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There is still much anger and frustration in our World.

We all need to do more

Issues with interpreting p-values haunts even AI, which is prone to same biases as human researchers. ChatGPT, Gemini & Claude all fall prey to "dichotomania" - treating p=0.049 & p=0.051 as categorically different, and paying too much attention to significance. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The distant bay

Happy Saturday

Happy #AprilFoolsDay, Toronto! We’re on Bluesky and we’re not joking. Follow us here for updates and news from your favourite city.

Happy April

Make the labour of your decisions a labour of love for the outcomes

Let me steal this moment from you now

Happy Spring

Snowdrops

Happy March. Build.

Redefining myself each day. Existential exercises.

As AI models grow in size, their values seem to increasingly converge on the same preferences, whether the model is made by OpenAI or Musk’s X or China’s DeepSeek Not everyone will like resulting AI preferences, so value engineering is likely to become a topic of discussion arxiv.org/abs/2502.08640

We each have a role in this play

It’s a hard knock life

The brain is bigger in the inside than on the outside.

Thoughtful paper on the topic of “hallucination” metaphors in LLMs from @xolotl.org & @annamillsoer.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Meet each day with courage and curiosity

Dream of tomorrow

Nature and the human system in it, humanity as a subset of the whole universe, in discrete terms with mindfulness as an approach to commonality and continuousness.

Consider the dangerous fallacy of a ‘benevolent dictator’

Consider human qualities

Change

Meet each day with courage and curiosity

What an amazing time

Happy Monday

@bwjones.bsky.social neuroscience questions

Happy Groundhog Day

Happy February