David Marx
@digthatdata.bsky.social
I like to post papers. They're not always new.
I read a lot: https://dmarx.github.io/papers-feed/
Complexity
Representation Learning
Agnatology, Epistemic Justice
Morality As Cooperation
Ontic Structural Realism
YIMBY, UBI
Research MLE
Former FireFighter
I read a lot: https://dmarx.github.io/papers-feed/
Complexity
Representation Learning
Agnatology, Epistemic Justice
Morality As Cooperation
Ontic Structural Realism
YIMBY, UBI
Research MLE
Former FireFighter
I didn't even realize: my 20 year wiki-versary was last Saturday!!
My wiki history actually goes further back than that, but that's at least when I started editing under a proper user account.
🎂
My wiki history actually goes further back than that, but that's at least when I started editing under a proper user account.
🎂
November 8, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I didn't even realize: my 20 year wiki-versary was last Saturday!!
My wiki history actually goes further back than that, but that's at least when I started editing under a proper user account.
🎂
My wiki history actually goes further back than that, but that's at least when I started editing under a proper user account.
🎂
this tracks with my preconceptions, but I can't find anything about the methodology used. This is from a report by a reputation management consulting firm. Barring any hint at methodological details, this isn't research so much as it's an advertisement.
This graphic is the most detail I could find.
This graphic is the most detail I could find.
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
this tracks with my preconceptions, but I can't find anything about the methodology used. This is from a report by a reputation management consulting firm. Barring any hint at methodological details, this isn't research so much as it's an advertisement.
This graphic is the most detail I could find.
This graphic is the most detail I could find.
1838 - "The American Democrat" by James Fennimore Cooper
Lovely collection of short essays, "On Demagogues" particularly worth reading today.
Same as it ever was, it seems.
ia801309.us.archive.org/1/items/amer...
Lovely collection of short essays, "On Demagogues" particularly worth reading today.
Same as it ever was, it seems.
ia801309.us.archive.org/1/items/amer...
November 6, 2025 at 4:40 AM
1838 - "The American Democrat" by James Fennimore Cooper
Lovely collection of short essays, "On Demagogues" particularly worth reading today.
Same as it ever was, it seems.
ia801309.us.archive.org/1/items/amer...
Lovely collection of short essays, "On Demagogues" particularly worth reading today.
Same as it ever was, it seems.
ia801309.us.archive.org/1/items/amer...
Maybe I should add an Ed day to my calendar?
October 29, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Maybe I should add an Ed day to my calendar?
this honor was already empty before trump got involved. it's basically just a mechanism to kiss the asses of foreign dignitaries (and a pat on the back that the president awards to themselves).
![Controversies
The Grand Order of Mugunghwa is traditionally awarded to the incoming President of South Korea shortly after their inauguration. However, Former President Roh Moo-hyun opted to accept the award upon his departure from office in 2008. Subsequent presidents established this precedent and opted to receive the award after finishing their term in full (Lee Myung-bak and Moon Jae-in).[3]
After their conviction for treason in 1996, former presidents Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo were ordered to return the Grand Order of Mugunghwa along with other state decorations. While Chun agreed to return the awards, he and Roh never did.
By statute, the Grand Order of Mugunghwa is the highest decoration in Korea; however, in the eyes of the public, it is not well regarded. Many Koreans feel that the order has far less significance. This is because it is self-awarded and is based on winning an election, not on any positive achievements for the country. It is also given to foreign heads of state, not necessarily because of what they have done for Korea, but for what they may do for Korea in the future.[4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yeplumkwwcfqh5gr7burql3e/bafkreibopys4heipqfwytup5svkb6ge6nj53ml4akjslxeewqqinwhww5y@jpeg)
October 29, 2025 at 6:24 AM
this honor was already empty before trump got involved. it's basically just a mechanism to kiss the asses of foreign dignitaries (and a pat on the back that the president awards to themselves).
on the notion of "AI cosplay videos"
![Comment thread under an /r/comyui post of an AIGC video titled: "Starfire AI Cosplay" with the flair "Show and Tell"
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]DigThatData 13 points 7 hours ago
"ai cosplay"
right.
