Barry Devereux

"in 2025 we will have flying cars" 😂😂😂

Giving way to the right.

"The EU supplies at least a third of Israel’s arms imports and has its most comprehensive association agreement with the country. Conditional on respect for international law.

If the political will exists, the EU has the means to act."

- Josep Borrell

I wonder if she knows him?

I would guess the decline is even more severe in the other place. I imagine the trend reflects the rise in "private social media", i.e. private discords, WhatsApp groups, etc.

Work in progress -- suggestions for NLP-ers based in the EU/Europe & already on Bluesky very welcome!

go.bsky.app/NZDc31B

"LLMs come to decisions then make up reasons that sound plausible" "LLMs are just bags of heuristics" welcome to weeks one and two of my human reasoning class.

Europe Must Avoid Becoming a Digital Colony The EuroStack is the continent’s last chance for technological sovereignty in the era of AI.

Europe Must Avoid Becoming a Digital Colony. The EuroStack is the continent’s last chance for technological sovereignty in the era of AI. My latest on @foreignpolicy.com with Haroon Sheik. foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/31/e...

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I am curious why you think it won't be enough (obviously I hope you're right). TSLA's high share price reflects people's willingness to bet on Musk's ability to successfully be corrupt as much as it reflects confidence in Tesla's business.

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.

Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.

We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

Freedom and democracy are always worth fighting for. Slava Ukraini.

Testing web page summarization with Gemini Flash, and I feel like calling it a day. (I have for a week now.) For this news article, www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/g..., I got this summary.

New bsky users, are you looking for really cool ideas? Look no further. go.bsky.app/H61xswq

I noticed a lot of starter packs skewed towards faculty/industry, so I made one of just NLP & ML students: go.bsky.app/vju2ux

Students do different research, go on the job market, and recruit other students. Ping me and I'll add you!

The NATO treaty does not oblige member countries to go to war, only to provide assistance. And if Denmark tried to invoke Art.5 it seems very unclear what decisions the NATO Security Council could or would make in those circumstances. Not to mention Trump would be completely fine with breaking NATO.

Instead of trying to buy Greenland, wouldn't it be easier and more realistic to simply occupy and annex it? Putin got away with a much bigger and riskier annexation in 2014.

Terrible tragedy. Douwe posted this on X:
x.com/douwekiela/s...
With a link and details about the service London:
> his family have asked to share this webpage for the celebration of his life: pp.events/felix

I have newly taken a solemn oath about abstaining from plays and wine, which I am resolved to keep according to the letter of the oath which I keep by me.

Human Thought Is Far Slower Than Your Internet Connection (Gift Article) A new study is “a bit of a counterweight to the endless hyperbole about how incredibly complex and powerful the human brain is,” one researcher said.

I wrote about a scientific paper called “The Unbearable Slowness of Being” which finds that the human brain’s throughput is just 10 bits per second. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/s...
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Humans vs Ants: Problem-solving Skills

They are ants solving a geometric problem 🐜

Intelligence is the ability to predict (at multiple temporal scales and at multiple levels of abstraction). This is one of the reasons LLMs have proven so unreasonably effective.

New episode!! 🧠🎙️

A conversation w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social about the neurobiology of language.

How does the brain support our complex, multi-faceted capacity for language? How much specialization is there? How much plasticity? And how can we figure all this out?

Listen: disi.org/your-brain-o...

A reassessment of the "hard-steps" model for the evolution of intelligent life According to the "hard-steps" model, the origin of humanity required "successful passage through a number of intermediate steps" (so-called "hard" or "critical" steps) that were intrinsically improbab...

Just gave a talk at the INAF Osservatorio Astrofisico in Florence on our new paper disputing the "Hard Steps" model for the evolution of intelligence.

Lesson: Astrobiology needs deep conversations with domain experts.

arxiv.org/abs/2408.10293

@astrowright.bsky.social

That is a battle that was lost on 5th Nov sadly. Maybe before.

If OpenAI really believed they were on the cusp of AGI, they would not be putting so much effort into creating products and services for ordinary consumers.

Would appreciate being added, many thanks.

A Drive to Survive now has a cover! Thanks to my friend Toby Logan saving the day with his design skills.

Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!