Reposted by Thomas FriedelJosh Collinsworth @collinsworth.dev · 24/05/2026This post is an absolute banger. 2617
Reposted by Thomas FriedelArmin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 18/01/2026Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...lucumr.pocoo.orgAgent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?What’s going on with the AI builder community right now? 2327465
Thomas Friedel @thomascygn.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Claude's new Office doc skills (PPTX, DOCX, XLSX, PDF) are 🔥 I've repackaged them for Claude Code, so now you can automate the creation of powerpoint presentations and other documents from the CLI or in your product. github.com/tfriedel/cla...github.comGitHub - tfriedel/claude-office-skills: Office document creation and editing skills for Claude Code - PPTX, DOCX, XLSX, and PDF workflows with automation supportOffice document creation and editing skills for Claude Code - PPTX, DOCX, XLSX, and PDF workflows with automation support - tfriedel/claude-office-skills 020
Reposted by Thomas FriedelMatt Johansen @mattjay.com · 18/04/2025🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony: 324139347301
Reposted by Thomas FriedelStrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 06/04/2025The current figure I'm seeing is that as many as 3.3 million Americans protested today. #HandsOff #Resist 14640141111
Reposted by Thomas FriedelGabriel Krummenacher @gkrummenacher.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Switzerland seems to also allow training on copyrighted works: www.vischer.com/en/knowledge...vischer.comPart 26: AI training: How to Handle Copyright, Data Protection And Other Restrictions27 March 2025 - AI models – especially large language models – need to see a lot of data as part of their training so that they can map the concepts required... 021
Thomas Friedel @thomascygn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The new chatgpt image style transfer is so impressive. Love the caricatures the most! 200
Reposted by Thomas FriedelKyle Barron @kylebarron.dev · 24/03/2025Obstore v0.6 brings simple, painless integration with Microsoft Planetary Computer! - *Automatic token refresh*. No need to manually fetch SAS tokens and never think about token expiration times again. - STAC API integration developmentseed.org/obstore/late...developmentseed.orgReleasing obstore 0.6! - obstoreThe simplest, highest-throughput Python interface to S3, GCS & Azure Storage, powered by Rust. 053
Reposted by Thomas FriedelRobbi Bishop-Taylor 🛰️🌏 @satellitesci.bsky.social · 19/11/2024There's now so many awesome #geospatial people here it's hard to keep track! 🤩 Here's a thread of some of my favourite starter packs so far - let me know what I've missed! 🛰️ Earth Observation & remote sensing: go.bsky.app/4PMRhNL 🌏 GIS: go.bsky.app/TJ7qQF6 @milos-makes-maps.bsky.social (1/n) 1516565
Reposted by Thomas FriedelCasey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Visiting friends in New York 59247712751
Reposted by Thomas FriedelAndrew Gordon Wilson @andrewgwils.bsky.social · 05/03/2025My new paper "Deep Learning is Not So Mysterious or Different": arxiv.org/abs/2503.02113. Generalization behaviours in deep learning can be intuitively understood through a notion of soft inductive biases, and formally characterized with countable hypothesis bounds! 1/12 620851
Reposted by Thomas Friedel🇨🇦 @doreenstermann.bsky.social · 04/03/2025asking the GOP, will they impeach this mf? 26510
Reposted by Thomas FriedelMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Among all the utterly insane stuff going on, this ranks pretty high on the insane scale. mRNA vaccines are one of the great scientific advances of this century. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/bill...newsfromthestates.comBill banning mRNA vaccines in Iowa passes subcommitteeA bill banning gene-based vaccines, like some forms of the COVID-19 vaccine, received approval from a Senate subcommittee Monday. 510225
Reposted by Thomas FriedelEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 25/02/2025This is a crazy paper. Fine-tuning a big GPT-4o on a small amount of insecure code or even "bad numbers" (like 666) makes them misaligned in almost everything else. They are more likely to start offering misinformation, spouting anti-human values, and talk about admiring dictators. Why is unclear. 721443
Reposted by Thomas Friedeldepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 19/02/2025 192140832689
Reposted by Thomas FriedelSung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Microsoft's OmniParser V2: Turning Any LLM into a Computer Use Agent Blog: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear... Hugging Face: huggingface.co/microsoft/Om... GitHub: github.com/microsoft/Om... 2298
Reposted by Thomas Friedelmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 07/02/2025an audible “no fucking way..” escapes my mouth they claim that you can get LLMs to give you well calibrated confidence scores like, i knew you could do something like this with logits/attention values, but the idea that the LLM could speak it back to you.. 🤯 6394
Reposted by Thomas FriedelImage and Signal Processing • ISP @isp-uv-es.bsky.social · 29/01/2025🌍 New paper: Generative networks for spatio-temporal #gap_filling of #Sentinel2 reflectances @esa.int. 🆓 Free access the first 50 days to the #ISPRS paper @elsevierconnect.bsky.social: isp-uv.short.gy/GapFillingSe... Work developed in the context of Xaida Project. #AI #EarthObservation 1176
