Alice Schwarze

I just shook hands with Joseph Gordon Levitt and managed to be cool about it 😎

@andymasley.bsky.social you've written a about data center water usage, have you explored differences in water quality?

If data centers use potable drinking water (to avoid damaging their cooling equipment with mineral buildup-up) that means comparisons to agricultural water usage may be misleading

Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research “These models somehow just generalize dramatically worse than people. It's a very fundamental thing.”

Ilya Sutskever argues that we are shifting from the age of scaling to the age of research:
The interview highlights why future progress will depend on new learning principles, continual learning, and a deeper understanding of generalization, not just more compute.
#AIResearch #FutureOfAI

So here we are at the

Super annoyed at how good Gemini 3 is at being a sounding board for policy implementation planning. Throws a wrench into my plan to be a ride-or-die Claude user until the end of my days

Props to whoever came up with acronym. It makes my mom very happy

I really, really hate to admit it but in a world where everyone with $20 cash can vibe code a wonky product pilot for any app that they can think of, it takes Sam-Altman level ambitions to stand out in the crowd

Donald Trump’s support for pro-AI proposal fuels Maga backlash US president endorses move to restrict regulation by states after lobbying from Silicon Valley

"A plan backed by Donald Trump to restrict US states from regulating AI companies has provoked a backlash from prominent Republicans and Maga supporters, and accusations that he has caved to Big Tech donors."

This is bad.

The multimodal reasoning is very cool. Something I’ve been tracking with models for a while and Gemini 3 Pro was the first to produce a plausible response.

It would have been good academic practice to position your work in the context of existing academic literature in this space. Is that something in the realm of your capabilities?

Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3 From chatbots to agents

I had access to Gemini 3. It is a very good, very fast model. It also demonstrates the change from chatbot to agent. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/three-year...

In other words, half of school should just be learning about epistemology and statistics. The kids can learn about the mitochondria being the powerhouse of the cell when they go to college

My radical edu take: LLMs devalue knowledge retrieval, so the 3 most important skills to learn in school now are

1. identifying high-qualilty information from the rest,
2. making good decisions in an oversaturated information environment
3. understanding the difference between data and knowledge

Currently watching GoT for the first time and pretty convinced that Daenarys Targaryen is an effective altruist

📣 New BBS preprint out now! 📣

"Models casting egalitarian societies as crucibles of equality perpetuate the factually uninformed notion that foragers are somehow more noble. Critiques portray egalitarianism as romantic fantasy. Neither characterization is wholly justified."

doi.org/10.1017/S014...

And while you review that, my students' human-written paper only gets reviews written by chatgpt 🤡

A digital drawing of one of those drawing tutorials that says 'don't do this, do this.' The drawing is of an almost naked middle-aged man doing a flying kick. The 'Don't do this' one has a bunch of areas circled and a cross under it. The 'Do this' one is exactly the same but without the circles and a tick instead of a cross. The text reads 'Needlessly adding red circles will ruin your art' and a smaller bit of text at the bottom reads 'Bonus tip! Add a tick under all your art so people think you did it right.'

#3157 A helpful tutorial

Behavioral Timescale Synaptic Plasticity: A Burst in the Field of Learning and Memory Hebbian synaptic plasticity is currently the main framework to relate neuronal activity, network structure, and learning and memory. However, recent experimental and computational modeling studies hav...

We also have a review out in JNeuro on the topic with @neurosutras.bsky.social, Tom O'Dell, Anant Jain, @clopathlab.bsky.social and Mark Sheffield.
Physical copies available at @sfnjournals.bsky.social booth.
www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...

Biological Theory

🗃 A new study brings together evolution, complexity, and life history theory, proposing that teleonomic complexity—measured through life history strategies—offers a way to understand how organisms evolve and adapt over time. bit.ly/4nIPV8F #EvoSky #AcademicSky @robsalgo.bsky.social

Table 1 Typology of traps, how they can be avoided, and what goes wrong if not avoided. Note that all traps in a sense constitute category errors (Ryle & Tanney, 2009) and the success-to-truth inference (Guest & Martin, 2023) is an important driver in most, if not all, of the traps.

NEW paper! 💭🖥️

“Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?”

— Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡

osf.io/preprints/ps...

A YouTube video with the headline "put down your phone and embrace boredom"

Yeah I am not going to click on that. Looks boring

I for one would love a world where almost all parking spots are shaded

In less than 3 months this gem on github is going to have its 10 year anniversary

Rohit Bandaru | Deep Dive into Yann LeCun’s JEPA ML blog.

Among news of Yann LeCun leaving Meta, I learned about his JEPA architecture and world models. This looks like a detailed write up from an engineer at Google: rohitbandaru.github.io/blog/JEPA-De...

Structure in noise: Recurrent connectivity shapes neural variability to balance perceptual and cognitive demands in the human brain Does neural variability reflect random noise or a feature that benefits adaptive behavior? Using intracranial recordings in humans, Terlau et al. demonstrate that neural variability results from the r...

New work from the lab published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social by @jonasterlau.bsky.social and Jan Martini. We describe that trial-by-trial variability indexes recurrent connectivity across the cortical hierarchy, which supports reliable and flexible coding www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... (1/4)

New, spicy competitor for Zachary's Karate Club just dropped

If someone finds a place on this planet where a woman's primary occupation is anything other than managing the emotions of the men around them please let me know

Marino Badiale, Isabella Cravero
Computations for the first Lyapunov coefficient
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08428