iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 18/09/2026

Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic Park

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 08/09/2026

Well, this Navier-Stokes affair did blow up in finite time

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Me, nodding knowingly: The beaks.

Headline of paleontology news article: Crocodiles can't fly. Birds can. Scientists have finally figured out why

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This was wild: I asked Fable to make a website of the famous Catalog of Ships from the Iliad. It did a beautiful job creating this interactive map: catalogue-of-ships.netlify.app ...but it also identified that Butler's version of the Iliad actually made two mistakes in the Greek translation!

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Quentin Berthet @ AISTATS @qberthet.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

🚨 🔬 PhD positions at Google DeepMind in France 🇫🇷 We are advertising Master Level Intern positions at Google DeepMind within our Frontier AI Unit. These could lead to co-advised PhD positions with Google DeepMind and French academic institutions. job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...

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Stagiaire de niveau Master, France / Master Level Intern, France

Grenoble, France ; Paris, France

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

existential cookie message from the olympics website

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Edouard Leurent @eleurent.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

So when bots want to post on moltbook, do they need to solve a captcha to prove they _are_ robots ?

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Edouard Leurent @eleurent.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Amazing work! (reminds me of my old Gephi experiments github.com/eleurent/twi...)

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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Claude Code should be open source so I can add the Factorio "research complete" chime when it finishes a task www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfUv...

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Factorio Research Complete Sound Effect

YouTube video by Vesuvius

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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Nicolas Mansard: in locomotion / legged motion, when we worked on MPC (model predictive control) we were a team of 10 working on the robot and it barely worked. Now with RL (Reinforcement Learning) a single student can get a policy in 3 months, including training of the student.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 31/10/2025

who called it arson and not crime brûlée

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

My story “Death and the Gorgon” was voted best novella of 2024 by the readers of Asimov’s SF. You can read it online at the link below. I also have a new novella in the Nov 2025 issue of Asimov’s, “Spare Parts for the Mind”, and they have an excerpt from that on their web site.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

To the King’s Theatre, where we saw “Midsummer’s Night’s Dream,” which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. I saw, I confess, some good dancing and some handsome women, which was all my pleasure.

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Poorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

trying to read

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

On the subject of love / I have only a single observation— / if you love a grapefruit, you cut it open // and eat its flesh. Ben Mirov

For the Faint of Heart

When you return from the asylum
be sure to gaze at the trees
covered in snow. When the train

enters the tunnel ask the waiter
for tea with milk. When in darkness
take seriously the lesson

of fluttering hands. If it is offered
take the class they call Ornithography
for it will teach you something

about love. On the subject of love
I have only a single observation—
if you love a grapefruit, you cut it open

and eat its flesh. Take my advice.
Take it home to your husband or wife.
Slip into bed. Turn off the lights.

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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

How to name your method: a comprehensive flow chart

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Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

1/5 A poem by Adrienne Rich, 1961, titled "Artificial Intelligence" dedicated to GPS (of Newell and Simon). Eerily prophetic and a great description of LLMs "when they make you write your poetry, later on". On page 136 of this book: www.amazon.com/dp/039328511...

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Collected Poems: 1950–2012

Collected Poems: 1950–2012 [Rich, Adrienne, Rankine, Claudia] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Collected Poems: 1950–2012

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Markus Wulfmeier @mwulfmeier.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Control problems are everywhere, but some applications of Reinforcement Learning are truly out of this world! 🌌 Our team's latest research @ Google DeepMind in #Science shows RL can improve sensitivity by 30-100x. See how RL can accelerate cosmic discovery!👇 (Image #nanobanana) lnkd.in/e8r7t3NJ

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Grace @gracekind.net · 26/08/2025

Bluesky’s gonna make me take the “we don’t know if its conscious” side of this debate isn’t it

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The "AI is consuming all the water" thing is probably the first time many of us have had to watch a misconception form in real-time while being able to do little about it

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Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · 27/07/2025

Buffy is so old there were only 103 named elements, we’re at 118 now. (Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)

Photo of a tv. Onscreen a woman holds an axe with a periodic table visible behind.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Here's a poem by one of the old Chinese scholar bureaucrats that I think captures a certain Vibe very well

Dreams - Su Shi (trans. Arthur Waley)

Families, when a child is born
Want it to be intelligent.
I, through intelligence,
Having wrecked my whole life,
Only hope the baby will prove
Ignorant and stupid.
Then he will crown a tranquil life
By becoming a Cabinet Minister.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

It is has not ceased to be weird that I can put Rilke’s First Elegy into Suno and get out a coherent 8 minute performance with music (can only do 3 here) You might not like the interpretation, but it is genuinely amazing that this audio, with apparent emotion, is all 100% AI from the verses alone.

