Mark Crowley

I love Portland so much.

I haven't watched any of the godfather movies, and it's always shocked disdain from people. I try very hard to hold back my same reaction to people who haven't watched the whole Back to the Future trilogy.

Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

Diversity is Strength.

Agreed, why the rush? Why do people believe that this technology will make so many old ideas and processes including education obsolete in such a short span? What AI concepts would you test for AI literacy? I'm suspicious of this.

Why we should be skeptical of the hasty global push to test 15-year-olds’ AI literacy in 2029 Canada and other OECD countries’ plans to test students’ AI literacy in 2029 threatens to obscure essential questions about the marketing of AI.

Agree
"question the rush to AI and the current framings of AI literacy as an inevitable policy trajectory and preferred future for education.
... the pre-emptive decision by the OECD to proceed with its PISA assessment in 2029 signals a race to a finish line."
theconversation.com/why-we-shoul...

'There is no B.C. coast. It's Canada's coast': Sask. premier supports Alta. pipeline proposal | CBC News Sask. Premier Scott Moe repeated his support for the proposed pipeline between Alberta and the northern B.C. coast earlier this week by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

"There is no B.C. coast. It's Canada's coast. There are no B.C. ports. There are Canada's ports...I feel an equal owner in those ports as a Canadian."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I find this hilarious, does that mean there is no Alberta Oil Sands, only Canada's Oil Sands?

Yah, I didn't think so.

Maybe universities try this on that grant extortion offer that just went out?

They zip tied children.

Diversity is Strength.

Peace genuinely is a very great good, so I am less hostile to the idea than I think some on here would be. But in this case I think it is a misread of the movement he is opposing. They will not be deflated or inclined to moderate by compromise, they will be emboldened and further radicalised.

The first was a weapon, the second was a desperate delusion of the pre-scientific world to find a way to cheat death. Neither seems a very healthy approach to develop general, automated, reasoning machines that can augment human abilities and make society better. Maybe it's a story at all.

People need to realize that we are in a new paradigm now where billionaire owned mass media is spreading some of the most dangerous and genocidal voices from the fascist right as if they are rational every day, political voices

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

bad move.

Be honest, is anyone not watching Kimmel tonight?

Jesus to Pontius Pilate: it is you who say this, not me. If kingdom was of this world the angels would come fight. But My kingdom is not of this world.

Jesus wouldn't want anyone to fight a war at all.

With US backing, defiant Netanyahu vows response to countries recognizing Palestinian state | CNN With the backing of the United States, a defiant Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed a response to a number of countries recognizing a Palestinian state.

Remember kids, when you call out a bully and they blame you for making them hurt you or someone else, it isn't your fault. They are the one's choosing to harm people.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/m...

Yes, isn't this obvious? Many researchers have been saying this for ages. Hallucination is an inherent part of the system, even the "right" answers are hallucinations in a sense. This doesn't mean they can't be useful, but people need to know that. I'm glad Open AI is finally saying it openly.

Does sunk-cost falacy qualify? The ability of humans to not move in from a bad choice is incredible

..ly destructive.

This is so true. The math used in most AI/ML research isn't very hard by the standards of Math research. But the intuition is important and not avoiding it is very important.

CEO of DeepMind Points Out the Obvious: OpenAI Is Lying About Having "PhD Level" AI British researcher and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is throwing cold water on claims that AI has achieved "PhD-level" intelligence.

Nice to have some calm discussion about AI capabilities from someone people will listen to. Even admitting we need "one or two fundamental breakthroughs", good, I agree, at least two. Whether that can happen in 5 to 10 years depends on how creative everyone is.

futurism.com/ceo-deepmind...

Fight.
You don't have much time left.

Agreed entirely. But even if we accept the argument on the face of it, does everyone have some kind of right to have the tools to fake talent at anything they choose? Don't we have the right to demand truth about who or what created something?

There was no “debate” until Trump broke the law and cowardly mainstream journalists decided not to report the truth.

I repeat: First Democratic leader to face down a Trump tank wins the 2028 nomination. Do the right thing, win at politics.

Tapper: "Trump told Fox that he and Putin 'largely have agreed on' land swaps...Trump told European leaders that Putin will agree to end the war...in exchange for Ukraine ceding the entire Donbas region."

Witkoff: "I don't know that we have the time now to go through all the different issues."

On this week's @onthemedia.bsky.social: @micahloewinger.bsky.social asking @beccalew.bsky.social about some of silicon valley's technocratic right-wing roots; Buckley and George Gilder to Marc Andreesen, Futurism to Fascism.

You might already know it, but i guarantee you know somebody who doesn't.

Trump tells Zelensky that Putin demands more control of Ukraine, urges Kyiv to make a deal ‘Russia is a very big power,’ emphasized U.S. President ahead of Zelensky’s Washington visit on Monday

Wow, he just rolled over and delivered Russia's ultimatum like his Lackey. I guess the USA just gives up then.

"Trump said...that Ukraine should make a deal to end the war with Russia because “Russia is a very big power, and they’re not”"
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths We give a deterministic $O(m\log^{2/3}n)$-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition model. This is the fi...

Wut.?
Ok, this is very cool.
arxiv.org/abs/2504.17033

I mean, it's *cool*, it nerdy in the extreme. But it's nerdy cool. Didn't this was possible at all.

TL;DR - Someone has found a way to beat Dijkstra's algorithm that isn't constrained by sorting speed.