Reposted by Adam ChessEmily Moin @emilymoin.com · 01/10/2026uhh hey kalshi gimme a 12-leg same-game parlay on right THR 1131
Reposted by Adam Chessmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 15/09/2026Jev: Fable-level model that doesn’t charge for output tokens because they’re too cheap to meter it’s not general though, it only makes decisions, doesn’t generate text, but input tokens are measured by the billion ($42/btok) typesafe.ai/blog/introdu... 2830235
Reposted by Adam ChessScott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 01/05/2026OpenAI’s o1 model correctly diagnosed 78.3% of cases in NEJM clinicopathologic conferences, outperforming human physicians. The model also maintained high accuracy on real-world, unstructured data from a major emergency department. #MedSkyscience.orgPerformance of a large language model on the reasoning tasks of a physicianMore than 65 years ago, complex clinical diagnostic reasoning cases were introduced as the gold standard for the evaluation of expert medical computing systems, a standard that has held ever since.… 192
Adam Chess @arsonade.bsky.social · 21/03/2026THE COIN DON’T HAVE NO SAY medium.com/@rosequarter... This was a great readmedium.comTHE COIN DON’T HAVE NO SAY“It’s just you.” Encoding and decoding in tabletop roleplaying games. 060
Reposted by Adam ChessMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town. 142153675715
Reposted by Adam ChessAndrew Gordon Wilson @andrewgwils.bsky.social · 07/01/2026We introduce epiplexity, a new measure of information that provides a foundation for how to select, generate, or transform data for learning systems. We have been working on this for almost 2 years, and I cannot contain my excitement! arxiv.org/abs/2601.03220 1/7 814234
Reposted by Adam Chessmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 06/12/2025TITANS & MIRAS: real continual learning MIRAS = a unifying theory of transformers (attention) and state space models (SSM, e.g. Mamba, RNNs) TITANS = an optimal MIRAS implementation that’s “halfway between” SSM & transformer with a CL memory module let’s dive in! research.google/blog/titans-...research.googleTitans + MIRAS: Helping AI have long-term memory 14211
Reposted by Adam ChessLux Stella @luxstella500.bsky.social · 24/11/2025no wonder g_d was pissed when they ate that fruit 110319
Reposted by Adam ChessGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 06/11/2025It’s time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field. #publichealth #episky #medsky #activism www.thenation.com/article/acti...thenation.comPublic Health Was a Place for Warriors Once. It Needs to Be Again.It's time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field. 625678
Reposted by Adam ChessMany Sided Media @manysidedmedia.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Want a peek inside a 1,200 player RPG? Read out interview with @samsorensen.bsky.social about OVER/UNDER, the massive play-by-post game that's a part of Mothership Month ( @mothership.bsky.social ) manysidednewsletter.substack.com/p/inside-a-1...manysidednewsletter.substack.comInside a 1,200 Player RPGA closer look at Over/Under, the massive play-by-post game 14521
Reposted by Adam ChessGabe Grand @gabegrand.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Do AI agents ask good questions? We built “Collaborative Battleship” to find out—and discovered that weaker LMs + Bayesian inference can beat GPT-5 at 1% of the cost. Paper, code & demos: gabegrand.github.io/battleship Here's what we learned about building rational information-seeking agents... 🧵🔽 12411
Reposted by Adam Chessparis martineau @paris.nyc · 14/10/2025my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...consumerreports.orgProtein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer ReportsCR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead. 28461283240
Reposted by Adam ChessPhillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Over the past year, my lab has been working on fleshing out theory + applications of the Platonic Representation Hypothesis. Today I want to share two new works on this topic: Eliciting higher alignment: arxiv.org/abs/2510.02425 Unpaired learning of unified reps: arxiv.org/abs/2510.08492 1/9 113233
Reposted by Adam Chess⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 06/10/2025if you're curious about the architecture and mechanics of LLMs, this site has a really excellent explorable interactive visualization. it helps build intuition for how massive these models are, what 'interpretability' means, and the complexity involved here bbycroft.net/llm 1015923
Reposted by Adam ChessEvan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 04/10/2025“[D]ooming is itself a liberation from the burden of choice. If everything is ruined forever, if your allies have already forsaken you, if the battle is already lost, you aren't responsible for your choices. They can't affect the outcome. You're free.”liberalcurrents.comDemocrats Must Embrace War MindsetWe have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake. 0128
Reposted by Adam ChessBenjamin Laufer @laufer.bsky.social · 14/08/2025In a new paper with @didaoh and Jon Kleinberg, we mapped the family trees of 1.86 million AI models on Hugging Face — the largest open-model ecosystem in the world. AI evolution looks kind of like biology, but with some strange twists. 🧬🤖 4329
