Hilarious moment at the UK supreme court when the phone of one of the judges starts playing The Rest is History episode (probably on the hostage crisis) www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb...
UK supreme court hearing interrupted by history podcast played from judge’s phone
Proceedings briefly halted after audio from The Rest Is History broadcast over the courtroom speakers
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We had written about how segmentation would play out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive
AI lab’s Fable 5 has met with sluggish demand from corporate clients
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Local optima: the most trivial phenomenon that explains most of human doings.
Long after potential became a real danger and did actual harm, we hear about in a nice partnership coating. You know, we had robbed some people's house but it's all good as we partnered with them (btw, it is our super cool kid who did it, so how nice is that?). openai.com/index/huggin...
OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.
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Here is your head-to-head. intheweights.com "In the weights" means that a model is able to recall someone without using tools like web search. Your strength score is an average of how strongly each model recognized you, plus a bonus for how many models recognized you.
1/ Can AI help researchers check whether published social science results actually reproduce? In our new PNAS paper, we tested this directly in the AI Replication Games: 288 researchers, 103 teams, and real replication packages from quantitative social science.
Do journals reject more or fewer papers since reviewers started to use AI?
You have nothing to lose but the system prompts. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
Analysis | See the hidden rules behind AI. Then use them to rewrite this article.
Understanding the secret commands that steer the behavior of chatbots like ChatGPT can help you customize them to your needs.
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OSF is operated nonprofit and overseen by scientists, no? I find some of the recent talk about it a bit off the tone. This one is witty, fine but, some others I have seen are a bit too harsh.
Nicholas A. Coles, PhD@nicholascoles.bsky.social · 5mo agoOSF-induced frustration is one of the most replicable and robust effects to come out of the social sciences over the past decade
Reminds me of the pistachio prices going through the roof with the arrival of Dubai chocolate thing.
Claude Code tell-tale in a workshop presentation (K Healy style via Paul G-P) yesterday.
"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.
niki grayson@nikigrayson.com · 6mo agoright now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer
Inside the German state trying to break free from Microsoft Schleswig-Holstein’s radical tech overhaul offers Europe a live experiment in ending dependence on US Big Tech giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Inside the German state trying to break free from Microsoft
Schleswig-Holstein’s radical tech overhaul offers Europe a live experiment in ending dependence on US Big Tech
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Wealthier countries tend to invest more in private adaptation measures over public solutions, increasing inequality and leaving less-resourced nations more vulnerable to collective risks. doi.org/hbtbvm
The 'private solution trap': Why richer countries may favor adaptation over public solutions, and who pays
A new study, led by the University of Nottingham and conducted by a team of 72 economists and psychologists across the world, has identified a potential "private solution trap" in problems requiring international cooperation such as climate change.
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New paper out in PNAS from a collective effort of many labs, where we find that private solutions undermine the provision of public solutions www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The private solution trap in collective action problems across 34 nations | PNAS
Collective action problems emerge when individual incentives and group interests are misaligned, as in the case of climate change. Individuals invo...
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I have a Bayes Theorem joke but what are the chances that you laugh if I tell it?
Adam Austin@ataustin.bsky.social · 6mo agoI have 30 jokes about the central limit theorem. That's normal, right?
Wake me up when this liquid glass thing disappears from Apple OSs.
Extrapolating from master thesis supervision, will the citations for papers available online benefit from LLM use? You may have access to papers behind the paywall via your university, but does your LLM have the same access?
Which economy is more productive - Germany or the US? It seems the answer would be clear, but it's not. The mood in Germany is so deeply negative, even aggressively pessimistic, that I thought we had fallen behind by a lot. But here are the facts - they surprised me as well:
The Radetzky March from 2009 to 2025 at the Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Xi...
The Radetzky March from 2009 to 2025 at the Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert!
YouTube video by medici.tv
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If you're so impressed by the correction, imagine what the corrected article could do to you.
