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Erin LeDell

@ledell.bsky.social

Chief Scientist @ Distributional.com @dbnlAI.bsky.social #MLSky #StatSky Founder @ datascientific.com Founder wimlds.org & co-founder rladies.org PhD @ UC Berkeley 🏡 🌈 Oakland, California.

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Janelle Shane@janelleshane.com · last yr.

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

David D. Levine@daviddlevine.com · last yr.

LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."

Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · 9mo ago

This is an incredible image of comet 3I/ATLAS, taken by Satoru Murata ICQ Comet Observations group on 16 November 2025 from western New Mexico. Structure within the major dust tail from the comet is clearly visible, together with two smaller jets trailing the nucleus and maybe even an anti-tail.

A bright, greeny–white splotch in the centre of the image is the nucleus and coma of comet 3I/ATLAS. To the upper right streams the major dust tail. The background comprises distant stars against a black background, with the NGC 4691 galaxy at upper left.
Emily Riederer@emilyriederer.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The way python and R foster inclusion directly contributes to their success: joyful places to exist, a steady flow of new maintainers, and a delightful collection of niche tools empowered by wildly different expertise coming together Watch the new python documentary for more on PSF’s work here

The PSF applied a $1.5M grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to make innovative improvements to packaging security — and we were recommended for funding! But as a condition of funding, we were asked to affirm that we wouldn’t undertake any diversity, equity, and inclusion work, whether or not we used the government funds to do so. The PSF simply couldn’t agree to that statement, as facilitating “the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers” is written directly into our mission and core to our values, so we withdrew our application. In the end, it wasn’t a hard decision for the PSF to put our community and our values first, but it does mean we lost out on this large funding source. Donations and sponsorship will help us fill the gap, so we can continue supporting the Python ecosystem and living our values.
Python Software Foundation@python.org · 10mo ago

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Gaël Varoquaux@gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social · 11mo ago

A speech about what drives me, how science and open source are bitter victories, unable to make improve the world if society does not embrace them for the better: gael-varoquaux.info/personnal/a-...

A national recognition; but science and open source are bitter victories

I have recently been awarded France’s national order of merit, for my career, in science, in open source, and around AI. The speech that I gave carries messages important to me (French below;...

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Sung Kim@sungkim.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Meta trained a special “aggregator” model that learns how to combine and reconcile different answers into a more accurate final one, instead of relying on simple majority voting or reward model ranking on multiple model answers.

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Autumn Nash ☕️💜@withenoughcoffee.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Plugging something into the tiny computer that you keep in your pocket. That one that has all your passwords, information, and location.. and giving control away to a random ai and company you know nothing about…

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine

ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 12mo ago

omg as a pentester PLEASE use one of these! Get them for your entire company. It’ll go great

Introducing Al Key, a small device that lets Al control your entire phone. just plug it in and ask it to complete a task. pre-order now.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last yr.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study

Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

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Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last yr.

I have some academic lady friends I’ve known for 20+yrs. This industry can be so cold, competitive, and selfish, but these women are so kind, generous, steadfast, and fun. We’ll sometimes get busy and go months without chatting, then reconnect as if no time has passed. I’m so grateful for them…

Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · last yr.

Maybe if your country is the wealthiest in the world but the richest tenth of the country have two thirds of the wealth and the bottom 50% only have 2.5% of the wealth, you don't have the wealthiest country in the world, you just have feudalism.

Amy Diehl, Ph.D.@amydiehl.bsky.social · last yr.

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds

A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

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