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What happens when AI upends an entire field? Where do the experts go? What do young people do? Researchers studying natural language processing were among the very first to find out. This is their story, told in their own words.
When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History | Quanta Magazine
Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer.
www.quantamagazine.org
January 16, 2026 at 4:46 PM
What happens when AI upends an entire field? Where do the experts go? What do young people do? Researchers studying natural language processing were among the very first to find out. This is their story, told in their own words.
a dangerous justification for my chaotic storage methods
In data storage, sometimes it’s best to embrace a bit of disorder. @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/why-theres-n...
Why There’s No Single Best Way To Store Information | Quanta Magazine
The math of data structures helps us understand how different storage systems come with different trade-offs between resources such as time and memory.
www.quantamagazine.org
January 16, 2026 at 8:42 PM
a dangerous justification for my chaotic storage methods
finally taking the time to listen to this album front to back and I don’t know what’s taken so long >> love Peggy Gou + it helps that this album artwork is incredible
January 16, 2026 at 8:41 PM
finally taking the time to listen to this album front to back and I don’t know what’s taken so long >> love Peggy Gou + it helps that this album artwork is incredible
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Giant phantom #jellyfish spotted deep in #Pacific. These rare sea creatures live where the sun doesn't shine.
Link for ore info and a video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
Link for ore info and a video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
January 9, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Giant phantom #jellyfish spotted deep in #Pacific. These rare sea creatures live where the sun doesn't shine.
Link for ore info and a video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
Link for ore info and a video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
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January 9, 2026 at 12:28 AM
quick timelapse of me going from rough draft / layout then to final (almost) of the first page of my comic !!
January 10, 2026 at 12:20 AM
quick timelapse of me going from rough draft / layout then to final (almost) of the first page of my comic !!
this is such a beautiful expansion and deepening of an imagined universe >> I’d love to find more authors that collaborated in mediums beyond book to film/show >> just another reason Ursula Le Guin is one of the greats
January 10, 2026 at 12:16 AM
this is such a beautiful expansion and deepening of an imagined universe >> I’d love to find more authors that collaborated in mediums beyond book to film/show >> just another reason Ursula Le Guin is one of the greats
saving for future reference!!
I just stumbled upon featherbase, a database of feather pictures from a bunch of bird species.🪶
So pretty!
www.featherbase.info/zh/home
So pretty!
www.featherbase.info/zh/home
January 7, 2026 at 8:38 PM
saving for future reference!!
from A History of Biology - Michel Morange
January 7, 2026 at 8:33 PM
from A History of Biology - Michel Morange
me listening to the cowboy bebop album again for the 10000000 time
January 7, 2026 at 1:37 AM
me listening to the cowboy bebop album again for the 10000000 time
some birds I spotted off the coast at low tide today - osprey, spotted sandpiper, gull, and a blur that was too far away to tell
December 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
some birds I spotted off the coast at low tide today - osprey, spotted sandpiper, gull, and a blur that was too far away to tell
current read!! >> dense and not for the faint of heart but for any science history lovers a definite read >> it is a thoughtful and comprehensive treatment of the subject and something I’m sure will be a continual reference for me
December 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
current read!! >> dense and not for the faint of heart but for any science history lovers a definite read >> it is a thoughtful and comprehensive treatment of the subject and something I’m sure will be a continual reference for me
had some fun yesterday completely frying this image of some seabirds
December 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
had some fun yesterday completely frying this image of some seabirds
photos from a couple months back of a blue heron fishing in the tide pools with onlookers
December 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
photos from a couple months back of a blue heron fishing in the tide pools with onlookers
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I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
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This year, many of Quanta’s biological stories deeply explored memory. Here are some of the stories worth remembering from 2025:
The Year in Biology | Quanta Magazine
Take a jaunt through a jungle of strange neurons underlying your sense of touch, hundreds of millions of years of animal evolution and the dense neural networks of brains and AIs.
www.quantamagazine.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This year, many of Quanta’s biological stories deeply explored memory. Here are some of the stories worth remembering from 2025:
speaking of this exhibition: Omni intelligent @ UCSD Mandeville Art Gallery >> anyone in the area should go see + the film playing in the back is one of the most entrancing and interesting films I’ve watched in a long time - it is Songs from the Compost: mutating bodies by Eglė Budvytytė
sometimes you miss a couple days of drawing and have to doodle your characters on your gallery program just for fun
December 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
speaking of this exhibition: Omni intelligent @ UCSD Mandeville Art Gallery >> anyone in the area should go see + the film playing in the back is one of the most entrancing and interesting films I’ve watched in a long time - it is Songs from the Compost: mutating bodies by Eglė Budvytytė
sometimes you miss a couple days of drawing and have to doodle your characters on your gallery program just for fun
December 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
sometimes you miss a couple days of drawing and have to doodle your characters on your gallery program just for fun
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Genome sequencing technology is introducing biologists to a world of quasi-life forms that they’ve never met before. @jakebuehler.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/a-cell-so-mi...
A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life | Quanta Magazine
The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by genome sequencing.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Genome sequencing technology is introducing biologists to a world of quasi-life forms that they’ve never met before. @jakebuehler.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/a-cell-so-mi...
I just saw an ice recruitment ad on youtube >> I think my day has been ruined
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I just saw an ice recruitment ad on youtube >> I think my day has been ruined
slowly working on some hand signs for one of the magic elements of my comic book
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
slowly working on some hand signs for one of the magic elements of my comic book
watched bugonia this week.. wondering if I’m the only one that felt like Emma Stones character fell a little flat and that kind of undermined the rest of the narrative >> I wrote a whole post on it open.substack.com/pub/culdesac...
something buGgy about bugonia
I talk about Michelle's character being underdeveloped and kinda spoil the movie.
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
watched bugonia this week.. wondering if I’m the only one that felt like Emma Stones character fell a little flat and that kind of undermined the rest of the narrative >> I wrote a whole post on it open.substack.com/pub/culdesac...