Jonathan Stray

Improving Quality of Recommended Content through Pinner Surveys Rudraksh Kapil | Machine Learning Engineer I; Michal Giemza | Senior Machine Learning Engineer; Devan Srinivasan | Machine Learning…

Optimizing for engagement alone can lead to bad results for social media and LLMs. So what's the alternative? You can just ask your users what you actually want to know! Here's Pinterest explaining how they did just that...
medium.com/pinterest-en...

nope!

1-year risks of cancers associated with COVID-19 vaccination: a large population-based cohort study in South Korea - Biomarker Research The oncogenic potential of SARS-CoV-2 has been hypothetically proposed, but real-world data on COVID-19 infection and vaccination are insufficient. Therefore, this large-scale population-based retrosp...

Anyone got a take on this study suggesting COVID vaccines (both mRNA and other) increase the risk for some types on cancer? It seems well designed and plausible, but it does have an editor's note saying "concerns have been raised."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Sagrada Familia is every bit as awe inspiring as you’ve heard.

I’ve just discovered King Tubby and my understanding of music history is changed forever. He invented dub and pioneered the producer-as-creator… in the 1970s

To a first approximation, the problem is that they were never invited.

If true, all the more reason they should be in the conversation.

Ok. I love this conference but my first and probably biggest criticism of #buildpeace2025 is that, although “plurality” is a recurring theme, pretty much everyone here has strongly progressive politics. A lot of talking *about* the other, not *with* them.

Awesome. I’m really missing the back channel for this conference (remember when we used to do that on Twitter?) so shall we use #buildpeace25?

Ola! I’m here in Barcelona for #buildpeace26
Who else is here? I see @loreleikelly.bsky.social

Reviewing papers for IASEAI 26 is exciting! Lots of groundbreaking AI safety work! But I can’t help shake a certain imposter syndrome… I am now literally a gatekeeper in my field.

I saw Bugonia and wow.
Not for the faint of heart, but incredible.

Thanks for this Petter. I don't understand, though, how this graph can be squared with the graph in the top top post, showing that X is still majority Dem (58%) in 2024?

Also what's the source? Or did you make these yourself?

I... what?

What You Can Learn from 4,000 Conversations Between Israelis and Palestinians Adam Becker is building an AI-powered platform for difficult conversations - BCB #171

So I met this guy who’s meditated 4000 conversations between Israelis and Palestinians since October 7th. And he’s building an AI powered platform for difficult conversations. Here’s what he’s learned. www.betterconflictbulletin.org/p/what-you-c...

This date could have been a sext.

ATProto is just a 21st century NNTP, amirite?

@lawfaremedia.org where are you on this? I need expert Sandwich Guy legal analysis. The fate of our nation depends upon it.

I don't know it, do tell

Tell me about that? How would you set up your algo?

I've been saying that putting AI in charge of business will immediately result in fraud from the optimization pressure to make money, and lo! the experimenters have found the effect.
www.lesswrong.com/posts/LMwkQL...

I experience toxicity as predominantly coming from other users.

I love that! What's your idea?

The conservative view: Things are still bad. The context of Trumpism his critics keep missing.

I've said that newsrooms should engage in internal "adversarial collaboration" to figure out how to report on contentious political issues. Here's @tanglenews.bsky.social actually doing that, with a conservative staffer grappling with the editor's opinions.
www.readtangle.com/things-are-s...

If "media" isn't talking about it, how do you know about any of it?

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Idk it worked for me!

I'm really trying to figure out why I dislike TRON Legacy so much. I am a big TRON fan and I just blotted it from my memory. I thought Ares was actually much better as a TRON film. Legacy's design language just feels too much like an iMac commercial. It's not the inside of a computer anymore.

I grew up in Toronto. I could be a Jays fan again, sure.

Are you two working together again?