Reposted by Jay Altphysics.soc-ph @arxiv-soc-ph.bsky.social · 17hSix objects reported at 480 mph in a declassified military infrared video show brightness flicker at bird wingbeat rates arxiv.org/abs/2610.08692 011
Reposted by Jay AltArXiv Paper Poster (cs.SI & ph-soc) @soc-net-bot.bsky.social · 22hKeeping the interaction structure explicit: comment on ''Graphs are maximally expressive for higher-order interactions" arxiv.org/abs/2610.08712 Peixoto et al. (arXiv:2602.16937v2) stress that graph-based formulations can express any interaction model, a point the literature on higher...📈🤖 001
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026What happens to the BPL wiki page now, does it merge with L, does it get put in past tense like it died 000
Reposted by Jay AltMarco Langbroek @marcolangbroek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026New blogpost: "A French SLBM test in the Atlantic " sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2026/10/a-fr...sattrackcam.blogspot.comA French SLBM test in the Atlanticclassified military Space (spy satellites) and Missiles 072
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Tl...youtube.comHistory- The Memory Palace-Episode 94 (Numbers)YouTube video by History- Memory Palace 000
Reposted by Jay AltZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Solved a Hilbert problem, invented the computer, defeated the Nazis AND, we now know, wrote erotic fiction staring himself. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/alan... The perfect human being.cam.ac.ukAlan Turing’s gay short story reveals ‘fun, cheeky’ manA racy short story by the ‘father of modern computing’ rips up Alan Turing’s ‘isolated mathematician’ image, revealing a playful man overcoming trauma and defiantly embracing his homosexuality. 18590120
Reposted by Jay Altlolt64 @lolt64.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My satirical woodcut of your station in life has taken the parish by storm 31020229
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026arxiv.org/abs/2610.03832arxiv.orgCooperation thrives when moral judgment matches moral conductA leading explanation for why humans cooperate with strangers is indirect reciprocity: when conduct is observed, individuals earn good reputations by cooperating with the deserving. Previous research ... 000
Reposted by Jay AltMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“Vaccines will be ineffective against competently designed pandemic weapons. Russia may not be competent yet, but future AI will democratize competence. “We should stockpile pandemic-proof PPE and install germicidal far-UV and glycol misters in public spaces.” 834350
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026arxiv.org/abs/2610.04016arxiv.orgVerification of the Outer Space Treaty with active interrogationWe present an analysis of active interrogation in space with the goal to verify the absence of nuclear weapons hidden in a large constellation of satellites. We propose a 16 MeV photon beam generated ... 000
Reposted by Jay AltThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 06/10/2026Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office said a former foreign intelligence chief was arrested on espionage allegations.bit.lyGermany arrests a former foreign intelligence chief on spying allegationsGermany's federal prosecutor's office says a former foreign intelligence chief has been arrested on espionage allegations. 16514
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"Sense-Making, Cultural Scripts, and the Inferential Basis of Meaningful Experience" 2025 Kommers, Cody; DeDeo, Simon escholarship.org/uc/item/37w2...escholarship.org 010
Reposted by Jay AltarXiv econ.GN General Economics @econgn-bot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Marco Due\~nas, Antoine Mandel: Labour reallocation and production-network recomposition in the green transition arxiv.org/abs/2610.04018 arxiv.org/pdf/2610.04018 arxiv.org/html/2610.04018 001
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It is a computer by virtue of these capacities, the author does not understand the difference between a computational model and a model of computation. That a Turing machine bounds the brain's capacities above implies no resemblance. 000
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Now that it happens “over there” I think we will be cued to understand these are weapons demonstrations 000
Reposted by Jay AltMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts: 17372161493
Reposted by Jay AltACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Air to Ground Message: PAX VAPING ON RAMP WAS TOLD 2 STOP AND BIN VAPE.. CARRIED ON VAPING AS THEY WALKED 2 BIN AND WAS NOW DENIED BOARDIN Area: Portsmouth, UK Type: Airbus A320neo A: #a05bacd1986 F: #f3bf77c4dcb 061
Reposted by Jay AltTim @timzhu.io · 03/10/2026You're basically Napoleon if you can make entire organization(s) get on the same database 1170598
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Longtermist institutions in the Bay Area predate the EA brand, which consolidated/eliminated similar philosophies already circulating. 011
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026arxiv.org/abs/2609.40290arxiv.orgCAS II: Symmetric Partitions as Kolmogorov ModelsIn algorithmic statistics a string x is explained by a finite set containing it, and Kolmogorov's structure function records the smallest such model at each level of complexity. Vereshchagin's strong ... 000
Reposted by Jay AltThomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Attention arXiv authors. Because of the exponential increase in submissions, arXiv is limiting the number of papers that a person can submit each month to two. blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...blog.arxiv.orgAttention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS CategoryarXiv’s computer science (CS) category has updated its moderation practice with respect to review (or survey) articles and position papers. Before being… 511331
