OpenAI’s o1 model correctly diagnosed 78.3% of cases in NEJM clinicopathologic conferences, outperforming human physicians. The model also maintained high accuracy on real-world, unstructured data from a major emergency department. #MedSky

Performance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physician

More than 65 years ago, complex clinical diagnostic reasoning cases were introduced as the gold standard for the evaluation of expert medical computing systems, a standard that has held ever since.…

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THE COIN DON’T HAVE NO SAY medium.com/@rosequarter... This was a great read

THE COIN DON’T HAVE NO SAY

“It’s just you.” Encoding and decoding in tabletop roleplaying games.

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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

We introduce epiplexity, a new measure of information that provides a foundation for how to select, generate, or transform data for learning systems. We have been working on this for almost 2 years, and I cannot contain my excitement! arxiv.org/abs/2601.03220 1/7

Yep. This has been my approach so far

Kelly Bodwin@kellybodwin.com · 9mo ago

I love all of this take. Also "frustration tolerance" is a wonderful turn of phrase, and it sounds less intimidating than the one we often use in Education, "productive struggle".

TITANS & MIRAS: real continual learning MIRAS = a unifying theory of transformers (attention) and state space models (SSM, e.g. Mamba, RNNs) TITANS = an optimal MIRAS implementation that’s “halfway between” SSM & transformer with a CL memory module let’s dive in! research.google/blog/titans-...

Titans + MIRAS: Helping AI have long-term memory

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no wonder g_d was pissed when they ate that fruit

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · 9mo ago

another paper that's just "turns out Platonism is empirically true about truth, beauty, and goodness"

It’s time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field. #publichealth #episky #medsky #activism www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Public Health Was a Place for Warriors Once. It Needs to Be Again.

It's time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field.

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Want a peek inside a 1,200 player RPG? Read out interview with @samsorensen.bsky.social about OVER/UNDER, the massive play-by-post game that's a part of Mothership Month ( @mothership.bsky.social ) manysidednewsletter.substack.com/p/inside-a-1...

Inside a 1,200 Player RPG

A closer look at Over/Under, the massive play-by-post game

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Do AI agents ask good questions? We built “Collaborative Battleship” to find out—and discovered that weaker LMs + Bayesian inference can beat GPT-5 at 1% of the cost. Paper, code & demos: gabegrand.github.io/battleship Here's what we learned about building rational information-seeking agents... 🧵🔽

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

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Over the past year, my lab has been working on fleshing out theory + applications of the Platonic Representation Hypothesis. Today I want to share two new works on this topic: Eliciting higher alignment: arxiv.org/abs/2510.02425 Unpaired learning of unified reps: arxiv.org/abs/2510.08492 1/9

if you're curious about the architecture and mechanics of LLMs, this site has a really excellent explorable interactive visualization. it helps build intuition for how massive these models are, what 'interpretability' means, and the complexity involved here bbycroft.net/llm

“[D]ooming is itself a liberation from the burden of choice. If everything is ruined forever, if your allies have already forsaken you, if the battle is already lost, you aren't responsible for your choices. They can't affect the outcome. You're free.”

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset

We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

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In a new paper with @didaoh and Jon Kleinberg, we mapped the family trees of 1.86 million AI models on Hugging Face — the largest open-model ecosystem in the world. AI evolution looks kind of like biology, but with some strange twists. 🧬🤖

Oh. My. God. www.popsci.com/environment/...

First known wild ‘grue jay’ hybrid spotted in Texas

Green and blue jays are crossing paths as temperatures rise.

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okay AI controversy aside, just talking as a nerd for a second: this is such a cool paper

Prof Mike Yearworth@mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 12mo ago

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

LLMs becoming superhuman at all games & competitions but not even normal-expert good at anything that's not a game or competition continues to raise deep questions about whether games & competitions are a secret natural kind

Solar luminosity around 3.5 billion years ago was only about 70% of what it is right now. Which means that when life arose on earth, it was outside the sun's habitability zone: liquid water should not have been able to exist. Faint Young Sun Paradox

It seems clear that the current historical moment will have a major impact on culture. Even recent art feels anachronistic. Movies involving govt/cops more obviously, but also just the undertones of social stability. It feels like it meant something different to make music last year. Any art really.

Hello, Bluesky! This account automatically posts updates when the Census Bureau APIs add or remove datasets. See the full tracker at www.hrecht.com/census-api-d...

Tracking Census Dataset Changes

See when the U.S. Census Bureau adds or removes datasets.

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If you're interested in learning #JuliaLang and are currently an #RStats user (or even if you're not!), then here's a little introduction to getting started! 📊 Blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #QuartoPub #Julia @tidierjl.bsky.social

Introduction to Julia for R users – Nicola Rennie

This blog post will give R users an overview of what Julia is and why they might want to use it, introduce some data processing Julia packages, and show how they can incorporate Julia into existing R ...

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This one hurts. I've always had respect for the way USPTF operates. It should be a source of national pride

Charles Gaba ✡️@charlesgaba.com · last yr.

UPDATED: Well, that didn't take long. Decisions about which services/medications have to be covered by health insurance will now be at the whim of people hand-picked by RFK Jr. Mammograms & vaccines? Perhaps not. Bleach injections & horse dewormer? Perhaps. acasignups.net/25/07/26/my-...

The chief of a unit at the National Institute of Mental Health estimates that between one and five per cent of people who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia actually have an autoimmune condition.

Mary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’t

Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane?

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1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows How did the city do it? Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year

This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

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Take 1 basic ramen packet Carefully open the side. Extract the flavor organ and reserve Carefully crack the ramen in the bag, avoid noodle ejecta Pour in like 1/4 of the flavor packet Break it up a bit more Close the bag with your hand and shake (not above your head!) Enjoy your noodle chips. Freak

Kendra P@hagofbolding.bsky.social · last yr.

BlueSky: tell me your food crimes for example, I eat string cheese by just biting right into the stick

16 years ago, I found myself in the back garden of a couple I'd just met, as they showed me their pillow fighting arena. The lesson they taught me about games - especially competitive ones - has stayed with me ever since, but I forgot to mention it in interviews when asked if competition is bad. So:

@onlyplaywizards.com’s “Public Health Wargame” is a fascinating intersection of tabletop rpgs and my day job, and I couldn’t miss the chance to talk about it

Rascal News@rascal.news · last yr.

Wargames and board game-adjacent scenarios can reveal the cracks in our health disaster preparedness, as contributor @aavoigt.bsky.social writes. These "tabletop exercises" are all about addressing uncertainty.

A few takeaways from my conversations with librarians at #ALAAC2025 last night: 📝 YES, journaling games are a great fit for libraries, because literacy 📝 YES, many libraries have D&D clubs but not enough DMs, and journaling games -- the ultimate GM-less game -- are a potential solution BUT... 1/▶️