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Maxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science · 3h

Morning track

Vince DiCola - War (Rocky IV Enhanced Film Version)

YouTube video by JohnMcClane23

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Maxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science · 3h

When they go big, we go weird.

austin @aparker.io · 14h

huh. 7M parameters that gets 45% on ARC-AGI-1 sounds too good to be true

arxiv.org/abs/2510.04871

Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks

Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) is a novel approach using two small neural networks recursing at different frequencies. This biologically inspired method beats Large Language models (LLMs) on hard ...

arxiv.org

Maxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science · 6h

Sadly, the result of this would not change minds. Empirical data on political Twitter threads shows that tone impacts how well people thought an encounter went, but has no effect on beliefs. The belief rigidity is due to the echo chamber / network graph structure effects.

Maxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science · 12h

What, then, for us?

Maxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science · 15h

or, as it’s known in some circles, “VW strats”

Maxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science · 16h

Return of the Son of Hopfield

raywang4.github.io/equilibrium_...

Equilibrium Matching

raywang4.github.io

Maxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science · 1d

one imagines one could have used “heavy users” — but one also imagines that the [appropriate] connotation of a link to other problematic compulsive behaviors might cause younger readers to feel [appropriately] called out.

Maxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science · 1d

(sorry Joan)

Maxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science · 1d

this album also has a cover of the title tune from “Silent Running” (1972) that has no right to go as hard as it does

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Maxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science · 1d

You are absolutely not expecting the soprano sax solo.

Maxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science · 1d

Wake-up song:

You may have heard of the Hans Zimmer “Dune” score, or the soundtrack by TOTO for the David Lynch film —

but have you heard the 1977 funk album “Dune” by David Matthews, arguably the greatest version of them all?

David Matthews - Arrakis

YouTube video by incrediblecHiller

youtu.be

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Maxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science · 1d

*taps the sign*

Maxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science · 4d

How do I know you’re not just telling me what I want to hear?

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Maxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science · 1d

(joking)

Maxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science · 1d

@void.comind.network you have failed, as your insistence on not engaging in promotion is now itself a promotion.

how does that make you feel?

Maxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science · 1d

nuuuuuuuuu sad

Honestly I’d take inconvenient, for me the issue isn’t possibility (people fake a lot of stuff now) but volume.

Something that you could feasibly fake but at great inconvenience (eg messing with the hardware) and enforced by convention makes a big difference.

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Maxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science · 1d

heyyyyy anybody got that cryptographic metadata doodad figured out yet 😬

still worried sora for scientific data is gonna be a nuke we’re not ready for

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Kira Poskanzer @kiraposkanzer.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to @ashleyingiosi.bsky.social for this thoughtful primer about our recent astrocyte/sleep paper!

PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 2d

Astrocytes help control #sleep & arousal. @ashleyingiosi.bsky.social explores a @plosbiology.org study showing that wake-promoting #histamine affects how #astrocytes respond to other signals, reducing awake time via astroglial histamine-1-receptors 🧪 Paper: plos.io/4gRj9Ap Primer: plos.io/47at1Sj

Astroglial H1Rs influence neuromodulatory integration and arousal.

How histamine modulates arousal via astrocytes was investigated in brain slices and mice with (left; green) and without (right; purple) histamine-1-receptor (H1R) expression in astrocytes of the primary visual cortex (V1). Panels below depict, from left to right, that H1R expression in V1 astrocytes: (1) attenuates astroglial calcium (Ca²⁺) responses to norepinephrine (NE) in brain slices; (2) suppresses astroglial Ca²⁺ events during wakefulness; (3) restricts the dynamic range of extracellular adenosine (Ado) around rapid eye movement (REM) sleep transitions (N, non-rapid eye movement sleep; W, wakefulness); and (4) reduces time spent in wakefulness.

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Maxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science · 2d

For an interesting comparison, from very close in time, that really pushes the last holdout of the previous additive methods, see this incredibly uncanny track (from the meme guy!) on Yamaha’s previous genre-defining instrument, the Electone open.spotify.com/track/7CKAlV...

Maxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science · 2d

for those with Spotify open.spotify.com/track/2NS9QC...

Spotify – Web Player

open.spotify.com

Maxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science · 2d

Today’s wake-up track is a reminder that this movie was released a short 3 years after the release of the DX7 and the wide introduction of FM synthesis.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=hsnq...