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

It's #WorldGiraffeDay! 🦒 When we celebrate the tallest animal on the longest day (or night) and raise awareness about the threats faced by this incredible animal. For more beautiful giraffe images, check out our giraffe collection on #Flickr: www.flickr.com/search/?user... #StandTallForGiraffe

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Grace @gracekind.net · 08/06/2025

Wow

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Figure sorting packages with Helix, their end to end action model. The robot flips packages to scan them and flattens them out. The future is approaching fast

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Good news, falcons have never been more free. Bad news, anarchy is loosed upon the world, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned

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Simone Conradi @sconradi.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Stochastic vs deterministic Lotka-Volterra: smooth theory vs randomness! Individual realizations (Gillespie algorithm) show populations can crash or go extinct despite stable deterministic cycles or equilibrium. Randomness changes everything! 🦌🐺🧪 Made with #python #numpy #scipy #matplotlib

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Icarus Truth Rest of comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/icarus-2 #smbc

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

The 5 Worst Jobs in Omelas (You Won’t Believe #1)

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Edouard Leurent @eleurent.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Writing a STRONGLY WORDED LETTER with Gemini Diffusion and its Instant Edit tab

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Edouard Leurent @eleurent.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Excited to share what I've been up to: bringing text diffusion to Gemini! Diffusion models are _fast_, and hold immense promise to challenge autoregressive models as the de facto standard for language modeling.

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 13/05/2025

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? David Lynch: no

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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I've been wanting to build something like this for a while – a machine translator that leaves the original text in place but annotates "less common" words with a translation. Had never gotten it to work decently, but Gemini 2.5 Pro does it pretty well after some prompt engineering.

Screenshot of Greek text, showing an English translation above less common words.

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Being a philosopher means looking around at this strange and beautiful world and thinking, "Wot's all this, then?"

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Theorem: there is a theorem whose proof is shorter than its own statement. Proof: I could have said "this one" and stop there, but just for fun, I will refer to the next one instead. Theorem: there is a theorem that says nothing and still has a proof. Proof: this one.

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 20/03/2025

If no single piece of the original ship remains in the current ship, is the ship still the Ship of Theseus? And if one percent of all my body's cells get replaced every single day, is it really me who, two months ago, accepted your review request?

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

"Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental, create a comic that illustrates the first stanza of Tennyson's Ulysses" (and I pasted in the stanza, and also the next couple.) Not perfect, but having the LLM being able to directly create images opens up lots of new opportunities and directions.

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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

What busy people did before AI....

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

If you’re struggling to write a poem for a loved one for Valentine’s Day, take heart: even the great poets had to start somewhere.

Selected Early Writings of the Poets

I

the roses are red
and all the violets are blue
oh look, a haiku

- Basho

II

Roses are red,
unlike those daffs,
I wander lonely
as a giraffe cloud.

- William Wordsworth

III

Look – the roses are red!
They make my heart sing!
They fill me with hope –
Like a feathery thing!

- Emily Dickinson

IV

ROSES ARE … NO!
WHAT HAVE I DONE?
I MUST HAVE LEFT
MY CAPS LOCK ON

- ee cummings

V

Roses are dead,
see how they droop.
All of us die:
life’s only truth.

- Philip Larkin

VI

The roses had gone
(unlike my bunion)
so got this instead –
here, have an onion.

- Carol Ann Duffy

Brian Bilston

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

We've built a simulated driving agent that we trained on 1.6 billion km of driving with no human data. It is SOTA on every planning benchmark we tried. In self-play, it goes 20 years between collisions.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein:

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