Reposted by Thomas FriedelKevin Boueri @kevinboueri.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Today’s Stratechery was great on this: stratechery.com/2025/deepsee...stratechery.comDeepSeek FAQDeepSeek has completely upended people’s expectations for AI and competition with China. What is it, and why does it matter? 2308
Reposted by Thomas FriedelSimon Proud @simonsat.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Today, the Sentinel-2C spacecraft will take over from S2A in providing operational data. This is wonderful news, and will ensure continuity of the Sentinel data for many years to come. Great effort from the S2C commissioning team! See here for more info: sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel... 38326
Thomas Friedel @thomascygn.bsky.social · 24/01/2025agfundernews.com/project-eade...agfundernews.comProject Eaden raises $15.6m Series A to launch ‘ultra-realistic’ plant-based meat using fiber spinning techThe funding will help the firm scale up manufacturing and support the launch of plant-based ham at 2,000 REWE stores in Germany in mid-2025. 010
Reposted by Thomas FriedelSung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Google's Titans: a new architecture with attention and a meta in-context memory that learns how to memorize at test time as presented by one of the author - @alibehrouz.bsky.social 47018
Reposted by Thomas FriedelSebastian Raschka (rasbt) @rasbt.bsky.social · 14/01/2025"Sky-T1-32B-Preview, our reasoning model that performs on par with o1-preview on popular reasoning and coding benchmarks." That was quick! Is this already the Alpaca moment for reasoning models? Source: novasky-ai.github.io/posts/sky-t1/ 3398
Reposted by Thomas FriedelSung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 09/01/2025A new position paper on "inference time compute". They present some theory on why it is necessary, how does it work, why we need it and what does it mean for "super" intelligence. 2151
Reposted by Thomas FriedelSamuel Müller @sammuller.bsky.social · 08/01/2025This might be the first time after 10 years that boosted trees are not the best default choice when working with data in tables. Instead a pre-trained neural network is, the new TabPFN, as we just published in Nature 🎉 33714
Reposted by Thomas FriedelTim Hwang @timhwang.bsky.social · 07/01/2025calvin and hobbes (june 30, 1993) 1409
Reposted by Thomas FriedelMason Kamb @masonkamb.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Excited to finally share this work w/ @suryaganguli.bsky.social Tl;dr: we find the first closed-form analytical theory that replicates the outputs of the very simplest diffusion models, with median pixel wise r^2 values of 90%+. arxiv.org/abs/2412.20292 310620
Reposted by Thomas FriedelChris Offner @chrisoffner3d.bsky.social · 29/12/2024“By default, capital will matter more than ever after AGI” www.lesswrong.com/posts/KFFaKu... 4133
Reposted by Thomas FriedelNathan Cooper @ncoop57.bsky.social · 28/12/2024🎉 ShellSage v0.0.6 is now available! New features: • Add new command mode for automatically inserting the correct command into your terminal • Add Support for OpenAI Compatible Providers Various bugs squashed too! github.com/AnswerDotAI/... 0103
Reposted by Thomas FriedelBellingcat @bellingcat.com · 26/12/2024Want to impress family or friends? Ask them for a photo featuring a shadow and follow the steps GeoGuessr pro @georainbolt.bsky.social does here. Using Bellingcat's Shadow Finder tool, you can narrow down the likely location the photo was taken in. youtu.be/pQIjDPFgdJA?...youtu.behow to find a location using only the shadowYouTube video by RAINBOLT 2151895
Reposted by Thomas Friedelnikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 14/12/2024www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/o... Don’t agree with everything, but it’s a really interesting read.nytimes.comOpinion | Sorry, but This Is the Future of FoodEvery farm, even the scenic ones with red barns and rolling hills, is a kind of environmental crime scene, an echo of whatever wilderness it once replaced. 0127
Reposted by Thomas FriedelChip Huyen @chiphuyen.bsky.social · 13/12/2024When doing research for AI Engineering, I went through so many papers, case studies, blog posts, repos, tools, etc. This repo contains ~100 resources that really helped me understand various aspects of building with foundation models. github.com/chiphuyen/ai...github.com 58710
Reposted by Thomas FriedelSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 11/12/2024Wrote up my initial impressions of the new Google Gemini 2.0 Flash model - it's really good, and the streaming mode (where you can stream video and audio to it and get audio streamed right back) is pure science-fiction simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/11/...simonwillison.netGemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming modeHuge announcment from Google this morning: Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era. There’s a ton of stuff in there (including updates on Project Astra and … 916936
Reposted by Thomas FriedelNathan Cooper @ncoop57.bsky.social · 05/12/2024We've all been there—staring at the terminal trying to remember that obscure tar command or SSH flags. Sure, you could Google it or use ChatGPT, but now you're context-switching between docs and terminals. So, we created ShellSage, read all about it here: www.answer.ai/posts/2024-1...answer.aiShellSage - Your AI Bash Buddy – Answer.AIShellSage saves sysadmins’ sanity by solving shell script snafus super swiftly 292
