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Shawon Ashraf
@shawonashraf.bsky.social
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PhD student at TU/e Eindhoven |
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implausibleblog.bsky.social
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Should Britain recognise the state of Palestine?"

Sarah Champion, "Yes"

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Should Britain call this a genocide?"

Sarah Champion, "I can't see it as anything other than a genocide"
July 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Rainy day scenes from the balcony

Dhaka , 2025
Rainy day on a Dhaka street clogged with water and people walking around with umbrellas overhead
June 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Bright Summer, May 2025
Flowers lit by bright summer sunshine
May 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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marcusghosh.bsky.social
Did you know that Claude Shannon also developed maze solving algorithms?

Which he implemented physically using a wooden mouse named Theseus.

To solve a given maze, on a grid, Theseus used two modes:

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An image of Claude Shannon, holding a wooden mouse in a small maze.
December 16, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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francois.fleuret.org
General structure of a paper:

- general ideas
- general case
- general case
- general case
- what we actually do

how it should be:

- what we actually do
- why we think it's great as one method of a general class
- how we got there
- how we got there
- how we got there
December 17, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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rajiinio.bsky.social
The really grim reality is that this is really not just about kids - there are countless adults, often adult *professionals*(doctors, lawyers, teachers(!)) that use ChatGPT this way. And I can understand why - there's no warning on the box! Few truly understand the tech's very real limitations.
spavel.bsky.social Pavel* @spavel.bsky.social · Jul 6
Well this is grim
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
December 11, 2024 at 6:51 AM
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sungkim.bsky.social
Moxin LLM: a fully open-source LLM developed in accordance with the Model Openness Framework (MOF)

Repo: github.com/moxin-org/Mo...
Base Model: huggingface.co/moxin-org/mo...
Chat Model: huggingface.co/moxin-org/mo...
Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/cer...
December 11, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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sungkim.bsky.social
MIT's High-Dimensional Statistics: Lecture Notes

Paper (more like eBook): arxiv.org/abs/2310.19244
December 10, 2024 at 8:43 AM
The Coming AI Startup Bust
YouTube video by Asianometry
youtu.be
December 8, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Being inquisitively sceptic about a certain strand of software neither makes you an AI-Doomer, nor does it hold back progress. Constructive feedback is important.
December 8, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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zacklabe.com
Yet another month (November 2024) with anomalous warmth continuing across just about all of the Canadian #Arctic Archipelago... 🫠

Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.
Regional map of the Canadian Arctic showing November 2024 temperature anomalies. Most areas are warmer than average. Anomalies are calculated to a 1981-2010 baseline with red being warmer than average, and blue being colder than average.
December 5, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
I just found out that around 20% of the neanderthal genome still exists today in living people!!

No individual person has more than 3 or 4% but we don't all have the same bits. If you add up all the bits we've found, about a fifth of the Neanderthal genome is still present on earth today.
December 5, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
New post on the 100% Christmas Interval -- after almost 8 years, it's time that we finally talk about CIs.

www.the100.ci/2024/12/05/w...
Why you are not allowed to say that your 95% confidence interval contains the true parameter with a probability of 95%
A shibboleth is a custom, such as a choice of phrasing, that distinguishes one group of people from another. The term goes back to the Hebrew Bible, in which the inhabitants of Gilead identify members...
www.the100.ci
December 5, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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jeffgreene.bsky.social
People's susceptibility to misinformation is not just about sensitivity (ability to discern true from false info) but also their threshold for believing information. This has implications for misinfo interventions & education. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
Debunking Three Myths About Misinformation - Bertram Gawronski, Lea S. Nahon, Nyx L. Ng, 2024
Recent years have seen a surge in research on why people fall for misinformation and what can be done about it. Drawing on a framework that conceptualizes truth...
journals.sagepub.com
December 1, 2024 at 3:23 PM