Science & Research Threads

@lennysan

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Not enough people are talking about how much AI is impacting the role of data science. I was chatting with a DS friend, and he said that most of his team's work now is reviewing half-assed AI data analysis from PMs and engineers. And that 50% of the time, that analysis is wrong. The role is becomi...

@cyrilXBT

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Most multi-agent systems fail for the same boring reason. Someone spins up three or four agents, gives each one a vague job description, lets them all talk to each other freely, and then wonders why the output is worse than a single well-prompted agent would have produced alone....

@om_patel5

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A MICROSOFT RESEARCHER BUILT A WORKING LLM INSIDE AGE OF EMPIRES 2 USING GOATS, JUST TO PROVE AI ISNT SENTIENT he was tired of people talking to an llm, seeing it reply in a human tone, and deciding its alive so heres what he did. computers are built out of tiny yes/no switches called logic gates....

@leitorpsique

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DESPERDICEI MEUS 20 ANOS. ENTÃO RECONSTRUÍ DO ZERO AOS 36. Aqui está o manual que ninguém me deu: 1. Arrume um "emprego ponte" que pague as contas....

@alesfav

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AI needs vastly more data than we do. One idea might close the gap: don't predict raw signals (tokens), predict your own abstract latent representation (JEPA, data2vec). With @DanKorchinski @MatthieuWyart, on a toy model, we prove how much that helps: the gap is exponential. 🧵 ...

@AnthonyNAguirre

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I've been getting really bothered lately by something subtle but quite dangerous that I believe is currently going on and promises to get worse: Large numbers of very smart, capable, and important people are spending hours a day interacting with AI systems that are able to convince them that certain...

@TonySeruga

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1/17 🧵 Let’s get into it. This is a sprawling topic, and the Henry Nowak case is the flashpoint that’s finally forcing the conversation into the open. I’ll trace the ideological lineage, name the architects, walk through what happened to that kid in Southampton, and lay out what actually stops this...

@crimkadid

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I’m going to contend tonight that autism is a growth disorder whose prevalence increases with advancing average birth weight and height and which explodes in frequency when weight and height can increase no further, resulting in a kind of "spillover" of growth into the brain....

@TheValueist

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EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW: Onto Innovation is now a concentrated AI process-control growth story rather than a generic small-cap wafer-fab-equipment derivative. The company has moved from a 2025 transition year, when GAAP profitability was depressed by restructuring, Semilab acquisition costs, inventory ...