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Flip 8 imaginary coins. Now roll 8 imaginary dice. Now pick 8 random spots on a screen. These tasks are all different, yet you might have a unique 'random fingerprint' that applies across them. See more in a new paper with @samiyousif.bsky.social, now in press @ Open Mind. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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tal boger @talboger.bsky.social · 13h

To address this issue, we turned to a rather unconventional data source: My absolute favorite website, The Pudding (@pudding.cool) published an article a few years back that happened to collect the perfect data set for this question. See pudding.cool/2022/04/rand... (and the thread below).

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Natalie Metzger @thefuzzyslug.bsky.social · 8h

NO REGRETS

Panel 1: Sea gull landing on a barnacle covered rock. Panel 2: Close up of gull face, side view, white head with brown eyes and yellow bill with a red spot towards the tip of the lower beak. Action lines indicating bird spotted something. Panel 3: Close up of an orange sea start on a barnacle encrusted rock.
Close up of an orange sea start on a barnacle encrusted rock. Panel 4: Super close up of gull face. Reflection of sea star in the gull's eye. Panel 5: Small six vignettes, gull tugs at star, it comes loose with "POP!" and some flying bits, happy gull holds prize up high, "SNARF KOFF GAK" as the gull attempts to swallow the very large star. Last panel: Close up of gull face again, very large sea star lodged halfway in over-extended mouth, small tear at eye, caption from gull reads "NO REGRETS." in squiggly type. Copyright Natalie Metzger. Tidal Farce https://tidalfarce.com/?pg=5#showComic

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 21h

Writing a grant application feels like a weird remake of Ocean's Eleven. Assemble a team! Each person has a purpose, a specific skillset. Make a plan! Every detail should be thought of, carefully scheduled. I guess it's exactly Ocean's Eleven, but with 100 other teams planning the very same heist

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 7h

I wonder if the martinet (swift) is named after this guy or if it's just nominative determinism!

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10h

What could be more Halloween than a BAT? How about a bat colored like a JACK-O-LANTERN? Let's meet the Painted Bat (Kerivoula picta), also called the butterfly bat, native to SE Asia. 🦇🎃 (📷: MerlinTuttle.org)

Bat Conservation International, Merlin Tuttle photo. A bright orange and black bat with wings fully outstretched in the upswing position. It has bright orange fur, and a white furry belly.

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Florian Zores @fzores.eurosky.social · 20h

Le gouvernement demande aux renseignements de mentir pour discréditer un partie de gauche Et en même temps Laisse des nazis défiler dans les rues malgré le couvre feu Ça devrait être un scandale absolu. Et il ne se passera rien

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

We are looking for adult research participants who grew up hearing with migrant Deaf parents. Can you help us by sharing the recruitment ad? Research participation is fun and easy and mostly involves online interviews with @empacheco.bsky.social languageonthemove.com/hearing-chil...

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Hearing children of Deaf migrants: research participants wanted

Are you a hearing Coda (child of Deaf adults) who has migrant parents? Researchers from Macquarie University would like to talk to you about your language practices and experiences as a Coda with m…

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ALIFE Conference @alifeconf.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

SAVE THE DATE: July 19–23, 2027! #ALIFE2027 is coming to Prague, Czech Republic! Join us as we celebrate 40 years of Artificial Life conferences, dating back to Los Alamos in 1987. Only 9 months to go! Stay tuned for updates. 👉 2027.alife.org #ALIFE2027 #ArtificialLife #Prague

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Chris MacQuarrie @cmacquar.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

My last 2 submitted manuscripts both came back with at least one AI generated "peer" review. The other reviewer for the last MS I reviewed also submitted an AI review. Beyond public humiliation, what are we going to do about these copyright-violating lazy SOBs sending our work into the AI machine?

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

That was a crazy update. My prediction is that given that no one who ships more than 1 packages can satisfy these requirements, and that the "AI" will make a ton of arbitrary calls, the whole thing will be rolled back in less than a week...

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

By dumping 300 cherries on the ground, 50 of which are just muddy rocks and another 50 are wormy, you're not advancing science. You're just depriving people of ways to authentify their hypotheses as reliable, AND of the joy of putting a pretty fruit on a cake. You're setting science back decades.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

But in all science problems, understanding is the end product. It is what allows you to find new problems to solve. The solution to the problem is only the cherry on top, the vindication of your hypotheses, the demonstration that your understanding can be trusted.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

If openAI wanted to continue to pretend to care about "the future of humanity" (does any of you suckers still buy that?) they would stick with engineering problems where only having a correct solution matters, understanding is secondary.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Well, more like one goal (money) with 2 pipeline: 1. Medium term: overwhelm scientists to convert them into paying clients with an inferiority complex. 2. Have the investors clap at something they don't understand but sounds great (omitting the 91% failure rate - 4000 trials, 100s of solves)

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

What OpenAI is doing isn't science, and it's barely engineering. The goal isn't knowledge (which comes from understanding), and it isn't even to solve problems, that's why they can release 700 files full of mistakes without reading them. The goal is twofold:

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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

The best part was the slow walk of shame out of the room after he got his ass handed to him.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

They look like pugs. And the ears on the pic of the adult one have been amputated. Doesn't exactly bode well

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Moving does 2 things: it signals to @bsky.app that putting their LLMs in more places will lose them more users; it tells eurosky & co that their peak in new users is only because they haven't shoved 'AI' somewhere and shouldn't start.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Transferring your account from bluesky to another provider has never been easier - blacksky, eurosky, certainly others: you can transfer your account and keep your posts and mutuals. You'll barely feel the difference!

