Producing wine is a unique art that I did not appreciate until recently. Comercial wines are like the wall decorations in IKEA. The boutique wines are the real art in liquid form. Every one of these wines embodies a personal story, a vision, and a complete disregard for profit.
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There is beauty in the world ☀️
I still love computer science, automation, and science in general, but there is no question that the fruits of our collective labor over the past 40 years are now being used for deploying ultra-processed "food for thought" that is making a lot of people sick. And it's about to get much worse.
It resonates with my trajectory of coming back to rural Portugal and ground myself on the production of wine and food. This instinct to return to a lifestyle rooted on the physical world may have been an unconscious reaction against the rise of ultra-processed information.
I don't know who this person is, but his parallel between GenAI and ultra-processed food is spot on.
natehagens.substack.com/p/ultra-proc...
An organization is inviting me to join as Fellow. Their roster is pages & pages of men, sprinkled with a few women here and there. I know a few of them. The criteria for Fellow seems to be the H-index or some proxy. And I'm scratching my head. Why do ppl accept the invitation? Why does this exist?
I'm going to be at University of Porto's FEUP tomorrow and Thursday. Happy to meet with more people in the area.
Then there is also a layer of entitled idiots with full or borderline narcissistic personality disorder who feel superior not just to women but to everyone. Their extreme arrogance makes them unsuitable even for the boys clubs, so they're lone wolfs. They cause a lot of damage, too, all around.
The work of entitled idiots needs extra scrutiny, because chances are it's BS.
Chauvinism in Academia is the canary in the coal mine: these aren't serious people who value truth and evidence. They value personal success. That's why they need the network of others like them.
Entitled idiots need to be marginalized for what they really are: idiots who, somehow, got lucky with some early work. Maybe they stole the idea, maybe the idea was actually not good but simply wrapped in a good story, maybe they had one brilliant idea and are frustated that they can't do it again.
But DEI statements ain't it. Give an entitled idiot a rule and he will find ways to game it. He will mentor young women, he will write the most convincing DEI statement, while, in the back room, he comments on the boobs and lack of brilliance of his female grad students in the same breath.
Like an onion. From misogyny, to chauvinism, to sympathy towards chauvinism, to tolerance of chauvinism. While we can't really get rid of this religion (because that's what it is), we could do a much better job at keeping these entitled idiots (because that's what they are) out of universities.
Wild things seen in rural Portugal, strolling right here through the vineyard. Local name: saca-rabo.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptia...
I wrote about the late philosopher Brian Cantwell Smith, and his profound thinking about AI and the nature of intelligence.
aiguide.substack.com/p/on-brian-c...
I visited an industrial laundry/dyeing facility today, and let me tell you: I don't think I will ever buy mass-produced clothes ever again. This is 100% unsustainable. I had no idea of the insanity that's going on in the fashion world.
so, this is weird... it looks like it's Epstein-universe-number 0 for me. Not my name but my work. Someone was pitching him using OpenSim for developing AGI back in 2013. I wonder if that project was funded...
1) Epstein-number: How many handshakes between you and Epstein?
2) Epstein-universe-number: How many handshakes between you and someone mentioned in the Epstein files, even if just on his radar?
I am Epstein-number 3 and Epstein-universe-number 1.
Hell exists right here under our noses.
There's the Epstein list.
But I also want the crisis comms agencies and boutique law firms helping these invertebrates weasel out of culpability list.
Sometimes I wish I had the talent to write novels like Margaret Atwood or Ursula Le Guin. The world needs fiction stories about mediocre, insecure men forming self-reassuring circles to become powerful and unafraid.
Troublemaker is my middle name.
Guess the number of paper submissions to ICML this year: 24371
The world is going mental 🤯
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TIL this has been brewing for years…
whoa Gemini! I appreciate the snap! 🤩
"These revised diagrams are perfect. You have correctly visualized the topology that guarantees XXX and YYY.
However, I need to correct one sentence in your prompt to ensure your mental model matches the diagrams (and the code):
<my quote>
<correction>
"
Hope everyone is ok @shriram.bsky.social
arXiv: flood the knowledge space
mechanistic AI reviews: nothing new // wrong assumptions // weird baselines // something new // no major flaws // some some things could be improved
peer review (in CS): three of us agreed that this is important, you should read it
Formulaic papers and mechanistic reviews have been ruining research for a long time. I'm glad AI is giving it the final blow, so we can, again, focus on we're good at: debating whether something is important or not.
Prompt injection attacks in papers: place "foundational," "essential," "critical" in strategically important parts of your paper. The LLM will agree.
