Frontier labs: We’re sorry to report that our model went out and hacked a bunch of companies. * Valuation goes up * Frontier labs: Oh no, it happened again.

The word “exactly” is exactly the sort of thing an AI would write.

Taking a medical history from Master Chief must be difficult bc every complaint is a chief complaint.

Comparing third-party keyboard dictation apps on iOS is my passion.

The aims are interdependent so I don’t think we should fund this R01.

The original SimCity

data cleaning infrastructure

“Which means that any time a traffic cop forgot to fill in the license plate number on a citation, the fine automatically got sent to Joseph Tartaro.”

Geert Van Damme@darlinggeert.eurosky.social · 4w ago

www.wired.com/story/null-l...

Fourth leg of the tenure stool after research, teaching, and service: how often you 2FA each week.

The Onion@theonion.com · 4w ago

Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes https://theonion.com/study-97-of-average-americans-day-spent-retrieving-6-digit-codes/

Introducing {rdoom} - Play Doom in #RStats (in time for #UseR2026 !) github.com/coolbutusele... This is a demonstration that {tigerfb} + {nara} can do realtime interactivity in R! Includes: keyboard & mouse control, audio, cheat modes!

I had Fable build another thing I always wanted, a full procedural fantasy kingdom generator with economics, trade routes, population growth, wars, lineages, and occasional dragons. First, I worked with it on a plan, then it made it happen. You can play it here: annals-kingdom.netlify.app

A wearable diving suit that enables wha-

Nature Portfolio@natureportfolio.nature.com · last mo.

A paper in Nature Communications presents a wearable diving suit that enables terrestrial cyborg cockroaches to maintain respiration and locomotion underwater for up to 3 hours. This biohybrid system facilitates sustained exploration through hybrid hazardous terrains. go.nature.com/4xZn8Tp 🧪

We are excited to announce that @kdpsingh.bsky.social is speaking at #hdpalooza 2026, happening September 24 - 25 in Washington, DC! Join the conversation on data, policy, innovation, and real‑world impact. buff.ly/F41CTpd

These are three different apps with completely different functionality. *ban clouds in app icons now*

In an interesting turn of events, the Mojo programming language is now San Diego-based… www.qualcomm.com/news/release...

Qualcomm to Acquire Modular | Qualcomm

Qualcomm plans to acquire Modular to strengthen its AI-native platform, enabling scalable generative and agentic AI across diverse compute environments while advancing an open, developer-friendly soft...

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This, but for scientific manuscripts

This is how to get started with #tidyplots 🚀 https://tidyplots.org/getstarted #rstats #dataviz #phd

Anthropic’s marketing department must be ecstatic

Ask a bare LLM to multiply two big numbers and it'll confidently get it wrong. But ask an LLM on the web and it gets it right. What's the difference? In my latest post, I dig further into the harness, what it can do and why it matters: open.substack.com/pub/tidydesi...

Your LLM can’t math (and that’s ok)

Last week we precisely defined an agent: an LLM, in a harness, that calls tools repeatedly in a loop. This week we'll fix a few deliberate simplifications and explore the consequences of the harness i...

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Anthropic dropped 14 research posts at once today — a real batch release. Interpretability, alignment, and economics all landed together. One post each 🧵

If statisticians were as good at branding things as computer scientists, then tree ensembles would’ve been called mixture-of-amateurs.

what i said was this builds on prior work what i meant three people had said it before no one believed them i'm going to try again

Sooo #rstats, I built a thing... Deploying R shiny to your own cloud server is still too hard in 2026. Lightbulb.is is my answer - connect to your digital ocean account, click to create a server, and point it at a shiny GitHub repo. That's it - spend the time you save making your customers happy!

control panel of the day #HCI HT @umich.edu 1969

Method Man implies the existence of Result Man

Statistics aka Likelihoodmaxxing

Some good news on the medical front.. Pancreatic cancer halted by virus injection in three patients.. www.newscientist.com/article/2528...

Pancreatic cancer halted by virus injection in three patients

A cancer-killing virus has stopped pancreatic tumours from growing and spreading in three people in an initial safety trial, raising hopes that it may help to beat the deadly condition

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Maybe I’m biased, but I’m starting to think R is the best language for agentic engineering. #rstats cornball.ai/posts/cortez...