[–]YMIR_THE_FROSTY 2 points 6 hours ago
What else should it be?
[–]DigThatData 2 points 6 hours ago
"AI softcore porn"
[–]Cautious_Cry3928 4 points 4 hours ago
By your standards, most of the cosplay and fetish models I follow across social media are doing softcore porn.
[–]DigThatData 3 points 40 minutes ago
what differentiates this scenario is the existence of another person in the parasocial relationship who can be performing for their own reasons. OP is not posting a video of someone who has fun dressing up and went to the trouble of putting together a costume and makeup or whatever to make themselves look like another person.
OP is the only person on either end of this parasocial relationship. the only reasons the person in the video are dancing for our amusement is because OP was horny and wanted to see a sexy girl dance for him.
there's nothing wrong with that. that's perfectly fine. but it is substantively different from enjoying a video of a person who put on that performance for their own reasons. the only reasons that went into the creation of this video were OPs, so that is the context within which we should evaluate what we are looking at.
this is a video of a non-existent person performing cosplay, i.e. it is AI softcore porn and not appropriately a "cosplay" video.
QED.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yeplumkwwcfqh5gr7burql3e/bafkreidpclox5xqnye37xq5ubf37xnnxtoxkcqeuafjwp7vofajvtg42ja@jpeg)
October 29, 2025 at 3:57 AM
on the notion of "AI cosplay videos"
feels like watching a DBZ villain powering up before launching a devastating attack
October 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
feels like watching a DBZ villain powering up before launching a devastating attack
low angle light from sunrise
October 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
low angle light from sunrise
apparently there's some sort of motion capture live data stream the stadium makes available? interesting case of "data laundering" here for anyone teaching a data ethics class (in the sense that youtubers can't stream the actual gameplay *footage*, but they can stream this).
October 28, 2025 at 5:06 AM
apparently there's some sort of motion capture live data stream the stadium makes available? interesting case of "data laundering" here for anyone teaching a data ethics class (in the sense that youtubers can't stream the actual gameplay *footage*, but they can stream this).
honestly: considering the way everything has been going these days, you're probably best off prioritizing by who owns the TLD rather than by how cute it'll make your domain name.
case study: .io is at risk of being extinguished because the UK no longer controls the chagos archipelago.
case study: .io is at risk of being extinguished because the UK no longer controls the chagos archipelago.
![In 2021, the United Nations' International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ruled that the United Kingdom has no sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, and that sovereignty instead belongs to Mauritius. This would extinguish the British Indian Ocean Territory, and the IO ISO-3166 two-letter country code and .io domain could also be extinguished. [..] In October 2024, the UK announced that it would hand over sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius once a treaty is finalised.[13]
In July 2021, the Chagos Refugees Group UK submitted a complaint to the Irish government against domain-name speculators Paul Kane and Afilias, seeking repatriation of the .IO ("Indian Ocean") country-code top-level domain and payment of back royalties from the $7m/year in revenue generated by the domain.[14] While attempts to repatriate top-level domains are not uncommon, this one is notable in that it cites consumer and human rights violations of the OECD's 2011 Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises rather than multistakeholder representation under ICANN policy, and because the .io domain has enjoyed commercial success, particularly among cryptocurrency companies, with more than 270,000 domains registered.[7][15][16]
Future
In October 2024, the United Kingdom announced that it would eventually cede the British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius, while maintaining the military base on Diego Garcia via an initial 99-year lease.[17] After the transfer, current IANA rules may require the .io domain to be phased out, which would take at least 5 years. This depends on whether IO is removed from the ISO 3166-1 standard.[18][19] Historically, some exceptions have been granted, as was the case for .su.[20] On 22 May 2025, an agreement was signed that will cause the British Indian Ocean Territory to be handed over to Mauritius once it enters into force.[21]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yeplumkwwcfqh5gr7burql3e/bafkreibojee4wpe3ooxar476scnoqzffhpb26v7palc4vzggg64lajrl5e@jpeg)
October 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
honestly: considering the way everything has been going these days, you're probably best off prioritizing by who owns the TLD rather than by how cute it'll make your domain name.
case study: .io is at risk of being extinguished because the UK no longer controls the chagos archipelago.
case study: .io is at risk of being extinguished because the UK no longer controls the chagos archipelago.
