Victoria Venken
@victoriavenken.bsky.social
Theoretical physics person (she/they)
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In a stunning moment of self-delusion, the Wall Street Journal headline writers admitted that they don't know how LLM chatbots work.
July 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
In a stunning moment of self-delusion, the Wall Street Journal headline writers admitted that they don't know how LLM chatbots work.
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I love the idea that if a cop is searching me, they are the one at risk of a personal violation.
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First police force changes search guidelines for trans women in wake of Supreme Court gender ruling
Trans women in custody will be searched by male officers following Wednesday’s landmark Supreme Court ruling, the British Transport Police have said.
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April 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I love the idea that if a cop is searching me, they are the one at risk of a personal violation.
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my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content
April 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content
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It’s important to map out our universe! But dynamical dark energy remains wildly implausible. It’s a fanciful notion, requires fine tuning worse than a pencil on its tip, and yet more tuning for the sole purpose of hiding itself from observers for so long. I call it a unicorn in a duck suit here:
Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker? New Evidence Strengthens the Case. | Quanta Magazine
Last year, an enormous map of the cosmos hinted that the engine driving cosmic expansion might be sputtering. Now physicists are back with an even bigger map, and a stronger conclusion.
www.quantamagazine.org
March 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
It’s important to map out our universe! But dynamical dark energy remains wildly implausible. It’s a fanciful notion, requires fine tuning worse than a pencil on its tip, and yet more tuning for the sole purpose of hiding itself from observers for so long. I call it a unicorn in a duck suit here:
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i would like to wish everyone who bought Tesla stock at $480 a very hahahahahahahahaha
March 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
i would like to wish everyone who bought Tesla stock at $480 a very hahahahahahahahaha
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Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.
February 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.
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trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything
February 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything
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The anticipatory swiftness with which certain organizations go along with attacks on diversity and rewritings of history suggests that maybe some of the folks in power think that these are genuinely good changes.
Really? I guess the guys couldn't wait to get rid of this.
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#womeninscience #science #histsci #philsci
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#womeninscience #science #histsci #philsci
Scientists alarmed as Rubin Observatory changes biography of astronomer Vera Rubin amid Trump's push to end DEI efforts
"The idea that they can somehow obliterate these sources is dead wrong — scientists in general and astronomers in particular are not going to take these threats lying down."
www.space.com
February 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The anticipatory swiftness with which certain organizations go along with attacks on diversity and rewritings of history suggests that maybe some of the folks in power think that these are genuinely good changes.
Very happy to have arxiv.org/abs/2411.18396 out! I think it's exciting that we have a working dS/CFT set-up in 4D* Einstein gravity + matter from a top-down stringy setting. Surpirisingly, quantum cosmology and the swampland give identical consistency conditions.
Holographic (Eternal) Inflation
We identify a minisuperspace of complex deformations of ABJM theory for which the partition function specifies the amplitude of an eternally inflating universe. The boundary theory predicts that the b...
arxiv.org
November 28, 2024 at 1:09 PM
Very happy to have arxiv.org/abs/2411.18396 out! I think it's exciting that we have a working dS/CFT set-up in 4D* Einstein gravity + matter from a top-down stringy setting. Surpirisingly, quantum cosmology and the swampland give identical consistency conditions.