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Tomasz Steifer

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mathematics, theoretical computer science, philosophy @ Universidad Católica de Chile & Polish Academy of Sciences | 'The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.'

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Before Watson and Crick in 1953 Came Friedrich Miescher in 1869 Abstract. The story of genetics typically omits the original discovery of the molecular nature of DNA: Friedrich Miescher's 1869 discovery of the substance

Watson and Crick elucidated the structure of DNA. Stop saying that they discovered DNA! This was done by another guy you probably haven't heard of! And therein lies a story. academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

08.11.2025 07:54 👍 90 🔁 27 💬 6 📌 1
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#OAweek Support diamond #openaccess scholar-controlled journals, such as those listed at freejournals.org.

23.10.2025 04:19 👍 26 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 1
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BREAKING: At least 71 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 56 people in Gaza City, hospital sources in the besieged enclave told Al Jazeera.

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20.09.2025 17:28 👍 330 🔁 265 💬 12 📌 17

I imagine the model got specifically prompted to do exactly that. Then again, human reviewers also generate absurd pros/cons just for the sake of having something in these categories.

15.09.2025 07:04 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pre-registering my opinion (before my paper's reviews are released) that the AAAI AI reviews are essentially worthless. It's not that they are necessarily bad, but they just have no substance to them. They are at best a long summary with some superficial points pointed out.

15.09.2025 05:20 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1

It will be interesting to see how these influence the decisions. I see the model is compelled to come up with nonsensical 'weaknesses' just for a sake of being balanced. I doubt the reviewers or AC will be able to always distinuish these from genuine 'weaknesses'.

15.09.2025 06:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life

28.08.2025 06:42 👍 4222 🔁 1171 💬 77 📌 197

Maybe they just were not the one.

23.06.2025 07:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The abstract sounds promising! If only had I time to read it...

21.06.2025 06:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

theonion.com/this-war-wil...

17.06.2025 00:03 👍 12266 🔁 2239 💬 113 📌 61
Inkwell in the form of a foot. The mouth of the inkwell is painted to resemble a human mouth, with a human face, or mask, painted on top of the foot.

Inkwell in the form of a foot. The mouth of the inkwell is painted to resemble a human mouth, with a human face, or mask, painted on top of the foot.

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I can't say I understand why this inkwell from the 16th century was made, but it's well done.

26.05.2025 13:16 👍 38 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 3
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ZML - Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik ZML: Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik is an electronic Diamond Open Access research journal in mathematical logic publishing original research papers in all areas of m...

Yesterday, the editorial board of Mathematical Logic Quarterly resigned and announced creation of a new diamond open access journal: Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik. Let's say I am just going to call it ZML.

08.04.2025 04:05 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kingdom Come Deliverance and White Lotus s03, which is easy, since both have a guy trying to avenge his father.

06.04.2025 07:01 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nora Belrose
@norabelrose
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Neural networks don't have "representations"

They have embeddings, or meaningful patterns of neuron activation

They're meaningful in the sense of enabling us to do certain things

Differences that make a difference (to us)

They don't copy, reflect, or re-present the world
Liv
@livgorton
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what does a "representation" mean here?

Nora Belrose @norabelrose · 3h Neural networks don't have "representations" They have embeddings, or meaningful patterns of neuron activation They're meaningful in the sense of enabling us to do certain things Differences that make a difference (to us) They don't copy, reflect, or re-present the world Liv @livgorton · 1h what does a "representation" mean here?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WELCOME TO HELL, AI INDUSTRY

01.04.2025 23:56 👍 66 🔁 11 💬 5 📌 3

Tak, w tym filmie jest słynna scena jak Pieczka mówi, że trzeba oszczędzać, bo ze wsi idzie Kozak, a zebrani w karczmie Żydzi zaczynają łkać i śpiewać "oj oj ojoj!"

02.04.2025 08:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Nie zapomnijmy, że zrobił to razem z sympatycznym kosmicznym stworkiem z filmu Stevena Spielberga, stąd pierwotna nazwa: teoria Auster-ET.

02.04.2025 06:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The disconnect between AI benchmarks and math research (Evaluating AI systems on their ability to be a mathematical copilot). ~ Ralph Furman. sugaku.net/content/ai-b... #AI #LLMs #Math

01.04.2025 10:11 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

This is 100% correct.

01.04.2025 06:28 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#MLsky #academicsky

01.04.2025 05:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Victor Cringeban.

31.03.2025 13:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, sisu!

31.03.2025 13:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sorry to interrupt, but it seems that a lot of work in physics lacks the rigour one would usually require in mathematics. Arguably, it's not even a problem for physics but it might be for your definition.

30.03.2025 21:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A common remark from AI/ML conference reviewers is: "The paper lacks a clear message." This attitude goes opposite to how research is done. Sometimes, the message is the entire paper and it can't be compressed into 140 signs. Simplified messages mislead and are usually false. #academicsky #MLsky

30.03.2025 11:24 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Is this parody? The name 'Holodomor' is from 1930s.

30.03.2025 15:49 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

A common remark from AI/ML conference reviewers is: "The paper lacks a clear message." This attitude goes opposite to how research is done. Sometimes, the message is the entire paper and it can't be compressed into 140 signs. Simplified messages mislead and are usually false. #academicsky #MLsky

30.03.2025 11:24 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Possibly the dumbest of the many dumb plagiarism claims
nationalpost.com/news/mark-ca...

29.03.2025 15:45 👍 302 🔁 39 💬 16 📌 32

'Evolution made me do it!'

29.03.2025 20:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Yet another LLM-generated review. I knew something was off when they said our results were 'groundbreaking'. 🤨

29.03.2025 14:28 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This might be the best one yet!

26.03.2025 15:17 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Bluesky's gonna really take off once people discover joking

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