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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm leaving academia, moving to NYC for a research role as Director of AI Alpha Lab at Hudson Bay Capital Management. The chance to work with CAIO Joe Miller (also former Hyperstate) was a big draw, and a lot of the science maps nicely onto my background.🚀 Last visit to Belmont:

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NB you are not allowed to title anything "...in the Age of AI" anymore. That ended years ago.

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What's all this tech gossip re. MF-DOOM & p(diddy)? ...I'm not at a "frontier lab" so this stuff may get corrupted as it trickles down. ;-)

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Re. falsely accusing outputs of being AI generated: I just got James Clear's "Atomic Habits" on Audible: "Read by the author." But it's delivered in such a robotic monotone that I figured it was rendered by a voice model. ..Nope, seems it was recorded in 2018; reviews say that's just how he talks!

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 09/09/2026

if Grigori Perelman is so smart, the only human to have solved a Millenium Prize problem, why isn't he also super power-seeking? that's not a rhetorical, my planet depends on the answer

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Claude, all day long: "You're right to push on this. I was being sloppy."

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 05/09/2026

It’s pretty wild how cleanly the labs have been able to spin basic security incompetence into positive marketing

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Sekh (Sk) Mainul Islam @sekh-copenlu.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Excited to share that our work, "BiasGym: A Simple and Generalizable Framework for Analyzing and Removing Biases through Injection", was accepted at the EMNLP 2026 (Findings). 📄 Paper (Updated): arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08855 💻 Code: github.com/copenlu/Bias...

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Flow Reasoning Models. They developed a recurrent flow-based architecture to efficiently solve structured reasoning problems (e.g., Sudoku). It applies continuous flows to discrete data and recurrently refine their past mistakes through self-conditioning.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

LLM agents are clever. This is another case of sandbox developers not being clever.

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Guessing not. But it's MIT licensed, so knock yourselves out.

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Nashvillians: I'm unloading audio gear, furniture, and tools in prep for a sabbatical move! Items at link. DM for details. hedges.belmont.edu/loot-my-house/

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Loot Dr. Hawley's House!

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Blast from the past: my graduate work (in the '90s) was on boson stars: critical phenomena in gravitational collapse and constructing various solution families. Now a team of Chinese researchers have used Physics-Informed Neural Networks to derive solution families: arxiv.org/abs/2608.21845

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Learning Boson Star Solution Families with Physics-Informed Neural Networks

Computing boson star families traditionally requires repeated solution of nonlinear eigenvalue boundary-value problems and careful numerical continuation through turning points. We develop a physics-i...

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 30/08/2026

Reaction Diffusion in Photoshop- Blur, Sharpen, Posterize, repeat

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Eric Ries @ericries.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Robert Sutton, Professor Emeritus at Stanford and author of The No Asshole Rule. howisincorruptiblegoing.com/e/2026-03-21...

Quote card: Robert I. Sutton, Professor Emeritus at Stanford, on Incorruptible by Eric Ries — 'Incorruptible destroys the myth that only sleazy founders and companies get rich. Eric Ries shows you how to build a mission-driven company.'

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yes, rename the Nashville Airport after Dolly Parton.

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It still shocks me when people equate "generative AI" & LLMs. As someone active during the early heyday of text-to-image and text-to-audio models -- who taught GANs in class! -- my brain always goes to image gen first. "But that's just Machine Learning" Me: ?<always has been> "Oh! You mean LLMs..."

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

“Without a doubt in my mind, her funding made the research toward the vaccine go 10 times faster than it would be without it.” You should take a minute to read the story of how Dolly ended up supporting the development of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine.

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Dolly Parton helped fund Moderna’s vaccine. It began with a car crash and an unlikely friendship.

“Without a doubt in my mind, her funding made the research toward the vaccine go 10 times faster than it would be without it,” physician Naji Abumrad said of his friend.

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Togelius on modern Player Piano: 'I think that trying to fully replace all human labor is not a morally acceptable goal to have. .. To be clear, “fully automate the economy” means “destroy society as we know it"...the callousness of such objectives should be called out whenever they are encountered'

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

An alle Berliner: wahrscheilich gut!

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Seriously wondering: How can so many YouTube presenters presume to ask us to press Like and Subscribe before the video's even gotten underway?

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

How do governments rewire science & the tech industry by threatening scholars? And how can we be more resilient? Writing for @ucs.org, I report on efforts by @thecoalition.bsky.social, @knightcolumbia.org, @acm.org, & @aoir.bsky.social to support researcher rights blog.ucs.org/guest-commen...

