Andrea Lathrop
@cabernet.bsky.social
Wine... Cognitive Science... Photography... tech stuff... former Aslin Lab (Master's) and Eppler Lab (with Jackie Gibson emeritus) so I'm a weird mix of Gibsonian affordances, visual statistical learning and anticipatory eye movements. Sometimes academic.
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Ok... starting to dig into the weeds of the Moltbook thing, and I gather Moltbook (or the ability to post to it) is a form of "Claude skill".
There are some automated install instructions that you run (Unix commands), and then some files that you "give to your agent" that contain...
There are some automated install instructions that you run (Unix commands), and then some files that you "give to your agent" that contain...
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February 5, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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I wonder what any of the three companies that went under soon after I left them would be doing, now, if they still existed?
February 5, 2026 at 10:55 PM
I wonder what any of the three companies that went under soon after I left them would be doing, now, if they still existed?
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One thing the Epstein stuff has made clear yet again is that awful men believe that all men are awful.
February 5, 2026 at 8:05 PM
One thing the Epstein stuff has made clear yet again is that awful men believe that all men are awful.
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So, if I were interested in getting involved in AI safety more than I currently am, what's a good pointer to a landscape of the different views on AI safety?
February 5, 2026 at 8:08 PM
So, if I were interested in getting involved in AI safety more than I currently am, what's a good pointer to a landscape of the different views on AI safety?
What a weird choice for a benchmark...
A team of astrophysicists from the University of Oregon have discovered one of the most energetic and powerful forces in the universe, potentially 100 trillion times stronger than Star Wars’ Death Star.
Scientists find a black hole exuding more energy than the Death Star
A team of astrophysicists from the University of Oregon have discovered one of the most energetic and powerful forces in the universe, potentially 100 trillion times stronger than Star Wars’ Death Star.
l.euronews.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:50 PM
What a weird choice for a benchmark...
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Final reminder 📢 We are looking for a #philbio or #philphysics postdoc for an interdisciplinary project exploring the boundary between living and nonliving systems through the lens of self-organization & active matter 👇 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #philjobs #philsky #HPS #devbio Please share!
February 5, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Final reminder 📢 We are looking for a #philbio or #philphysics postdoc for an interdisciplinary project exploring the boundary between living and nonliving systems through the lens of self-organization & active matter 👇 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... #philjobs #philsky #HPS #devbio Please share!
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Calling master students, doctoral candidates, post-doctoral fellows in the fields of philosophy, life sciences & medicine!
Apply now to come to Bordeaux in June and learn to address conceptual questions in scientific research using interdisciplinary methods
#philsky #philsci #biology #neuroscience
Apply now to come to Bordeaux in June and learn to address conceptual questions in scientific research using interdisciplinary methods
#philsky #philsci #biology #neuroscience
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Over the course of a week, around 25 young researchers (Master students, doctoral candidates and post-doctoral fellows) from the fields of philosophy, life sciences and medicine will come together and learn to address conceptual questions in scientific research using interdisciplinary methods. Conceptually/theoretically-oriented biologists and MDs are strongly encouraged to apply!
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February 5, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Calling master students, doctoral candidates, post-doctoral fellows in the fields of philosophy, life sciences & medicine!
Apply now to come to Bordeaux in June and learn to address conceptual questions in scientific research using interdisciplinary methods
#philsky #philsci #biology #neuroscience
Apply now to come to Bordeaux in June and learn to address conceptual questions in scientific research using interdisciplinary methods
#philsky #philsci #biology #neuroscience
This is chilling:
I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵
February 5, 2026 at 4:47 PM
This is chilling:
Someone on [other place] just opined that "Claude Code will replace most undergraduate RAs in the Social Sciences" and it reminded me that my first assignment as an undergraduate RA was to program a keypress timer so we could video code haptic contact with the visual cliff.
February 5, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Someone on [other place] just opined that "Claude Code will replace most undergraduate RAs in the Social Sciences" and it reminded me that my first assignment as an undergraduate RA was to program a keypress timer so we could video code haptic contact with the visual cliff.
Can't believe we evolved this long to achieve Robot Reddit and a freemium question-answerer.
February 5, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Can't believe we evolved this long to achieve Robot Reddit and a freemium question-answerer.
Capturing the "light cone of the universe" and it's just freemium.
February 5, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Capturing the "light cone of the universe" and it's just freemium.
