i write to apply for the advertised fellowship position. as a notable 'that fucking guy', i believe I more than meet the standards of fella, and

3 years after publishing my book 'Representational Change and the Use of Metaphors in Problem Solving', this week it has finally become open access www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/downl... I had a thread about it on Tw*r, but I've long since deleted that account, so let me say a few words here: 1/13

I'll accept this as a transformative use of the day

jesus FUCKING chrrrrriissttt THIS WAS CYBERNETICS ONCE OBSERVATION THAT INDEPENDENT PARAMETER ACHIEVES CHANNEL CAPACITY UPON REACHING 400 MILLION BUCKS ==> **ICML 2026 Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention** FFS

do you believe in CHEESE? many BRAINS do also. IDIOTS but with the latest AI models, cheese may NOT EXIST AT ALL

do you believe in CHEESE? many BRAINS do also. IDIOTS but with the latest AI models, cheese may NOT EXIST AT ALL

hey hey HEY mfucker this is MY TURF better BACK THE FUCK OFF right NOW

Very grateful to the amazing @anilseth.bsky.social for this wonderful blurb: "The world runs on predictions, and it always has. Readable and rigorous, #Prophecy uncovers how predictions have shaped our lives from ancient Greece to the new oracles of AI...

How do humans keep inventing tools and technologies that no single person could create alone? Our new preprint, led by @anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. 🧠📘 arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837

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Extracting structural/linguistic properties for large text datasets can be annoying. Existing tools either are not maintained, do not scale, or do not cover extensive sets of linguistic features. For this reason, I implemented 🧝elfen, a Python package for efficient linguistic feature extraction

THIS. CHANGES. EVERYTHING.

in 2026, all loops will be strictly metaphysical. all procedural loops will be punished by summary execution

The first but by no means the last annoying rock star I refused to serve AND I STAND BY EVERY DECISION

Badbeard@badbeard.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Working in the Parade Gardens tea room a lifetime ago I watched @matspike.bsky.social tell Paul Weller he couldn't have tea because it was 5pm and we were closing.

MY GRAMMAR OPINIONS? FROM A MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER? WITH A SIDELINE IN POLITICAL PUNDITRY? ON THEIR BLOG OR FCKIN PODCAST OR SOME SHIT LIKE THAT? INDEED THEY ARE SIR, INDEED THEY ARE

Hi everyone! We are the Evolutionary Modelling Group! We are interested in many topics, from the evolution of microbial mutational robustness to the evolution of language and culture in humans. We rely on a variety of methods, both computational (evolutionary simulations) and mathematical.

I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio

GitHub - alanrogers/popgen: A course on population genetics

A course on population genetics. Contribute to alanrogers/popgen development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Finished teaching my first seminar course today! Had tons of fun introducing my students to the rational foundations of human-like cooperation. Now that the course is over, I'm sharing the syllabus more widely!

Have we figured out what Kant said yet?

the best answer i got for this:

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11mo ago

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

New analysis by The Australia Institute finds the Australian National University has a $90 million surplus, not a $142 million deficit!

The ANU’s hidden $90m budget surplus

New analysis by The Australia Institute reveals there is no financial crisis at the Australian National University.

australiainstitute.org.au

Thanking the reviewers

Hibernian's Erich Schaedler models the first sponsored football shirt in Scotland. (1977)

New Cambridge Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—fully #openaccess! @thomasreydon.bsky.social explores how evolutionary theory crosses over from biology into other fields, showing how these crossovers embody a broader style of reasoning: 'evolutionary thinking' bit.ly/48z3h36 #HPbio #evosky

Louis Armstrong playing the trumpet for his wife Lucille. #vintagephoto #louisarmstrong #egypt #sphinx

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"Knight Rider" (1984) s02e17, Garthe Knight (Michael Knight's evil twin) breaks out of prison. Now in glorious HD.

I've found it kind of a pain to work with resources like VerbNet, FrameNet, PropBank (frame files), and WordNet using existing tools. Maybe you have too. Here's a little package that handles data management, loading, and cross-referencing via either a CLI or a python API.

GitHub - aaronstevenwhite/glazing: Unified data models and interfaces for syntactic and semantic frame ontologies.

Unified data models and interfaces for syntactic and semantic frame ontologies. - aaronstevenwhite/glazing

github.com

Delighted to speak in Tokyo next October at this fantastic event ! 😎 Thank you for having me🙏! Will be talking about embodiment and Artificial Agents osf.io/preprints/ps...