Mark E. Madsen

I am far from the first person to point it out, but I think I will not be tuning in for a discussion of God sponsored by a bank.

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

This Supreme Court will do anything it can to ensure the end of our representative democracy.

This is a naked effort to save a racist, nihilistic, principle-free far-right minoritarian movement from disappearing from American politics by instead giving it hegemony over the United States... forever.

Spot on.

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

@washingtonpost.com - I have resisted the urge to drop my subscription, arguing that we need to support investigative journalism or it won't exist anymore. Your firing of @karenattiah.bsky.social is the last straw. I cancelled today. The WaPo that helped preserve democracy in the 1970's is dead.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

The reason I cannot use "AI" in my writing is because I am not speaking merely to be heard to speak.

I am speaking because *I have something to say.*

The things I have to say could not be said by anyone else because these words are mine.

If you don't understand that, I genuinely can't help you.

“Slight changes to wording that correspond to large changes in meaning” — this, of course, comes from the token embedding which creates a “semantic space”, but one which is not necessarily the same as the semantic space that humans learn in early childhood development.

Shameless repost, because it’s hilarious and true.

Everyone thinks they will be passengers on the Fhloston Paradise, not the janitors. (This is a Fifth Element movie reference).

Let’s see what science fiction has to say about jobs in space…

Skills, in general, are "use it or lose it" -- at least, if you don't use them, you'll suffer some erosion in your level of performance. I've been saying this for years with mobile mapping and traffic apps -- navigation skills and mental maps are use-it-or-lose-it.

Agreed. This is a useful article on LLM hallucinations. Table 3 in particular on root causes is something that everyone working with these models (at the technical level) should look at.

One of the most important AI papers of the year so far. Basically, part of the structure of the internal representation is transmitted to “child” models simply in question output. Fascinating, but highly problematic since it means curing bias is probably no easier among LLMs it is in humans.

Avi Loeb has been seeing “alien craft” in the sky since ‘Oumuamua. In 2023, he “detected” an alien ship, but another team demonstrated that he mistook ordinary truck traffic for evidence of the meteor. He’s better at publicity than science these days.

Good paper with a new benchmark on LLMs and tax prep -- they're not ready for this kind of reasoning yet. Even on simplified sample tests, SOTA models got it right less than a third of the time.

Spreadsheets, calculators, and accountants are still your friends.

Google's Deep Researcher with Test-Time Diffusion

A new deep research agent designed to mimic the iterative nature of human research, complete with cycles of planning, drafting, and revision.

Procedural Memory Is Not All You Need: Bridging Cognitive Gaps in LLM-Based Agents Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a landmark achievement in Artificial Intelligence (AI), demonstrating unprecedented proficiency in procedural tasks such as text generation, code completion, and...

FWIW, I delivered a paper on this recently at the HyPer workshop at ACM UMAP:

arxiv.org/abs/2505.03434

George Retes, an American citizen disabled US Army veteran

George Retes, an American citizen disabled US Army veteran who has been held in federal custody since Thursday, was released without charges this evening. 1/

Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts

"NOAA distributed a service change notice to all users, including the National Hurricane Center, that by next Monday, June 30th, they would no longer receive real-time microwave data collected aboard three weather satellites jointly run by NOAA and the U.S. Department of Defense."

ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

MIT study found that AI overuse causes measurable brain damage. “Cognitive atrophy.. like a muscle that’s forgotten how to work” MIT Publication - arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Time Magazine - time.com/7295195/ai-c...

Apparently, it's been difficult to get Grok to be right-wing enough, just training it on actual knowledge and books and the contents of the Internet.

This is why we need to support the Wikimedia Foundation and other open sources of information and knowledge, more than ever.

Remarkable.

MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."

Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.

Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

Or would have, when we were a nation of laws.

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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

As Cervical Cancer Deaths Plummet, Experts Credit HPV Vaccine HPV can cause a variety of cancers, including cervical. New mortality data for women under 25 point to the success of the HPV vaccine.

A recent study found that cervical cancer deaths in young women have plummeted since the introduction of the human papillomavirus vaccine.

I suppose this could be a subclass of your 3, but mine would "The cosmos is really big, and there's no reason why 'they' would be within a 100 light year bubble of earth where we'd have seen decent signals evidence, and there's little idea what other kind of evidence we could see further out."