Andrea Lathrop

Or Mars, really, but I'm not as sentimentally attached to a pristine Mars. Though if your *real* goal is making actual human humans (eventually) 'mutiplanetary' I should think you'd start with a place humans could survive, such as terraforming Europa.

I suppose this fits with Elon's companies' tendencies to "learn faster" by iterating quickly over failures, instead of long, careful planning & flawless execution, and the Moon gives him more shots on goal than Mars. I think it's weird that one can just decide unilaterally to build on the Moon.

I like this framing:

Huh...

To clarify, I find it absurd that embodiment and world models could be "too... anything" for Yann, but especially funny that something could be "too robot" to be real/true. He is multi-talented, and this is squarely in his field of research. (I'm not sure what the Legion of Honor has to do with it.)

I think you are talking past me, here...

And they aren't allowed to play with robots???

It's so cute, how could you even be mad?

My French is rusty, but I'm laughing at "trop robot pour être vrai ?" (Is Yann's project too robot to be true?!?)

LOL.

(Please don't be ImprovBoston... please don't be ImprovBoston...)

(p.s. do we know which theater?) (Is this NYC? People's? Magnet? UCB?)

I am already Cog-Sci-adjacent to this mess. Please don't tell me I am also improv-adjacent. I don't need to recognize more names on uncomfortable lists.

It was both thrilling and immiserating, at the time, I probably have slight PTSD from it, and would absolutely do it again, in a heartbeat.

Most of the main players in the advertising audience measurement space release some kind of report every Super Bowl on which ads performed the best. We had the ambitious task of mixing all of our live data through algorithms quickly so we could report our ad leaderboard live. Quite stressful. (3/3)

We picked a different city each year, reserved a hotel conference room, set up large screen TVs & couches, and wired people up to measure heart rate, breathing, galvanic skin response, a few other biometric data types (and a small subset were also eye tracked) while they watched the Super Bowl live.

Oh, it was my job for several years in a row circa 2012-ish. I was a Senior Analyst at a startup called Innerscope Research, which did a lot of research-for-hire in advertising and market research. My primary role was eyetracking & data analysis, but Super Bowl was an all-hands annual event. (1/3)

This headline in The Chronicle makes it sound like most adjuncts are independently wealthy when the reality is they have to hold second and third jobs just to make ends meet.

It might just be me, but this sounds suspiciously like the bros are about rediscover support vector machines.

Oh, that's useful... I may need to spin up some Alts.

LiveJournal had a pull-down menu to choose the audience for each post, so you could choose it on the fly. I liked that. You could sort your followers into groups, and choose which group saw the post. (ATProto breaks this externally, anyway.)

I’ve seen several good arguments that chat interfaces are the wrong approach to AI. I’m always persuaded while I read them—and when I stop, I always wonder why history has refused to listen.

E.g this author seems right that chat interrupts flow and forces you to focus on the tool, not the code. +

Maybe I just need selectable alts with a single login.

I need a social media that separates my posts into tracks, so I can post academically to academics, silly yes-and-ing among improv castmates, political stuff to my wonks, and since it's hard not to sh*tPoast sometimes, a filter so everything I said after "academics" doesn't drive away my academics.

the most impactful thing Elon Musk has ever done or will ever do regarding science and innovation in this country is illegally cut billions of dollars of research funds for literally no reason

He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years

AI will never replace the institutional knowledge and memories of an absolute legend who was *listening to the police scanner the night of the Watergate break-in.*

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

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Idly wondering which of my marketable skills are the least replaceable by agentic AI.

I ❤️ Keytar Bear.

Just saw Keytar Bear playing a Red Line stop in single digit windchill. They are one of the best parts about living in Boston. Kudos to people who make public joy in tough times.

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