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It's that time again. It's time for the world's most important tabletop award ceremony, The Sprinties! YOU can win one of the most SOUGHT AFTER awards in TABLETOP RPGs just by SUBMITTING YOUR GAME. Post your own game below and it will WIN A SPRINTY.

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

slop forensics this guy uses bioinformatics techniques to cluster LLM outputs based on n-grams surprising: the new DeepSeek R1 0528 clusters closer to Gemini, implying they switched from openai synthetic training data to google github.com/sam-paech/sl...

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

w h a t "Pruning as few as a single parameter can destroy an LLM's ability to generate text -- increasing perplexity by 3 orders of magnitude and reducing zero-shot accuracy to guessing."

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Just in time for Friday! I made a Real-Life MULTIPLAYER Lightcycle Simulator www.youtube.com/@BenjiBlackstone #gaming #gamedev Have a beautiful weekend!

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Major Arcana 0 - The Fool

submitted 31 days ago • 8 comments

this is why I say over and over again, it is a generative natural language user interface/query engine, depending on what you use it for user interface and generative are the things that need to be emphasized to understand what its actual scope are

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

Fun fact: in moments of extreme danger and fear where "time seems to slow down," your time perception has barely changed. You do remember perceiving time as having slowed down. This was tested by making people fall down unexpectedly while answering questions.

submitted 415 days ago • 1 comment

Every journalist involved here, both the writer of this article and the Onion article, should be very proud

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

if your combat system is ponderous and dull, your ttrpg is TRAD if your combat system is fast-paced and dull, your ttrpg is OSR if your combat system is fast-paced and inscrutable, your ttrpg is a STORYGAME

submitted 40 days ago • 14 comments

NEW ODPRN study finds that BOTH Safer Opioid Supply (SOS) & methadone improve health outcomes and play important complementary roles in responding to Canada’s drug toxicity crisis. odprn.ca/research/pub... #HarmReduction #SaferSupply

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🧪 Researchers developed machine learning models using weather data to predict daily stroke admissions, finding factors like air pressure, temperature extremes, and wind correlate with caseload. This approach could aid hospitals in planning for weather-related health events. 🩺💻 #MLSky

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Counting Petals

submitted 57 days ago • 57 comments

New paper from the Neurosurgery Research Team at BCM! "Learning and language in the unconscious human hippocampus" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 60 days ago • 6 comments

TRENTON- About 1k people showed today for the 50501 nat’l day of action here at the NJ Capitol. Protesters chanted against Trump & Musk, cuts to education the VA & more. And sang some Woody Guthrie-

submitted 65 days ago • 7 comments

At the beginning of the week the number of people disappeared by ICE was under 300. Two days later, it is over 700. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Was reminded of these too-intense random encounter tables I made for my old D&D game.

submitted 69 days ago • 13 comments

Very compelling study showing the association between herpes zoster vaccination and dementia prevention. The authors leveraged a unique cohort for this natural experiment which shows a reduction in dementia risk of 20% in vaccinated individuals. #MedSky #IDSky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 69 days ago • 10 comments

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

submitted 74 days ago • 204 comments

Meet Ai2 Paper Finder, an LLM-powered literature search system. Searching for relevant work is a multi-step process that requires iteration. Paper Finder mimics this workflow — and helps researchers find more papers than ever 🔍

submitted 75 days ago • 6 comments

I've cossed more international borders than most, been through checkpoints and searches and have trained human rights activists, journalists and others in staying safe in repressive regimes. In the past few days I've provided some friends with travel advice for no particular reason; here's a thread:

submitted 81 days ago • 67 comments

OK. This is interesting. Really interesting to see how it moves towards the answer gradually, and almost monotonically(!)

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

How can mirrors be agents if humans aren't agents?

submitted 781 days ago • 1 comment

One of the amazing things about science is we will never run out of mysteries. Take "Naturwissenschaften (2003) 90:495–500", which performed a survey of 10,000 dinosaur fossils for evidence of tumors in the bone. I was prepared for yes, no, but what I wasn't prepared for was: "only in hadrosaurs."

submitted 86 days ago • 3 comments

Kaiya's Indie RPG Folder 061 And So We Live On by @bingsujung.bsky.social (bingsoojung.itch.io/...) Downloaded 5/16/22 One of my go-to examples of how far the boundaries of indie TTRPGs can be pushed. This is a two-player conversational game with linear algebra as its core mechanic!

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-data-hoarders-resisting-trumps-purge

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments