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@maxine.science
🔬 Looking at the brain’s “dark matter”
🤯 Studying how minds change
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Wow—another excellent one!
formats over apps
A Social Filesystem — overreacted
Formats over apps.
overreacted.io
January 18, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Wow—another excellent one!
This is going to sound weird given the title, but it’s a weird time:
This is a well-thought-out and balanced perspective. It incorporates a lot of what I’ve seen personally.
This is a well-thought-out and balanced perspective. It incorporates a lot of what I’ve seen personally.
Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?
lucumr.pocoo.org
January 18, 2026 at 4:54 PM
This is going to sound weird given the title, but it’s a weird time:
This is a well-thought-out and balanced perspective. It incorporates a lot of what I’ve seen personally.
This is a well-thought-out and balanced perspective. It incorporates a lot of what I’ve seen personally.
wake-up track youtu.be/4lzqUe1Qfec?...
Rage Against The Machine - Wake Up (Audio)
YouTube video by RATMVEVO
youtu.be
January 16, 2026 at 6:14 PM
wake-up track youtu.be/4lzqUe1Qfec?...
oh my god—I thought this was a joke, and it wasn’t.
this is truly incredible art.
this is truly incredible art.
We ended up accidentally watching this whole video yesterday, and against all odds, it ended up being one of the greatest pieces of cinema I've ever experienced:
youtu.be/ef568d0CrRY?...
youtu.be/ef568d0CrRY?...
1000 Players Simulate Civilization: Rich & Poor
YouTube video by ish
youtu.be
January 15, 2026 at 3:22 PM
oh my god—I thought this was a joke, and it wasn’t.
this is truly incredible art.
this is truly incredible art.
nice.
January 14, 2026 at 4:01 AM
nice.
(Morgan Freeman voice) and that was when the AI field re-discovered the classical Cramér-Rao bound
nanochat miniseries v1 by karpathy
"After locally tuning some of the hyperparameters, I swept out a number of models fixing the FLOPs budget. (For every FLOPs target you can train a small model a long time, or a big model for a short time.) It turns out that nanochat obeys very nice scaling laws"
"After locally tuning some of the hyperparameters, I swept out a number of models fixing the FLOPs budget. (For every FLOPs target you can train a small model a long time, or a big model for a short time.) It turns out that nanochat obeys very nice scaling laws"
January 9, 2026 at 6:02 AM
(Morgan Freeman voice) and that was when the AI field re-discovered the classical Cramér-Rao bound
median AI post (2025, colorized)
Throwback to this Reddit post I saw in 2024 and that I still think about sometimes
January 2, 2026 at 9:42 PM
median AI post (2025, colorized)
Hey look—the thing everyone with eyes open knew was gonna happen from the get-go.
Amazed people still think these are “altruists”.
Amazed people still think these are “altruists”.
“This could look like a user asking how much ibuprofen to take for a headache receiving a promoted ad for Advil in the chatbot’s response. Meanwhile, actual results on correct dosage may be brushed to the side, or buried under a mountain of ad text…”
OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation
OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.
futurism.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Hey look—the thing everyone with eyes open knew was gonna happen from the get-go.
Amazed people still think these are “altruists”.
Amazed people still think these are “altruists”.
shmani - GOD UR SUCH A (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
YouTube video by shmani
youtu.be
December 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
is this AGI?
December 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
is this AGI?
Alright—I will see your bet, and raise you one,
“Actually, there is no such thing *at all* as a decision in a naturalistic setting, because a ‘decision’ implies a prespecified exogenous task structure supplying a rigid discretization of action and outcome spaces that does not occur in real life”.
“Actually, there is no such thing *at all* as a decision in a naturalistic setting, because a ‘decision’ implies a prespecified exogenous task structure supplying a rigid discretization of action and outcome spaces that does not occur in real life”.
The word "decision" is a key word in cognitive neuroscience. But what does it mean exactly?
People's intuitions seem to differ on what "decision" means.
For example: do animals (say, cats) make decisions? Most people would say yes, but I think some would disagree.
Do plants make decisions?
People's intuitions seem to differ on what "decision" means.
For example: do animals (say, cats) make decisions? Most people would say yes, but I think some would disagree.
Do plants make decisions?
December 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Alright—I will see your bet, and raise you one,
“Actually, there is no such thing *at all* as a decision in a naturalistic setting, because a ‘decision’ implies a prespecified exogenous task structure supplying a rigid discretization of action and outcome spaces that does not occur in real life”.
“Actually, there is no such thing *at all* as a decision in a naturalistic setting, because a ‘decision’ implies a prespecified exogenous task structure supplying a rigid discretization of action and outcome spaces that does not occur in real life”.
Sassy 009 - Tell Me feat. Blood Orange (Official Video)
YouTube video by Sassy 009
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
bonus sad girl cold winter walk song youtu.be/w0EGka5S86E?...
The Comet
YouTube video by Tin Hat - Topic
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
bonus sad girl cold winter walk song youtu.be/w0EGka5S86E?...
🅱️olmo
Introducing Bolmo, a new family of byte-level language models built by "byteifying" our open Olmo 3—and to our knowledge, the first fully open byte-level LM to match or surpass SOTA subword models across a wide range of tasks. 🧵
December 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
🅱️olmo
wake-up track: youtu.be/BM9GNRqxxhU?...
Pearl Of The Quarter
YouTube video by Steely Dan - Topic
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
wake-up track: youtu.be/BM9GNRqxxhU?...
hell to the yeah.
My crazy idea to cram all of the AT Protocol into a single deployable container. Works with SQLite, Postgres and potentially more data stores in the future. Steps are literally deploy container -> import your lexicons -> backfill -> build your app with the GraphQL APIs.
quickslice.slices.network
quickslice.slices.network
quickslice - Introduction
quickslice.slices.network
December 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
hell to the yeah.
![Screenshot from Waymo 2025 wrapped
You took 69 trips with nobody behind the wheel
[image of posterized map “you are here” icon in light blue-green]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybmxlogro7nxttbwo5xqjgga/bafkreigxijlliek6zxxpc4jcnt5v5y47hvccqyn44pzsmn2nm6vsipqzta@jpeg)
This is f*cking awesome!!!
Can vision transformers learn without images?🤔👀
Our latest work shows that pretraining ViTs on procedural symbolic data (eg sequences of balanced parentheses) makes subsequent standard training (eg on ImageNet) more data efficient! How is this possible?! ⬇️🧵
Our latest work shows that pretraining ViTs on procedural symbolic data (eg sequences of balanced parentheses) makes subsequent standard training (eg on ImageNet) more data efficient! How is this possible?! ⬇️🧵
December 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is f*cking awesome!!!
Reposted by Maxine 💃🏼
When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵
Representational Momentum Transcends Motion
Dillon Plunkett & Jorge Morales (2025) Psychological Science
subjectivitylab.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵
Actual Bluesky challenge: post your favorite work of art from fifty years before you were born.
December 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Actual Bluesky challenge: post your favorite work of art from fifty years before you were born.
traveling alone soundtrack youtu.be/52ZdwZ7Ig-8?...
Nico - These Days (Visualizer)
YouTube video by TVUVEVO
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
traveling alone soundtrack youtu.be/52ZdwZ7Ig-8?...