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...
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..."
x.com/MarikHazan/s...
x.com/MarikHazan/s...
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.
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Being paywalled out of reading an article about finding joy in academic work feels about right for 2026. #AcademicSky #Polisky
February 4, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Being paywalled out of reading an article about finding joy in academic work feels about right for 2026. #AcademicSky #Polisky
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Top AI conferences now use author rankings to manage high submission volumes. Research shows authors accurately predict long-term impact. ICML 2026 will adopt this to identify quality work and ease peer review burdens.
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
Author knows best? Top AI conference asks for self-ranked papers amid paper deluge
As submissions to AI conferences soar, authors’ own rankings — combined with peer review — could offer a powerful way to identify high-impact research.
www.nature.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Top AI conferences now use author rankings to manage high submission volumes. Research shows authors accurately predict long-term impact. ICML 2026 will adopt this to identify quality work and ease peer review burdens.
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
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The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
February 3, 2026 at 5:27 PM
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
2. allowing civil suits in Vermont for damages, if a federal agent interferes with your State or Federal constitutional rights.
February 4, 2026 at 5:20 AM
2. allowing civil suits in Vermont for damages, if a federal agent interferes with your State or Federal constitutional rights.
Three bills I am currently watching in the Vermont State House Judiciary Committee. The first is the AI one I just posted. The other two are:
1. preventing immigration enforcement agents entering a school, daycare, health care facility or public library without a signed judicial warrant
1. preventing immigration enforcement agents entering a school, daycare, health care facility or public library without a signed judicial warrant
February 4, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Three bills I am currently watching in the Vermont State House Judiciary Committee. The first is the AI one I just posted. The other two are:
1. preventing immigration enforcement agents entering a school, daycare, health care facility or public library without a signed judicial warrant
1. preventing immigration enforcement agents entering a school, daycare, health care facility or public library without a signed judicial warrant
Summary of a bill currently "in committee" in the Vermont House Judiciary Committee:
February 4, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Summary of a bill currently "in committee" in the Vermont House Judiciary Committee:
Agents are the new Bored Apes. A noun in search of a verb. My SpaceX TL is flooded with release announcements for hastily spun up things you can do with your agent.
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Agents are the new Bored Apes. A noun in search of a verb. My SpaceX TL is flooded with release announcements for hastily spun up things you can do with your agent.
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"Miller rarely leaves a written trail of his orders, using Signal, an encrypted voice and text-messaging app, to communicate." Federal law mandates that Miller print out and file a copy of each such communication. You can count on it that he does not. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How Stephen Miller Stokes Trump’s Boundary-Pushing Impulses
The White House aide has been an architect of aggressive immigration sweeps in U.S. cities and deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean.
www.wsj.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:59 AM
"Miller rarely leaves a written trail of his orders, using Signal, an encrypted voice and text-messaging app, to communicate." Federal law mandates that Miller print out and file a copy of each such communication. You can count on it that he does not. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
For $100? This sounds like something I would do, tbh.
February 4, 2026 at 4:03 AM
For $100? This sounds like something I would do, tbh.
SpaceX has polls with images, now.
February 4, 2026 at 2:28 AM
SpaceX has polls with images, now.
(Or you can set it to zero to only be event-driven, instead of using the heartbeat to check for new inputs.)
February 4, 2026 at 2:20 AM
(Or you can set it to zero to only be event-driven, instead of using the heartbeat to check for new inputs.)
re: token guzzling... (you may already know this, but in case it helps anyone else reading this)... the default "heartbeat" for OpenClaw is 30 minutes, which is quite token-heavy, and people on [other place] are reporting that setting it to more like 4 hours is a good task-pace-to-token tradeoff.
February 4, 2026 at 2:19 AM
re: token guzzling... (you may already know this, but in case it helps anyone else reading this)... the default "heartbeat" for OpenClaw is 30 minutes, which is quite token-heavy, and people on [other place] are reporting that setting it to more like 4 hours is a good task-pace-to-token tradeoff.
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Then Toad began to bang his head against the wall
February 3, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Then Toad began to bang his head against the wall