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Matt Spike @matspike.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

i write to apply for the advertised fellowship position. as a notable 'that fucking guy', i believe I more than meet the standards of fella, and

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 10/07/2026

3 years after publishing my book 'Representational Change and the Use of Metaphors in Problem Solving', this week it has finally become open access www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/downl... I had a thread about it on Tw*r, but I've long since deleted that account, so let me say a few words here: 1/13

Book cover: Representational Change and the Use of Metaphors in Problem Solving - The Winding Roots of Understanding (2023). Routledge.

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Amy Landers @amylanders.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I'll accept this as a transformative use of the day

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Matt Spike @matspike.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

jesus FUCKING chrrrrriissttt THIS WAS CYBERNETICS ONCE OBSERVATION THAT INDEPENDENT PARAMETER ACHIEVES CHANNEL CAPACITY UPON REACHING 400 MILLION BUCKS ==> **ICML 2026 Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention** FFS

Jack Morris

@jxmnop

new paper from our work at Meta!

**GPT-style language models memorize 3.6 bits per param**

we compute capacity by measuring total bits memorized, using some theory from Shannon (1953)

shockingly, the memorization-datasize curves look like this:

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Matt Spike @matspike.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

do you believe in CHEESE? many BRAINS do also. IDIOTS but with the latest AI models, cheese may NOT EXIST AT ALL

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3 CHEESE TOWERS, THE SACRED QUESOMETRON

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Matt Spike @matspike.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

do you believe in CHEESE? many BRAINS do also. IDIOTS but with the latest AI models, cheese may NOT EXIST AT ALL

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Matt Spike @matspike.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

hey hey HEY mfucker this is MY TURF better BACK THE FUCK OFF right NOW

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How to give a bad talk

Itai Yanai

It is crucial to know how to communicate your work by delivering an effective talk, but our training for doing so is limited, so it is a skill often learned by watching others... "

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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Very grateful to the amazing @anilseth.bsky.social for this wonderful blurb: "The world runs on predictions, and it always has. Readable and rigorous, #Prophecy uncovers how predictions have shaped our lives from ancient Greece to the new oracles of AI...

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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

How do humans keep inventing tools and technologies that no single person could create alone? Our new preprint, led by @anilyaman.bsky.social & @ts-brain.bsky.social shows that semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution. 🧠📘 arxiv.org/abs/2510.12837

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Maximilian Maurer @mmmaurer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Extracting structural/linguistic properties for large text datasets can be annoying. Existing tools either are not maintained, do not scale, or do not cover extensive sets of linguistic features. For this reason, I implemented 🧝elfen, a Python package for efficient linguistic feature extraction

Code examples for the Python package elfen:

# initializing extractor
extractor = elfen.Extractor(
data = df,
language = "en",
text_column = "text")
# extracting a single feature: ttr
extractor.extract("ttr")
# extracting a feature area/group: readability
extractor.extract_feature_group("readability")
# extracting all available features
extractor.extract_features()

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Matt Spike @matspike.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

in 2026, all loops will be strictly metaphysical. all procedural loops will be punished by summary execution

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Matt Spike @matspike.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

The first but by no means the last annoying rock star I refused to serve AND I STAND BY EVERY DECISION

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Matt Spike @matspike.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

MY GRAMMAR OPINIONS? FROM A MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER? WITH A SIDELINE IN POLITICAL PUNDITRY? ON THEIR BLOG OR FCKIN PODCAST OR SOME SHIT LIKE THAT? INDEED THEY ARE SIR, INDEED THEY ARE

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Evolutionary modelling group (PI: Piet van den Berg) @vandenberglab.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Hi everyone! We are the Evolutionary Modelling Group! We are interested in many topics, from the evolution of microbial mutational robustness to the evolution of language and culture in humans. We rely on a variety of methods, both computational (evolutionary simulations) and mathematical.

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Alan Rogers @alanrogers.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio

github.com

GitHub - alanrogers/popgen: A course on population genetics

A course on population genetics. Contribute to alanrogers/popgen development by creating an account on GitHub.

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xuan (ɕɥɛn / sh-yen) @xuanalogue.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Finished teaching my first seminar course today! Had tons of fun introducing my students to the rational foundations of human-like cooperation. Now that the course is over, I'm sharing the syllabus more widely!

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Clayton Littlejohn @cmlittlejohn.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Have we figured out what Kant said yet?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

the best answer i got for this:

awaitsync on Threads writes: "Metrognome"

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

New analysis by The Australia Institute finds the Australian National University has a $90 million surplus, not a $142 million deficit!

australiainstitute.org.au

The ANU’s hidden $90m budget surplus

New analysis by The Australia Institute reveals there is no financial crisis at the Australian National University.

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Thanking the reviewers

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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Hibernian's Erich Schaedler models the first sponsored football shirt in Scotland. (1977)

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The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

New Cambridge Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—fully #openaccess! @thomasreydon.bsky.social explores how evolutionary theory crosses over from biology into other fields, showing how these crossovers embody a broader style of reasoning: 'evolutionary thinking' bit.ly/48z3h36 #HPbio #evosky

Book cover of “The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking” by Thomas A. C. Reydon, in the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Biology series. Against a black background, the title is surrounded by Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations of marine organisms—radial, symmetrical forms in vivid blues, oranges, reds, and greens.