Reposted by Jay AltMichael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026WAVE (1994) Acrylic on Canvas - 48” x 48” Of all the paintings hanging in my home, this one probably elicits the most comments. #art 311511318
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026arxiv.org/abs/2609.38242arxiv.orgA Calculus for Units of Measure with ConversionPrograms that compute with physical quantities often need to convert between units of measurement, and as the Mars Climate Orbiter showed, these conversions can be a rich source of errors. Meanwhile, ... 000
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026arxiv.org/abs/2609.39838arxiv.orgLearning Steganography Is Easy, Learning Steganographic Reasoning Is HardChain-of-thought monitoring as an approach for AI oversight and control is threatened by the possibility of steganographic reasoning, where LLMs conceal their reasoning inside innocuous-looking text. ... 000
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Not an exception but a different intuition more like AIT than CC for the big picture imo 020
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Sometimes it really is that case that a lot of work already happened and we are given big complex objects that shorten the operational paths to a lot of outcomes by embedding a ton of history, though 132
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026arxiv.org/abs/2609.34846arxiv.orgConspiracy and Environment Communities on Reddit Sort Along Different Demographic AxesThe impact of online platforms in political mobilization is widely documented, yet it remains unclear how it affects different demographic groups. To shed light on this phenomenon, we examine two cont... 001
Reposted by Jay AltActual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Joe Bumpkin United States, Census, 1950 1315
Reposted by Jay AltRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 28/09/2026*tearing my own hair out* the word satellite is older than the COLOUR PINK in the english language 5606
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Scientists speculate history may continue until 2040 arxiv.org/abs/2609.30448arxiv.orgTo Store or To Regenerate? A Cost Model for AI-Generated Content at ScaleAI-generated content is becoming a rapidly growing class of digital artifacts. Because these artifacts accumulate over time, their exponential growth creates a substantial storage, energy, and infrast... 010
Reposted by Jay AltACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Air to Ground Message: THANKS FOR TRYING Area: Cleveland, OH, USA Type: Embraer 175 (Enhanced Wing) A: #a0fb265447c F: #f60843af4e2 021
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf5j...youtube.comFlaming TelepathsYouTube video by Blue Öyster Cult - Topic 000
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026That fork against the Cartesian denial of souls to animals is what I see as the intended and successful argument. La Mettrie describes the production of sensations as rendering in a mental theater, but simply holds this to admit mechanical, material explanation after the image of a magic lantern. 110
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think one can follow La Mettrie in first reducing the soul to imagination, and holding imagination to be the primary mental faculty, then claiming that the soul is an "enlightened machine" whose faculties are attributable to material processes, which exist alike in animals, fatally to Cartesianism 110
Reposted by Jay AltCitizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 27/09/2026"I want you to download the assets from Marathon 2. I want us to build a map viewer that runs on web technology. I want to be able to select any region on the map and adjust the camera to see any view" Opus 5.5: 1423
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026and also limits on the basis of his explanation, for instance describing caterpillars as having souls too limited to understand their own metamorphosis. 100
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think the argument against dualism goes fine, just doesn't do much to eliminate soul or mind, and it is not clear to me it is intended to. La Mettrie says soul is imagination and attributes reasoning capacities to the same, 100
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026He explains that the soul is a vacuous concept in practice except as a word for imagination, but rather than denying it he then attributes it to animals. 110
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026arxiv.org/abs/2609.25603arxiv.orgTesting and Learning Symbolic Finite State MachinesSymbolic finite state machines (SFSMs) describe input/output behaviour using guards and output assignments with possibly infinite data domains. We study deterministic and completely specified SFSMs wh... 000
Reposted by Jay AltTim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My latest paper in Political Studies 👇 how can worker cooperatives retain a democratic culture if there are pressures to re-establish managerial hierarchies? 1106
Reposted by Jay Alt#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 26/09/2026*I don't think "Rogue AI" is "human incompetence," but I do think "Rogue AI" is the "ideal form of plausibly-deniable Gray War attack." Man are we gonna suffer if that automated depredation gets normalized 45013
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Thankfully we can all depend on Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, an investor in Anthropic, to oppose the idea of staging an exceptional crisis to sway public policy. 010
Reposted by Jay AltCibo🏴 @cibo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I mostly browse r/accelerate out of morbid curiosity but sometimes I land on bangers. Remember to vote after the singularity! 1102
Jay Alt @jalt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026out: we live in a society in: we live in the days of the comet 000
