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Andrea Reyes E (she/her)

@altibel.bsky.social

Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel.bsky.social · 8h ago

This 👇🏽. We can be critical without resorting to racist, ableist, etc tropes. That type of thinking also acts as an obstacle for true solidarity across the board. We should not strive to maintain our rights but expand them.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 12h ago

I dislike the "what are we a bunch of Asians" when the Red Scare and Nazis did the same if not worse in cases. > At the extreme end of anti-intellectualism, we have the Cultural Revolution and the Khmer Rouge. But I agree that asserting AI is an unstoppable force is of course anti-intellectual.

Joshua Grochow@joshuagrochow.bsky.social · 2d ago

“We’re now expected to either (1) check all this garbage that OAI is producing or (2) concede that all of these conjectures have been proven,” one algebraic topologist wrote to me. “I believe in politics this is known as ‘flooding the zone.’ We simply don’t have the resources to correct the record.”

Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 2d ago

New post on Transformation: Cracks appear in OpenAI’s wall of proofs https://www.quantamagazine.org/updates/transformation/#167798

Corey@kh0rish.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is why AGI isnt happening. Sense perception, movement, and memory are chemistries coupled to each other and all coupled to direct matter exchange with the environment, like a centrifugal governor. Nothing is representation, interpretation, “info processing”, or math.

There is another, radically different way to solve this problem, that is to couple the opening of the valve to something that necessarily varies in response to steam pressure and workload in a way that results in constant flywheel speed. By ‘necessarily’ I mean that the physical properties of this thing respond to changes in steam pressure and workload in a particular way. Such a solution responds in one step and does not require measurement. Thus, there is no time lag problem or concomitant source of error. Nor does it require an executive. In our current example, the thing that responds to both steam pressure and workload is the speed of the engine itself. Hitching the valve control to the flywheel couples the thing you want to control (the valve opening) directly to the thing that embodies the relevant sources of variance (the flywheel speed). So far, so good. The remaining problem is connecting these objects with the proper relation. In this case, we want a negative relation between flywheel speed and valve opening - increased flywheel speed should close the valve, while decreased speed should open it. The solution is to attach weighted arms to flywheel-driven spindle and to link the valve control to these arms (see pic). As the spindle turns, the arms raise and lower according to the centrifugal force generated by the speed of rotation. Faster spinning raises the arms, which pulls the valve closed. Slower spinning lowers the arms, which allows the valve to open. The degree of valve opening / closing varies continuously in response to the height of the arms. The result is uniform flywheel speed linked to oscillating pistons. This beautiful solution is implemented in the Watts centrifugal governor, and 18th century piece of technology that still works brilliantly.Diagram of bacterial chemotaxis. The stimulus ligand is environmental material. The MCP is a sensory receptor that interacts/bonds with environmental material, which triggers a change in rotation of the motor and thus changes the movement behavior of the cell. The “adaptation” mechanism on the left is the memory, it modifies the sense receptor to make it less responsive over time so that it will more likely stay in the area with all the good material instead of flying right through it. All these systems have feedback mechanisms to reset the processes. All things coupled together in an intricate dance of molecular activity, directly doing things and not measuring, interpreting, or representing.
Corey@kh0rish.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We understand a scene because we can distinguish between the molecules and electromagnetic radiation within it. We can do that because we create molecules that REACT differently to everything in it. No one feeds us “training data“ about all the matter and energy in the universe

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 2w ago

As an academic, it feels like some colleagues have lost the ability to engage deeply: they don't want to read an article unless it directly answers a question they already have... basically like using a chatbot they only want an answer to a current issue & not to actually learn anything or explore.

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 3d ago

we have a policy for the use of genAI at the @aial.ie. we reflect on values key to scientific integrity, such as replicability, and err on the side of not using it blogpost: aial.ie/blog/gen-ai-... pdf: zenodo.org/records/2322...

A flowchart that guides reflective thinking around generative AI in the context of research. It highlights key, interconnected values underpinning scientific integrity, alongside practical and wider socio-political considerations when deciding whether to use generative AI for research.
AI Accountability Lab @aial.ie · 3d ago

At the @aial.ie, we collectively reflected and deliberated on the merits of the use of generative AI in research. Our collective statement and Lab Policy can be read here: aial.ie/blog/gen-ai-... zenodo.org/records/2322...

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel.bsky.social · 3d ago

Similar to (scientific) publishing: increase of shitty things produced > increase review time (wasting precious time), while ppl further deskill themselves cause "lifelong learning" + "technology = job security." The tech narrative is so powerful that ppl cannot imagine a different present & future.

Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick@shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 4d ago

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

toilet bones@toiletbones.bsky.social · 5d ago

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Hello Bone Colleagues, I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. -- [My name] Chief Bone Inventor Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine Hartford HealthCare, The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
Daniel@buckmeister.bsky.social · 4d ago

Reading student coursework that is written with an AI assist is annoying. And if I ever have to see the construct "this is not only X but also Y" again I might scream

Bookshop.org@bookshop.org · 5d ago

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel.bsky.social · 5d ago

Univs & academics need to be aware of corporate tactics to influence frames through formal + informal collaborations w academic communities We covered this in a study with @solid-research.bsky.social, seminar on 16 Oct at 15:00 "What can universities learn from their ties with the tobacco industry?"

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Jed Brown@jedbrown.org · last wk.

One of these OpenAI astroturfed events just happened here. The "Student Leads" of the event are receiving cash stipends. It is not a registered student organization. Unclear if compliant with the Campus Use of University Facilities policy, which normally prohibits commercial use of classrooms.

Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · 6d ago

Replication as a rhetorical device is a terrible use of scientific resources. We need more curiosity, better methodology, and sounder theoretical grounding in metascience. This shtick of trying to have the last word on everything with poor methodology is going to turn it into a degenerate literature