I'm hiring again! 2 postdoc positions (3-years). Australian citizenship required. Join my lab to research scalable human-centred AI for decision support in defence, balancing scalable decision support and human control in complex environments. Details: uqtmiller.github.io/recruitment/

Visiting San Diego, I can say with confidence that the rest of the world is not up to real taco standards. That thing here rocks

Everyone stop, this is important

What does it mean when we say we understand mathematics and how will AI change all that? I recently attended the workshop on the Cognitive Science of Mathematical Understanding organized by Tania Lombrozo and Akshay Venkatesh, and summarized my experiences on my blog: gbalint.me/blog/2025/ma...

And now the propaganda rag "Magyar Nemzet" (along with other pro-Orban media) shared - then removed - a map containing the personal data, including the address, of the opposition supporters and activists whose data was stolen. Clear and brazen intimidation tactics. 444.hu/2025/11/07/n...

Nyíltan hergel a Magyar Nemzet a tiszások ellen, akiknek ellopták az adataikat

Ez a fideszes média történetének egyik legkeményebb húzása.

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András Tóth-Czifra@minczifra.bsky.social · 9mo ago

These tactics - data breach of an opposition database used for "we know where you live" type of intimidation, threat of prosecution and national security inquiry, etc. - are depressingly familiar from Russia from the past 5-6 years. www.euractiv.com/news/orban-r...

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap

dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.

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I had a long conversation with MIT Tech Review’s @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social about AGI; it fed into this very good read on the rise of AGI orthodoxy

How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time

The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies d...

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I have been doing ML wrong my whole life: arxiv.org/abs/2309.08632

Pretraining on the Test Set Is All You Need

Inspired by recent work demonstrating the promise of smaller Transformer-based language models pretrained on carefully curated data, we supercharge such approaches by investing heavily in curating a n...

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Cycling in Pittsburgh is great: the city is beautiful in the autumn colours, I never need to do cardio training again, and one may experience the "Pittsburgh left" which is when oncoming cars cut ahead of you at an unprotected left turn. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsbu...

Pittsburgh left - Wikipedia

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new blog post: Vibe coding in the 90's

Vibe coding in the 90's

Hey folks. You know how programming is hard in 1994. You need books, help files, manuals, references to learn about a certain feature. You read all those. Then you go through endless iteration of tria...

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Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

TIL that the expression: constant == expression, is called a Yoda condition and it makes so much sense. docs.astral.sh/ruff/rules/y...

I just saw a recent @nature.com paper that designs parachutes by literally cutting hundreds of holes into a disc. Inspired by kirigami, which is like origami but instead of folds you make cuts, if you cut a disc the right way, then you might just be able to jump out of a plane and survive.

👏👏👏 eurips.cc/salon-des-re...

Throw back to a cloud inversion on Beinn Eighe a year ago. If you have the chance, explore the Scottish Highlands!

The Hungarian government often mails people “National Consultations” paid for by taxpayers, asking violently condescending questions: “Do you wanna raise taxes?” A: “Yes, I like paying more to fund those who don’t work.” B: “No.” Then they use the results to fake support for their agenda…

Just came across this mesmerising art by Estampa of the components of GenAI interacting with humanity: cartography-of-generative-ai.net Reminds me a little of Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler's Anatomy of an AI System: anatomyof.ai

Please share! We have a number of fully funded PhD studentships in "Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing". I'm a possible supervisor & I'd be keen to support projects on sociolinguistics-AI, e.g., accent bias in AI, language+gender/sexuality+AI. www.responsiblenlp.org

Our CDT is based in the Edinburgh Futures Institute – the University of Edinburgh’s brand new hub for research, innovation and teaching focused on socially just artificial intelligence and data.

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Ironically, the “AI scientist”-written paper that was accepted to an ICLR workshop was about LSTMs and the paper didn’t cite Schmidhuber. AI scientists should have a Schmidhuber agent that verifies these important details in the future.

Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.

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"I have wait a long time for this moment, my little red friend." - Emperor Palpatine, probably

Team Cherry@teamcherry.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Hollow Knight: Silksong will be available September 4 on all platforms and day one on Xbox Game Pass! Watch the release trailer: youtu.be/6XGeJwsUP9c

Having been playing The Art of Fauna while procrastinating, and it is the most relaxing game with beautiful illustrations of animals. I cannot recommend it enough: theartof.app/fauna/

The Art of Fauna: Cozy Puzzles

Discover the wonders of nature with this cozy puzzle game. Download Now!

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For a week, we visited @iyadrahwan.bsky.social's Center for Humans and Machines in Berlin, where we have met an incredible array of interdisciplinary researchers. Special thanks to @neeleengelmann.bsky.social for hosting us and @alice-ross.bsky.social for organising the trip from the start!

Have been neglecting Bluesky recently, so I am happy to share a big update 🎉 I will join @cmu.edu as a postdoc in September working with the incomparable @atoosakz.bsky.social and Nihar Shah on understanding risks from LLM co-scientists. If you are in Pittsburgh, I would love to connect!

This thread is incredible.

Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk)

.@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database

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VCs: oh yeah, developers with AI go brrrrr... METR: Uhm, actually they are 19% slower with AI metr.org/blog/2025-07...

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find th...

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The Edinburgh RL & Agents reading group is back in action after a hiatus. Previous speakers come for all across the world, including DeepMind, CMU, Oxford, NUS, etc. Sign up for some great discussions about cutting-edge RL and agents research.

RL & Agents Reading Group@rl-agents-rg.bsky.social · last yr.

Hello world! This is the RL & Agents Reading Group We organise regular meetings to discuss recent papers in Reinforcement Learning (RL), Multi-Agent RL and related areas (open-ended learning, LLM agents, robotics, etc). Meetings take place online and are open to everyone 😊

The absolute state of peer review...

Pasquale Minervini@neuralnoise.com · last yr.

"in 2025 we will have flying cars" 😂😂😂

Orban: Budapest Pride ist verboten. Budapest Pride: Liebe kannst du nicht verbieten♥️🏳️‍🌈 Angeblich mehr als 500.000 Menschen vor Ort.