e) Google meet links
f) Meeting links
g) links
You can tell by them using (e), (f), or (g) just how long each of my coworkers has been working here.
The TDA crowd:
I missed this scandal when it came out - but surely this is the final reason to stop the madness of CS research being measured by conferences rather than journals?
stevensalzberg.substack.com/p/an-embarra...
My household has been battling RSV for the last two weeks and, like honestly, 0 stars for this experience. Cannot recommend.
In fairness, people were really confused about fictional characters in early novels! It does seem like there’s a parallel there.
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻?
This looks like a must read (suppl material bursting with goodies).
#neuroskeyence
doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
RIP redundancy reduction?
Beautiful work by Liu & colleagues showing that neural redundancy increases with learning, as predicted by a Bayesian model:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I gave up at 11
1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
2yo loves playing with all sorts of tissue paper
2yo learns where I keep the toilet paper in the bathroom
2yo makes it her morning routine to transport the all (yes, all) toilet paper from the bathroom into her room to play with it
So now I need to inform house guests that my bathroom is BYOTP
We have automated much of coding, but software engineering is still very much in the human domain
I've recently used Claude to refactor a whole python library. It was helpful for finding the cause of some errors quickly and definitely saved me days on writing docs. But when asked to add a new functionality, it ignored all existing classes in the code and added a bunch of redundant ones
I've been testing Claude to see how well it can "vibe out" a stat. power app that I've already coded completely myself - so I know what I want. It mostly gets things right with animations (those are easily verifiable) but looking into the backend stats code is nightmare inducing (see pic).
I believe they do sometimes, but the Blackpink ladies seem to be too iconic and too loved by their fans to be replaceable
Just realized that Blackpink has been an insanely successful girl group for 10 years already. The best thing about that is that K-pop producers are now forced to let women in their 30s be pop idols.
Latest working paper 🧪 w/ @shalmoli-ghosh.bsky.social and @matthewdeverna.com shows that AI porn and NSFW deepfakes targeting women are being commoditized
A Marketplace for AI-Generated Adult Content and Deepfakes
Preprint: doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Hello!
This is a reminder that @cornelltech.bsky.social runs a Red Team Clinic that provides a *free* safety consultation to nonprofits / public sector orgs that are developing a public-facing AI tool and want to stress-test it for possible abuse vectors.
Applications welcome on a rolling basis:
True for vibe coding but also for writing in general. I miss reading succinct texts
www.fast.ai/posts/2026-0...
"AI coding agents can produce syntactically correct code... they don’t produce useful layers of abstraction nor meaningful modularization. They don’t value conciseness or improving organization in a large code base. We have automated coding, but not software engineering."
waiting for some experiments to run, so a quick thread about base models and pretraining contamination, with some weird & interesting base model generations i've collected over time.
or, why do open source models claim to be claude or chatgpt?
Probably not making any friends with this but consciousness is a social construct.
Not to be a downer, but I firmly believe that there needs to be more transparency into how precarious the academic job market is for young researchers. I had a spreadsheet like this. When I left academia in 2024 it had over 250 entries - all rejections, no responses, and one abruptly rescinded offer
I heard what everyone has been clamoring for is 6,000 words on what a simple question about the 1990s comedy My Cousin Vinny can teach us about the capabilities and surprising weaknesses of current LLMs. Well, I hate to disappoint people, so I went and wrote it. open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...
Really appreciated Joshua Gans' postmortem on an experiment in vibe researching
joshuagans.substack.com/p/reflection...
Taste is still paramount and the models are instruction-tuned to sycophancy to all hell
Please read the whole thread through, starting from the skeet that this is in reply to.
The auto generated alt text on this meme is ... extremely misleading.
(Better alt: Troy from Community enters a room with a stack of pizzas but the room is on fire.)
