Gymnastics is the Turing test of video generation models

I am very excited that our study using Voxelwise Modeling to explore how the brain represents emotional natural scenes is out in Nature Communications. nature.com/articles/s4146…

You can see where you are looking! This image by Akiyoshi Kitaoka lets you see your own eye movements, which create a little light-gray 'spotlight' wherever you point your eyes. The spotlight isn't really there; your mind is making it!

Be afraid, Tadej. The fight is on.

COLE HOCKER!!!!!!

From The Athletic: Cole Hocker of the U.S. scored one of the biggest upsets in Olympic running, outrunning Jakob Ingebrigtsen and outkicking Josh Kerr, and everyone else, down the stretch to win the men’s 1500-meter. nyti.ms/3WSXajZ

New blog post: sander.ai/2024/09/02/spe…

I haven't had a chance to read yet, but looks like Stefan wager wrote the causal inference book I've always wanted! web.stanford.edu/~swager/causal…

Tonight on ABC10, I shared my final thoughts on the A's leaving Oakland and heading to Sacramento. I wish I could be excited. But I can't. My heart is with Oakland this week.

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too? And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates. A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N

The universe is quite literally a song

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians. I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor. My time as Governor taught me to

We ran the numbers. Even if all 7 swing states are actually tied, there's only a ~1 in 9.5 trillion chance~ that so many polls would show such a close race. 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

While we may have gotten an extra hour of sleep this morning, it's not worth the hour of sunlight we're losing for the next 6 months. Let's stop changing the clocks and finally make Daylight Saving Time permanent.

What scares me: What constraints can there be if you can run a campaign like that and win? If you can do Jan 6 and win? Not to mention the Supreme Court immunity decision. Not much about our society and freedoms we’ve become accustomed to we can take for granted going forward.

Perennial.

The most bizarre coding interview I've ever done was at Facebook when as usual I asked a candidate to write in any language of their choice.. And they nonchalantly said "I'll write it in SQL", to which I almost let loose a chuckle until...

I kinda miss when "AI Twitter" was folks doing AI research or app development, posting under their own identities. Slightly more intellectual depth than anime avatars whose main AI-related qualification is paying for a ChatGPT subscription.