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F_vaggi on Twitter. Senior staff scientist at Google X, previously Amazon.
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In an effort to improve my own media diet - if someone has come across good articles on art/nature/history/science that are *not* about the current political moment/cultural criticism, please share!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Finally, an analysis of changing the indirects at nih is doable: open.substack.com/pub/goodscie...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Many in tech value brutal honesty, but people often focus more on the brutality than the honesty, making them defensive. Instead, aim to be “direct yet kind.” Start with curiosity and a desire to help before offering criticism. When others see empathy in your words, your feedback is more effective.

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

OK! My Google colleague Thang Luong shared some exciting updates about AlphaGeometry2! AG2 now has surpassed the average gold-medalist in solving Olympiad geometry problems, w/ a solve rate of 84% compared to 54% previously! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.03544 See full list of authors on link

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Doctors should stop prescribing antibiotics to treat bacterial infections. All the existing evidence showing health benefits has serious shortcomings, and the data show that antiobiotics massively increase mortality. (Read to the end before commenting)

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

I would love to see an initiative from various economists to preregister the impact of tariffs on different consumer goods, according to different economic models. Everyone is a genius in hindsight.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

But before I get to the reasoning model space... if you are looking to do some focused offline reading this weekend, I just re-compiled my take on the "noteworthy AI research papers of 2024" into one PDF-export-friendly 47-page mega-post with TOC and all: sebastianraschka.com/blog/2025/ll...

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments

Sincerely delighted to discover, 45 minutes into this nearly-wordless three-hour documentary about French monks who take vows of silence, that among the reasons they *can* talk is "to make sure the monastery cats know when it's mealtime by making little kitty-calling noises at them."

submitted 47 days ago • 234 comments

Has any psychologist tried looking at data from Dark Souls like games and the number of attempts to kill different bosses to as a playground to study learning?

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

I've recently been talking a bit about how difficult it is to carefully check even well-written mathematics. I want to try to explain something about this by telling the story of some errors in the literature that (in part) led to the two papers below. 1/n

submitted 56 days ago • 7 comments

So a primary school here collects waste paper. Per ton, they get 40 Euros. This is enough to buy 33 kilograms of sugar to ensure lunch supply for the students at the partner school in Tanzania. They need 10 kilograms of sugar per school day. This came to my mind:

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

I once naively thought that since child mortality was so much higher back in the day people would be inured to it. But reading the Stoic philosophers (Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius in particular) made it apparent: no, it was experienced as fully devastating, it took immense fortitude just to go on.

submitted 59 days ago • 21 comments