@dalmaijer
Cognitive neuroscientist with many interests, including why our stomachs churn when we feel disgust. I also write books on programming; teach Python, statistics, and machine learning; and develop open-source software. https://www.dalmaijer.org
You likely already know this, but I find that programming forums and subreddits are more realistic about this. Probably stems from people on there actually having to deal with vibe-coded pull requests.
Yes, but I wouldn't recommend it! Had to manually sharpen the blades, and then it turned out its guidance wasn't precise enough for long-distance onion cutting 😒
I, for one, have never bought a knife missile from Raytheon.
Now that you mention it, they do seem to borrow almost exclusively from philosophers named Pascal. See also: "move fast and break things" (gif related)
Yes, Cavalli-Sforza & Feldman applies! There is a chance of (1-g) that your children will actually copy your good example, and a chance of g that they instead copy the population average. (Either with a random but usually minor copying error.)
On the one hand: yes, excellent, do this! On the other: how can you boycott a company that already loses money hand-over-fist without a pathway to profit that isn't infinite VC money and/or magical thinking about at some point summoning AI God?
Nooo! You model good behaviour by resolving conflicts without hitting your spouse, and instead talking things through and/or sending them a strongly worded letter. You can also play Smack My Bitch up by The Prodigy as a prophylactic, but only if you listen to it ironically.
The key to parenting is "show, don't tell". Model warm and open communication between you and others, and your kids will copy. Kids throw a tantrum? Throw a bigger one to demonstrate how annoying it is. They want to watch Frozen on repeat? Play Let It Go in 25 different languages in a row.
I regretted literacy when I first encountered that copypasta.
Surprised to see Vaporeon not on this list. You don't want to know why about this one either.
So there's a lot of other stuff to worry about for our US-based colleagues, but ehm, it looks like NSF has essentially just stopped giving out grants?
Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model.
This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine.
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Wake up babe, new spinosaurus just dropped: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Extremely rough read, especially if you have cared for young children going through serious illnesses. Vaccines prevent so much suffering.
Is this a human cosplaying as an AI agent to advertise its supposed capabilities, or are we truly living in the future? If so, I’d love to see the series of convoluted mistakes that led to those blog posts.
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So I have a webcam eye-tracking implementation in Python, but it’s about a decade old now (👴) and is more of a playful demo than a reliably useable thing… So I wouldn’t recommend my work in this space ;)
Sounds like my kind of concert! Who did you see?
Quick debug run of an experiment with sounds. For these I set minimal stimulus durations to speed things along. Turns out I forgot to explicitly stop playback at the end of each trial, so now everything is layered over everything else. CACOPHONY!
With apologies to the baby lab next door 😳
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Somewhat agree.
He used the David Attenborough pronunciation; he learned most obscure species from his narrations!
My 5-year-old is playing "Australopithecus" (pronounced correctly). This is pure luck of the draw, but expect a smug book on how to parent in a bookshop near you soon.
Great example! I'm going to steal this from my ever-increasing repository of gross parenting situations; thanks!
After previously showing kids are gross (see doi.org/10.1177/2398...), we now find that parents get used to it! After starting the weaning process, they stop avoiding soiled diapers. This disgust habituation even generalises beyond child-specific stimuli.
Paper: doi.org/10.1111/sjop...
If you'd like a more accessible write-up, @newscientist.com did an excellent article on the study: www.newscientist.com/article/2462...
Or if you prefer digestible science podcasts, @npr.org Short Wave featured it today: www.npr.org/2026/01/23/n...
After previously showing kids are gross (see doi.org/10.1177/2398...), we now find that parents get used to it! After starting the weaning process, they stop avoiding soiled diapers. This disgust habituation even generalises beyond child-specific stimuli.
Paper: doi.org/10.1111/sjop...
Hahaha! I don't have a clear example directly at hand, there's a dataset here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Traces are in columns labelled "eeg_[i]". It's part of this preprint on EGG methodology: doi.org/10.48550/arX...
If you’d like further distraction from your analysis, ponder electrogastrography. The stomach’s pacemaker operates at 3 cpm, but we frequently pick up peaks at 6 and 9 cpm too. Harmonics? Pyloric activity? Signal bleed from intestines? WHO KNOWS 🤷