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

I learned programming using Pascal! Probably related? Never seen it after my 1st year of uni...

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Why is the word "quietly" so popular this year? Suddenly everything that happens in news stories is "quietly". He quietly did X, they quietly did Y...

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

"A closer look at the data reveals a brute-force guessing machine, not a reasoning intellect. Mathematics isn't dead; it's being spammed, strip-mined, and exploited by an industry that needs human creativity more than it admits." emeraldbook.org/news/oct-162...

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The 91% Failure Rate: Why AI Is Not Killing Mathematics – Emerald Book

◆ Emerald Pages ◆ Technology / Academia The 91% Failure Rate: Why AI Is Not Killing Mathematics Emerald Book Publication October 16, 2026 9 min read The panic over AI solving the Navier-Stokes equatio...

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Beautiful! What was the language?

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

You can see the reaction diffusion parameters gradient!

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

1/ There are a ton of cool papers coming out on evolutionary transitions in individuality right now! Here are five recent ones I've really enjoyed, spanning Snowball Earth, volvocine algae, plasmids that fuse into a new individual, the relatives of animals, and... water kefir

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Yes, I think everyone sees it yellow.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Aren't the comments just joking specifically as a reference to that dress? I don't think there's really a perceptual variation there...

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 15/10/2026

French Revolution-era guillotine earrings, dated around 1794. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

The inverted heads of the king and queen of France form the pendants of these ghoulish earrings while the central guillotine section is suspended from a cap of liberty.

Anon., earrings in the form of guillotines, c.1794, gold and metal gilt

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 15/10/2026

Any fish folks?

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

The layer of dirt, made of decomposed leaves and stuff (funnily enough, called humus in French)... Its carbon is pulled from the air, right. How much thinner is the atmosphere for the entire layer of humus on the entire Earth?

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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“The monster is so hungry it might attack, unless you sacrifice one of your villagers” is a classic fairytale

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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

You don't have to be a C programmer to contribute to R. R Core members Simon Urbanek, Kurt Hornik, and Heather Turner explain how to report bugs, propose features, improve docs/translations, join an R Dev Day, or submit a patch. r-consortium.org/posts/how-do... #rstats #opensource #RConsortium

R Core members Simon Urbanek, Kurt Hornik, and Heather Turner explain how to report bugs, propose features, improve docs/translations, join an R Dev Day, or submit a patch.

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Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Today, rural news, sadly = facebook. In most small towns, it is the only place where residents can find out about upcoming events, sell things etc. Facebook has a stranglehold on people in these places and is one of the reasons why they vote differently than people in urban areas.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

Pour moi c'est surtout la flatterie fleurie qui se remarque. "Ce regard qui sait ou se poser" etc, ca sonne bien mais ça n'a pas vraiment de sens!

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Esthiru 🏳️‍⚧️ @esthiru.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Look honey, I got us the backwards-facing seats" He says to the silent yet somehow disappointed void next to him.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

Ah oui, le style classique "super leche-botte" 😬

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 13/10/2026

What is an arbitrary (eg not 10 or 100...) number in your language that is used to mean 'a lot'? In French we have 36, and 36 000 In Japanese 8 can sometimes be used that way

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 12/10/2026

Hahahaha they generated their fake data using seed(42) which let someone exactly reproduce their pipeline. 😂

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Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 12/10/2026

#WSocial’s advice here is TERRIBLE - deleting your account won’t change a thing. Just now I found the record of a minor (15yo) who was verified by #WIdentity. His account status is now “taken down” but his full name, nationality and approx. date of birth are still visible on W's verification list!

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Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 12/10/2026

Dear #WSocial verified users, who had your account verified after 16-09-2026: if you are not comfortable with your full name, nationality and approx. age being shared *outside* of W, on the open web, please DO NOT delete your account. You need to file a proper right of deletion request instead #GDPR

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

I don't think for one second that this is anything else than posturing. He doesn't actually believe that, but pretending he does makes his product look good.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

And finally, not a counter to your point, but a general remark: people who accuse everything of being AI without proof are worse than AI bros. Don't do that again in my mentions.

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

1. That tool you use is known for being very unreliable 2. That level of polish and thought in the way people interact with the story is obviously not slop by any definition you can think of 3. The data is real.

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