Reposted by Adam Chesslastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Oh. My. God. www.popsci.com/environment/...popsci.comFirst known wild ‘grue jay’ hybrid spotted in TexasGreen and blue jays are crossing paths as temperatures rise. 916230
Reposted by Adam ChessOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2025okay AI controversy aside, just talking as a nerd for a second: this is such a cool paper 16787177
Reposted by Adam ChessPeli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 18/09/2025LLMs becoming superhuman at all games & competitions but not even normal-expert good at anything that's not a game or competition continues to raise deep questions about whether games & competitions are a secret natural kind 5605
Reposted by Adam ChessPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 08/04/2024Solar luminosity around 3.5 billion years ago was only about 70% of what it is right now. Which means that when life arose on earth, it was outside the sun's habitability zone: liquid water should not have been able to exist. Faint Young Sun Paradox 3608
Adam Chess @arsonade.bsky.social · 26/08/2025It seems clear that the current historical moment will have a major impact on culture. Even recent art feels anachronistic. Movies involving govt/cops more obviously, but also just the undertones of social stability. It feels like it meant something different to make music last year. Any art really. 240
Reposted by Adam ChessCensus API Tracker @censusapitracker.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Hello, Bluesky! This account automatically posts updates when the Census Bureau APIs add or remove datasets. See the full tracker at www.hrecht.com/census-api-d...hrecht.comTracking Census Dataset ChangesSee when the U.S. Census Bureau adds or removes datasets. 03713
Reposted by Adam ChessNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 18/08/2025If you're interested in learning #JuliaLang and are currently an #RStats user (or even if you're not!), then here's a little introduction to getting started! 📊 Blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #QuartoPub #Julia @tidierjl.bsky.socialnrennie.rbind.ioIntroduction to Julia for R users – Nicola RennieThis blog post will give R users an overview of what Julia is and why they might want to use it, introduce some data processing Julia packages, and show how they can incorporate Julia into existing R ... 512944
Adam Chess @arsonade.bsky.social · 26/07/2025This one hurts. I've always had respect for the way USPTF operates. It should be a source of national pride 100
Reposted by Adam ChessThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 23/07/2025The chief of a unit at the National Institute of Mental Health estimates that between one and five per cent of people who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia actually have an autoimmune condition.newyorker.comMary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’tSome psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane? 12375124
Reposted by Adam ChessJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 16/07/20251. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows How did the city do it? Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issuepopular.infoThe secret to Baltimore's extraordinary yearThis April, Baltimore saw five homicides. 313190185515
Adam Chess @arsonade.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Take 1 basic ramen packet Carefully open the side. Extract the flavor organ and reserve Carefully crack the ramen in the bag, avoid noodle ejecta Pour in like 1/4 of the flavor packet Break it up a bit more Close the bag with your hand and shake (not above your head!) Enjoy your noodle chips. Freak 010
Reposted by Adam ChessTim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 01/07/202516 years ago, I found myself in the back garden of a couple I'd just met, as they showed me their pillow fighting arena. The lesson they taught me about games - especially competitive ones - has stayed with me ever since, but I forgot to mention it in interviews when asked if competition is bad. So: 16701221
Reposted by Adam ChessAaron Voigt @aavoigt.bsky.social · 02/07/2025@onlyplaywizards.com’s “Public Health Wargame” is a fascinating intersection of tabletop rpgs and my day job, and I couldn’t miss the chance to talk about it 24818
Reposted by Adam ChessSticky Doodler 🔜 PeopleCon 3 @stickydoodler.bsky.social · 29/06/2025A few takeaways from my conversations with librarians at #ALAAC2025 last night: 📝 YES, journaling games are a great fit for libraries, because literacy 📝 YES, many libraries have D&D clubs but not enough DMs, and journaling games -- the ultimate GM-less game -- are a potential solution BUT... 1/▶️ 59822
Reposted by Adam ChessSolid Evidence @solidevidence.bsky.social · 28/06/2025I’m thrilled to announce the update of our water surveillance dashboard. Many improvements, and our first substantial move into ‘OneHealth’. Read to the end to find the Easter Egg. 1/ dholab.github.io/public_viz/0...dholab.github.ioWastewater Surveillance Dashboards 15012
