Andrea Lathrop
@cabernet.bsky.social
Wine... Cognitive Science... Photography... tech stuff... former Aslin Lab (Master's) and Eppler Lab (with Jackie Gibson emeritus) so I'm a weird mix of Gibsonian affordances, visual statistical learning and anticipatory eye movements. Sometimes academic.
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Andrea Lathrop
@cabernet.bsky.social
· Sep 27
Here are a few more from the same series (📷 credit: myself, Post Malone sound check, New Year's Rockin' Eve, Dec 31, 2019):
This is really cool: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
(@nmwilkinson.bsky.social relevant to your interests?)
(@nmwilkinson.bsky.social relevant to your interests?)
Researchers develop air-powered robots that move in sync without
A team led by the University of Oxford has developed a new class of soft robots that operate without electronics, motors, or computers - using only air pressure. The study, published in Advanced
www.ox.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This is really cool: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
(@nmwilkinson.bsky.social relevant to your interests?)
(@nmwilkinson.bsky.social relevant to your interests?)
Reposted by Andrea Lathrop
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
Reposted by Andrea Lathrop
Behavior bio people, check out this guy's experience training an octopus!
I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
YouTube video by Mattias Krantz
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Behavior bio people, check out this guy's experience training an octopus!
Neat!
Size matters: how small is your #fovea? www.shadertoy.com/view/4dsXzM fovea detector; look at the small area with rotating crosses in your central vision (best used in full-screen mode); this is the area typically stimulated by retinal implants and brain implants for restoring vision.
Shadertoy
www.shadertoy.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Neat!
Reposted by Andrea Lathrop
The journal's homepage is now live: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/xphi
We will soon also be found under xphi.eu.
Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.
We will soon also be found under xphi.eu.
Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.
Experimental Philosophy
journals.ub.uni-koeln.de
November 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The journal's homepage is now live: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/xphi
We will soon also be found under xphi.eu.
Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.
We will soon also be found under xphi.eu.
Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.
Reposted by Andrea Lathrop
Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
Reposted by Andrea Lathrop
How “intelligent” is a slime mold? When it solves mazes, it might not be thinking:it’s obeying physics. Our new paper with
@jordiplam.bsky.social shows how it follows a least action principle,letting physics do the job arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08531
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social @docteur-drey.bsky.social
@jordiplam.bsky.social shows how it follows a least action principle,letting physics do the job arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08531
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social @docteur-drey.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 AM
How “intelligent” is a slime mold? When it solves mazes, it might not be thinking:it’s obeying physics. Our new paper with
@jordiplam.bsky.social shows how it follows a least action principle,letting physics do the job arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08531
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social @docteur-drey.bsky.social
@jordiplam.bsky.social shows how it follows a least action principle,letting physics do the job arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08531
@drmichaellevin.bsky.social @docteur-drey.bsky.social
Still marveling at Douglas Adams nailing how annoying AI personalities are.
November 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Still marveling at Douglas Adams nailing how annoying AI personalities are.
I can feel my computer rejecting how many tabs I have open.
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I can feel my computer rejecting how many tabs I have open.
Did I miss some hype in the tea leaves?
okay, CLEARLY we’re getting some sort of badass model today, and it’s not from OpenAI
any guesses?
any guesses?
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Did I miss some hype in the tea leaves?
Reposted by Andrea Lathrop
From: Larry Summers
Subject: Thought
Women, pah! Such low minded cattle, like cows to me. Not yet of the eshalone of a peak male brain. Thinkst you so, Jeffrey?
From: Jeffrey Epstein
Subject: ❗ Re: Thought
impotant pattern . i just remebrered all the letters . a b b c e g f i p l m n s t u xv z .
Subject: Thought
Women, pah! Such low minded cattle, like cows to me. Not yet of the eshalone of a peak male brain. Thinkst you so, Jeffrey?
From: Jeffrey Epstein
Subject: ❗ Re: Thought
impotant pattern . i just remebrered all the letters . a b b c e g f i p l m n s t u xv z .
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
From: Larry Summers
Subject: Thought
Women, pah! Such low minded cattle, like cows to me. Not yet of the eshalone of a peak male brain. Thinkst you so, Jeffrey?
