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Stand with science. Always.

submitted 14 days ago • 519 comments

I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!

submitted 14 days ago • 708 comments

Sonar, from Perplexity, looks interesting. Have not used it yet, but it offers a search api with reasoning backed by Perplexity's 'mods' to DeepSeek r1. 'Mods' is probably not the best term, but r1 behaves somewhat differently depending on the host. docs.perplexity.ai/home

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

from an academic colleague

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

But, the price of eggs…

submitted 38 days ago • 150 comments

The US has agreed to stop importing seafood linked with bycatch, where whales, sharks, turtles & other marine life are collateral damage of reckless fishing. Great work by @centerforbiodiv.bsky.social NRDC, AWI, creating global pressure to eliminate bycatch. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Today, I'm installing tmux for the first time since about 2010. github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Good move! Newsom Suspends State Environmental Rules for Rebuilding After Fires www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/u...

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“We need to obey the first law of holes,” Mr. Gore said. “When you’re in one, stop digging.” The New Climate Gold Rush: Scrubbing Carbon From the Sky www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/c...

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

From age 18 to 22, I volunteered twice a year in India's Pulse Polio Vaccination drive. We knocked on so many doors & convinced so many strangers. When India finally eradicated polio, I felt personal & collective pride. RFK Jr offends me in ways I can't even fully articulate!

submitted 76 days ago • 7 comments

BREAKING: Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin KILL Biden nominee for Nat'l Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which would've meant Dem majority till '26 Instead Trump gets to set labor rules So when EVERYONE in America loses overtime - as Project 2025 promises - thank Sinema and Manchin

submitted 79 days ago • 257 comments

An Gwi-ryeong shines www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

I was trying to photograph this beautiful glaucous-winged gull when I got unexpectedly photobombed by a harbor seal that had caught a very large fish--presumably a salmon. 🪶 📷Ballena Bay

submitted 85 days ago • 76 comments

CoT can actually degrade outputs in cases where overthinking hurts humans too, and models share the same limitations. E.g. CoT worsened face recognition (language can't capture subtle visual details) but helped with complex decisions where memory was a critical prerequisite. arxiv.org/abs/2410.21333

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

NEW TODAY: Anthem BCBS will no longer implement time cap on anesthesiologist care during surgeries in Connecticut, the plan that was expected to take effect this February - "I would encourage them to go further and cancel its implementation in the other states they plan to use it in."

submitted 85 days ago • 22 comments

i guess they read the room

submitted 85 days ago • 22 comments

The hardest job in the world is being a #father in #Gaza.

submitted 86 days ago • 5 comments

I don't see how it is possible to understand the US today without this book.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

This is my first post using MacWhisper. Let's see if it can handle my 300 words correctly and make sense. It did. My post may not have been very interesting, but I'm pretty pleased with what Max Whisper can do on a machine without a GPU.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

I'm a few days late, but last night I started anwer.ai class "solve it with code'. I'm impressed. The authors are thinking (and coding) seriously about the possibities of using AIs as collaborators while coding w/o putting the AIs in charge.

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Evidently, it is the 2st century. I'm behind so I just purchased Machisper pro...currently on sale. I expect to finish my first novel this week. Or, at least write 20 lines of python or APL

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

This is my second rodeo

submitted 97 days ago • 42 comments

"Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has announced the release of Tülu 3, a state-of-the-art family of instruction-following models designed to set a new benchmark in AI capabilities.

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

Just to be clear: the incoming Trump administration is going to war against their own Republican senate majority and the constitution's advice and consent provision so they can make a man investigated for sex trafficking a minor into the most powerful law enforcement officer in the country.

submitted 105 days ago • 1215 comments

Blown away by possibilities of Readwise. Will connect to NotebookML & similar. Getting started read.readwise.io/new/read/01j...

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

This is a lie, and it's always been a lie. Something like ChatGPT needs a TON of text in the language you're targeting to train the model. You get it by licensing it, or you by paying people to write it for you, or by stealing it. What they're saying is it's impossible to create CHEAPLY.

submitted 417 days ago • 50 comments

A quick history of the First Alabama Union Cavalry. It discusses the long campaign to establish and maintain the myth that the South was unified in support for secession and slavery. Howell Raines, a former executive editor of the New York Times has a new book and this is a taste.

submitted 433 days ago • 0 comments

Really, really thankful to @willknight.bsky.social for covering this critical piece of the AI puzzle. It's something few would otherwise pay attention to, yet will affect everything that AI will become. Also great quotes from @ruchowdh.bsky.social & Yacine Jernite! www.wired.com/story/americ...

submitted 434 days ago • 2 comments

UNICEF spokesperson: “Let me explain why these so-called safe zones are anything but safe.” www.unicef.org/press-releas...

submitted 435 days ago • 3 comments

Full sequence of the annular solar eclipse at Shiprock, New Mexico. This was a dream composition of mine. So much time, energy, and money went into making it happen. I'm forever grateful to the Navajo for letting me shoot it from sacred ground. An experience I'll never forget.

submitted 498 days ago • 146 comments

Translating historical extreme weather events into a warmer world Blog post discussing new approach to extreme weather event attribution using a case study of a windstorm that occurred in 1903 climatelabbook.substack.com/p/translatin...

submitted 498 days ago • 0 comments

Another amazing sunrise in Boston. No filter.

submitted 498 days ago • 2 comments

In case you are wondering what a keyboard is for: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ7O...

submitted 498 days ago • 0 comments

So wild to me that the in the UK they will happily fit you with an IUD and then you can't get it taken back out again 😅

submitted 509 days ago • 5 comments

Deb Chachra’s HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS comes out in two weeks, and it’s the perfect time to preorder it. I loved it, as you can tell by this blurb. It’s exactly the kind of book I think we need right now. And Deb is a truly wonderful human to boot. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612711...

submitted 511 days ago • 8 comments

A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for Murder The “lung float” test claims to help determine if a baby was born alive or dead, but many medical examiners say it’s too unreliable. Yet it is still being used to bring murder charges — and get convictions.

submitted 510 days ago • 6 comments

💎 Hidden Gem！ 💎 (1000+ new stars) 📦 modularml / mojo ⭐ 13,379 (+1,180) The Mojo Programming Language

submitted 535 days ago • 1 comment