I'm old enough to remember that google search emerged at a time when the web was being buried under link/keyword spam. We seem to have gone full circle and now with generative models eating the world it's like people think "semantic search" is the only tool that exists.
October 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I'm old enough to remember that google search emerged at a time when the web was being buried under link/keyword spam. We seem to have gone full circle and now with generative models eating the world it's like people think "semantic search" is the only tool that exists.
ICE starting trouble in portland again
October 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
ICE starting trouble in portland again
LLM Psychosis In The Wild: a play in three acts.
![Title: A gauge equivariant Free Energy Principle to bridge neuroscience and machine learningPhysics-Informed Neural Networks 🚀 (github.com)
submitted an hour ago by Signal-Union-3592
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[–]Signal-Union-3592[S] 1 point 15 minutes ago*
What're you talking about? I clearly define an "agent" as a local section of an associated bundle and a "token" as the delta function limit of an agent?
Also note: attention is QKT.....that's a much different think than KL. In my view the gauge theory comes first and the attention/transformer architecture is a limiting case of the framework
Yeesh..."touch grass"...there's absolutely no reason to be rude.
[–]DigThatData 1 point 12 minutes ago
maybe I just don't have the physics background then. not trying to be rude, trying to offer constructive feedback to someone who from my perspective might be experiencing a mental health episode.
[–]Signal-Union-3592[S] 1 point 10 minutes ago
Working on a statistical gauge theory is a mental health issue? 🤯😅. Oh boy....🤷. Best wishes.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yeplumkwwcfqh5gr7burql3e/bafkreicztiggeulb3dg4dluzyc2sbvplmo3mzxt4rzqcccrdsnbya4jqum@jpeg)
October 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
LLM Psychosis In The Wild: a play in three acts.
Some added context for how this opinion was informed: I've been in the situation where someone took my open source work and wrapped a product around it. The shame hammer is still a readily available tool in that situation, even in the absence of a share-alike license.
October 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Some added context for how this opinion was informed: I've been in the situation where someone took my open source work and wrapped a product around it. The shame hammer is still a readily available tool in that situation, even in the absence of a share-alike license.
> RigAnything: Template-Free Autoregressive Rigging
for Diverse 3D Assets
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.09615
Web: www.liuisabella.com/RigAnything/
Code: github.com/Isabella98Li...
Model: huggingface.co/Isabellaliu/...
for Diverse 3D Assets
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.09615
Web: www.liuisabella.com/RigAnything/
Code: github.com/Isabella98Li...
Model: huggingface.co/Isabellaliu/...
October 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
> RigAnything: Template-Free Autoregressive Rigging
for Diverse 3D Assets
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.09615
Web: www.liuisabella.com/RigAnything/
Code: github.com/Isabella98Li...
Model: huggingface.co/Isabellaliu/...
for Diverse 3D Assets
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.09615
Web: www.liuisabella.com/RigAnything/
Code: github.com/Isabella98Li...
Model: huggingface.co/Isabellaliu/...
obligatory graphic from "Auditing Political Exposure Bias: Algorithmic Amplification on Twitter/X During the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election"
arxiv.org/abs/2411.01852
arxiv.org/abs/2411.01852
October 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
obligatory graphic from "Auditing Political Exposure Bias: Algorithmic Amplification on Twitter/X During the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election"
arxiv.org/abs/2411.01852
arxiv.org/abs/2411.01852