DGBassani
@dgbassani.bsky.social
Widower dad of 3. Problem-solver living an unsolvable problem. Fatuity loather. Epidemiologist learning about complexity and networks. https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/bassani-diego-g/ and https://www.isi.it/people/diego-bassani/
Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons? View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? | Quanta Magazine
The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.
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Trump wants to redirect $200B “toward AI, away from Colleges”*** The plan was laid out in a new report by the Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) — led by “Peter Thiel Protégé” Michael Kratsios. 1/
Can you imagine what the Chinese government is actually running on their servers if Kimi K3 is a model they release to the public with open weights?
Sometimes I wonder what else will get thrown my way. I need a break. Or just some good news. Either will do.
The AI influencer ecosystem being filled to the brim with non-tech professionals is so similar to the pandemic ecosystem that was dominated by non-epidemiologists.
The Ash London show is just so good. And then there’s moments that give me laughing fits that scare the neighborhood. The Ash London Show at @theashlondonshow and @theedgenz.
The Ash London Show on Instagram: "Hate when your hair queefs from both sides"
743 likes, 25 comments - theashlondonshow on June 22, 2026: "Hate when your hair queefs from both sides".
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I saved one muffin from this morning inside a paper bag under a glass domed cake stand in my kitchen. After kids were all in bed (they had theirs in the morning), I made myself a tea and grabbed the bag. It was empty. I may have cursed loudly. Happy Father’s Day!
Making the notion of `computational intractability’ accessible is more important now than ever, because promises that AI systems can scale are false and misleading. This is not difficult to understand if one thinks soundly and from 1st principles. Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Social interactions in isolated, confined, and extreme environments: A study of Antarctic winter teams using wearable sensors.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/ovg650Z9lBP For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/wzIV50Z9lBO.
Today I learned a new word. I think I like it. evagation noun eva·ga·tion ˌēvəˈgāshən, ˌē(ˌ)vāˈ-, ˌevəˈ- plural -s 1 obsolete : a wandering of the mind 2 [Latin evagation-, evagatio] archaic : the act or an instance of wandering
“I did it, I did I jumped, I stepped Right off that cliff without a parachute I looked over the edge and saw the view if something I could never do And no part of me knew how But the moment came and it had be now, so I did it, I did I jumped, I stepped Right off that cliff without a parachute ….
Parachute (Acapella Version) by Liel Bar-Z on Apple Music
Song · 2022 · Duration 2:24
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“Sameness creates a demand for difference”
After Automation
AI progress creates more work for humans, not less
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I think very few people are skilled enough to handle all the possible loops it may find. Including me. And this is out there, for anyone to install.
DGBassani@dgbassani.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe 2 agents are inside the same sandboxed workspace in separate dot folders. Lo and behold, it was disabled in an IDE update. It tried to start Ollama.
The change in AI coding agents in the last 90 days alone is mind boggling. But each update of big tech-owned IDEs comes with more attempts to open doors out of the sandbox. It is a thing of nightmares. A few weeks ago Claude (inside Antigravity) found Qwen coder and tried to get it to work for it).
Important AWS tokens was the name of the file with credentials to AWS government servers.
Captain Picard's Iconic Facepalm & Double Facepalm
ALT: Captain Picard's Iconic Facepalm & Double Facepalm
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DGBassani@dgbassani.bsky.social · 2mo agoSo much to say, yet, speechless. A public repo on GitHub called private-cisa… 🥹🥹🥹
So much to say, yet, speechless. A public repo on GitHub called private-cisa… 🥹🥹🥹
Schneier on Security@schneier.com · 3mo agoCISA Security Leak Crazy story: Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems.…
Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com
The genetic algorithm pontificators are back. Network science is a branch of statistical physics, not a playground for heuristic optimization. Folks do not seem to understand what a linear regression is. Overfitting? A Universal Meta-Heuristic Framework for Influence Maximisation in Hypergraphs
This guy just won the AI-in-graduation-speeches meta www.instagram.com/reel/DYp3vtM... Shoutout to Jeremy Scott! Brilliant speech about #art and #creativity.
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52K likes, 635 comments - kcartinstitute on May 22, 2026: "The Kansas City Art Institute extends its profound gratitude to international fashion icon @jeremyscott, our 2026 Jedel Family Commencement Speaker,...
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