FusionProgGuy
@fusionprogguy.bsky.social
Interests: python programming, mathematical modeling, plant-based nutrition, acoustics, jazz & fusion
Politics: left, feminist ally, Religion: none, Pronouns: He/him, Adjective: nerdy, Pro-science: vaccinated & indoor N95/100 masking, pro-GMOs & seed oils
Politics: left, feminist ally, Religion: none, Pronouns: He/him, Adjective: nerdy, Pro-science: vaccinated & indoor N95/100 masking, pro-GMOs & seed oils
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Very cool and detailed Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University study on sycophancy: "Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence"
Sycophancy, the phenomenon of excessively agreeing with or flattering users, is a pervasive issue in current LLMs.
Findings:
Sycophancy, the phenomenon of excessively agreeing with or flattering users, is a pervasive issue in current LLMs.
Findings:
October 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Very cool and detailed Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University study on sycophancy: "Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence"
Sycophancy, the phenomenon of excessively agreeing with or flattering users, is a pervasive issue in current LLMs.
Findings:
Sycophancy, the phenomenon of excessively agreeing with or flattering users, is a pervasive issue in current LLMs.
Findings:
Do you think there would there be more vegans if you could learn about how different fish sound like? What if we could understand what they're communicating?
📖Published📖
Using a novel method to visualize in situ underwater sound, Dantzker et al. have developed a technique that combines visualizations of spatial audio with concentric 360° video recordings 📹 🌊 Read more here 👇
buff.ly/McXYHwA
🌍 🧪
Using a novel method to visualize in situ underwater sound, Dantzker et al. have developed a technique that combines visualizations of spatial audio with concentric 360° video recordings 📹 🌊 Read more here 👇
buff.ly/McXYHwA
🌍 🧪
October 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Do you think there would there be more vegans if you could learn about how different fish sound like? What if we could understand what they're communicating?
@angryhacademic.bsky.social
What can we learn from a Japanese water beetle? You can beat being digested by frog by running through it's digestive tract! Scientists put sticky wax on their legs to see if they got out the natural way - but they didn't make it. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w...
What can we learn from a Japanese water beetle? You can beat being digested by frog by running through it's digestive tract! Scientists put sticky wax on their legs to see if they got out the natural way - but they didn't make it. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w...
When This Beetle Gets Eaten by a Frog, It Heads for the 'Back Door'
New research details how this Japanese water beetle travels through the bowels of its predator to emerge out the other end, alive and unharmed
www.smithsonianmag.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
@angryhacademic.bsky.social
What can we learn from a Japanese water beetle? You can beat being digested by frog by running through it's digestive tract! Scientists put sticky wax on their legs to see if they got out the natural way - but they didn't make it. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w...
What can we learn from a Japanese water beetle? You can beat being digested by frog by running through it's digestive tract! Scientists put sticky wax on their legs to see if they got out the natural way - but they didn't make it. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w...
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mRNA vaccines are safe, have been in development for decades, & have far broader applications than older vaccine technologies.
New vaccine technologies evolve when scientists have tools & knowledge to make something more elegant or complex that wasn’t possible before.
5/
New vaccine technologies evolve when scientists have tools & knowledge to make something more elegant or complex that wasn’t possible before.
5/
August 31, 2025 at 1:06 AM
mRNA vaccines are safe, have been in development for decades, & have far broader applications than older vaccine technologies.
New vaccine technologies evolve when scientists have tools & knowledge to make something more elegant or complex that wasn’t possible before.
5/
New vaccine technologies evolve when scientists have tools & knowledge to make something more elegant or complex that wasn’t possible before.
5/
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New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them.
States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
State steps in to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccine
Public health order counters potential limitations set by the USFDA
www.koat.com
August 31, 2025 at 2:53 AM
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them.
States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
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I've lost some longtime friends over explaining why the left's embrace of covid disinformation led us to Trump, Musk &Palestine. Thankfully, @taylorlorenz.bsky.social is much smarter than I am, and was able to lay it out in detail in this brilliant vid. The left is complicit
youtu.be/zXrjlOE9e50?...
youtu.be/zXrjlOE9e50?...
'Somebody needs to do it'
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
youtu.be
May 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I've lost some longtime friends over explaining why the left's embrace of covid disinformation led us to Trump, Musk &Palestine. Thankfully, @taylorlorenz.bsky.social is much smarter than I am, and was able to lay it out in detail in this brilliant vid. The left is complicit
youtu.be/zXrjlOE9e50?...
youtu.be/zXrjlOE9e50?...
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Fun fact: goldfish can be taught to drive fish tank robots
youtube.com/watch?v=UFrN...
h/t @fusionprogguy.bsky.social for this fishy fact!
youtube.com/watch?v=UFrN...
h/t @fusionprogguy.bsky.social for this fishy fact!
