'Facebook's Algorithmic Erasure of History'

We wish to express our deep concern regarding the recent action of Facebook simultaneously flagging 21 posts published by the Auschwitz Memorial.

The posts, which serve as tributes to individual victims of Auschwitz, have been…

A Thousand Suns episodes 1-6 are now online.
We would like to keep making these until the heat death of the solar system so if you like what you see, please spread the word.

Episode 1: ICE
Directed by @ruairirobinson, who is me.
youtube.com/watch?v=RXaVgA…

College admission essay content has a stronger correlation with household income (R2 = 16%) than SAT scores.
This explains how removing standardized tests can increase inequality.
Based on 240,000 admission essays to the University of California. science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Brigitte Helm on the set of Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927)

There was a flowcharting standard that you had to follow when programming early computers. These coding/work sheets from the 1960s show you how they looked.

Pristine gooseberries on a ledge, 1701, by Adriaen Coorte. It’s his day.

A study found that children show greater brain activity linked to focused attention when reading from paper compared to screens, suggesting that traditional reading may enhance comprehension and cognitive engagement more effectively than digital formats. dlvr.it/T5VGxJ

The almost sacred perfection of a bunch of asparagus, 1697, by Adriaen Coorte. It’s been his day today.

'War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.'

--Paul Valery

Our paper with Josh Jackson on whether global values have converged over the last 40 years is out: go.nature.com/4cN7XSN. We find that globalization and rising wealth did not result in uniform acceptance of 'Western values,' such as support for abortion and gay rights.

People's success rate in distinguishing between human-generated and AI-generated online reviews was on a par with a coin toss. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Roundabouts are safer. They save lives. They cost less! They pollute less.

Former Carmel, Indiana mayor @JimBrainard replaced nearly every stoplight in his town with them. It was a success:

An autonomous robot for cleaning rivers.

This is a great idea! We need this everywhere...

The world's record shortest math paper with only two words.

What are the limits of biological computation? Can we engineer living computers (Beyond Turing) using synthetic biology? Check this cool paper by Angel Goñi-Moreno in Communications of the ACM Martyn Amos Víctor de Lorenzo Harold Fellermann Jessica Flack Michael Levin Gemma De les Coves twitter.com/AngelGMoreno/s…

Devin (named “the world’s first AI engineer” from the start) and looked to me it’s far more marketing and hype than reality.

But even I didn’t assume how their own staged video would blatantly lie. It does. A software engineer looked closer. Damning:

youtu.be/tNmgmwEtoWE?si…

The 12 types of ML papers.

(created by Natasha Jaques Max Kleiman-Weiner)

#MachineLearning #ML #DataScience

This is really sad. Have to scratch Adobe off the really short list of big tech companies that I thought were ethically sourcing their training data.

With fertility rates crashing worldwide, folks are realizing that policy isn't enough, and culture matters more.
What cultural element matters more than any other for fertility?
Marriage, and its importance has not been fading but increasing over time!
Important 🧵, please share!