Pranav Mahajan
@pranav-mahajan.bsky.social
PhD candidate at University of Oxford. Engineer and a computational neuroscientist thinking about pain and safe AI. (Views are my own; he/his)
https://www.pranavmahajan.info/
https://www.pranavmahajan.info/
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How academics imagine their lives would look like if they decide to work in tech
April 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
How academics imagine their lives would look like if they decide to work in tech
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I'm fascinated by how machine learning is increasingly looking like traditional neuroscience (replacing prediction with explanation) while neuroscience is increasingly looking like traditional machine learning (replacing explanation with prediction).
April 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I'm fascinated by how machine learning is increasingly looking like traditional neuroscience (replacing prediction with explanation) while neuroscience is increasingly looking like traditional machine learning (replacing explanation with prediction).
Well said!
OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a vulgar display of power.
https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/
https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/
Vulgar Display of Power
Hayao Miyasaki is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a Japanese animation studio known worldwide for their stunning, emotional, beautiful stories and movies. At the core of Studio Ghibli’s work is a deep engagement with questions of humanity. About what it means to be a human, about how to care for one another and the world […]
tante.cc
March 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Well said!
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Clinicians using "medical" LLMs are essentially playing roulette with their patients' lives.
despite popularised beliefs, LLMs are not fit for medical applications. SoTA models produce "non-trivial levels of hallucinations" even w inference techniques like CoT & search augmented generation: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.05777
of surveyed clinicians, 53% use LLMs daily & 91% encountered hallucinations
of surveyed clinicians, 53% use LLMs daily & 91% encountered hallucinations
March 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Clinicians using "medical" LLMs are essentially playing roulette with their patients' lives.
😂😂😂😂
AI coding assistant Cursor reportedly tells a ‘vibe coder’ to write his own damn code
AI coding assistant Cursor reportedly tells a ‘vibe coder’ to write his own damn code
As businesses race to replace humans with AI agents, coding assistant Cursor just gave a peek at the attitude bots could bring to work, too.
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tcrn.ch
March 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
😂😂😂😂
Congrats to Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto for winning the Turing Award 2024! Happy day for reinforcement learning :)
March 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Congrats to Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto for winning the Turing Award 2024! Happy day for reinforcement learning :)
Ben Graham's words from 70s oddly relevant today (refering to post-covid inflation)
December 30, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Ben Graham's words from 70s oddly relevant today (refering to post-covid inflation)
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Re-reading your rejected manuscript
November 30, 2024 at 2:26 PM
Re-reading your rejected manuscript
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Our latest paper: how aversive systems such as pain help you learn safely but efficiently: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Balancing safety and efficiency in human decision making
elifesciences.org
November 14, 2024 at 10:31 PM
Our latest paper: how aversive systems such as pain help you learn safely but efficiently: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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DA and 5HT are still battling it out after all these years :)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin - Nature
Nature - Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin
www.nature.com
November 26, 2024 at 8:48 PM
DA and 5HT are still battling it out after all these years :)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...