Felienne Hermans

I'm a gal but otherwise, thanks!

An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart Aidan Toner-Rodgers shot to academic fame in a field hungry for new insights and revelatory research. But a computer scientist thought something seemed off.

Odd piece in that the word "fraud" appears in neither the headline or article.

Also - were MIT's economists so detached from reality that they didn't wonder about a scenario where scientists were inventing so many new materials but keeping them secret?

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Incredible not just that this happened, but that it’s not even a second or third tier news story, let alone something Farage will actually be held accountable for. Doesn’t make the top 15 stories on either the BBC or the Guardian! Filed under “Wales”.

More people need to read "Why does he do that?" because a great deal of people are bullied and we don't turn into abusers. The narrative these people are victims is perverse to the goal of stopping abuse because it's not only false but contributes the cycle.

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Mensen die mij kennen weten dat ik hier echt mijn tempo heb geminderd vergeleken met normaal 🤣

Maar gelukkig is er niet-slimme, zeer handige "AI" om mij langzamer mee te laten gaan haha!

If there are no consequences to the "president" for threatening political opponents with death or being cruel to reporters, then why is it even news? Just so we can all be sad about it?

"You won’t get promoted for optimizing an existing service, but you can get promoted by replacing it with a new one.

Preferably written in Golang. Maybe Typescript."

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Matt Canavan showing a graph of real wages from 2010 to 2025 “Living standards have dropped back to 2011 levels since we signed up to net zero.”

Yeah dude, it was totally the commitment to net zero that caused the economy to fall in the late 2020-2021 period

Nothing else of note happened that impacted the economy

Ik weet niet of ik de vraag goed snap. Bedoel je dat het positieve effect van AI er wel is, maar dat we het nog niet goed kunnen meten?

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Escape room where the thing you are trying to escape is reading about Olivia Nuzzi

A LinkedIn ad showing Jensen Huang shaking hands with some vague fashion executive: L'OREAL 6,204,444 followers Promoted We're thrilled to announce a collaboration with NVIDIA to supercharge beauty with next-gen Al. WELCOME TO NVIDIA L'ORÉAL GROUPE

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

I have not read this yet, but having read Elizabeth's absolutely amazing book on the alt-right (bookwyrm.social/book/594052/...) I dare to recommend it unseen!

Will get back to you all later when I have more notes!

Me, before reading the excerpted passage: “I don’t see why anyone would read Olivia Nuzzi’s book. What a pointless exercise.”

Me, after reading the passage: “I must read this book. The hate-read theoretical has launched the hate-read possible.”

In case you writers out there have ever felt imposter syndrome, "From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible" is an actual sentence in whatever this is.

AI in week 46 Talloze leestips over AI, Dr. Chat, samenvatten met AI, stemmen op vrouwen en bubbels! | AI reading tips, Chat M.D., AI summaries, and bubbles!

Plus a lot of AI reading tips, so if Santa needs to fill some socks with books about technology, he can find them in my newsletter:

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Lots of things going on in the world of AI this week! It turns out LLMs in the medical world aren't delivering the results promised (by Geoffrey Hinton, among others), and what's the deal with the AI bubble?

"data centers already accounted for 22% of Ireland's total electricity consumption in 2024. In the Dublin/Meath area, where a third of Ireland's population lives, 48% of the electricity was used by data centers in 2023." @abeba.bsky.social & @krisshrishak.bsky.social

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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

A video pinball machine with a blue screen of death

last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before

Free Frankie!

The collapse of single-channel authority isn’t news.

People no longer wait for institutions to define what’s true or credible. They confer that legitimacy themselves and do it instantly.

It can’t be solved with a comms plan. You solve it by rebuilding trust across the actual centres of influence.

One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)

Remember when nearly everyone recognized the importance of reality. Wasn’t that cool? Now the most powerful nation in the world is led by people who believe in their made up reality or that there is no reality at all. Not ideal.

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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:

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