From: Jeffrey Epstein
Subject: ❗ Re: Thought
impotant pattern . i just remebrered all the letters . a b b c e g f i p l m n s t u xv z .
Subject: Thought
Women, pah! Such low minded cattle, like cows to me. Not yet of the eshalone of a peak male brain. Thinkst you so, Jeffrey?
From: Jeffrey Epstein
Subject: ❗ Re: Thought
impotant pattern . i just remebrered all the letters . a b b c e g f i p l m n s t u xv z .
Ok, so I'm 30 pages in, and I know nothing about any of this, but I read and absorb information quickly for discussion, as is my elite liberal arts training, and so I have things I wish to discuss. publicenterprise.org/wp-content/u...
publicenterprise.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Ok, so I'm 30 pages in, and I know nothing about any of this, but I read and absorb information quickly for discussion, as is my elite liberal arts training, and so I have things I wish to discuss. publicenterprise.org/wp-content/u...
Reading about GPU depreciation.
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Reading about GPU depreciation.
This will make me extremely unpopular, but if you cannot do 8th grade math, you should not pass the 8th grade.
November 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This will make me extremely unpopular, but if you cannot do 8th grade math, you should not pass the 8th grade.
I am reading this: publicenterprise.org/wp-content/u...
I like a good title pun.
Also, xAi is (reportedly) spending $1B per month!?!?
I like a good title pun.
Also, xAi is (reportedly) spending $1B per month!?!?
publicenterprise.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I am reading this: publicenterprise.org/wp-content/u...
I like a good title pun.
Also, xAi is (reportedly) spending $1B per month!?!?
I like a good title pun.
Also, xAi is (reportedly) spending $1B per month!?!?
An online contact asked me earlier this week to apply for their 'AI Enterprise Architect' job opening, and I am extremely flattered and absolutely not qualified for that role.
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
An online contact asked me earlier this week to apply for their 'AI Enterprise Architect' job opening, and I am extremely flattered and absolutely not qualified for that role.
<insert rage post about table manners>
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
<insert rage post about table manners>
Reposted by Andrea Lathrop
My point here is that understanding how these models work, combined with an understanding of the data they are trained upon, can lead to real insight into when they are likely to make errors. Which is why it's so frustrating that AI companies hide the training data they use! Science is impeded.
November 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
My point here is that understanding how these models work, combined with an understanding of the data they are trained upon, can lead to real insight into when they are likely to make errors. Which is why it's so frustrating that AI companies hide the training data they use! Science is impeded.
Reposted by Andrea Lathrop
always remember:
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 AM
always remember:
What?!
“There were no political or religious motivations. They were rich people who went there for fun and personal satisfaction. We are talking about people who love guns who perhaps go to shooting ranges or on safari in Africa.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
What?!
It's jarring when someone you think is really cool posts a screenshot, and it's in light mode.
November 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
It's jarring when someone you think is really cool posts a screenshot, and it's in light mode.
On the site of a former coal-fired power plant in FLX (wine country):
Citizen uprising over data center plans for a mothballed coal plant on the shoreline of Cayuga Lake, just north of Ithaca.
Calling all Finger Lakes residents—plus the entire Cornell and Ithaca College alumni diaspora—to lend your voice to the growing uproar:
insideclimatenews.org/news/0811202...
Calling all Finger Lakes residents—plus the entire Cornell and Ithaca College alumni diaspora—to lend your voice to the growing uproar:
insideclimatenews.org/news/0811202...
A Data Center Could Be Coming to an Upstate New York Town, and Residents Are Speaking Out - Inside Climate News
The town board in Lansing is considering a temporary ban on large-scale development that could delay construction.
insideclimatenews.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
On the site of a former coal-fired power plant in FLX (wine country):
Thinking (for some reason) of Cory Booker's record-breaking filibuster, and how that could have been an amazing turning point for Democrats, but wasn't, and was also ruined by Chuck Schumer at the last possible moment.
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Thinking (for some reason) of Cory Booker's record-breaking filibuster, and how that could have been an amazing turning point for Democrats, but wasn't, and was also ruined by Chuck Schumer at the last possible moment.