Fish out of water? Scientists have trained these goldfish to ‘drive’
YouTube video by South China Morning Post
youtube.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Fun fact: goldfish can be taught to drive fish tank robots
youtube.com/watch?v=UFrN...
h/t @fusionprogguy.bsky.social for this fishy fact!
youtube.com/watch?v=UFrN...
h/t @fusionprogguy.bsky.social for this fishy fact!
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Fun fact: different parts of your brain change size with age
nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com/articles/d41...
h/t @fusionprogguy.bsky.social for feeding our brains knowledge about our brains...
nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com/articles/d41...
h/t @fusionprogguy.bsky.social for feeding our brains knowledge about our brains...
April 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Fun fact: different parts of your brain change size with age
nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com/articles/d41...
h/t @fusionprogguy.bsky.social for feeding our brains knowledge about our brains...
nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com/articles/d41...
h/t @fusionprogguy.bsky.social for feeding our brains knowledge about our brains...
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If you are not already, please consider masking in public, especially in places where people have no choice but to go
- including public transit, grocery stores, and medical centers (especially medical centers).
Doing so could literally save someone's life.
www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
3/3
- including public transit, grocery stores, and medical centers (especially medical centers).
Doing so could literally save someone's life.
www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
3/3
March 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
If you are not already, please consider masking in public, especially in places where people have no choice but to go
- including public transit, grocery stores, and medical centers (especially medical centers).
Doing so could literally save someone's life.
www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
3/3
- including public transit, grocery stores, and medical centers (especially medical centers).
Doing so could literally save someone's life.
www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
3/3
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Notice to flat-Earthers all around the globe: Please alert the authorities if tonight’s Total Lunar Eclipse looks like this:
March 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Notice to flat-Earthers all around the globe: Please alert the authorities if tonight’s Total Lunar Eclipse looks like this:
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Due to the lack of interest in sars-cov2 some in the covid cautious have suggested a rebrand with the name Airborne-aware, given how likely it is that a new pandemic could be around the corner. Masking doesn’t just reduce the chance of catching Covid.
March 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Due to the lack of interest in sars-cov2 some in the covid cautious have suggested a rebrand with the name Airborne-aware, given how likely it is that a new pandemic could be around the corner. Masking doesn’t just reduce the chance of catching Covid.
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New admin claims to be the frontier of radical transparency—but in just 1 week, public health decisions are being hidden from view. Instead of strengthening transparency, Sec. Kennedy is rolling it back:
1. ACIP meeting (CDC’s vaccine advisors). Delayed = No transparency on vaccine policy decisions
1. ACIP meeting (CDC’s vaccine advisors). Delayed = No transparency on vaccine policy decisions
February 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
New admin claims to be the frontier of radical transparency—but in just 1 week, public health decisions are being hidden from view. Instead of strengthening transparency, Sec. Kennedy is rolling it back:
1. ACIP meeting (CDC’s vaccine advisors). Delayed = No transparency on vaccine policy decisions
1. ACIP meeting (CDC’s vaccine advisors). Delayed = No transparency on vaccine policy decisions
Yes, Marc Veldhoen uses red crosses to indicate that the title of a paper can often be misleading and that people who are not experts can come to wrong conclusions about the meaning of findings. It looks simple to cross out a study, but it takes years of knowledge to be able to explain why.
T-cell count and T-cell telomere length in patients with severe COVID-19
An old one, but an important one to illustrate, again, how disinformation is spread by those without sufficient knowledge. How these spreaders only read titles, but do not understand the content.
www.frontiersin.org/...
1/9
An old one, but an important one to illustrate, again, how disinformation is spread by those without sufficient knowledge. How these spreaders only read titles, but do not understand the content.
www.frontiersin.org/...
1/9
Frontiers | T-cell count and T-cell telomere length in patients with severe COVID-19
Lymphocyte telomere length (TL) is highly variable and shortens with age. Short telomeres may impede TL-dependent T-cell clonal expansion with viral infectio...
www.frontiersin.org
February 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Yes, Marc Veldhoen uses red crosses to indicate that the title of a paper can often be misleading and that people who are not experts can come to wrong conclusions about the meaning of findings. It looks simple to cross out a study, but it takes years of knowledge to be able to explain why.
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Diary of a CEO may be the UK's most popular podcast but it's driven by unrelenting medical misinformation that harms patients - new BBC documentary investigates, featuring @lizoriordan.bsky.social & myself: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Steven Bartlett sharing harmful health misinformation on Diary of CEO podcast
Disproven health claims are accepted with little challenge by host on number one podcast, BBC investigation finds.
www.bbc.com
December 13, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Diary of a CEO may be the UK's most popular podcast but it's driven by unrelenting medical misinformation that harms patients - new BBC documentary investigates, featuring @lizoriordan.bsky.social & myself: www.bbc.com/news/article...
