David Marx

Evidence from Formal Logical Reasoning Reveals that the Language of Thought is not Natural Language Humans are endowed with a powerful capacity for both inductive and deductive logical thought: we easily form generalizations based on a few examples and draw conclusions from known premises. Humans al...

Is the Language of Thought == Language? A Thread 🧵
New Preprint (link: tinyurl.com/LangLOT) with @alexanderfung.bsky.social, Paris Jaggers, Jason Chen, Josh Rule, Yael Benn, @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social, ‪@spiantado.bsky.social‬, Rosemary Varley, @evfedorenko.bsky.social
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stayed on twitter -> brain got cooked

Harvard is seriously considering to resolve dispute "through the courts rather than a negotiated settlement"

"A deal with the Trump administration is not imminent"

Well OK then, Harvard holding strong after all! Let it be inspiration for other unis who have not folded yet 💪

Excellent piece, including this quote from the head of Greece's statistical agency about why fights over data are also fights about whether a country can see itself clearly:

I don't think you need to break a sweat showing her respect. Feel free to pronounce it "trump's close friend and convicted child abuser"

uh... marines incoming

Tomorrow we discuss diffusion models for sampling unnormalized densities "Adjoint Sampling: Highly Scalable Diffusion Samplers via Adjoint Matching"
arxiv.org/abs/2504.11713

Join us on zoom at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 6pm CEST: portal.valencelabs.com/starklyspeak...

relevant paper:

> I argue that a definition of injustice not as allocative unfairness but as domination, drawing primarily from the argument of philosopher Iris Marion Young, would better explain observations of algorithmic harm that are widely acknowledged in this research community.

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles  WASHINGTON—Despite the president’s sagging approval rating overall, a Gallup Poll released Tuesday confirmed that Donald Trump’s support remained overwhelmingly strong among working-class American pedophiles. “Even though his polling numbers among Americans who are not sexually attracted to children have hit a second-term low, the president’s approval rating is still an impressive 80% among child rapists […]

Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles
theonion.com/trump-s...

Neural anticipation of virtual infection triggers an immune response - Nature Neuroscience Serino et al. show that seeing an infectious avatar approach the body in virtual reality triggers an immune response, indicating that the brain prepares the body to fight infections even for perceived...

Beyond the placebo effect: just seeing illness and anticipating contact (in VR) can trigger a measurable immune response.

Basically, yes.

There's a huge difference between a model seeing a codebase in its training data and a model "internalizing" all of its nuances or even memorizing that code. Unless a model was post-trained on low-level QA about python 3.14 implementation, I imagine RAG would be helpful.

Maybe you could index the CPython and asyncio codebases with an LLM and poke around under the hood?

Need more math lectures illustrated like this

Or how about journalists stop repeating his lies and giving him the benefit of the doubt instead of talking about how his objectives are clearly to promote racism and replace democracy with authoritarianism?

Quit hedging and just say it. The republicans are *actively* killing American Democracy.

There is a very real possibility that chatting with LLMs will replace search as the dominant UX paradigm for information retrieval. If that happens, it is critical that people continue to be able to find information about current events, i.e. these partnerships will be important.

I think this article is conflating two issues which it is important to acknowledge are orthogonal:
* forcing journalists to use AI - LLMs replacing labor/quality
* whether or not journalistic publishers should partner with LLM inference providers - LLMs replacing *search*

It's hard to wrap your head around the insanity of recent federal personnel policy until you sit down and come to grips with the reality that the republicans are actively working to undermine American Democracy and have been advancing this agenda for over a decade.

noble effort that has been ongoing since the first administration - www.reddit.com/r/Keep_Track/

Ancient natural hybridization event of a Chilean plant with the Tomato resulted in the emergence of the Potato plant and its tubers. The tuber structure permitted it to survive in a diversity of new environments, resulting in a rapid explosion of diversity and geographic spread.

That is some straight up Final Destination shit.

I Am Suing the Department of Justice for the Epstein Files Training Videos On July 20th, I was the first to report the existence of training videos instructing FBI personnel how to flag mentions of Trump and others in the Epstein files. Today, I'm suing for those videos.

BREAKING: I am suing the Department of Justice for the training videos instructing FBI personnel to flag mentions of Donald Trump in the Epstein files. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/i-am-suing...

This morning @muellershewrote.com and I fired the first shot at getting the DOJ's copy of the Epstein and Maxwell grand jury transcripts, while also asking some questions about the training videos FBI created to tell people reviewing the Epstein files what particular names they should redact.

If only there were some sort independent OIG whose job it was to make sure agencies like this did their work in a sane way.

Oh right, we had those already and trump/musk deleted those organizations for no reason and with no congressional pushback.

Fleeing One Step Ahead of Fascism The chilling warnings of Europe in the 1930s: "Reality is stronger than all our wishes"

Heisenberg 1922: I had been firmly convinced that science...was above...political strife...Now I made the sad discovery that men of weak or pathological character can inject their twisted political passions even into scientific life. (@vermontgmg.bsky.social)

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/fleeing-on...

Terence Tao has written a thread about the damage being caused by the grant freezes at UCLA.

mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...

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if you're looking to add discord to your rounds, I'm a fan of this server discord.gg/zBGx3azzUn

TIL about Mosaic idl.uw.edu/mosaic/

I agree, the twitter ML community was a great source of signal and I miss it. I find most of the important stuff bounces around here though. Don't let the FOMO drag you. Even if you're a few weeks/months lagged: the bsky community will make sure you hear the news way sooner than the normies.

* Many papers deserve more time than I give. If they get my attention repeatedly, I'll read more deeply each time
* I'm a unicorn: I already have enough context to skip over the background
* ML research culture facilitates incremental progress
* Visual communication in our field has matured a lot