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older batch of stickers, new ones are in the works
new constitution, more reunions, 50th Desktape release and more ... coming up. Stoked to be working with Australia's OG (in many cases first or second-generation) road and production crew, amazing bunch

it's fascinating to me and interesting to dissect :)

by way of example, money, or rather income, issues i have currently are a pressure and that pressure will ease at some point 🤞OTOH, ongoing health realities (3+ decades of auto-immune condition expressing mostly in rheum arthritis) are a factor ... core or peripheral -- that can and does change ...

I have been thinking a lot, recently, about _factors_ (core and peripheral) and _pressures_, as contributors to suicidal ideation ... the misinterpretation of Woolf's letter highlight this pertinently, for me.

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www.themarginalian.org/2014/03/28/v...

Screenshot reading: "A good example of this could be witnessed during the pandemic. In the early days of Covid-19, businesses shut down en masse. Laid-off employees swarmed online to apply for unemployment benefits, and the websites for many state governments crashed under the load. In New Jersey, the governor told the press that their COBOL systems desperately needed help to deal with the new demands. “Literally, we have systems that are 40-plus-years-old,” he noted. But technologists who were working behind the scenes to fix the problems knew that the number-crunching COBOL wasn’t the problem. That old stuff was working fine. No, it was the newer stuff that had crashed — the programs powering the website itself. “The thing that went bananas was this web application in between the mainframe and the outside world. That was the thing that sort of fell apart,” says Marianne Bellotti, a programmer and writer who worked for years on government systems, and who observed New Jersey’s system. But it’s too embarrassing, as the historian Hicks points out, to admit that “oh, our web systems broke down.” Bellotti’s seen the same thing happen with other government agencies, like the IRS. She was called in once to help with an IRS web app that wasn’t working. When they investigated, they found that, indeed, the problem was in newer programs, “this chunk of poorly written Java code”. The mainframe running COBOL, in contrast, was racing along like a Ferrari."

Remember back during COVID, when there was a sudden influx of people applying for unemployment benefits?

The New Jersey system crashed ...

... and governor blamed it on old COBOL systems

Nope

He was wrong

the COBOL ran *fine*

It was the newer web-site code that croaked

5/9

Whisper the important things 🙉🤍

Working at the intersection of social choice and learning algorithms?

Check out the 2nd Workshop on Social Choice and Learning Algorithms (SCaLA) at @ijcai.bsky.social this summer.

Submission deadline: May 9th.

I attended last year at AAMAS and loved it! 👍

sites.google.com/corp/view/sc...

Do replicants dream?

Tears in the rain ...

from the other place
here
@thepoetengineer.bsky.social

Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.”

When the oligarchs control the puppet ...

"Expect AI to be unfair, discriminatory, unsafe, and deployed irresponsibly"

www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...

YouTube video by Amii TURING AWARD WINNER Richard S. Sutton in Conversation with Cam Linke | No Authorities in Science

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Pe... An interview with Rich. The humility of Rich is truly inspiring: "There are no authorities in science". I wish people would listen and live by this.

Just released: Report of the 2025 AAAI Presidential Panel on the Future of AI Research. Covers a selection of topics of a larger set of research directions, providing high-level glimpses. Enjoyed collaborating with colleagues on the project. Report pdf avail here:
aaai.org/wp-content/u...

Many people have asked me about the France Action Summit.

I think a summit is typically most valuable as a catalyst, not as a solution in itself.

But, will share some observations.

Google Gemini: Planting Instructions For Delayed Automatic Tool Invocation · Embrace The Red Attackers can pollute the prompt context of large language model applications and invoke tools, which otherwise might not be accessible.

this is a wild series of work
embracethered.com/blog/posts/2...

it looks it! saw the trailers, really looking forward to watching it! Thanks for your post @tatiana1979.bsky.social :)

oh tf now i can see a blank page again

thanks Leah Miller1 ! answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...

I've watched this over n over

I miss working in Dance. Especially miss doing lighting design for dance. That was all last century for me

This show looks great!

... also making me think about the many definitions of entropy, and moreso a recent-ish paper that enumerated over a hundred i think it was, theories of intelligence ftom IIT to pan-psychism and beyond!

Wrt to Shannon and the quotient H, hey now there's an apparently immovable object 🙃

On 1991 i was in art school and, influenced by Stelarc, i found myself reading Wiener's Cybernetics. I didn't have much context in which to understand it and i didn't really go back there while doing my degree. I should, and i will reply to this when i have refreshed on it, but for now this is 1/2

Bifurcations galore :) I have tried to think about how reaction-diffusion might be useful as a process model for complexity in ai reasoning but admit I haven't gone very far with it.

I think i think that equilibrium is found over time in an ecology of multiple games and singular agents with intent on purely winning may not be helpful to that. Then again ... zd strategies share a lot with executive function in society no?

Today I'm cutting firewood around the house and raking hay. 4 or 5 months until it's cold and dark again. Need the hay in now!

Week 6: The theory paper in focus this week is the iconic "Electronic mail game" by @arielrubinstein.bsky.social. It is characteristic Rubinstein---communicating a big idea with elegant simplicity. It brought into focus failures of common knowledge, by extension failures in coordination.

Love the Byzantine Generals problem :)

In a curious turn of events, I suddenly find myself on the job market!

I've worked as a webdev for decades now.
It's time to do my own work, in AI OS.

I am involved in a study with group of intl AI researchers, very keen to work on that rn

Looking forward to new opportunities!

as opposed to non-zerosum games, that is. It's one of the things I like so much about the Robinson & Goforth topological model, as a discrete continuum from zero coop to full coop.

I am glad! thanks again for adding me to the list :) Most people seem to think dropping the term 'zero-sum' makes them cool or something but i think they are the least interesting class of games, and by extension, of human nature ...

Awesome to be added to this starter pack, my first! Cheers @nonzerosumjames.bsky.social

I'm all here for the non-zero, general-sum, way 🙂

also worth every cent 🥰

yes, me too :) it really is a great book, the way it turns everything inside out ... i did not see that coming!