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New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

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It often feels like I’m going to spend the rest of my days moving logs. #dataBS

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Highly recommend this book. Each manifesto is so well conceived and well written and upon rereading seem to be in dialogue with each other at various points. True of both Alchemy books out thus far. And 30% off coupon code SAVE30 still works (for now).

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Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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we've already sold 1000 copies of The Secret Rules of the Terminal since it came out on Tuesday!! so to celebrate I'm giving away 1000 copies to anyone who can't afford to buy one. You can use code BUYONEGIVEONE to get a free PDF copy if $12 USD is a lot for you. wizardzines.com/zines/terminal

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For the past 3 years, I've taught a course on Machine Learning for Climate Change to undergrads. At times, people have asked if the course lectures could be made available online. While I can't offer that, I have decided to start making "5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet" videos. Hope its useful!

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Current status.

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Schneier quotes @simon at length on ChatGPT's new memory dossier feature, and ends with this sobering insight: “That’s an extraordinary amount of information, organized in human understandable ways. Yes, it will occasionally get things wrong, but LLMs are going to open a whole new world of […]

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Turtle Mutual Aid:

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Shots fired by @firebolthq.bsky.social with their new on-prem executable (www.firebolt.io/blog/introdu...). They have dethroned the Umbra system by The Germans™ at ‪@tum.de in the ClickBench rankings: benchmark.clickhouse.com

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Critics are giving Automatic Noodle a lot of stars! You can pre-order this tasty treat, and even get a signed copy from Noe Valley Books or Green Apple! Coming 8/5! www.automaticnoodle.website/buy-book

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I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

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Greetings from #sd25! It's a two-day single-track conference hosted by @tigerbeetle.com. I'll be aiming to liveskeet as many of the talks as I can. Super excited to be here! systemsdistributed.com

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New paper out today, accepted at #FAccT2025, led by Jake Stein and me: "Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing" arxiv.org/abs/2506.15278 Over the last 3 years, we've been working with @workerinfox.bsky.social to audit Uber's algorithms. 1/

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[EDBT'22] Integrating the Orca Optimizer into MySQL openproceedings.org/... Huawei Taurus folk plugged Orca into MySQL to get a better query optimizer for OLAP queries in MySQL.

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What could go wrong Insert link to recent #spacex test

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

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protip: ensure github.com/arxanas/git-... is initialized before asking claude to rebase or clean the branch commit history.. it can forget it's place if you run out of $ mid task. #git #claude

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Help! I estimated a project and hit every branch falling down the surprises tree. A shocking turn of events that definitely has never happened to any of us. Herein, tips for when things go sideways: therealadam.com/2025/06/12/...

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Just submitted my talk proposal for @monktoberfest.com and I am excited as hell about it. Hope it gets accepted! Title is “Politics, Power, and Getting Sh*t Done”

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Behold: @redmonk.com's Top 20 Languages Over Time, the decline of the Stack Overflow tags that feed the analysis

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Ugh. Realizing I may need to utter the phrase “data lake” at some point in my career. #dataBS

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How we made it: ocean warming stays near record levels https://on.ft.com/4jUknL2

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On it.

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BREAKING: Iranian State TV has said: "Tonight, a great surprise will occur, one that the world will remember for centuries."

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How to reliably distribute work across microservices, stream processors, durable execution, event-driven, orchestration and now AI agents? Coordinated Progress is a 4 part series that explores the common structure behind reliable distributed systems. jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/6/...

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I’m thrilled to get to speak at the 2025 Symposium Layer Symposium! This is coming up Wed Oct 01, in Copenhagen, Denmark semanticlayersymposium.com The conference will cover emerging trends, practical implementations, enterprise applications and so on.

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Clearly someone knew of the tax bill beforehand, and traded on it. First Solar is down 9% after news of tax cuts to solar in Trump's new bill. It's net premiums were the HIGHEST THEY EVER HAD BEEN OVER THE LAST SIXTY DAYS(!!!!!!!!!) Highest amount of negative volume, with the top chains being…

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move to replace “you could’ve heard a pin drop” with “you could’ve heard a tank squeak” all in favor

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It was a null pointer that caused crash loops that then caused metastable failures. The attempt to recovery unintentionally overloaded the system. I think this case could be added to this paper www.usenix.org/system/files...

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Asked my 8-year-old daughter what theme she wanted her #NoKings protest sign to have. Love and tolerance? A plea for unity? "I really want to tell an old man to fuck himself." Seriously this thing is half protest sign, half vision board.

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Ticketmaster steals money from artists and fans. I'm looking at a show that went on sale earlier today. Every ticket available is a "verified resale" ticket. TM made money on the original sale and will make more even money on the second sale for the same tickets. THIS IS A GRIFT.

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Don’t let your children grow up to be those that lean their seat back in economy. Doesn’t have the same ring.

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It's happening. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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FBI Warns Second California Senator Still At Large theonion.com/fbi-war...

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Lawmakers in Congress should not be buying, trading, and owning individual stocks. Period. It’s long past time to BAN Congressional stock trading.

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It’s gonna rain on someone’s parade.

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Seen today

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Wait until you find out that a "Spandau Ballet" isn't just a band of smooth crooners from the 80s youtu.be/AR8D2yqgQ1U

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Seems I have a few hours tomorrow before my flight out of IAD to see more of the pre parade setup. Fences around the White House have been up all week.

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What I want to see is the National Guard going out on strike for not being paid and the UFW and SEIU teaching them how to picket. That would be revolutionary. newrepublic.com/post/196729/...

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There’s been a lot of buzz (and confusion) this week around Apple’s new Container Framework. We have a guide: Rethinking Container Isolation: VM per Container Explained lnkd.in/gveTZcwA Includes a demo: one container sets a secret, the other tries to steal it. Guess which model stops it cold?

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Well, I forgot my roommate from my summer 2012 apartment sublet in D.C. is now the Secretary of the Army, until tonight, when he told Fox News there is a troop on the moon

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Remember, June 14th is flag Day. AND it is also No Kings Day and there will be peaceful protests across the country. If you are in or near San Jose, here is a link with more info. #nokings #50501 #sanjose www.reddit.com/r/SanJose/s/...

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Database tables are unordered, but functional programming languages work best over ordered lists. Which should Morel prefer? Both! We now have "list" and "bag" types, and full relational algebra over both. blog.hydromatic.net/2025/06/06/o...

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Thanks everyone for showing up! Always refreshing to catch up with folks working on core infrastructure and systems 🤩 Today I met the entire stack: Linux kernel contributors, database developers, serverless platform engineers…

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