Jason Moore

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What does it mean to compute? Some computers are easy to spot. Artificial, human-built computers like those found in smartphones and laptops are abstract dynamic systems with observable computational elements like input, output, e...

Some computers are easy to spot — smartphones, laptops, the machines we build. But many natural systems — cells, brains, even turbulent fluids — carry out computations too.

A new paper by SFI’s David Wolpert and Jan Korbel explores these computations encoded in natural dynamic systems.

never had one, but very much want one. These sell for $3000 or more..... hard to justify spending that much! #amiga #amiga4000

For med AI, not the only thing they cover, but these are great sources:
@erictopol.bsky.social
@moorejh.bsky.social
@brittanytrang.com

For keeping up with AI:
@emollick.bsky.social
@tedunderwood.com
@simonwillison.net

My AI feed is also something people have liked:

control panel of the day #HCI

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

Predictable, but worrisome www.404media.co/ai-translati... #aislop #ai #hallucination #wikipedia

YouTube video by Ron's Computer Videos Using a BlueSCSI to revive your old Mac in 2026!

There has never been an easier time to bootstrap your old mac using InfinateMac and a @bluescsi.com! Just in time for #MARCHintosh
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwv7...

Epistasis and co-adaptation in bacterial genome evolution - Nature Reviews Genetics Bacterial genome evolution is shaped by epistasis, which can constrain or promote specific evolutionary paths. The authors review how integrating the effects of epistatic interactions into population-...

Epistasis and co-adaptation in bacterial genome evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41... #epistasis #microbiology #evolution #genomics

"Will 2026 be the year the official #MARCHintosh bsky account gets 1,000 followers? We asked these 140 random people on the street their opinion..."

@itsmarchintosh.bsky.social

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I have changed institutions several times in my career & learned my lesson about tying too much to academic emails. Advice to junior faculty: key everything to a personal email like gmail e.g. society accounts, publishers, subscriptions, etc.... #advice #academia #email

When I lost my university email, my identity as a scientist took an unexpected hit “My scientific life [had] gathered there, thread by thread,” this researcher writes

Science mag does a good job highlighting the struggles of academics. I am not sure this is one... www.science.org/content/arti... #email #academia

Amiga Workbench Simulator helps you pick your ultimate retro desktop — TAWS recently updated with refinements to OS 3.2, AmiBench presets You can test a very wide range of Workbench GUIs from version 1.0, through 3.1, 4.1, and even AROS, from the comfort of your browser.

Amiga Workbench Simulator helps you pick your ultimate retro desktop www.tomshardware.com/software/ope... #amiga #retrocomputing #AmigaOS

Kicked off #MARCHintosh by upgrading this Macintosh LCIII from 12MB to a full 36MB RAM with a new 32MB SIMM card. An easy board swap #mac #macintosh #retrocomputing

Ohh.... #biology #lego

Yes, I can confirm it has been unusually warm & summerlike here in Los Angeles. Fortunately, we have had a good amount of rain too #climate #losangeles

YouTube video by Ron's Computer Videos It's #MARCHintosh again! (How to participate in MARCHintosh)

It's #MARCHintosh again! (How to participate in MARCHintosh)
youtu.be/EXeosjniPR0

User Privacy and Large Language Models: An Analysis of Frontier Developers' Privacy Policies Hundreds of millions of people now regularly interact with large language models via chatbots. Model developers are eager to acquire new sources of high-quality training data as they race to improve m...

No one should be surprised that AI tech companies are using your chat history on their platform to train new models arxiv.org/abs/2509.05382 #privacy #security #ethics #ai #llms

This speaks to me HT Brett Voutier #scifi

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Happy #MARCHintosh!

Enthusiast runs desktop PC off 56 AA batteries — Intel computer lasts less than 5 minutes while playing Minesweeper Imagine carrying a ton of AA batteries just to complete 30 minutes of office tasks on your PC.

This reminds me of the Atari Stacy laptop that uses 12 C batteries www.tomshardware.com/desktops/ent... #atari #pc

Finishing up an NIH R01 today to submit to the void

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I was at an AI workshop with about 30 computer scientists a few years ago where the timeline for AGI was discussed at a backyard meetup over beers. We all made our predictions. One person predicted we will destroy ourselves militarily with #AI long before #AGI arrives. Seems like a likely scenario.

Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Divergent creativity in humans and large language models www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬💻🧪

control panel of the day #HCI

Go Blue! www.monsterarcades.com/arcade-systems not mine, I wish! #goblue