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• Post #3769453

  1/2 A global emergent workspace in language models (J-space) https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace J-space wasn’t designed or programmed. It emerged on its own during training process. J-space has a number of unique properties: - Claude can report on these representations. If you ask Claude what it's thinking about, it will tell you what’s in the J-space. Non-J-space representations are less reportable. - It can also modulate them on request. If you ask Claude to think about...

• Post #3737828

  You can't trust your own camera anymore. #technology

• Post #3346643

  Is the iPhone Birth Control? Causal Evidence from AT&T’s 2007–2011 Carrier Monopoly https://www.nber.org/papers/w35310 Backround: From the launch 2007 through Feb 2011, the iPhone was limited to AT&T subscribers in the US. Smarphone exposure was limited to AT&T’s cellular network making natural experiment possible Treated counties are systematically more urban than controls. They address this imbalance through the SDID estimator’s pre-treatment reweighting of controls...

• Post #3346642

  RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@maxpool/116645893197595988 Recommendation: In "How SpaceX Humiliated Wall Street" Patrick Boyle covers in 40 minutes all previously written, includes even more financial shenanigans, and puts them into both historical and quantitative context. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKXgeNwNRJ4 It's not "Elon bad" circlejerk, but how, why, how much, and how big effect. #investing #finance #spacex #markets #stock #AI

• Post #2152951

  Piracy: An Accepted Alternative to Audible by Andy Weir. A two-emoji sequel to "Why none of my books are available on Audible" by @pluralistic https://doctorow.medium.com/why-none-of-my-books-are-available-on-audible-83cb182f2f91 source: https://x.com/andyweirauthor/status/1777758580701041063 #piracy #scifi #sf #scienceFiction #projectHailMary #audible

• Post #1970946

  Bill Phillips ("Phillips Curve") used flowing water to model the economy in in 1949. > according to his friend economist Richard Lipsey, "all the staff came out to humiliate this upstart idiot." Phillips showed how water flowed from the Treasury tank to chambers representing health and education (as the government spent money) and then got pumped back to the Treasury more or less rapidly as you pulled a lever to tweak the taxation rate. "It turned out after ten minu...

• Post #1838986

  Partial meniscectomy, one of the world’s most common knee surgeries does not help and may even be harmful. This was a randomised placebo-surgery controlled trial with 10-year follow-up. Several randomised studies have already demonstrated that partial meniscectomy has not improved patients’ symptoms or function in the short (1–2 years) or medium (5 years) term. The paper: Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy for Degenerative Tear — 10-Year Outcomes https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2516...

• Post #1797055

  Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10267-3 .... for faces, face cells transition from detection to discrimination by switching from an object-general code to a face-specific one. More broadly, our findings indicate that there is a previously unknown mechanism for neural representation: concerted stimulus-dependent switching of the neural code used by a cortical area. #neuroscience #vision

• Post #1797054

  Data centers vs megaprojects. Annual spending as % of that years US GDP (log scale). Note: 50-60%, of data center CAPEX (Capital Expenditures) is deprecating fast (hardware must be replaced every 3-5 years). OPEX (operating expence) is also very high due to energy usage. Additional comparisons: Total social media ad revenue + total media and entertainment sector in the us make roughly 3% of US GDP year after year. Transportation (total final demand is around 8-9% of GDP. #datavisual...

• Post #1797053

  @leonardom I could not resist. 😀 I used Ishihara Plate Generator from https://franciscouzo.github.io/ #bongardproblem

• Post #1797052

  Review: The Boys (now in the 5th season) Developer and showrunner is Saul Kripke's cousin! I don't generally like superhero movies, TV series, or comics, with the exception of Watchmen (both the comic and TV series). The Boys is also good. It has very dark humor and it's very gross, but what makes it really stand out is the accuracy of the political satire. The heroes are still silly and go through normal emotional tropes of superhero bullshit, but the villains, their...

• Post #1797051

  Starlink version 3 has the potential to be the most powerful SAR and spy satellite constellation in general with minimal hardware modifications. For Starlink version 4 or Starlink that are radar optimized by SpaceX, they could be even more powerful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbp3kdJZ1_A Starlink signals can also be used to build passive radars by others: Starlink-Based Passive Radar for Earth's Surface Imaging: First Experimental Results https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/...

• Post #1797050

  Cross-species implementation of an innate courtship behavior by manipulation of the sex-determinant gene https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp5831 One gene is enough to start gift giving behavior! First transfer of behavior from one species to another. "If I didn't buy you sweets, my dear, it's because I lack the gene." #evolutionarybiology #biology #animalbehaviour

• Post #1797048

  Jaron Lanier AI language models are trained on text created by scientists, writers, thinkers, entertainers and more. Erasure human contributions gives people a perception of AI as “this new super alien angel who's going to come and save us or kill us” rather than what it really is or could be: “a new, very high-level, very large-scale form of cooperation [that] is even more glorious than having a big alien angel. I think it's really cool.” https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-04-24...

• Post #1797047

  I, for one, do not trust a fascist surveillance provider who can't find and remove disloyal employees from their midst. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/palantir-employees-are-talking-about-companys-descent-into-fascism/?utm_social-type=owned #palantir #surveillance #privacy

• Post #1797046

  RE: https://social.yeschenko.com/@labria/116467049368529787 Replica of the first spam bot. #fakehistory

• Post #1707884

  Beyond Silicon: Materials, Mechanisms, and Methods for Physical Neural Computing https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09833 #NeuralNetworks #computing #ANN #ML #AI

• Post #1437810

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@rogersm/116035897349381991 Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders, while computer scientists stand on each other's toes, and computer engineers dig each others' graves.