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🔬 Looking at the brain’s “dark matter”
🤯 Studying how minds change
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🤯 Studying how minds change
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(Morgan Freeman voice) and that was when the AI field re-discovered the classical Cramér-Rao bound
nanochat miniseries v1 by karpathy
"After locally tuning some of the hyperparameters, I swept out a number of models fixing the FLOPs budget. (For every FLOPs target you can train a small model a long time, or a big model for a short time.) It turns out that nanochat obeys very nice scaling laws"
"After locally tuning some of the hyperparameters, I swept out a number of models fixing the FLOPs budget. (For every FLOPs target you can train a small model a long time, or a big model for a short time.) It turns out that nanochat obeys very nice scaling laws"
January 9, 2026 at 6:02 AM
(Morgan Freeman voice) and that was when the AI field re-discovered the classical Cramér-Rao bound
median AI post (2025, colorized)
Throwback to this Reddit post I saw in 2024 and that I still think about sometimes
January 2, 2026 at 9:42 PM
median AI post (2025, colorized)
Hey look—the thing everyone with eyes open knew was gonna happen from the get-go.
Amazed people still think these are “altruists”.
Amazed people still think these are “altruists”.
“This could look like a user asking how much ibuprofen to take for a headache receiving a promoted ad for Advil in the chatbot’s response. Meanwhile, actual results on correct dosage may be brushed to the side, or buried under a mountain of ad text…”
OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation
OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.
futurism.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Hey look—the thing everyone with eyes open knew was gonna happen from the get-go.
Amazed people still think these are “altruists”.
Amazed people still think these are “altruists”.
shmani - GOD UR SUCH A (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
YouTube video by shmani
youtu.be
December 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
is this AGI?
December 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
is this AGI?
Alright—I will see your bet, and raise you one,
“Actually, there is no such thing *at all* as a decision in a naturalistic setting, because a ‘decision’ implies a prespecified exogenous task structure supplying a rigid discretization of action and outcome spaces that does not occur in real life”.
“Actually, there is no such thing *at all* as a decision in a naturalistic setting, because a ‘decision’ implies a prespecified exogenous task structure supplying a rigid discretization of action and outcome spaces that does not occur in real life”.
The word "decision" is a key word in cognitive neuroscience. But what does it mean exactly?
People's intuitions seem to differ on what "decision" means.
For example: do animals (say, cats) make decisions? Most people would say yes, but I think some would disagree.
Do plants make decisions?
People's intuitions seem to differ on what "decision" means.
For example: do animals (say, cats) make decisions? Most people would say yes, but I think some would disagree.
Do plants make decisions?
December 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Alright—I will see your bet, and raise you one,
“Actually, there is no such thing *at all* as a decision in a naturalistic setting, because a ‘decision’ implies a prespecified exogenous task structure supplying a rigid discretization of action and outcome spaces that does not occur in real life”.
“Actually, there is no such thing *at all* as a decision in a naturalistic setting, because a ‘decision’ implies a prespecified exogenous task structure supplying a rigid discretization of action and outcome spaces that does not occur in real life”.
Sassy 009 - Tell Me feat. Blood Orange (Official Video)
YouTube video by Sassy 009
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
bonus sad girl cold winter walk song youtu.be/w0EGka5S86E?...
The Comet
YouTube video by Tin Hat - Topic
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
bonus sad girl cold winter walk song youtu.be/w0EGka5S86E?...
🅱️olmo
Introducing Bolmo, a new family of byte-level language models built by "byteifying" our open Olmo 3—and to our knowledge, the first fully open byte-level LM to match or surpass SOTA subword models across a wide range of tasks. 🧵
December 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
🅱️olmo
wake-up track: youtu.be/BM9GNRqxxhU?...
Pearl Of The Quarter
YouTube video by Steely Dan - Topic
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
wake-up track: youtu.be/BM9GNRqxxhU?...
hell to the yeah.
My crazy idea to cram all of the AT Protocol into a single deployable container. Works with SQLite, Postgres and potentially more data stores in the future. Steps are literally deploy container -> import your lexicons -> backfill -> build your app with the GraphQL APIs.
quickslice.slices.network
quickslice.slices.network
quickslice - Introduction
quickslice.slices.network
December 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
hell to the yeah.
![Screenshot from Waymo 2025 wrapped
You took 69 trips with nobody behind the wheel
[image of posterized map “you are here” icon in light blue-green]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybmxlogro7nxttbwo5xqjgga/bafkreigxijlliek6zxxpc4jcnt5v5y47hvccqyn44pzsmn2nm6vsipqzta@jpeg)
This is f*cking awesome!!!
Can vision transformers learn without images?🤔👀
Our latest work shows that pretraining ViTs on procedural symbolic data (eg sequences of balanced parentheses) makes subsequent standard training (eg on ImageNet) more data efficient! How is this possible?! ⬇️🧵
Our latest work shows that pretraining ViTs on procedural symbolic data (eg sequences of balanced parentheses) makes subsequent standard training (eg on ImageNet) more data efficient! How is this possible?! ⬇️🧵
December 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is f*cking awesome!!!
Reposted by Maxine 💃🏼
When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵
Representational Momentum Transcends Motion
Dillon Plunkett & Jorge Morales (2025) Psychological Science
subjectivitylab.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵
Actual Bluesky challenge: post your favorite work of art from fifty years before you were born.
December 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Actual Bluesky challenge: post your favorite work of art from fifty years before you were born.
traveling alone soundtrack youtu.be/52ZdwZ7Ig-8?...
Nico - These Days (Visualizer)
YouTube video by TVUVEVO
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
traveling alone soundtrack youtu.be/52ZdwZ7Ig-8?...
is this AGI
Optimus teleoperator forgets to clutch out before taking his headset off (we've all been there)
December 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
is this AGI
A hinged perspective on LLM use in a practical setting!
this is one of the more thoughtful and balanced things i've read about LLMs in a while!
it hits a lot of my feels about social dynamics and use within a team.
it hits a lot of my feels about social dynamics and use within a team.
576 - Using LLMs at Oxide / RFD / Oxide
rfd.shared.oxide.computer
December 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A hinged perspective on LLM use in a practical setting!
Hey Bluesky fam—
If you’re at NeurIPS and looking to work on something awesome in AI x bio, say hi to this lady (me!). We’re making real things people need with data nobody else has. And we’re recruiting! Bonus high-five for people from the atmosphere 😁
If you’re at NeurIPS and looking to work on something awesome in AI x bio, say hi to this lady (me!). We’re making real things people need with data nobody else has. And we’re recruiting! Bonus high-five for people from the atmosphere 😁
December 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Hey Bluesky fam—
If you’re at NeurIPS and looking to work on something awesome in AI x bio, say hi to this lady (me!). We’re making real things people need with data nobody else has. And we’re recruiting! Bonus high-five for people from the atmosphere 😁
If you’re at NeurIPS and looking to work on something awesome in AI x bio, say hi to this lady (me!). We’re making real things people need with data nobody else has. And we’re recruiting! Bonus high-five for people from the atmosphere 😁
“65% said they were satisfied with the role Al plays in their work”
bro these people were interviewed **while they were using Claude**—that means 35% of people using your product were not satisfied with the product they were using while interviewed.
www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...
bro these people were interviewed **while they were using Claude**—that means 35% of people using your product were not satisfied with the product they were using while interviewed.
www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...
![Screenshot from anthropic blog:
Results
Al's impact in the general workforce
Overall, the members of our general sample of professionals described Al as a boost to their productivity. In the survey, 86% of professionals reported that AI saves them time and
[highlighted in yellow] 65% said they were satisfied with the role Al plays in their work.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybmxlogro7nxttbwo5xqjgga/bafkreiesf56hopcsghxvr6qrkaim7sbpikjbghuiz3kzk57zbt546bkqu4@jpeg)
December 6, 2025 at 4:41 AM
“65% said they were satisfied with the role Al plays in their work”
bro these people were interviewed **while they were using Claude**—that means 35% of people using your product were not satisfied with the product they were using while interviewed.
www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...
bro these people were interviewed **while they were using Claude**—that means 35% of people using your product were not satisfied with the product they were using while interviewed.
www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...
relentless innovation from @dame.is and @anisota.net
You can now post a flush to @flushes.app directly within @anisota.net via a new control row button accessible from the quick menu — just tap the toilet icon
December 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
relentless innovation from @dame.is and @anisota.net
to be fair, living in SF I have definitely been in a Bedroom 4 situation.
December 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
to be fair, living in SF I have definitely been in a Bedroom 4 situation.