Ben de Bivort
@debivort.bsky.social
Drosophila neurobiologist. We study insect behavior and individuality using the tools of computational neuroethology.
Harvard Organismic and Evolutionary Biology & Center for Brain Science
https://debivortlab.org
fediverse: @[email protected]
Harvard Organismic and Evolutionary Biology & Center for Brain Science
https://debivortlab.org
fediverse: @[email protected]
My partner and I went for dimsum and talked about whether we could ironically enjoy visiting the Ark Encounter and whether little arachnid mite harvestmen I had been studying could be considered cute or not.
February 13, 2026 at 4:39 PM
My partner and I went for dimsum and talked about whether we could ironically enjoy visiting the Ark Encounter and whether little arachnid mite harvestmen I had been studying could be considered cute or not.
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LLMs can use similes and make allusions; they can be vivid and concrete, &c.
But they cannot spend 100 pages making you think Wickham is the charming love interest while inserting deniable clues that will—only in retrospect!—reveal you should have known he’s a cad.
They’re not trained to mislead.+
But they cannot spend 100 pages making you think Wickham is the charming love interest while inserting deniable clues that will—only in retrospect!—reveal you should have known he’s a cad.
They’re not trained to mislead.+
February 13, 2026 at 12:02 PM
LLMs can use similes and make allusions; they can be vivid and concrete, &c.
But they cannot spend 100 pages making you think Wickham is the charming love interest while inserting deniable clues that will—only in retrospect!—reveal you should have known he’s a cad.
They’re not trained to mislead.+
But they cannot spend 100 pages making you think Wickham is the charming love interest while inserting deniable clues that will—only in retrospect!—reveal you should have known he’s a cad.
They’re not trained to mislead.+
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#Teleomorph on the other hand is described as the sexual reproductive stage. Both stages can have their own deceptively complex life cycles. Often involving secret hidden lives under ground, while their surface lovers hijack mobile animals to spread their babies across the land :)
February 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
#Teleomorph on the other hand is described as the sexual reproductive stage. Both stages can have their own deceptively complex life cycles. Often involving secret hidden lives under ground, while their surface lovers hijack mobile animals to spread their babies across the land :)
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We know a lot more about #Fungi now that the science of genetics has advanced so much. Often it was discovered that 2 or more different fungi, were infact one species. With the 1 fungi 1 name push, we needed ways to divide. So #Anamorph is generally described as the asexual reproductive stage
February 12, 2026 at 10:47 PM
what on earth ... we thinking AI?
February 9, 2026 at 9:44 PM
what on earth ... we thinking AI?