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Laki

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Seriously Not Twitter. She/Her. Optical Delusion, Einstein. "We are One Planet, we are One Species!" Sagan

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 20d

Just in case anyone needs the reminder

Ghost driving a meat coated skeleton fear nothing quote

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 50m

#nswpol

Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 2h

Various buds are trying out SOS signals for the aliens at this point.

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 2h

Quite impressed by this pope and his Chicago ways.

Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 2h

Had to be done

a groundhog standing on its hind legs with the word stella written in yellow

ALT: a groundhog standing on its hind legs with the word stella written in yellow

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 2h

This is really nasty stuff. Really vile.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2h

As hostages are being handed over to IDF, Israeli defense minister tweets about bombings to follow

Israel's great challenge after the phase of returning the hostages will be the destruction of all of Hamas's terror tunnels in Gaza, directly by the IDF and through the international mechanism to be established under the leadership and supervision of the United States.
This is the primary significance of implementing the agreed-upon principle of demilitarizing Gaza and neutralizing Hamas of its weapons.
I have instructed the IDF to prepare for carrying out the mission.

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 2h

In full

www.yardeniquicktakes.com/good-market-...

GOOD MARKET CALL: Gold

From time to time, we will review and update some of our good market calls. We hope this provides a helpful perspective on our approach to market forecasting. Today, let's review and update our thoug...

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 2h

@sparticuszorro.bsky.social

Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 3h

Likely👇

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Tension rises at Texas prison after Epstein associate's 'mysterious' meeting: report

The transfer of convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell to the Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas has drawn criticism from fellow inmates, who say her presence is altering daily life in a facility kn...

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 4h

@commercialsolarguy.com good looking roof on that boat..

Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 4h

😵‍💫

Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 4h

Yep, the records from Wolff interviewing Epstein and Unger's work on who said and did what when is pretty clear.

Meanwhile up the road..

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h

WSJ reports that Ghislaine Maxwell is treated like a VIP guest at a five-star resort in her new minimum-security Club Fed prison. She recently received a special visitor, and the entire facility was placed on lock-down while the guest was there so that no one could see who she or he was. Creepy.

Lockdowns and a Mysterious Meeting: A Quiet Texas Prison Adapts to Life With Ghislaine Maxwell

The unexpected arrival of the Epstein associate upset the camp’s routines. Some inmates say she got favorable treatment.

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 4h

@delwynd.bsky.social not good to see..

Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 4h

@delwynd.bsky.social good to see

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Cara Giovanetti @idontevencara.bsky.social · 6h

Imagine you are an ant. You are close to the ground, have pretty poor eyesight, and can’t see all that far ahead of you. How are you going to find your way back home?

Turns out ants and other insects navigate by a property of light humans can’t even see.

1/7 ⚛️🧪

A close-up image of an ant, eyes prominent, mandibles open and ready for action.

Image credit Egor Kamelev via Pexels, public domain

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 5h

just getting to this paper, which is interesting
"We argue hallucinations persist due to the way most evaluations are graded -- language models are optimized to be good test-takers, and guessing when uncertain improves test performance."

This is a plausible way to improve training, but...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Sep 8

Ironically, it appears that AI chatbots hallucinate for the same reason that students feel compelled to use them:

They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.

Why Language Models Hallucinate, by Kalai et al.

Like students facing hard exam questions, large language models sometimes guess when
uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty. Such
“hallucinations” persist even in state-of-the-art systems and undermine trust. We argue that
language models hallucinate because the training and evaluation procedures reward guessing over
acknowledging uncertainty, and we analyze the statistical causes of hallucinations in the modern
training pipeline. Hallucinations need not be mysterious—they originate simply as errors in binary
classification. If incorrect statements cannot be distinguished from facts, then hallucinations
in pretrained language models will arise through natural statistical pressures. We then argue
that hallucinations persist due to the way most evaluations are graded—language models are
optimized to be good test-takers, and guessing when uncertain improves test performance. This
“epidemic” of penalizing uncertain responses can only be addressed through a socio-technical
mitigation: modifying the scoring of existing benchmarks that are misaligned but dominate
leaderboards, rather than introducing additional hallucination evaluations. This change may
steer the field toward more trustworthy AI systems.

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 1d

As I argue in #PlatypusMatters, Australia has the world's best mammals, but is sadly the worst place on Earth to be a mammal, with the planet's worst #extinction rate.
The Christmas Island shrew is now the latest species to be officially declared extinct.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

The tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 is now 39 species – far more than for any other country

www.theguardian.com

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 5d

The top comments on Trump's TikTok - in which he tells young users that he saved the app so "you owe me big" - are all about the Epstein files. "cool you got them files ready?" www.tiktok.com/@realdonaldt...

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 5h

👀 so continuing to export deflation to the rest of the world by EVs, batts, cheap home appliances?

Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 5h

@davidosmond.bsky.social what's your numbers?

Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 5h

👀

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 7h

Street art in LA:
Guardians of Pedophiles

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 5h

Oh nose.

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Alex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 7h

Fatality

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 5h

Wtaf. Is that Hamas leadership chatting from Qatar again where they've been holed up this whole time in mansions & penthouses?

(Off the 10s of millions Bibi sent their way naturally 🫠)