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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · 7m

Woah this is exactly what Substack is missing!

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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · 54m

He's so Reddit it's unbearable 😭

Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · 2h

Yeah...idk if I have it in me to listen to this

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 1d

𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞? 🇨🇳🇮🇩🇸🇪

Here’s the proof! 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐋𝐌 is the first Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data available for 45 languages to the NLP community 🎉

arxiv.org/abs/2510.10159

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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · 1d

I wouldn't know, I was on vacation 🤣

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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · 1d

Perhaps the same effect would be achieved just by holding no simultaneous talks during poster sessions

Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · 2d

+1 to single track. I really think that's the special sauce that makes so many fruitful incidental chats happen. these days LM research in particular (and AI in general) isn't clearly separable into disjoint tracks and it's better to facilitate any-to-any interactions

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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · 2d

+1 to single track. I really think that's the special sauce that makes so many fruitful incidental chats happen. these days LM research in particular (and AI in general) isn't clearly separable into disjoint tracks and it's better to facilitate any-to-any interactions

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah this is my biggest “AGI hype is not real” is that almost no one at these companies behaves like it’s real

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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · 13d

Straight from planet (moon?) Pandora

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · Apr 15

Continuing to fiddle. I've discovered that data visualization is extremely susceptible to "procrastiwork". I should just stop and release my notebook.

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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · 15d

Even the typography is sinister

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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · 24d

At least you'll be drippy

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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · 26d

hey don't make fun of the galileo of LLMs

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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · 26d

unfortunately it is not satire

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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · 26d

I hate any "X derangement syndrome" turn of phrase but I find it hard to otherwise describe the way a lot of people on here are about Ezra Klein

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Sep 13

We still don't really know what drove Tyler Robinson, or if he even holds a coherent worldview.
The tone certainly shifted when he did not match the hoped-for demographic profile.
The civil war was cancelled, at least for now, to be replaced by Young Male Mental Health Appreciation Week.

Alternate posts from Rep Nancy Mace, first blaming the left, then calling for prayers for the lost Tyler Robinson

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · Sep 12

did a little media criticism www.theverge.com/politics/777...

The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation

The Wall Street Journal’s fuckup while covering Charlie Kirk’s killing needs more than an editor’s note.

www.theverge.com

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · Sep 12

More of this kind of reporting, please!

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Sep 10

Glenn Beck’s media outlet The Blaze just gave an interview last month to the person who killed the politicians in Minnesota

Blaze Media
https://www.theblaze.com
Exclusive: Assassination suspect Vance
Boelter tells STUNNING inside ...
Aug 12, 2025 - Vance Luther Boelter told Blaze News he shot at Sen. John Hoffman and his wife only after they laid hands on him and his shooting arm.

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · Sep 6

As for the claim that "half of AI scientists think there is 10% chance or higher that we'll be wiped out by AI": See my account of what really happened in this survey at aiguide.substack.com/p/do-half-of...

Do half of AI researchers believe that there's a 10% chance AI will kill us all?

Fact-checking a widespread claim

aiguide.substack.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Sep 4

The Nazi early prohibition on Jews from owning guns has been an NRA talking point for decades.

Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · Sep 4

The "from my cold dead hands" crowd wants to ban people from owning guns

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A. Feder Cooper @afedercooper.bsky.social · Aug 27

Not to mention the enormous amounts of ML paper slop on arxiv, stuff that is full of stuff that is just completely wrong, but has enough stuff that resembles math or experiments in it.

My point is, this seems like an arbitrary line to draw about what is good enough for arxiv

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Ripperoni @ripperoni.com · Aug 16

When you think about it, we are basically just computers
- *person who works with computers for a living*

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Michael Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · Aug 8

I guess it must have been some kind of cookie issue for me I was able to get it back

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · Jul 27

Kinda wow: the mystery model "summit" (rumored to be OpenAI) with the prompt "create something I can paste into p5js that will startle me with its cleverness in creating something that invokes the control panel of a starship in the distant future" & "make it better"

2,351 lines of code. First time

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