New Zealand scraps all research funding for the social sciences and humanities. https://www.science.org/content/article/amid-cuts-basic-research-new-zealand-scraps-all-support-social-sciences

Hey everyone, it’s Little Bobby Tables’s cousin, Annie Actions

GitHub

Discrepancy between what's in GitHub and what's been published to PyPI for v8.3.41 · Issue #18027 · ultralytics/ultralytics

Bug Code in the published wheel 8.3.41 is not what's in GitHub and appears to invoke mining. Users of ultralytics who install 8.3.41 will unknowing...

An Elfad is just an Elfoid in the category of Elfofunctors

A superb argument against the existence of ghosts from 1st century CE Chinese philosopher Wang Chong.

Wang Chong (Wang Ch’ung) | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Hot damn, David from Usagi Electric finally got the Bendix G15—a vacuum tube digital computer from 1958—up and running. He’s been fixing it for the past 18 months, doing everything from repairing frozen bearings to fixing the paper tape reader to testing thousands of germanium diodes. Amazing.

Having an anti-vaxxer whose bullshit caused children to die of measles be appointed as HHS Secretary is beyond disgusting. The history of Public Health is sanitation, antibiotics, and vaccination. Everything else is improvements at the margin they created. Here’s 200 years of mortality data.

Good stuff as usual from @npub1fznf...nnyk

Why are we using LLMs as calculators?

For AGI

Nice image from JBM. This sort of comparative perspective tends to rule out a lot of US-centric, highly contingent explanations for why things turned out as they did.

Google’s methods are opaque enough that I’d hesitate to draw any particularly strong conclusions, but opening a Private Browsing window and searching for “Can my husband …” and “Can my wife …” certainly produces some striking contrasts in the autocompletes.

One thing I appreciate about Apple product videos is they way that, when they focus on the usefulness of their laptops for research, they really get the details of my life as an academic researcher just right. Like when I am writing my jellyfish paper in the lab filled with jellyfish, and other random fish, and test tubes, and mood lighting, and am looking for just the right jellyfish and/or blue whale illustration to drop in my paper.