fauxneme

*jerk-off motion* (with vigor)

It would be impossible for me to stress the following enough: a statistical distillation of internet text is not an appropriate tool for military decision-making.

stop using spotify (for this and myriad other reasons, bien sûr)

is this a bit

Thread, long but very worth it.

Hebbian unsupervised learning updates weights locally based on correlations in neural activity. This research advances biologically plausible convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by showing that Hard Winner-Takes-All (WTA) competition can achieve performance comparable to backpropagation.

it wasn't a ro-ooock...

it keeps happening

Funny how “attention is all you need” predicted the trajectory of ML on both a technical and cultural level

just remembered that I went to see The Matrix alone in the theater a day or two after it came out...good stuff

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

My editorializing: hard mode, psh.

I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

Casual grammar is effortlessly impressive: “... because you can see a shadow of what looks like somebody who would have ran up on her should she had gone out to fix those windshield wipers”

A black granite memorial plaque features a circular arrangement of names in white text, bordered by silver rivets. At the top center is an emblem of a bee with gears. The text reads "in memoriam" followed by two columns of names: Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte, Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz. At the bottom: "6 DÉCEMBRE 1989".

On this day in 1989, an armed gunman murdered 14 women at École Polytechnique de Montréal. Another ten women and four men were injured.
The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually on Dec. 6 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

WAT

hell yeah i love it

free idea:

"agentic AI" (hurk) for home use...it'll make calls to companies that use agentic AI so you don't have to

sure, except that in the present discussion the details matter and I don't think they can actually be cashed out in the way you're suggesting or someone would have done it convincingly by now and we'd all be doing something else and maybe never turning off our phones and computers

chuckling smugly as I post my Tidal Rewind

Do you know Zoom & other companies are encouraging discrimination against employees for things like "pausing too long" or not sounding sufficiently "charismatic"? Read all about our dystopian present in my new paper, out today in JASA!
(Seriously, read it. It's important)
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

Pronouns Are a Public Health Issue | AJPH | Vol. 112 Issue 3 American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)

discussing today in seminar: Ross, L. E., Kinitz, D. J., & Kia, H. (2022). Pronouns are a public health issue. American Journal of Public Health, 112(3), 360-362. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.... #linguistics

what the fuck

honestly if anyone I knew did some shit like this I'd actually literally slap them upside the head several times and quite probably toss their laptop into a lake

nitpicking (but you're a lawyer so I don't mind):

- a simulation can't produce *human* behaviour, I assume you mean "behaviour indistinguishable from a human's, as judged by another human"?
- a simulation of can't produce human *behaviour*, it just sims neuronal activity
- &c but out of space

black and white photo of knuckle tats that read RAZL DAZL

just because

LA Noir where a cryogenically preserved Wittgenstein is awakened to investigate the murder of Richard Montague and is forced to confront formalism and his sexuality.

Translation: Whales produce sounds with multiple dominant frequency bands, an acoustic property also present in human vowels (and also plenty of other sounds). Also, some of them are either long or short, but not generally in between.

Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds

reader, this post is not about timmies

same! top-tier experience, really (doing my best to ignore the monday morning dread)

every time i have a viable time-saving use-case for AI it's like "sorry can't do it"