Reposted by Adam ChessColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Some new science 🚨👉 Wildfires drive people indoors, increasing RSV, influenza, and #Covid transmission. If even 10% of people #mask, it could offset that effect - protecting them from both viruses and air pollution. Another facet of the climate-pandemic connection journals.plos.org/climate/arti...journals.plos.orgDisruption of outdoor activities caused by wildfire smoke shapes circulation of respiratory pathogensAuthor summary The effects of climate change on human health are becoming more evident, but we often overlook one crucial factor: how extreme weather events influence our behaviors and, in turn, the s... 114673
Reposted by Adam ChessEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 14/06/2025👀This is impressive: Using an autonomous agent based on o3-mini and GPT-4.1, a team from Harvard, MIT & other institutions reproduced and updated an entire issue of Cochrane Reviews in two days… saving 12 person-years of work. The AI reviews captured more papers & were more accurate than humans. 216326
Reposted by Adam ChessSprintingOwlDesigns @sprintingowl.bsky.social · 04/06/2025It's that time again. It's time for the world's most important tabletop award ceremony, The Sprinties! YOU can win one of the most SOUGHT AFTER awards in TABLETOP RPGs just by SUBMITTING YOUR GAME. Post your own game below and it will WIN A SPRINTY. 174526
Reposted by Adam Chessmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 30/05/2025slop forensics this guy uses bioinformatics techniques to cluster LLM outputs based on n-grams surprising: the new DeepSeek R1 0528 clusters closer to Gemini, implying they switched from openai synthetic training data to google github.com/sam-paech/sl... 3456
Reposted by Adam ChessMilan Weibel 🔷 @weibac.bsky.social · 27/05/2025w h a t "Pruning as few as a single parameter can destroy an LLM's ability to generate text -- increasing perplexity by 3 orders of magnitude and reducing zero-shot accuracy to guessing."arxiv.orgThe Super Weight in Large Language ModelsRecent works have shown a surprising result: a small fraction of Large Language Model (LLM) parameter outliers are disproportionately important to the quality of the model. LLMs contain billions of pa... 1345
Reposted by Adam ChessBenji Blackstone @benjiblackstone.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Just in time for Friday! I made a Real-Life MULTIPLAYER Lightcycle Simulator www.youtube.com/@BenjiBlackstone #gaming #gamedev Have a beautiful weekend! 052
Reposted by Adam Chessellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 07/05/2025this is why I say over and over again, it is a generative natural language user interface/query engine, depending on what you use it for *user interface* and *generative* are the things that need to be emphasized to understand what its actual scope are 319135
Reposted by Adam ChessPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 21/04/2024Fun fact: in moments of extreme danger and fear where "time seems to slow down," your time perception has barely changed. You do *remember* perceiving time as having slowed down. This was tested by making people fall down unexpectedly while answering questions. 3514
Adam Chess @arsonade.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Every journalist involved here, both the writer of this article and the Onion article, should be very proud 040
Reposted by Adam Chessjay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 01/05/2025if your combat system is ponderous and dull, your ttrpg is TRAD if your combat system is fast-paced and dull, your ttrpg is OSR if your combat system is fast-paced and inscrutable, your ttrpg is a STORYGAME 14626138
Reposted by Adam ChessOntario Drug Policy Research Network @odprn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025NEW ODPRN study finds that BOTH Safer Opioid Supply (SOS) & methadone improve health outcomes and play important complementary roles in responding to Canada’s drug toxicity crisis. odprn.ca/research/pub... #HarmReduction #SaferSupply 032
Reposted by Adam ChessScott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 25/04/2025🧪 Researchers developed machine learning models using weather data to predict daily stroke admissions, finding factors like air pressure, temperature extremes, and wind correlate with caseload. This approach could aid hospitals in planning for weather-related health events. 🩺💻 #MLSkynature.comMachine learning-based forecasting of daily acute ischemic stroke admissions using weather data - npj Digital Medicinenpj Digital Medicine - Machine learning-based forecasting of daily acute ischemic stroke admissions using weather data 093
Reposted by Adam ChessBen Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 11/04/2025New paper from the Neurosurgery Research Team at BCM! "Learning and language in the unconscious human hippocampus" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgLearning and language in the unconscious human hippocampusConsciousness is a fundamental component of cognition, but the degree to which higher-order perception relies on it remains disputed. Here we demonstrate the persistence of learning, semantic processi... 68736
Reposted by Adam ChessJoseph O'Sullivan @olympiajoe.bsky.social · 05/04/2025TRENTON- About 1k people showed today for the 50501 nat’l day of action here at the NJ Capitol. Protesters chanted against Trump & Musk, cuts to education the VA & more. And sang some Woody Guthrie- 78221