Reposted by Thomas FriedelSara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 26/11/2024New paper! We've just published a manuscript covering technical details of the AI models behind Wildlife Insights, with systematic analysis at scale of cropping vs not cropping in #CameraTrap image classifiers 🫎🦌🦒🦘🪿🫏🐘🐫🦬🦛🐿️ ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1049/...ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.comTo crop or not to crop: Comparing whole‐image and cropped classification on a large dataset of camera trap imagesIn this work, the authors assess the hypothesis that classifying animals cropped from camera trap images using a species-agnostic detector yields better accuracy than classifying whole images. We fin.... 2588
Reposted by Thomas FriedelSara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 06/12/2024🎯 How can we empower scientific discovery in millions of nature photos? Introducing INQUIRE: A benchmark testing if AI vision-language models can help scientists find biodiversity patterns- from disease symptoms to rare behaviors- hidden in vast image collections. Thread👇🧵 38834
Reposted by Thomas FriedelQiusheng Wu @giswqs.bsky.social · 07/12/2024🎉 I just wrapped up teaching the Introduction to GIS Programming course this semester at the University of Tennessee! All course materials and lecture recordings (26 hours) are freely available online. Explore #geospatial 🌍 data visualization and analysis using #opensource Python packages: 513140
Reposted by Thomas FriedelLaura @lauraruis.bsky.social · 20/11/2024How do LLMs learn to reason from data? Are they ~retrieving the answers from parametric knowledge🦜? In our new preprint, we look at the pretraining data and find evidence against this: Procedural knowledge in pretraining drives LLM reasoning ⚙️🔢 🧵⬇️ 36851139
Reposted by Thomas FriedelJan Pfänder @janpfa.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Can we trust a group of people to be right, and to be competent, simply because they agree on something? In a new paper in Cognition, @bdecourson.bsky.social, @hugoreasoning.bsky.social and I argue that yes, in many cases we can. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kA8Q2Hx2x... 1/authors.elsevier.com 33616
Thomas Friedel @thomascygn.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Cautious Optimizers: Improving Training with One Line of Code AdamW, speed-up on Llama and MAE pretraining up to 1.47x huggingface.co/papers/2411....huggingface.coPaper page - Cautious Optimizers: Improving Training with One Line of CodeJoin the discussion on this paper page 000
Reposted by Thomas FriedelJay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 28/11/2024Ever wanted to see the world through someone else’s eyes? 1072863294
Reposted by Thomas FriedelChris Holmes @opencholmes.bsky.social · 26/11/2024First post on @bsky.app! I wanted to share tgengine.org/introducing-... - a blog post I wrote about fieldsofthe.world. It's a huge benchmark dataset designed to enhance the development of ml models for field delineation. Working on the project for the last few months has been an absolute pleasure.tgengine.orgIntroducing Fields of The World - Taylor Geospatial EngineOne of the major outputs of Taylor Geospatial Engine’s first Innovation Bridge is the recently released Fields of The World dataset, also known as FTW. We wanted to take some time for a deep dive into... 2243
Thomas Friedel @thomascygn.bsky.social · 25/11/2024I was looking for a quick image side-by-side / overlay comparison tool to compare outputs of super resolution models and found this: github.com/olive-groves... It's python based and exactly what I want. 000
Reposted by Thomas FriedelChristoph Michael @christophmichael.bsky.social · 25/11/2024🌍 Major-TOM North America embeddings are now open source! 🚀 Search satellite imagery with natural language. Empower ML and boost geospatial innovation. Use cases: online learning, agentic RAG, edge cases. Join us on HuggingFace! #OpenSource #Geospatial #earthobservation huggingface.co/quasara-iohuggingface.coquasara-io (Quasara)We love vector embeddings. 2328
Reposted by Thomas FriedelTim C @tech-timc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web... #gis #geospatial #agriculture #euec.europa.euExperimental geospatial data from agricultural censusToday, Eurostat launched a new webpage on geospatial data from agricultural census as part of our experimental statistics collection. Users can find maps with information about number of farms, livest... 0121
Reposted by Thomas FriedelRashmi Banthia @rashmib.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Bookmark BlueSky Links (All private no 📌) - Subscribe to the labeler here - bsky.app/profile/did:... - Also add the feed. - Lets say you want to bookmark this link - bsky.app/profile/chri... - Click on Report Post -> Bookmarks -> Other -> Check Bookmark -> Send Report - Check Bookmarked feed !!bsky.app 6173
Reposted by Thomas Friedelvb @reach-vb.hf.co · 23/11/2024Apple released blazingly fast CoreML models AND an iOS app to run them on iPhone! ⚡ > S0 matches OpenAI's ViT-B/16 in zero-shot performance but is 4.8x faster and 2.8x smaller > S2 outperforms SigLIP's ViT-B/16 in zero-shot accuracy, being 2.3x faster, 2.1x smaller, and trained with 3x fewer data 2434
