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Jeffrey Epstein email sharing advice from Noam Chomsky to Epstein.

AI/ML folks:

Can we finally stop pretending that pseudo-intellectual, pro-Putin mouthpiece (and apparently pedo advisor even if not one himself - which is highly unlikely given his ties) Noam Chomsky has *anything* to offer the ML world?

Forcing PhD students to publish before thesis submission created a predatory journal gold rush.

Too many couldn't get into real journals fast enough.

So they paid to publish garbage.

Quality PhD work produces quality papers.

Not the other way around.

Twitter user @joni_askola: "The most overestimated IQ of the 21st century" (referring to photo of Elon Musk)

I dunno. I find it completely tenable to continue to dismiss any claims of consciousness for large language models.

NotebookLM's lack of Google Keep integration is the most Google thing ever

John Stockton admits he is not watching the NBA anymore because it's way too soft: "Fans want you to go out there and do what they can't do, not go out there, shake hands and hug" Hall of Famer John Stockton says load management, softer competition and the lack of true rivalries have drained his interest in watching today’s NBA.

Biggest flopper in #NBA history says modern NBA is too soft:

sports.yahoo.com/article/john...

#NBAsky

Slightly diminish a band:

Power Walk The Jewels

When Claude responds with "You're absolutely right," humans bemoan LLM sycophancy.

Humans when queried by anyone who might help promote their paper or fund their product/connect them to funding:
"That's a great question..."

JFC this is gonna be ugly

Humans when reading "delve," "multifaceted," em dash, etc.:
"AI slop."

Humans any time ML academia, investors, or just some random techbro asks something:
"That's a great question..."

Any politician who runs on banning the phrase "that's a great question" will have my vote.

MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation

view on hacker news

Person sitting with a banner that reads YOU ARE ALL COWARDS

This guy is just posted up outside of Congress and I’m honestly not sure what his political views are but I agree

Saw video on Twitterchan of a loud cheers for the drag queens, and a mix of cheers and (mostly) boos for pedo king even in a venue he tried to pack with MAGAts.

Chengpeng Li, Zhengyang Tang, Ziniu Li, Mingfeng Xue, Keqin Bao, Tian Ding, Ruoyu Sun, Benyou Wang, Xiang Wang, Junyang Lin, Dayiheng Liu
CoRT: Code-integrated Reasoning within Thinking
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09820

Are Optimal Algorithms Still Optimal? Rethinking Sorting in LLM-Based Pairwise Ranking with Batching and Caching We introduce a novel framework for analyzing sorting algorithms in pairwise ranking prompting (PRP), re-centering the cost model around LLM inferences rather than traditional pairwise comparisons. Whi...

Are Optimal Algorithms Still Optimal? Rethinking Sorting in LLM-Based Pairwise Ranking with Batching and Caching

Reveals that traditional sorting algorithm efficiency rankings break down in LLM contexts.

📝 arxiv.org/abs/2505.24643

Pangu DeepDiver: Adaptive Search Intensity Scaling via Open-Web Reinforcement Learning Information seeking demands iterative evidence gathering and reflective reasoning, yet large language models (LLMs) still struggle with it in open-web question answering. Existing methods rely on stat...

Pangu DeepDiver: Adaptive Search Intensity Scaling via Open-Web Reinforcement Learning

Huawei introduces an RL framework that enables LLMs to dynamically scale search frequency and depth based on information demands in real-world web environments.

📝 arxiv.org/abs/2505.24332

GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP We showcase a critical vulnerability with the official GitHub MCP server, allowing attackers to access private repository data. The vulnerability is among the first discovered by Invariant's security ...

invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-git...

Nonlinear Meta-Learning Can Guarantee Faster Rates Many recent theoretical works on \emph{meta-learning} aim to achieve guarantees in leveraging similar representational structures from related tasks towards simplifying a target task. The main aim of ...

🚨 New paper accepted at SIMODS! 🚨
“Nonlinear Meta-learning Can Guarantee Faster Rates”

arxiv.org/abs/2307.10870

When does meta learning work? Spoiler: generalise to new tasks by overfitting on your training tasks!

Here is why:
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Fender just launched its own free DAW software for recording music Iconic brand Fender just launched Fender Studio. This free music-recording software is primarily intended for newbies.

I did not have "Fender releases a free DAW" on my bingo card, let alone "for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and LINUX."

www.engadget.com/audio/fender...

David Anugraha, Zilu Tang, Lester James V. Miranda, Hanyang Zhao, Mohammad Rifqi Farhansyah, Garry Kuwanto, Derry Wijaya, Genta Indra Winata
R3: Robust Rubric-Agnostic Reward Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13388

Renjie Pi, Felix Bai, Qibin Chen, Simon Wang, Jiulong Shan, Kieran Liu, Meng Cao
MR. Judge: Multimodal Reasoner as a Judge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13403

Nithin Rao Koluguri, Monica Sekoyan, George Zelenfroynd, Sasha Meister, Shuoyang Ding, Sofia Kostandian, He Huang, Nikolay Karpov, Jagadeesh Balam, Vitaly Lavrukhin, ...
Granary: Speech Recognition and Translation Dataset in 25 European Languages
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13404

YouTube video by University of Auckland - Website video repository Marine mystery of octopus riding shark

Just an octopus hitching a ride on the world's fastest shark...

We need to eradicate cephalopods. 86 8 before it's too late!

youtu.be/3cYlBarkmDY

Taking me down memory lane. Mine was a very kludgy impl of assemble (remember grunt, pre-gulp?) with custom markdown-it plugins that also fed to pandoc for my resume in docs format. Back when I could I could look down on Bootstrap users with my shiny new Foundation theme.

GitHub - graze-social/aip: ATmosphere Authentication, Identity, and Permission Proxy ATmosphere Authentication, Identity, and Permission Proxy - graze-social/aip

Authentication is hard. We've been juggling OAuth and pockets full of app passwords, and we're know we're not the only ones. That's why today, we're open sourcing an all in one, best-in-class service that anyone can use to deal with ATProto authentication - for free.

xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs A employee at Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) wh...

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/xai-...

Seriously @bsky.app, you've got to figure out your deep links. Sharing from another app to Bluesky is completely broken in Android. Goes to the home (feed) screen every time.