An unbroken tradition of erudition 😜

Jan-Werner Müller asks: Why does the right, in 2024, keep referring to communism? His characteristically liberal (not a judgement!) answer is that they are simply mistaken and really mean bureaucracy. I'm not so sure... theguardian.com/global/comment…

Should be a great event - "decision" is a rich concept.

Straight from neo nazis to Vance and Trump 🤮🤮🤮

Nice quote - nytimes.com/athletic/57560…

Rip o1 model is even less transparent for the user

Apropos of nothing…. “In theory, by applying additional computation at test time, an LLM should be able to do better than what it was trained to do.” arxiv.org/abs/2408.03314

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generational tune - his finest work. nice writeup: nytimes.com/2024/09/12/art…

DAVY LAD #SAFC BBC Sport Tyne & Wear

Lucid

A reminder that proteins are highly dynamic molecules. ◼ We have made progress in measuring & predicting static protein structures, but the dynamics that animate life remain challenging to measure & model.

Glass raised in timeless honour to Mark Feld. 47 years gone. He’ll never be forgotten. To Marc Bolan 🥃 “Spaceball Ricochet” LWTV ‘Music in The Round’ filmed on 8th December 1971. PunkAndNewWave Fat Old Anarchist The Blow Monkeys GC's Punk & New Wave

"While Rawls and other liberal philosophers have a great deal to say about what’s wrong with capitalism and...empty promises of formal democracy, they have very little to say about a strategic orientation that might enable us to remedy these defects." jacobin.com/2024/09/libera…

"[In the sciences of the spirit] the exterior in which its object consists differs from the object of nature in an absolute way. The spirit has been objectified in it. Ends have been formed, values have been realised in it." -Dilthey

Looks cool: Ted Porter and Alma Steingart among others... ipk.nyu.edu/events/co-opti…

Why would you trust a model's output when they won't even show you the chain of thought? [and i must be pedantic and insist that this is not thought in any sense...] arstechnica.com/information-te…