bsky.social
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Good question! Here are some places to start: jonathancook.substack.com
chrishedges.substack.com
substack.com/@caitlinjohn...
substack.com/@arnaudbertr...
substack.com/@mate
chrishedges.substack.com
substack.com/@caitlinjohn...
substack.com/@arnaudbertr...
substack.com/@mate
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jonathancook.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Good question! Here are some places to start: jonathancook.substack.com
chrishedges.substack.com
substack.com/@caitlinjohn...
substack.com/@arnaudbertr...
substack.com/@mate
chrishedges.substack.com
substack.com/@caitlinjohn...
substack.com/@arnaudbertr...
substack.com/@mate
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Ah yes, such good “theories” of language 🙃🙃🙃
October 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Ah yes, such good “theories” of language 🙃🙃🙃
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Unfortunate update: Link reached out to BlueSky and got email back now on reason.
His appeal is denied. He will remain permanently banned on BlueSky’s side.
Here are the screenshots he just sent me as of 8:22 AM EST(my time)
His appeal is denied. He will remain permanently banned on BlueSky’s side.
Here are the screenshots he just sent me as of 8:22 AM EST(my time)
October 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Unfortunate update: Link reached out to BlueSky and got email back now on reason.
His appeal is denied. He will remain permanently banned on BlueSky’s side.
Here are the screenshots he just sent me as of 8:22 AM EST(my time)
His appeal is denied. He will remain permanently banned on BlueSky’s side.
Here are the screenshots he just sent me as of 8:22 AM EST(my time)
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Yes, the Home Secretary really did just say we need to hold off protesting against the British government's continuing complicity in Israel's daily slaughter in Gaza out of respect for Jews grieving over the Manchester synagogue attack.
October 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Yes, the Home Secretary really did just say we need to hold off protesting against the British government's continuing complicity in Israel's daily slaughter in Gaza out of respect for Jews grieving over the Manchester synagogue attack.
Check out following article where I challenge some of the conclusions of McCoy and Griffiths (2025) regarding language learning in language models (LMs) doi.org/10.31234/osf...
OSF
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September 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Check out following article where I challenge some of the conclusions of McCoy and Griffiths (2025) regarding language learning in language models (LMs) doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Q: Why did the LLM cross the road?
A: We're not sure, but it achieved 94.7% on CHIKENBench-Large
A: We're not sure, but it achieved 94.7% on CHIKENBench-Large
September 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Q: Why did the LLM cross the road?
A: We're not sure, but it achieved 94.7% on CHIKENBench-Large
A: We're not sure, but it achieved 94.7% on CHIKENBench-Large
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Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
September 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
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WhatsApp wouldn’t let me write the word genocide in a text this week. It kept changing it to ‘Genie I’ (?) I slowed right down and realised the word isn’t in its dictionary. I found that weird.
September 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
WhatsApp wouldn’t let me write the word genocide in a text this week. It kept changing it to ‘Genie I’ (?) I slowed right down and realised the word isn’t in its dictionary. I found that weird.
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You assert the data support distributed processing. I show through simulations that the data are consistent with grandmother cells (and that we should not rule out localist models based on current data). I guess we can leave it there.
September 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
You assert the data support distributed processing. I show through simulations that the data are consistent with grandmother cells (and that we should not rule out localist models based on current data). I guess we can leave it there.
The following article is now in press at Psychological Review. Interested to hear what people think! "The successes and failures of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) highlight the importance of innate linguistic priors for human language acquisition".
osf.io/preprints/ps... via
osf.io/preprints/ps... via
OSF
osf.io
September 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The following article is now in press at Psychological Review. Interested to hear what people think! "The successes and failures of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) highlight the importance of innate linguistic priors for human language acquisition".
osf.io/preprints/ps... via
osf.io/preprints/ps... via
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What is it about human brains that allows us to reason symbolically whereas most other animals cannot? And why does AI sometimes struggle to generate images of objects in statistically unusual spatial relationships to each other, when people wouldn’t struggle to imagine such relationships?
August 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
What is it about human brains that allows us to reason symbolically whereas most other animals cannot? And why does AI sometimes struggle to generate images of objects in statistically unusual spatial relationships to each other, when people wouldn’t struggle to imagine such relationships?
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this is so wonderfully weird, give her all the golds 🥇
August 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
this is so wonderfully weird, give her all the golds 🥇
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It seems like a lot of systematic-reviews/meta-analyses are analogous to money laundering. You run a load of studies that nobody actually reads, many of them "dirty", through some process. On the other end you get "clean" results that the ignorant or deceitful can easily communicate as "evidence".
July 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
It seems like a lot of systematic-reviews/meta-analyses are analogous to money laundering. You run a load of studies that nobody actually reads, many of them "dirty", through some process. On the other end you get "clean" results that the ignorant or deceitful can easily communicate as "evidence".
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Here is a recent PsyArxiv paper where we show that Centaur does not handily outperform domain specific cognitive models because Centaur is not tested in the right way. Its predictions are driven by processes unrelated to human performance. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
July 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Here is a recent PsyArxiv paper where we show that Centaur does not handily outperform domain specific cognitive models because Centaur is not tested in the right way. Its predictions are driven by processes unrelated to human performance. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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This highlights the problems with distributed representations (DR) learned by SGD, and an alternative, that may support the things that DR cannot, such as OOD generalisation, and selective deficits. Stanley is the most important thinker in the field www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKUK...
