alastair rushworth
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How much AI do we need, really? Some thoughts on why I don't think this ends well for the frontier AI labs.
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How much AI do we need, really?
It’s been said that if all AI development paused and went no further than it has right now, there are still years of innovation and disruption and growth to come just by integrating what we have into ...
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December 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
How much AI do we need, really? Some thoughts on why I don't think this ends well for the frontier AI labs.
newsletter.alastairrushworth.com/p/how-much-a...
newsletter.alastairrushworth.com/p/how-much-a...
How much AI do we need, really? Some thoughts on why I don't think this ends well for the frontier AI labs.
newsletter.alastairrushworth.com/p/how-much-a...
newsletter.alastairrushworth.com/p/how-much-a...
How much AI do we need, really?
It’s been said that if all AI development paused and went no further than it has right now, there are still years of innovation and disruption and growth to come just by integrating what we have into ...
newsletter.alastairrushworth.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
How much AI do we need, really? Some thoughts on why I don't think this ends well for the frontier AI labs.
newsletter.alastairrushworth.com/p/how-much-a...
newsletter.alastairrushworth.com/p/how-much-a...
Not a paint splat!
This is a 2 dimensional embedding of US stocks based on correlations of their daily returns over the past 5 years.
The more spattery parts are more distinctive companies that trade more disinctively than others. The most distinct splats were uranium refining companies.
This is a 2 dimensional embedding of US stocks based on correlations of their daily returns over the past 5 years.
The more spattery parts are more distinctive companies that trade more disinctively than others. The most distinct splats were uranium refining companies.
December 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Not a paint splat!
This is a 2 dimensional embedding of US stocks based on correlations of their daily returns over the past 5 years.
The more spattery parts are more distinctive companies that trade more disinctively than others. The most distinct splats were uranium refining companies.
This is a 2 dimensional embedding of US stocks based on correlations of their daily returns over the past 5 years.
The more spattery parts are more distinctive companies that trade more disinctively than others. The most distinct splats were uranium refining companies.
Blaze wrap: December 2025 🎅 | Alastair Rushworth
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December 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This is very interesting indeed
December 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
This is very interesting indeed
Sobering. Relatedly, I watched Attenboroughs 'Ocean' recently and it was the thing that finally pushed me into vegetarianism. Really recommend it if you can access it www.oceanfilm.net/synopsis/
December 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Sobering. Relatedly, I watched Attenboroughs 'Ocean' recently and it was the thing that finally pushed me into vegetarianism. Really recommend it if you can access it www.oceanfilm.net/synopsis/
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Just a thought: how about substantial investment and subsidy for mass transportation instead?
I agree: there’s a public health imperative to quickly expand the adoption of autonomous vehicles, which will save many lives. More than 39,000 Americans died in motor vehicle crashes yearly. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
December 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Just a thought: how about substantial investment and subsidy for mass transportation instead?
Absolutely. The safety argument is deliberately misleading if it doesn't consider mass transit driven by trained operators. The objective is safer *transit* not safer *cars*. Autonomous cars are simply the wrong solution.
Just a thought: how about substantial investment and subsidy for mass transportation instead?
I agree: there’s a public health imperative to quickly expand the adoption of autonomous vehicles, which will save many lives. More than 39,000 Americans died in motor vehicle crashes yearly. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
December 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Absolutely. The safety argument is deliberately misleading if it doesn't consider mass transit driven by trained operators. The objective is safer *transit* not safer *cars*. Autonomous cars are simply the wrong solution.
This website has some gems, but these take the cake. Who doesn't want a butt trumpet coaster for Christmas?
www.thehumfromthehill.co.uk/products/med...
www.thehumfromthehill.co.uk/products/med...
Medieval Butt Trumpet coasters - set of 4
Set of four cork backed coasters with a glossy high quality print. I just love these quirky medieval marginalia characters, they are just so bizarre! Who doesn’t love a butt trumpet fanfare! Coasters ...
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December 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This website has some gems, but these take the cake. Who doesn't want a butt trumpet coaster for Christmas?
www.thehumfromthehill.co.uk/products/med...
www.thehumfromthehill.co.uk/products/med...
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The latest edition of The R Data Scientist has dropped! Check out all the latest news and posts from the R community in a single digest.
https://rstats.blaze.email/archive/the-r-data-scientist-02-12-2025/
#rstats #datascience
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The R Data Scientist 02-12-2025
R community news, geospatial mapping, data culture, research methods
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December 2, 2025 at 7:34 AM
The latest edition of The R Data Scientist has dropped! Check out all the latest news and posts from the R community in a single digest.
https://rstats.blaze.email/archive/the-r-data-scientist-02-12-2025/
#rstats #datascience
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Sermet Pekin’s open-source project that discovers blogs through recursive network exploration
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Sermet Pekin’s open-source project that discovers blogs through recursive network exploration | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Sermet Pekin’s open-source project that discovers blogs through recursive network exploration
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October 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages
https://rworks.dev/posts/october-2025-top-40-new-cran-packages/
#rstats #datascience
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#rstats #datascience
October 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages
Summary: R and CRAN: October 2025 top new packages spanning Data to Visualization, featuring AlgeriAPIs, CopernicusClimate, healthmotionR, localLLM, PanelSelect, and Tabler UI Kit.
