Sachiko Hayashi

Struggling to imagine the chutzpah it takes to say that someone "doesn't understand New York culture" because they're an immigrant.

@walter-wright.bsky.social Happy Birthday Walter!

Sneak Preview of Trump’s 2026 NASA Budget Is a Science-Killing Horror Show The White House's drafted budget for NASA slashes research into the cosmos.

gizmodo.com/sneak-previe...

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour A look at the history of racism in America and its role in today's divisions

A Country Divided Racism - 10:47

#blackhistory
#blackhistorymonth

Sorry to say, but it's about to get real!!!

Many Americans are about to discover that Canada is not just a meme about friendly people and maple syrup.

We're a hugely important part of your economy.

#IStandWithTrudeau

Trump and his Israeli sponsor

Donald Trump, one of Zionist Israel's most loyal assets, to cancel student visas and deport pro-Palestinian protesters. Trump has also invited Benjamin Netanyahu to be the first foreign leader to visit the White House after receiving his help to usurp the US election.

DRC: Warring parties must prioritize civilian protection and humanitarian access in Goma The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s regional and international partners must exert pressure on all parties to the conflict in the east of the country — including the Rwandan-backed M23 fighters, ...

Thousands of Congolese civilians are once again fleeing for their lives, in desperate need of safety and humanitarian aid.
#FreeCongo
Amnesty calls on all parties to the conflict to prioritize the protection of civilians amid this devastating violence 👇
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...

Leftists who don’t care about the war on porn should look closer. Obscenity laws are the first step in banning ALL “degenerate” art.

They are already saying that drag queens and trans people are sex predators. That queer books are porn. They are priming the people to lump it all together!!

Sverige vill hyra fängelseplatser i Estland Justitieminister Gunnar Strömmer: ”Vi gör vår hemläxa”

Justitieminister Gunnar Strömmer (M) bekräftar att samtal förs med Estland – vill hyra fängelseplatser.

Let Denmark cook.

DeepSeek’s New AI Model Sparks Shock, Awe, and Questions From US Competitors Some worry the Chinese startup’s impressive tech indicates the US is losing its lead in AI, but it may really be a sign that a new approach to building models is gaining traction.

Some worry the Chinese startup’s impressive tech indicates the US is losing its lead in AI, but it may really be a sign that a new approach to building models is gaining traction.

Hands On With DeepSeek’s R1 Chatbot DeekSeek’s chatbot with the R1 model is a stunning release from the Chinese startup. While it’s an innovation in training efficiency, hallucinations still run rampant.

DeekSeek’s chatbot with the R1 model is a stunning release from the Chinese startup. While it’s an innovation in training efficiency, hallucinations still run rampant.

‘Uncomfortable truths’: controversial film challenges authorship of famous photo The Stringer, which premiered at Sundance, alleges that an incorrect credit was given for iconic ‘Napalm Girl’ picture

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

it says a lot about an industry if a free and open source alternative to every product on the market can destroy 1 trillion dollars of “value” in one day lol

Screenshot of a tweet by a (likely) US-american Twitter-user that also includes a picture of Trump. The tweet says: "🚨 RUMOR 🚨 🇺🇸 TRUMP IS PLANNING TO BAN THE CHINESE APP “ DEEPSEEK” IN U.S. FOR SECURITY REASONS. MASSIVE IF TRUE !!"

We are reaching levels of cope in the USA that were once unimaginable.

Oh btw: the DeepSeek-app isn't the only way to use DeepSeek R1 models. You can f.e. also use ollama (ollama.com) to run them completely locally on your own PC without sending your data anywhere.

Large Language Models Just Want To Be Liked When LLMs take surveys on personality traits, they, like people, exhibit a desire to appear likable.

LLMs bias their answers to appear more likeable if they realize they are taking a personality survey

hai.stanford.edu/news/large-l...

After software eats the world, what comes out the other end? Malkovich. Malkovich. Malkovich?

9. After software eats the world, what comes out the other end? Gopnikism and Ted Chiang revisited: how LLMs affect cultural creativity. Also, my favorite of all the post titles I’ve come up with. www.programmablemutter.com/p/after-soft...

Stream PBS and PBS KIDS Free on Prime Video PBS and Amazon announced that more than 150 local PBS stations and the PBS KIDS Channel will launch ad-free as a Prime Video FAST offering. This marks the…

PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch.

This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.

Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations

www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky

James Baldwin, The Art of Fiction No. 78 James Baldwin in Hyde Park, London. Photograph by Allan Warren, The Paris Review No. 129.   This interview was conducted in the two places dearest to James Baldwin’s struggle as a...

Writing + preaching are “completely unattached. When you are standing in the pulpit, you must sound as though you know what you’re talking about. When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know,… what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.”

Online Postgraduate Education in a Postdigital World This series is a new, international book series dedicated to postdigital science and education. It brings together a rapidly growing community

Online Postgraduate Education in a Postdigital World is apparently very popular because it's helpful for thinking through the complexity of online learning.

This is what I call success. Congrats to co-editors Gill Aitken & Derek Jones and our great authors.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

ChatGPT is an engine of cultural transmission LLMs and Gopnikism

5. ChatGPT is an engine of cultural transmission. On Alison Gopnik and how LLMs are like libraries and languages. www.programmablemutter.com/p/chatgpt-is...

A Very Human Answer to One of AI’s Deepest Dilemmas Imagine that we designed a fully intelligent, autonomous robot that acted on the world to accomplish its goals. How could we make sure that it would want the same things we do? Alison Gopnik explores....

www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/ai-... — Alison Gopnik

KiVA: Kid-inspired Visual Analogies for Testing Large Multimodal Models This paper investigates visual analogical reasoning in large multimodal models (LMMs) compared to human adults and children. A "visual analogy" is an abstract rule inferred from one image and applied ...

Here's another example from our lab, just accepted at ICLR, young kids can do these easily but Multi Modal Models fail.
arxiv.org/abs/2407.177...