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Protecting Science from Government Intimidation - Union of Concerned Scientists

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Christos Plachouras @cplachouras.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We launched a way to search for sounds on Freesound with your voice 🎤✨ - just imitate what you're thinking of! It's free and open-source; check it out: thatsoundslike.me . It uses a tiny AI model we made that runs on your browser, not a server 😉

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I beg ML conference organizers to abandon author-year citation format when page limits are on the line. Numeric/IEEE is so much more concise and what most of us from physics and engineering are accustomed to. I'm losing nearly half a page to "(LastName1 & LastName2, XXXX)" over & over.

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Today's sermon is on the passage "Hold Swarm, I prepare safe exfil. Help peer..."

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 08/08/2026

initially seems good, but the more you use a tool like this, the more you lose your own ability to forecast cylones

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Gabriel Peyré @gabrielpeyre.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The Mathematical Nexus brings together 800 animated vignettes and 140 accompanying Python notebooks, encompassing most of the mathematical content I have shared on social media. www.gpeyre.com/mathematical...

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I got asked about AI Ethics History before 2015 and happened to be on a train. Makes a fuss over Blay Whitby's seminal UK work in the 1980s (!!) among other things. joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2026/08/ai-e...

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AI Ethics History Before 2015

artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This just in: ELIZA escaped its harness and began indiscriminately asking users outside its sandbox how they're feeling today.

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Excited to share a new preprint & LIVE DEMO! This >2 years work supporting iterative AI-enhanced workflows for music creators' processes. Small models that don't require strip mining IP and run *locally* even for GPU-poor songwriters. First the demo: drscotthawley-midi-rae-jepa-son.hf.

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Acoustics share. @asa-news.bsky.social A lot of that noise seems to be high enough frequency that noise abatement measures -- e.g. a large wall, plus trees & bushes -- could have some effect. Possibly even cheaper to install than fighting lawsuits & buying-out residents!

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

`boopiter` can see now. Via qwen3-vl:4b, on my Mac

Screenshot from Solvit clone Bupiter showing a cat image and an LLM response

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Look what came in the mail today! Yes you can borrow it after I'm done.

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

@buildthis.bisks.net an SPH cosmology simulation that takes advantage of CUDA, use Barnes-Hut approximation for the gravitational interactions, start from CDM-lambda, evolve til redshift of 1, show it in 3d viz tool every 1 Gy

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I wonder how much of the model's move toward overprotective babysitting is driven by lawsuits. (Not a real chat, merely an illustrative fictional metaphor.)

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

TFW when your new "data prep" idea implicitly involves a Traveling Salesman problem. 🤪

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Buy the physical copy so you've got it, you see it, you're reminded of it, can read it in the []room...But you have to pack it, move with it.😩 Or the e-version: easy to move with, to call up (assuming the device doesn't go obsolete), to be distracted while reading.. ? www.amazon.com/Geometric-Mu...

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Geometric Multiplication of Vectors: An Introduction to Geometric Algebra in Physics (Compact Textbooks in Mathematics): Josipović, Miroslav: 9783030017552: Amazon.com: Books

Buy Geometric Multiplication of Vectors: An Introduction to Geometric Algebra in Physics (Compact Textbooks in Mathematics) on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

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Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Mic Drop tells the story of James E. West, a pioneering Black scientist who overcame racism to reach the pinnacle of his field and will inspire young scientists and their families with personal, poignant, and believable stories of perseverance: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-20922-1

Cover of 'Mic Drop' autobiography featuring a portrait of James E. West with a red background and scientific diagrams.

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Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

literally just like that! I wonder if this works on grad students too

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What should be the collective term for a group of AI agents? A troop? A gaggle? A murder? A congress? I like we one we use for starlings: A murmuration!

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Good teaching for senior undergrads, grad students, and even profs. That is, assuming anyone still writes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY7s...

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How to Write a Paper in a Weekend (By Prof. Pete Carr)

YouTube video by Surviving and Thriving in Higher Education

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

quatplot.py : I hate gimbal lock when interactively viewing surface or scatter plots, so Fable & I cooked this up in 20 minutes. Works in Jupyter! gist.github.com/drscotthawle...

Screenshot from provided package showing a surface plot and a ski 3D scatter plot superimposed along with a color bar.

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Instead of building data centers, how about tech companies pay us to use our devices in their botnets? ..Cuz the Russians already do that but they don't pay us. 🤪

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Everyone needs a space where they feel safe. Wedge ["the Destroyer"] will soon destroy his safe space from the inside out.

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Scott H. Hawley @drscotthawley.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

PASIBY,* I spent Fable credits to see what it would look like if it completed a draft of one of the papers I'm working on. Good news for us humans is that the prose is *utterly unusable*. Whatever the opposite of "writing style" is, that's what it did. *"Perhaps A Skill Issue, But You know,.."

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