Mawjad
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“A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.”
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Over the past year, my lab has been working on fleshing out theory + applications of the Platonic Representation Hypothesis.
Today I want to share two new works on this topic:
Eliciting higher alignment: arxiv.org/abs/2510.02425
Unpaired learning of unified reps: arxiv.org/abs/2510.08492
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Today I want to share two new works on this topic:
Eliciting higher alignment: arxiv.org/abs/2510.02425
Unpaired learning of unified reps: arxiv.org/abs/2510.08492
1/9
October 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Over the past year, my lab has been working on fleshing out theory + applications of the Platonic Representation Hypothesis.
Today I want to share two new works on this topic:
Eliciting higher alignment: arxiv.org/abs/2510.02425
Unpaired learning of unified reps: arxiv.org/abs/2510.08492
1/9
Today I want to share two new works on this topic:
Eliciting higher alignment: arxiv.org/abs/2510.02425
Unpaired learning of unified reps: arxiv.org/abs/2510.08492
1/9
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"At the end of my suffering
there was a door."
A benediction of a poem by Nobel laureate Louise Glück, who left us two years ago today www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/29/l...
there was a door."
A benediction of a poem by Nobel laureate Louise Glück, who left us two years ago today www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/29/l...
The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering
“Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice.”
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October 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
"At the end of my suffering
there was a door."
A benediction of a poem by Nobel laureate Louise Glück, who left us two years ago today www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/29/l...
there was a door."
A benediction of a poem by Nobel laureate Louise Glück, who left us two years ago today www.themarginalian.org/2024/04/29/l...
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Born #onthisday in 1641, the very aptly-named Nehemiah Grew — an English botanist who was the first to depict the inner structure and function of plants in all their splendorous intricacy. ⠀
More of his images here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/n... #otd
More of his images here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/n... #otd
September 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Born #onthisday in 1641, the very aptly-named Nehemiah Grew — an English botanist who was the first to depict the inner structure and function of plants in all their splendorous intricacy. ⠀
More of his images here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/n... #otd
More of his images here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/n... #otd
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the computer gives her most mysterious errors to her most brilliant programmers
September 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
the computer gives her most mysterious errors to her most brilliant programmers
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signal-noise-ratio can fall even as signal increases if noise increases at a faster rate and your ability to filter noise does not improve
September 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
signal-noise-ratio can fall even as signal increases if noise increases at a faster rate and your ability to filter noise does not improve
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for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
September 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
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Comets from The Augsburg Book of Miracles, 16th century.
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More in our post "Flowers of the Sky", of depictions spanning almost a whole millennium of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #comets #meteors #shootingstars #meteorshower
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More in our post "Flowers of the Sky", of depictions spanning almost a whole millennium of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #comets #meteors #shootingstars #meteorshower
September 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Comets from The Augsburg Book of Miracles, 16th century.
💫
More in our post "Flowers of the Sky", of depictions spanning almost a whole millennium of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #comets #meteors #shootingstars #meteorshower
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More in our post "Flowers of the Sky", of depictions spanning almost a whole millennium of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #comets #meteors #shootingstars #meteorshower
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There are few writers I love more than Loren Eiseley, and few things in a lifetime of reading have given me more pleasure than this: www.themarginalian.org/2024/02/03/l...
The Warblers and the Wonder of Being: Loren Eiseley on Contacting the Miraculous
“The time has to be right; one has to be, by chance or intention, upon the border of two worlds. And sometimes these two borders may shift or interpenetrate and one sees the miraculous.”…
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September 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
There are few writers I love more than Loren Eiseley, and few things in a lifetime of reading have given me more pleasure than this: www.themarginalian.org/2024/02/03/l...
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Uncaging the bird in the mind – William Henry Hudson and the gift of the ruin of your best laid plans, wonderful wonderful read from a forgotten visionary www.themarginalian.org/2025/06/29/w...
Uncaging the Bird in the Mind: William Henry Hudson and the Gift of the Ruin of Your Best Laid Plans
“The mind is its own place, and in it self can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n,” wrote Milton in Paradise Lost. Because the mind (which may in the end be a full-body phenomenon)…
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September 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Uncaging the bird in the mind – William Henry Hudson and the gift of the ruin of your best laid plans, wonderful wonderful read from a forgotten visionary www.themarginalian.org/2025/06/29/w...
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🍯 Greek word of the day: μέλισσα, which translates to bee and is pronounced "mélissa"
Grand burial structures resembling beehives, known as tholos tombs, were typical of Mycenaean sites and held generations of family burials. Bee appliqués were found stitched to burial shrouds.
Grand burial structures resembling beehives, known as tholos tombs, were typical of Mycenaean sites and held generations of family burials. Bee appliqués were found stitched to burial shrouds.
August 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🍯 Greek word of the day: μέλισσα, which translates to bee and is pronounced "mélissa"
Grand burial structures resembling beehives, known as tholos tombs, were typical of Mycenaean sites and held generations of family burials. Bee appliqués were found stitched to burial shrouds.
Grand burial structures resembling beehives, known as tholos tombs, were typical of Mycenaean sites and held generations of family burials. Bee appliqués were found stitched to burial shrouds.
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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
![[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihuubdwcftfkvvlnepoaf6pfxqulryfp7ydrydi5fe2pflwz63wgm@jpeg)
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality