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Final moment of quiet in the lecture theatre before I deliver The @healthfoundation.bsky.social lecture on AI and health! buff.ly/42TRHgu

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“Organize the world’s information” 😢

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Who still uses AMP?

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@philarcher.bsky.social “Replying to him, Google executive Jerry Dischler, insisted this was not a "hallucination" -where AI systems invent untrue information - blaming the websites Gemini had scraped the information from instead.” www.bbc.com/news/article... The public deserve better cheese data!

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Is there a good starter pack for technical AI safety work?

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@deepseek.bsky.social why not give this account to Deepseek? It would be great to have them here

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EU medicines agency quits X & moves to Bluesky "EMA will no longer post updates and content on X. We believe the X platform no longer suits our communication needs” the agency said in a statement www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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Alibaba Qwen2.5-1M ! 💥 Now supporting a 1 MILLION TOKEN CONTEXT LENGTH 🔥 📄 Blog: qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5...

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@edzitron.com on DeepSeek Good: v3 trained for $5.5m, proving that you don't need to spend half a trillion dollars on new data centers to make great models MIT licensed! Great for running on my own hardware Bad: the CCP influence is genuinely a problem for my uses sherwood.news/tech/a-free-...

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@simonwillison.net looks like bsky mashed your html title with an svg title?

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Testing DeepSeek R1 censorship UI (mobile web), since it will get heavy use worldwide. Screenshots: session one, snapshot of the ui rewriting. Session two, numbering messages to see which stay in history. Finally, its response to uploading 1st screenshot (initial engagement switching to refusal).

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Open tabs > History > Bookmarks Trying Safari instead of Chrome(webkit flavour) in iOS as it supports custom js 💉. Chrome has Cloud bookmark store but hard to get realtime access to my bookmarks outside of desktop browser; only by Google Takeout? developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/M...

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Every post on TikTok right now is about American TikTok users

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Social media giant Meta told Brazil it would not end fact-checking outside the United States until it had fully tested the changes, according to a note from the company published on Tuesday ➡️ u.afp.com/5vhL

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Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Hi! If you care deeply about the open web, I hope you’ll consider joining my team. We get to support projects like Watch Duty, Mastodon & many more. We’ve committed nearly $100M to making the Internet better. And we haven’t wavered one bit in inclusive hiring policies. www.fastly.com/about/jobs/a...

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This piece with quotes from @profsanderlinden.bsky.social and @jayvanbavel.bsky.social does a bit of a dive into whether fact-checking works, surrounding the Meta platform policy changes. It notes a large (N=20K) meta-analysis indicates a significant positive effect. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Hate to be the bearer of a non-snarking take, but if the UK government has shifted from focus on becoming a crypto hub under the Tories to attempting to be “an AI superpower” actually think it’s progress

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Interesting use of GenAI by @mikecaulfield.bsky.social to create informational interventions refuting common misconceptions about the LA fires. Reminds me of @[email protected] work using GenAI to reduce conspiracy beliefs (https://buff.ly/4airKsC). https://buff.ly/4gSa3T2

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The PyTorch developer's guide to JAX fundamentals cloud.google.com/blog/product...

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The state of post-training in 2025: a tutorial on modern post-training A re-record of my NeurIPS tutorial on language modeling (plus some added content on the high level state of things) Blog + extra context: https://buff.ly/424VvLm YouTube: https://buff.ly/40808l5 Slides: https://buff.ly/404jGa9

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"We're in a time when most people understand we are in a systemic fight, and so most people want a fighter—and, to the perceptions of most people, Trump and the Republicans are fighting, and Democrats are not." #Democracy

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ALIFE 2025 The 2025 Conference on Artificial Life 6-10 October, 2025 Kyoto, Japan #alife

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"Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter." #Democracy https://www.propublica.org/article/…

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“Claude, change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet balance money, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure…fight efficiently, die gallantly”

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Question for conference organizers: what review platform do you have good experiences with? EasyChair and OpenReview are really hard to use. Ideally the platform would make it easy to manage different types of submissions (like: long paper, short paper, poster)

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Anyone heard from Rob Worth recently? exapt.press/about-us worthediting.com www.linkedin.com/in/robworth/

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Oh, I had encountered this before without realising it came from Pratchett! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_t...

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Ourodoofus

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Liked this, “I don’t like the category of the public intellectual, because it focuses on the individual. When somebody’s work becomes publicly interesting, it’s because something is already happening in the world (…)”

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Authors receive a payment every time you borrow a book, audiobook or ebook from libraries in 35 countries. Those countries include the UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Germany to name but a few. Borrowing a book helps the author’s pocket as well as yours.

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