The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis
YouTube video by Machine Learning Street Talk
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July 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
This highlights the problems with distributed representations (DR) learned by SGD, and an alternative, that may support the things that DR cannot, such as OOD generalisation, and selective deficits. Stanley is the most important thinker in the field www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKUK...
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If you can watch this and then think ‘I won’t share because that might be putting myself on the line’ then you know what you’d have done if you were in Germany when your Jewish neighbours were being loaded into to cattle trucks. Nothing. Please share - it’s our ‘I’m Spartacus moments
Today, the UK government intends to ban the non-violent protesters Palestine Action as a "terrorist" group, exposing anyone supporting them to terrorism charges. In 2 days, 380,000 people have watched this video on YT alone.
You're going to need a bigger prison.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkV...
You're going to need a bigger prison.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkV...
Sharing This Video Could Get You 14 Years in Prison
YouTube video by Double Down News
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June 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
If you can watch this and then think ‘I won’t share because that might be putting myself on the line’ then you know what you’d have done if you were in Germany when your Jewish neighbours were being loaded into to cattle trucks. Nothing. Please share - it’s our ‘I’m Spartacus moments
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The Centauromachy begins
Binz et al. (in press, Nature) developed an LLM called Centaur that better predicts human responses in 159 of 160 behavioural experiments compared to existing cognitive models. See: arxiv.org/abs/2410.20268
June 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The Centauromachy begins
Binz et al. (in press, Nature) developed an LLM called Centaur that better predicts human responses in 159 of 160 behavioural experiments compared to existing cognitive models. See: arxiv.org/abs/2410.20268
June 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Binz et al. (in press, Nature) developed an LLM called Centaur that better predicts human responses in 159 of 160 behavioural experiments compared to existing cognitive models. See: arxiv.org/abs/2410.20268
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Ever wondered what 123 self-citations look like? Scroll no further: Hasan et al. 2021 (DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128668) in 'Chemosphere' show us how it's done! pubpeer.com/publications...
The reference section looks stunning! Senior author Md Rabiul Awual should be proud!
The reference section looks stunning! Senior author Md Rabiul Awual should be proud!
June 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Ever wondered what 123 self-citations look like? Scroll no further: Hasan et al. 2021 (DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128668) in 'Chemosphere' show us how it's done! pubpeer.com/publications...
The reference section looks stunning! Senior author Md Rabiul Awual should be proud!
The reference section looks stunning! Senior author Md Rabiul Awual should be proud!
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Everyone involved in trying to pass off that ChatGPT-extruded disinformation manifesto as a scientific report should be, at the very least, barred from public office for life. The MAHA report is dangerous criminal misconduct and an offence to the process of science.
This is what happens when you put internet conspiracy theorists in charge of major government departments.
The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
www.notus.org
May 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Everyone involved in trying to pass off that ChatGPT-extruded disinformation manifesto as a scientific report should be, at the very least, barred from public office for life. The MAHA report is dangerous criminal misconduct and an offence to the process of science.
What an amazing claim by a very credible source. It is strange I cant seem to find more on this though. youtu.be/QZX1mRrqpPM
Jeffrey Sachs Claims Coronavirus Created by DARPA Involving University of North Carolina
YouTube video by Financial Wise
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May 30, 2025 at 8:04 AM
What an amazing claim by a very credible source. It is strange I cant seem to find more on this though. youtu.be/QZX1mRrqpPM
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And now Labour are actually getting outflanked by Reform ON THE LEFT. (Reform saying they'll scrap child benefit cap and reinstate winter fuel allowance.) Time for Labour to get rid of Starmer and dear god don't replace him with Wes Streeting (of course they will, sigh).
Assuming this is correct it seems to show pretty clearly that Labour's strategy of trying to appeal to Reform voters couldn't be more wrong. What they need to do is offer something positive so that people can vote a reason to vote for them. 'Touch choices' is neither true nor inspiring.
Good visual showing the churn of UK voters since last year’s General Election.
May 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
And now Labour are actually getting outflanked by Reform ON THE LEFT. (Reform saying they'll scrap child benefit cap and reinstate winter fuel allowance.) Time for Labour to get rid of Starmer and dear god don't replace him with Wes Streeting (of course they will, sigh).
Check out our paper on the limitations of vision reasoning in a range of DNNs. Paper entitled: "Visual Reasoning in Object-Centric Deep Neural Networks: A Comparative Cognition Approach" now out in Neural Networks. authors.elsevier.com/c/1l8P93BBjKvX…
https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1l8P93BBjKvX…
May 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Check out our paper on the limitations of vision reasoning in a range of DNNs. Paper entitled: "Visual Reasoning in Object-Centric Deep Neural Networks: A Comparative Cognition Approach" now out in Neural Networks. authors.elsevier.com/c/1l8P93BBjKvX…
It is worth once in a while remembering what real journalism looks like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqlv...
American Podcaster BEATEN, ARRESTED By Israel
YouTube video by Breaking Points
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May 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It is worth once in a while remembering what real journalism looks like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqlv...