AKA NickleDave
@nicholdav.bsky.social
I'm interested in how animals communicate with sound and I try to make that easier for everyone to study: https://www.vocalpy.org/
Cat & dog dad, cold brew addict, video gamer, Florida boy, #altac, podcast fan, occasional espanglish. nicholdav.info
Cat & dog dad, cold brew addict, video gamer, Florida boy, #altac, podcast fan, occasional espanglish. nicholdav.info
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November 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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I happily donate to Wikipedia, incredible resource in this day and age especially.
I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
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November 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I happily donate to Wikipedia, incredible resource in this day and age especially.
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Air travel is going to get worse, fast, with the introduction of dynamic pricing. Difficult to imagine the status quo being worse but the corporations will deliver hls.harvard.edu/today/how-de...
November 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Air travel is going to get worse, fast, with the introduction of dynamic pricing. Difficult to imagine the status quo being worse but the corporations will deliver hls.harvard.edu/today/how-de...
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Thanks - that articulates a lot of my fears very well. My own pithy version is that if you outsource the hard parts of developing your own understanding of a subject to AI, there will simply be a hole in your brain where understanding should reside.
November 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Thanks - that articulates a lot of my fears very well. My own pithy version is that if you outsource the hard parts of developing your own understanding of a subject to AI, there will simply be a hole in your brain where understanding should reside.
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I send money to @wikipedia.org every year.
This is something you can do to make a difference and fight against AI slop.
This is something you can do to make a difference and fight against AI slop.
I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I send money to @wikipedia.org every year.
This is something you can do to make a difference and fight against AI slop.
This is something you can do to make a difference and fight against AI slop.
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extremely scientific diagram for reference
November 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
extremely scientific diagram for reference
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being ruled by tiny men bereft of both curiosity and the ability to feel wonder is a terrible fate
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
being ruled by tiny men bereft of both curiosity and the ability to feel wonder is a terrible fate
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Sermet Pekin’s open-source project that discovers blogs through recursive network exploration
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/30/s...
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Sermet Pekin’s open-source project that discovers blogs through recursive network exploration | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
November 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Sermet Pekin’s open-source project that discovers blogs through recursive network exploration
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/30/s...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/30/s...
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I've put most of my stuff up for sale over at itch, check it out! There's Blender processes, tilesets and... more tilesets? :D
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Triple Tileset Sale! by Mrmo Tarius
A bundle by Mrmo Tarius, $30.00 for Underbase, the three-color tileset!, MiniAdventures, Chthonic Masonry
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November 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I've put most of my stuff up for sale over at itch, check it out! There's Blender processes, tilesets and... more tilesets? :D
itch.io/s/141960/com...
itch.io/s/132954/mrm...
itch.io/s/144606/tri...
itch.io/s/141960/com...
itch.io/s/132954/mrm...
itch.io/s/144606/tri...
in the uncanny valley between portraiture and caricature lives:
November 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
in the uncanny valley between portraiture and caricature lives:
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November 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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as awful as this is, these examples kinda make me feel giddy and validated, given how i normally feel about our current peer review practices. my personal experience unfortunately has never been consistent with academics' general regard of peer review as a net benefit despite its flaws.
Springer-Nature statement
“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”
How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?
“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”
How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?
Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town
Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
as awful as this is, these examples kinda make me feel giddy and validated, given how i normally feel about our current peer review practices. my personal experience unfortunately has never been consistent with academics' general regard of peer review as a net benefit despite its flaws.
Extreme Open Review
Have you been following the crazy peer review dustup in AI land? A bug in the OpenReview platform leaked the identities of all authors and reviewers on the platform. Chaos has ensued, though the discourse seems to have missed BlueSky thus far.
November 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Extreme Open Review
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"The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition". Intuitive cell types are found in random artificial networks using the same selection criteria neuroscientists use with actual data. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 1/2
elifesciences.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition". Intuitive cell types are found in random artificial networks using the same selection criteria neuroscientists use with actual data. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 1/2
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I am really proud that eLife have published this paper. It is a very nice paper, but you need to also read the reviews to understand why! 1/n
"The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition". Intuitive cell types are found in random artificial networks using the same selection criteria neuroscientists use with actual data. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 1/2
elifesciences.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I am really proud that eLife have published this paper. It is a very nice paper, but you need to also read the reviews to understand why! 1/n
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November 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Finally. The real answers
(yes, your partner should stop compressing the ground in the moka pot, and they should get the water close to a boil before adding it to the moka pot, and for God's sake don't leave it bubble and spit burned coffee everywhere like a damn caveman)
youtu.be/BfDLoIvb0w4?...
(yes, your partner should stop compressing the ground in the moka pot, and they should get the water close to a boil before adding it to the moka pot, and for God's sake don't leave it bubble and spit burned coffee everywhere like a damn caveman)
youtu.be/BfDLoIvb0w4?...
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Finally. The real answers
(yes, your partner should stop compressing the ground in the moka pot, and they should get the water close to a boil before adding it to the moka pot, and for God's sake don't leave it bubble and spit burned coffee everywhere like a damn caveman)
youtu.be/BfDLoIvb0w4?...
(yes, your partner should stop compressing the ground in the moka pot, and they should get the water close to a boil before adding it to the moka pot, and for God's sake don't leave it bubble and spit burned coffee everywhere like a damn caveman)
youtu.be/BfDLoIvb0w4?...
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Just a holiday reminder! 😂
November 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Just a holiday reminder! 😂
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Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
Name a more iconic duo of soundtrack composers
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Name a more iconic duo of soundtrack composers
People are organizing cells to wage the coming war on "agents"
People are holding administrative burden parties to collectively take on tasks
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Essay | How to Turn the Bureaucratic Grind of Life Into a Party
We all feel it: the growing stream of administrative tasks sapping our time, spirits and social lives. Admin Night represents a tiny, nerdy resistance.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
People are organizing cells to wage the coming war on "agents"
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The thing is this isn't about believing LLMs have become humans, but rather the belief that humans are essentially LLMs. The viewpoint driving this is that a human brain is just moving around probability distributions on strings, arguing about LLM consciousness is a distraction
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The thing is this isn't about believing LLMs have become humans, but rather the belief that humans are essentially LLMs. The viewpoint driving this is that a human brain is just moving around probability distributions on strings, arguing about LLM consciousness is a distraction