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welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social @welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Louis Armstrong playing the trumpet for his wife Lucille. #vintagephoto #louisarmstrong #egypt #sphinx

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 30/09/2025

"Knight Rider" (1984) s02e17, Garthe Knight (Michael Knight's evil twin) breaks out of prison. Now in glorious HD.

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Aaron Steven White @aaronstevenwhite.io · 27/09/2025

I've found it kind of a pain to work with resources like VerbNet, FrameNet, PropBank (frame files), and WordNet using existing tools. Maybe you have too. Here's a little package that handles data management, loading, and cross-referencing via either a CLI or a python API.

github.com

GitHub - aaronstevenwhite/glazing: Unified data models and interfaces for syntactic and semantic frame ontologies.

Unified data models and interfaces for syntactic and semantic frame ontologies. - aaronstevenwhite/glazing

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Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Delighted to speak in Tokyo next October at this fantastic event ! 😎 Thank you for having me🙏! Will be talking about embodiment and Artificial Agents osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Great news from the @erc.europa.eu today: I received an ERC Starting Grant to study the cultural evolution of literature 🔥 www.eva.mpg.de/press/news/a...

eva.mpg.de

Charting the evolution of European literature

Oleg Sobchuk has received an ERC Starting Grant to study 200 years of European literary evolution

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Matt Spike @matspike.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

the whole AI Herrenvolk Thoughocracy schtick annoys me way less these days - it's the intellectual equivalent of a clown in underpants slapping themself on the back, like, whatevs, have at it their TOTAL IGNORANCE OF FOUNDATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE, on the other hand, DRIVES ME INTO WILD FITS OF RAGE

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Matt Spike @matspike.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts And I looked and behold, a pale horse And his name that sat on him was Death And a json followed with him

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Matt Spike @matspike.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

i've seen jsons you people wouldn't believe

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Just published… I argue that preregistration does not improve the transparent evaluation of the severity of hypothesis tests (a) in Popper’s approach or (b) in Mayo’s error statistical approach when preregistration is treated as “a plan, not a prison.” Open Access: doi.org/10.1007/s112...

One justification for preregistering research hypotheses, methods, and analyses is that it improves the transparent evaluation of the severity of hypothesis tests. In this article, I consider two cases in which preregistration does not improve this evaluation. First, I argue that, although preregistration may facilitate the transparent evaluation of severity in Mayo’s error statistical philosophy of science, it does not facilitate this evaluation in Popper’s theory-centric approach. To illustrate, I show that associated concerns about Type I error rate inflation are only relevant in the error statistical approach and not in a theory-centric approach. Second, I argue that a test procedure that is preregistered but that also allows deviations in its implementation (i.e., “a plan, not a prison”) does not provide a more transparent evaluation of Mayoian severity than a non-preregistered procedure. In particular, I argue that sample-based validity-enhancing deviations cause an unknown inflation of the test procedure’s Type I error rate and, consequently, an unknown reduction in its capability to license inferences severely. I conclude that preregistration does not improve the transparent evaluation of severity (a) in Popper’s philosophy of science or (b) in Mayo’s approach when deviations are allowed.

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Consciousness needs a subject osf.io/preprints/ps... - new preprint with Carolyn Dicey Jennings @cdj.bsky.social (commentary on Anil Seth's BBS piece)

To be conscious is to be an experiencing subject. This can be defined not in terms of computational functions or particular biological substrates, but rather in terms of relations: between subject and world, between parts of the subject, and through time. These kinds of relations – comprising a conscious mode of being – may well be implementable in artificial systems.

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Matt Spike @matspike.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Is the brain a computer? Well, yes and no - it's not just *any* computer! It's an Amstrad PCW512, originally targeted at the word processing and home office market but, with the expansion to 512k of memory, made the big move into cognition in 1987

an Amstrad PCW512, originally targeted at the word processing and home office market but, with the expansion to 512k of memory, made the big move into cognition in 1987

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𝐔𝐧𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐛 @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

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Matt Spike @matspike.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

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Tweet from Joscha Bach

@Plinz

"Al is the only academic field that has committed itself to studying the nature of intelligence." – Kristinn Thorisson, AGI2025

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 12/08/2025

"Remember when there were no ads on bluesky and mastodon was legal? Man I miss every youtuber shilling for a scam in between 30s ads. Smartphones with no pop-ups baked into the UI? Good old times. Yesterday my rental bicycle asked me to write a 200 word essay to feed GPT13's training dataset."

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Matt Spike @matspike.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

"The Breakfast-Time of Language argues that it was not hunting, fighting, or tool-making that forced early humans to speak, but in fact a very particular combination of waffles and syrup"

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Reyhan Furman, PhD @reyhanfurman.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Do the disfluencies and gestures we produce when we speak act as metacognitive cues? Our new paper is out now to answer this question! Great work led by Begüm Yılmaz @begumyilmaz.bsky.social 👐💬 #CogPsych #PsychSciSky

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Methods in the Philosophy of Science: A User's Guide is now a real, live book. My chapter offers an appraisal of philosophy of science in its engagement with applied mathematics. With immense gratitude for the vision and execution of @phieveigl.bsky.social and @adrian-currie.bsky.social sky.social.

mitpress.mit.edu

Methods in the Philosophy of Science

The last twenty years have seen multiple methodological revolutions in the philosophy of science: There has been increased diversity concerning the questions...

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