Geoguessr pro goes Israel on Azerbaijan

And October used to be cold

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Really exciting stuff!

“Where was I again?” Our study published today nature.com/articles/s4158… reveals brain cells can form a coordinate system for our behaviours. Instead of locating where we are in the world, this coordinate system tells us “where we are” in a sequence of behaviours: 🧵below:

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.

I need people to understand how difficult it is to get an NIH grant. You spend months writing a proposal, following strict guidelines that include a detailed multiyear budget, bios of everyone on your team, plans for participant safety & ethical conduct. Then you send it off -1/n

A personal story about how the potential grant funding freeze might affect science. Right now, I'm in my fourth year of a 5-year NIH grant and my last year of funding is supposed to start February 1st. I'm supporting a postdoc, two graduate students, and two lab managers

What Do You Get When You Vote for Republicans? Economist Blair Fix @[email protected] lays it all out for you. Incredible data legwork. States with lots of Republican legislators? Here it is in pictures. Thread. 🧵 Dr. Steve Keen Nick Hanauer economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/01/31/par…

🚨 New Preprint!! LLMs trained on next-word prediction (NWP) show high alignment with brain recordings. But what drives this alignment—linguistic structure or world knowledge? And how does this alignment evolve during training? Our new paper explores these questions. 👇🧵

A model of compositional state spaces in the #hippocampus shows latent learning and rapid generalisation, and predicts the emergence of place responses in replay – which is discovered empirically in an existing dataset Jacob Bakermans nature.com/articles/s4159…

Much of the field obsesses over end-to-end learning. But strong generalization requires compositionality: building modular, reusable abstractions, and reassembling them on the fly when faced with novelty. The models of the future won't be just pipes, they will be Lego castles.

THIS. #HandsOff

Here's my favourite scenario from autonomous driving in Tokyo last week! 🇯🇵

📢 I'm happy to share the preprint: _Reward-Aware Proto-Representations in Reinforcement Learning_ ‼️ My PhD student, Hon Tik Tse, led this work, and my MSc student, Siddarth Chandrasekar, assisted us. arxiv.org/abs/2505.16217 Basically, it's the SR with rewards. See below 👇

BREAKING NEWS: Israel has attacked Iran. Iranians report hearing massive explosions back to back in Tehran, ground shaking, windows rattling and people waking up terrified. Smoke and fire seen from military bases around Tehran.

The Israelis hit Tehran

the media is already working in real time to manufacture consent for how israel is still the victim after its direct strike on iran.