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November 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
October 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages
https://rworks.dev/posts/october-2025-top-40-new-cran-packages/
#rstats #datascience
https://rworks.dev/posts/october-2025-top-40-new-cran-packages/
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"Surf blogs like it's 2002" is such a good selling point.
totally agree, it's awful now on Google. humbly offering my attempt at surfacing more of the weird / nerdy web: blognerd.app
BlogNerd - Search RSS Feeds & Blog Posts
Discover and search through thousands of RSS feeds and blog posts. Find quality content from blogs, academic sources, and news sites.
blognerd.app
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
"Surf blogs like it's 2002" is such a good selling point.
Appeal to philosohical zombies ought to be enough to quiet most of these claims. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philoso...
Regardless, if we really cared about welfare of concious beings, we'd start with the many billions of animals factory bred to be eaten by humans.
Regardless, if we really cared about welfare of concious beings, we'd start with the many billions of animals factory bred to be eaten by humans.
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Appeal to philosohical zombies ought to be enough to quiet most of these claims. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philoso...
Regardless, if we really cared about welfare of concious beings, we'd start with the many billions of animals factory bred to be eaten by humans.
Regardless, if we really cared about welfare of concious beings, we'd start with the many billions of animals factory bred to be eaten by humans.
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At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
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November 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I've found meditation has helped me a lot over the years, so I made this little aggregator of guided meditations podcast episodes on some lovely dharma podcasts. I didn't like scrolling through my podcast feed when I'm trying to relax, so I made this little site.
meditation.alastairrushworth.com
meditation.alastairrushworth.com
Guided Meditations
meditation.alastairrushworth.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I've found meditation has helped me a lot over the years, so I made this little aggregator of guided meditations podcast episodes on some lovely dharma podcasts. I didn't like scrolling through my podcast feed when I'm trying to relax, so I made this little site.
meditation.alastairrushworth.com
meditation.alastairrushworth.com
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Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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this is the highway, there's lots of cool stuff on the highway and it is definitely fun to drive around, but you dont spend all day every day on the highway hopefully youre supposed to use it to get to places
November 19, 2025 at 4:34 AM
this is the highway, there's lots of cool stuff on the highway and it is definitely fun to drive around, but you dont spend all day every day on the highway hopefully youre supposed to use it to get to places
Pretty packed issue this week in the #rstats world!
The latest edition of The R Data Scientist has dropped! Check out all the latest news and posts from the R community in a single digest.
https://rstats.blaze.email/archive/the-r-data-scientist-18-11-2025/
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The R Data Scientist 18-11-2025
Posit's 2025 contest winners, AI+R, new packages and more
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November 18, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Pretty packed issue this week in the #rstats world!
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✨ The R Data Scientist, 04-11-2025
R ecosystem updates, ggplot2 visuals, map-making techniques, Shiny testing and more!
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November 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
✨ The R Data Scientist, 04-11-2025
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Maybe contrarian opinion about effects of AI:
as AI content becomes the norm on social sites, the ability to think and write in an authentic human voice will become much more valuable and sought after, not less.
as AI content becomes the norm on social sites, the ability to think and write in an authentic human voice will become much more valuable and sought after, not less.
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Maybe contrarian opinion about effects of AI:
as AI content becomes the norm on social sites, the ability to think and write in an authentic human voice will become much more valuable and sought after, not less.
as AI content becomes the norm on social sites, the ability to think and write in an authentic human voice will become much more valuable and sought after, not less.
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@cassidoo.co writes:
"I’ve been thinking a lot about the internet lately, like as a concept. I don’t know where everyone went...
When the algorithms are determining everything we should be seeing, it’s a much less personal internet"
In response I made powrss.com to rediscover the personal web.
"I’ve been thinking a lot about the internet lately, like as a concept. I don’t know where everyone went...
When the algorithms are determining everything we should be seeing, it’s a much less personal internet"
In response I made powrss.com to rediscover the personal web.
October 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
@cassidoo.co writes:
"I’ve been thinking a lot about the internet lately, like as a concept. I don’t know where everyone went...
When the algorithms are determining everything we should be seeing, it’s a much less personal internet"
In response I made powrss.com to rediscover the personal web.
"I’ve been thinking a lot about the internet lately, like as a concept. I don’t know where everyone went...
When the algorithms are determining everything we should be seeing, it’s a much less personal internet"
In response I made powrss.com to rediscover the personal web.
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Weekly Recap (Oct 31, 2025) 🎃: What's new with AI in science, Quarto, biodiversity, changed grant titles, new papers & preprints, Nextflow plugin registry, Via Scientific, #Rstats updates from R Data Scientist, rOpenSci, Posit, R Weekly, and R Works doi.org/10.59350/np5...
Weekly Recap (Oct 31, 2025)
AI in science, Quarto, biodiversity, changed grant titles, new papers & preprints, Nextflow plugin registry, Via Scientific, R updates from R Data Scientist, rOpenSci, Posit, R Weekly, and R Works 🎃
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October 31, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Weekly Recap (Oct 31, 2025) 🎃: What's new with AI in science, Quarto, biodiversity, changed grant titles, new papers & preprints, Nextflow plugin registry, Via Scientific, #Rstats updates from R Data Scientist, rOpenSci, Posit, R Weekly, and R Works doi.org/10.59350/np5...