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Phil Feldman, PhD

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Avid photographer, lover of the outdoors, and a cycling enthusiast (roadie). Loves to cook but trying to get better at it. I have a book! shop.elsevier.com/books/stampede-theory/feldman/978-0-443-13735-8

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Adolescents who wrote letters to relatives w/ strategies to identify misinfo became better at detecting misinfo, with those with a higher need for cognition having effects persisting at least four weeks finds Orosz et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

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I've been watching bike racing since the Greg Lemond days, and this was the first time I saw Phil Liggett cry from sheer emotion. It's been a great TdF.

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I think a conservative estimate for average golf course water use is 1% of that? That should average out the low maintenance courses. I have sources that clearly show a golf course is the most intensive form of agriculture

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I need a source because I’m gonna look up the number of golf courses

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Yeah, I’d be much more interested in the saliencey of the terms used in the making of the recommendations. What is the model looking at?

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Wet towels as blankets can help. But the humidity has to be low enough for that to work. Saved me in a west coast heat wave once

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It's like having an art show delivered on piece at a time :-)

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They are boats only as long as they can be carried on another "airboat." Otherwise they are... "airships." I'll show myself out

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The Porto Portugal McDonalds contracts with a hawk to protect their customers from seagulls!

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Was not expecting this from the FTC. Informative, snarky, and hilarious at times: "Your therapy bots aren’t licensed psychologists, your AI girlfriends are neither girls nor friends, your griefbots have no soul, and your AI copilots are not gods."

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Thanks! It felt like we were in some small village in Middle Earth looking at Mordor when I took it.

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All the sciences need to do this! What is "top of sprites?"

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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

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Fun thread! And read the alt-text

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The best way to know if this site has the vintage-Twitter juice is whether people step up to respond to information requests. With that in mind: if you ever went to, or know something about, Steve Paul and his 1960s-era club The Scene, I would love to talk to you!

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if you see this i implore u to post a picture from whatever device u are using without an explanation

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Police are really for crowd control, which ranges from directing traffic to keeping people away from places, and even breaking up groups. They get a lot of training and practice doing this. Crime stuff is a "hobby" in comparison

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If you see this, post a bridge

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"The idea has been at the outer fringes of conversations about climate solutions for years. But as the climate crisis worsens, interest in sun shields has been gaining momentum, with more researchers offering up variations."

www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/c...

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Young Frankenstein. Glorious cinematography by Gerald Hirschfeld

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On backorder!

Along these lines, I wrote a book on why humans tend to create and become trapped by runaway social realities and how technology influences that. You might be interested in taking a look: shop.elsevier.com/books/stampe...

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I have a private subversion repo for everything that I write - articles, books, code, even model weights. I like these folks in particular: get.assembla.com

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A lot of kids are getting their money’s worth of education on how power actually works this week.

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For those near Baltimore, next Saturday is the Kinetic Sculpture race. Send out vibe for good weather and come see the fun! www.kineticbaltimore.com

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I remember reading an earlier article on this in the Banner. Wasn't the initial suspicion directed at students? Also, this was *terrible* quality deepfaking. It will only get more sophisticated from here

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I love how savage this is without any real emotion attached to it (from @caseynewton.bsky.social’s platformer this week)

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My theory is that language models are fundamentally spatial, and that they embed "narrative trajectories" that we can use to build maps of human belief space. I'm working on that now using GPT-2 models trained on chess games. Here's a map of conspiracy GPT-3 space using a force model:

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And because of that, "memory" is embedded in the token generation - reflexive but not reflective. I think true episodic memories will require a higher level of organization. Probably more than LLMs writing Python. I saw this the other day: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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I subscribed! Here's where I think LLMs biology-ish: "the data used to train the pick-a-promising-next-token part." How a cell follows gradients is similar to picking the next token. Generational evolution is kind of like backprop, so the next cell works better with its "objective function"

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That book got me thinking that the metaphor for LLMs as "some form of intelligence" is so unhelpful. I've been poking around at the idea that prompts are like biochemistry, operating on the substrate of the LLM architecture

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Twitter's new business model - Russian Disinformation: ethanzuckerman.com/2024/04/19/t...
For the first time, I stumbled on US-targeted Russian disinfo in the wild... and they're a Twitter advertiser.

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Or checking their email while wondering about that funny burning smell

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Road cycling. Start with the Tour de France. The best stadium in the world!

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Looking forward to reading this!

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Gaffers and Grips (Key and otherwise) are my favorites. All my movie decisions are based on this. John Higgins FTW!

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I heard this story too - in the version I heard, he and Steven Spielberg were in Hawaii. Spielberg was recovering from Jaws and Lucas had just finished editing Star Wars? Something like that.

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