My two 20cm Noctua fans arrived today for my DIY air filters. They’re very quiet but also surprisingly weak. As a result I might stack two of them. I did a few simple tests using a makeshift wind tunnel and an anemometer. 9-10cm between fans was best for wind speed.
#airquality #PCfans #noctua
#airquality #PCfans #noctua
February 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
My two 20cm Noctua fans arrived today for my DIY air filters. They’re very quiet but also surprisingly weak. As a result I might stack two of them. I did a few simple tests using a makeshift wind tunnel and an anemometer. 9-10cm between fans was best for wind speed.
#airquality #PCfans #noctua
#airquality #PCfans #noctua
Many experts have changed their focus from Covid as hospitalizations have reduced due to vaccinations and previous infections. I’m curious if any Covid cautious folks have reduced their level of masking in the last two years or so, and why you decided to do that.
February 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Many experts have changed their focus from Covid as hospitalizations have reduced due to vaccinations and previous infections. I’m curious if any Covid cautious folks have reduced their level of masking in the last two years or so, and why you decided to do that.
Do any other rock stars wear respirators on stage like Mike Patton did here on ’God Hates a Coward‘ with Tomahawk? When do you wear your respirators like N95/KN95s or P100s - or are you a coward who dares not stand out?
www.instagram.com/reel/DGQwlwF...
#masks #respirators #blacksheep
www.instagram.com/reel/DGQwlwF...
#masks #respirators #blacksheep
February 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Do any other rock stars wear respirators on stage like Mike Patton did here on ’God Hates a Coward‘ with Tomahawk? When do you wear your respirators like N95/KN95s or P100s - or are you a coward who dares not stand out?
www.instagram.com/reel/DGQwlwF...
#masks #respirators #blacksheep
www.instagram.com/reel/DGQwlwF...
#masks #respirators #blacksheep
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"I can’t help but wonder if authority figures had simply been honest about the existence of misinformation and its dangers if that could have moved the needle in a meaningful way."
This fall the president of Stanford had the opportunity to expose powerful misinformation doctors.
Instead, he chose censorship and scolded people who tried to warn him.
Now, like all universities, he’s got “issues” to deal with.
My latest for SBM.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/openletter2/
Instead, he chose censorship and scolded people who tried to warn him.
Now, like all universities, he’s got “issues” to deal with.
My latest for SBM.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/openletter2/
Open Letter II: President Levin, There Are Now 160 Million Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Have Censored We Want Them Infected Doctors | Science-Based Medicine
$160 million is a lot of money, especially when you consider its not just money. It's lost dreams, careers, and discoveries.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
February 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"I can’t help but wonder if authority figures had simply been honest about the existence of misinformation and its dangers if that could have moved the needle in a meaningful way."
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I left some #philsci gripes, but overall a great article, def worth a read. Surprisingly insightful re:RFK!
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been confirmed as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. He’s been accused of politicizing science. But as Nima Bassiri writes, it’s inherently political.
Science Will Not Save Us | Nima Bassiri
The most dangerous way to politicize science is to claim that it is off-limits to debate, safeguarded in some way by truth and expertise.
thebaffler.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I left some #philsci gripes, but overall a great article, def worth a read. Surprisingly insightful re:RFK!
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🌺 International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧪
Work in progress!!!
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInScience
#SupportWomen
#EDI #Equity #Diversity
#Education
Work in progress!!!
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInScience
#SupportWomen
#EDI #Equity #Diversity
#Education
February 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
🌺 International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧪
Work in progress!!!
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInScience
#SupportWomen
#EDI #Equity #Diversity
#Education
Work in progress!!!
#WomenInSTEM
#WomenInScience
#SupportWomen
#EDI #Equity #Diversity
#Education
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This book was waiting for me today when I got to my office. I wish he were still around to talk to us. Even though he would not have been happy at all that this book came out in exactly the right moment🥲
February 5, 2025 at 4:25 AM
This book was waiting for me today when I got to my office. I wish he were still around to talk to us. Even though he would not have been happy at all that this book came out in exactly the right moment🥲
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Shocking news: “About a fifth of the answers introduced factual errors on numbers, dates or statements; 13% of quotes sourced to the BBC were either altered or did not exist in the articles cited.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI chatbots distort and mislead when asked about current affairs, BBC finds
Most answers had ‘significant issues’ when researchers asked services to use broadcaster’s news articles as source
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Shocking news: “About a fifth of the answers introduced factual errors on numbers, dates or statements; 13% of quotes sourced to the BBC were either altered or did not exist in the articles cited.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...