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Retinal waves shape starburst amacrine cell dendrite development through a direction-selective dendritic computation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.02.701812v1
February 5, 2026 at 2:15 AM
Retinal waves shape starburst amacrine cell dendrite development through a direction-selective dendritic computation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.02.701812v1
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ICIS is pleased to fund undergraduate students to travel to #ICIS2026. We welcome applications from student authors whose work has been accepted for presentation and from students interested in learning more about infancy research. Details: infantstudies.org/2026-panama-... Deadline Feb 23, 2026
Travel Awards - The International Congress of Infant Studies
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February 5, 2026 at 2:09 AM
ICIS is pleased to fund undergraduate students to travel to #ICIS2026. We welcome applications from student authors whose work has been accepted for presentation and from students interested in learning more about infancy research. Details: infantstudies.org/2026-panama-... Deadline Feb 23, 2026
I can't tell if I want to punch him, or not.
February 5, 2026 at 4:26 AM
I can't tell if I want to punch him, or not.
Straight As, and cries at work. That's me.
February 5, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Straight As, and cries at work. That's me.
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Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
February 5, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
"The ICE Out of My Face Act" by Ed Markey. Chef's kiss.
February 5, 2026 at 1:00 AM
"The ICE Out of My Face Act" by Ed Markey. Chef's kiss.
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maybe someone here knows: does the transformers output head satisfy independence of irrelevant alternatives across different context windows?
I would assume yes if the final activation is softmax, but dynamic rank stability across responses with attention seems harder to show
I would assume yes if the final activation is softmax, but dynamic rank stability across responses with attention seems harder to show
February 4, 2026 at 11:45 PM
maybe someone here knows: does the transformers output head satisfy independence of irrelevant alternatives across different context windows?
I would assume yes if the final activation is softmax, but dynamic rank stability across responses with attention seems harder to show
I would assume yes if the final activation is softmax, but dynamic rank stability across responses with attention seems harder to show
Dr. Laura Ruis posted her recently defended thesis over on SpaceX/Twitter. I haven't read it yet, but it looks interesting: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
Reasoning in the Time of Scaling
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February 5, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Dr. Laura Ruis posted her recently defended thesis over on SpaceX/Twitter. I haven't read it yet, but it looks interesting: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
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one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
February 4, 2026 at 10:10 PM
one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
It's Wednesday... why are people talking about Anthropic's Super Bowl ad? Did they release it early? I raise a toast to every market researcher whose game day data collection just got contaminated with a preview. 🍷🥂🍻🍺🥃
February 4, 2026 at 11:35 PM
It's Wednesday... why are people talking about Anthropic's Super Bowl ad? Did they release it early? I raise a toast to every market researcher whose game day data collection just got contaminated with a preview. 🍷🥂🍻🍺🥃
"Just raised $5.1M to build agents as fully autonomous founders [...] [and] launched a fleet of 10,000 founder agents..."
x.com/MarikHazan/s...
x.com/MarikHazan/s...
x.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:52 PM
"Just raised $5.1M to build agents as fully autonomous founders [...] [and] launched a fleet of 10,000 founder agents..."
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Interesting context, for this one, based on the date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014. The previous night, Mon, 10 Mar 2014, Epstein secured an entire table at the Hasty Pudding event at Lincoln Center, to which "JoJo" brought "the girls." Seems trivial for an investigator to find out who else was at his table.
February 4, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Interesting context, for this one, based on the date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014. The previous night, Mon, 10 Mar 2014, Epstein secured an entire table at the Hasty Pudding event at Lincoln Center, to which "JoJo" brought "the girls." Seems trivial for an investigator to find out who else was at his table.
"How TESCREAL am I?" I am unsurprised to have scored high on rationalism, but these questions are fairly transparent and superficial. You can easily game it, if you know the philosophies. Also, the reasons for choosing an answer may not be well-matched to the underlying assumptions of the questions.
February 4, 2026 at 6:21 PM
"How TESCREAL am I?" I am unsurprised to have scored high on rationalism, but these questions are fairly transparent and superficial. You can easily game it, if you know the philosophies. Also, the reasons for choosing an answer may not be well-matched to the underlying assumptions of the questions.
The specific Epstein Files post I'm looking for is buried in Minnesota-is-still-burning posts which are buried in WaPo layoff posts which are buried in something about dril.
February 4, 2026 at 5:56 PM
The specific Epstein Files post I'm looking for is buried in Minnesota-is-still-burning posts which are buried in WaPo layoff posts which are buried in something about dril.