Ljubomir Josifovski
@ljupco.bsky.social
ML/AI R&D sci/eng, QT, noisy ASR, TTS Open ASI+compute for */acc 🚀 It's more fun to compute 😇 Love is wise, hate is foolish 🥰 Bsky https://tinyurl.com/3nxj7pcc (tap Latest) $HOME https://ljubomirj.github.io
No, I’m not gonna stop talking about the Epstein Files. I’m sharing my experiences as a model in the 80s & 90s and how I saw the way the fashion industry supplies young, vulnerable women to wealthy predators. This has been going on for decades & there is a reckoning to come! youtu.be/8eg1afaQYC0?...
How modeling agencies are the conduit between predatory men and young, vulnerable women
YouTube video by Lisa Guerrero
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1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...
Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 5mo agoBlock them all! Amazing strategy which is absolutely bound to work!
Yeah this is exactly the thing. Increasingly you are telling people to not believe their lying eyes when you tell them LLMs are useless. Their actual lives will directly contradict this. They will likely discount most other unrelated things you say as a result. This can’t become a left/lib dogma.
Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 5mo ago4. I think that it is important that critics of LLMs get this. The 'LLMs are useless which is terrible and everyone is using them which is also terrible' shtick contained contradictions even in the beginning, which took a lot of work to maintain . Now it contradicts people's lived experiences.
Extensive lecture of Eric W. Tramel (Nvidia) on synthetic data: "Synthetic pretraining is the way frontier models are built" scalable-ai.eecs.berkeley.edu/assets/lectu...
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
See, entry 3 in the bibliography is "Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrizations of Infinitely Differentiable Riemannian Manifolds" by one N. Lobachevsky. And if you've ever heard Leher's song "Lobachevsky", you may have just finished that title with "Bozhe moi!"
These are the ML feeds I've pinned that now get mixed into my main feed: - ML Feed: Trending bsky.app/profile/smcg... - MLSky: bsky.app/profile/alex... - GenAI Bluesky Network: bsky.app/profile/hell... - Nuanced AI Commentary: bsky.app/profile/dame...
If it's helpful, I followed the recommendations in this post from @nsaphra.bsky.social and as a result have a much more interesting and ML-focused feed: nsaphra.net/post/bsky/
The AI Researcher's Guide to a Non-Boring Bluesky Feed | Naomi Saphra
How to migrate to bsky without a boring feed.
nsaphra.net
New post by me: The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking. We shouldn't minimize the very real impact of many contributors — including improvements in diagnosis, medical and surgical innovation, vaccination against cancers, and more — to the reduction in cancer death rates.
The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking
I respond to the claim that the decline in cancer mortality is mostly, or almost entirely, because of the decline in smoking.
scientificdiscovery.dev
I recommend this article, in which I teach information theory+molecular biology from scratch, argue that existing definitions don't capture the intuitive idea of "information", propose a new definition that does, and argue it lies outside the current human knowledge frontier. dynomight.net/dna
Richmond deer spotting. Geared up, sun up to sun down. The best part? When I got completely surrounded by deer, like I accidentally RSVP’d to a secret deer gathering. 🤣 I felt like a princess in a Disney movie! 😍🥰
This is very much on point. As Geoffrey Hinton put it: "The problem is most people have a hopelessly wrong view of how people work." Despite not knowing how their own brains work, they invent comforting stories how AI surely doesn't work in the same way. AI is the mirror most don't want to see.
Rachel Gray@endaze.bsky.social · last yr.
It was always inevitable that AI would be trained on all our work whether we liked it or not. There's too much money at stake in this. It's also always been inevitable that job displacement will happen. We have to make sure that AI works for all of us via universal basic income. AI was fed OUR data.
OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use
National security hinges on unfettered access to AI training data, OpenAI says.
arstechnica.com
Well Rachel, you're in the right job. The place to start is in the Treasury, where group-think had done so much harm to our economy over the past 15 years.
Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · last yr.BREAKING: ‘This Government is determined to turnaround the poor performance of more than a decade' Chancellor Rachel Reeves gives her reaction after official figures revealed the UK economy shrank by 0.1% in January
Horrible take. American companies still have so many advantages over Chinese AI companies -- access to the world's top talent and capital -- and should just compete on merits techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/o...
OpenAI calls DeepSeek 'state-controlled,' calls for bans on 'PRC-produced' models | TechCrunch
In a proposal, OpenAI describes DeepSeek as 'state-controlled,' and recommends banning models from it and other PRC-affiliated operations.
techcrunch.com
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took aim at the Meta CEO during a panel at the South by Southwest festival by wearing a t-shirt with a latin phrase aimed at Zuckerberg. Shirt says "A world without Caesars" in Latin, in the style of Mark Zukcerburgs recent appearances. techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/b...
Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg | TechCrunch
When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took the SXSW stage this week, she managed to make fun of Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning Meta at all. Her black T-shirt
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the single candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Author unknown
Engineering mtDNA deletions by reconstituting end joining in human mitochondria: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Engineering mtDNA deletions by reconstituting end joining in human mitochondria
Combined expression of a mitochondrially targeted endonuclease and end-joining machinery enables formation of mtDNA deletions with a broad range of heteroplasmy.
cell.com
Engineering mtDNA deletions by reconstituting end joining in human mitochondria: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Engineering mtDNA deletions by reconstituting end joining in human mitochondria
Combined expression of a mitochondrially targeted endonuclease and end-joining machinery enables formation of mtDNA deletions with a broad range of heteroplasmy.
cell.com
🌱 Boosting Biodiversity & Clean Energy in Oxfordshire! ☀️🌿 A 49.9MW solar farm in Burcot has been approved, set to power 13,000 homes with clean energy! 🏡 This site can showcase how well-managed solar farms support biodiversity while generating renewable power 🌼🐝 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Oxfordshire solar farm that will power 13,000 homes gets go-ahead
The land has been used to grow products which have been used to make food for livestock.
bbc.co.uk
Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge. C.G. Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (1875–1961)
Milosevic: destroyed Serbia's decades-old friendship and alliance with the other Yugoslav countries. Tudjman: during Croatia's confrontation with the aggressor, decided he could reach a deal with it at the expense of the main victim. Trump is the US's Milosevic AND its Tudjman
Yesterday France successfully put into orbit a third military reconnaissance satellite, CSO-3. Launched by 🇫🇷 (Ariane 6), from 🇫🇷 (Guyane), protected by 🇫🇷 fighter jets, built by 🇫🇷 with Europeans (Airbus Defence and Space France; Thales) Is this what European strategic autonomy looks like? 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇹
Canada is officially at war with Trump
'My jaw is dropped': Canadian official's interview stuns Amanpour
YouTube video by CNN
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Germany needs to develop its own independent nuclear weapons capability.
