John Dewey wrote a whole book about this

Isaiah Bishop@isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 5mo ago

More and more i do think politics should just be getting a random sample of the population to hash it out with some informed experts

AI’s climate impact is much smaller than many feared www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/… #AI #environment

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this "claude made a c compiler thing" feels pretty dishonest and marketing-hype whenever you scroll to the very bottom to find these lines and the token cost lol i mean, sure its impressive (particularly that it was a fully offline environment), but seems like hype bait

Also good thing to keep in mind, that afaik the current "subscription token economy" is heavily subsidized and I am not sure Anthropic/OpenAI are charging necessarily full amount (i.e the same price that would charge for API cost)

Tobi@mocutobi.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This is why I genuinely believe that in the model game, there is no moat, and there will always be tremendous pressure for open source and cheaper models. The majority of the world economy doesn't want to pay $21 (!!!) per million tokens, even if they can afford to

I've been evaluating Claude Opus 4.6, GPT 5.2, and other models in a simulation environment I've built. The verdict: I ran out of money

If Trump hadn’t sued Trevor Noah for that joke at the Grammy’s, I probably never would’ve heard it. Talk about Streisand Effect

ByteDance Seed's ConceptMoE: moving beyond uniform token-level processing to adaptive concept-level computation in LLMs! Why waste equal compute on trivially predictable tokens? When you can merge similar tokens into concepts while preserving fine-grained processing for complex content.

Thought this was referring to @lastpositivist.bsky.social and got really worried

I did some experiments with nanochat and the SYNTH dataset from Pleias. I wanted to compare how a model pretrained with a mixture of SYNTH and FineWeb would compare to the standard FineWeb mixture. Results: Pretraining on Fineweb alone looks good (see below), but the story changes after midtraining:

Can anyone find that meme with the cartoon cats where all of their butts are AI company logos? I need it for a project

Been running comparisons nanochat pretrained on FineWebEdu vs synthetic data and it’s not looking great for the synthetic data runs thus far. We’ll see what it looks like after mid training

Excited to see the AI community has grown on here! Gonna try sharing more about my work here!

When Bill Clinton left office, we had a budget surplus. After 8 years of disastrous foreign interventions and tax cuts, we had deficit and a recession. Now with Trump we’re repeating repeating the same mistakes made under Bush

I heard this place is getting a dislike button?

If you assume that there is an infinite number of tech workers with six figure salaries who want to live in the Bay or NY then the NIMBYs are right and no amount of new housing will help. But there is not an infinite number of tech workers, and the ones here are being laid off.

People talk about artificial intelligence but don't understand what that technology actually is, what the term "AI" is referring to, or best use cases for all the different tools that exist. Nor do they understand that they've already been using AI assistance for YEARS before LLMs became public.

All these things apply to a small percentage of AI research and companies, yet this website treats all AI models and research like it comes from xAI. You ran the actual open source and AI safety researchers off the app

Steve@stevewmobb.bsky.social · last yr.

People don't like: Plagiarism - the way they've been trained is unethical The environmental cost - energy, water, resource allocation The fact that they're being pushed aggressively to replace the people whose work has been plagiarized The lack of safeguards - eg Taylor swift fake nudes

I think it’s because they’re threatened by it honestly

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last yr.

this site is so ridiculous about AI. “a robot just interpreted the themes in a story at my request. a story it has never seen before. yawn, basically just autocomplete”

Them: It's not about race, it's about class. Hopkins: Ok, we're making a class-based policy. Them: We still don't like it, because what we actually meant was...

Emily Moin@emilymoin.com · last yr.

These are some of the most odious people alive.

Disappointing to see the president of my Alma mater reject DEI, especially given the racist incidents that marred my time there. Hopefully this rejection will be instructive for Santa Ono’s perspective on building an inclusive educational environment

David Jesse@reporterdavidj.bsky.social · last yr.

BREAKING: The Florida higher education system Board of Governors rejects the hiring of Santa Ono as University of Florida president. Vote was 6 yes, 10 no.

"In the past, Ono had condemned systemic racism & argued for the necessity of DEI [...] Ono emphasized his ideological evolution, which ultimately failed to convince the board" Board said hm you're *new to hatin niggas and we're lookin for someone *true to hatin niggas. good luck on the job market!

Josh Moody@byjoshmoody.bsky.social · last yr.

Basic details of today's vote here, with more to come: www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

READ. THE. SUBHEAD.

“The University of Cincinnati wants to make all students eligible for Davis’s scholarship, not just Black applicants. At least six other scholarships worth about $4 million established by Black doctors at the school are also under review, according to an email obtained by The Washington Post.”

Trump DEI policies threaten millions in scholarships raised by Black doctors

Trump’s campaign to DEI programs has put at risk six scholarships worth about $4 million established by Black doctors in Cincinnati.

washingtonpost.com

The elephant in the room on social housing is that we severely lack the state capacity required to administer it at the levels required to bring down rents. And increasing state capacity is what’s explicitly being argued for in the Abundance agenda

I hear this myth all the time and it’s bizarre. Rich people hire property management companies to handle all the logistics for them and still get 90% of the rent each month. The idea that landlords are forgoing free money en masse makes no sense.

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · last yr.

the strangest common idea on the left is that you can make more money by buying real estate and leaving it empty than by renting it out

Still my fave music video i made

Helen De Cruz@helendecruz.net · 2y ago

Ok trying the video upload feature--a Sephardic tune on the baroque lute, Siete Modos de Guisar las Berenjenas (seven ways to prepare eggplants, only two ways are discussed bc we're at 60 seconds).

Ok trying the video upload feature--a Sephardic tune on the baroque lute, Siete Modos de Guisar las Berenjenas (seven ways to prepare eggplants, only two ways are discussed bc we're at 60 seconds).

Everyone always goes "that might be true for other cities, but where *I* live it's cheaper to leave an apartment empty than rent it out" and it never turns out to be true! Paris has a vacancy rate of 1.3% www.apur.org/en/our-works...

Anletlo@anletlo.bsky.social · last yr.

In Paris it's actually this very problem. Half the apartments are owned by people that have more than 5 properties... They're so insanely rich, and with rent control laws they don't want the hassle of dealing with rents.

“Not sure what CAN be done” build more housing, specifically at a volume commensurate with current population growth and the decades of under building. It’s not rocket science

SuperMarina@supermarina.bsky.social · last yr.

Not sure what CAN be done about housing prices in LA, except maybe limit billionaires and millionaires to no more than one each? But even that wouldn’t provide more ‘normal’ housing for real people.