Ehud
@duhe.bsky.social
Do you really don’t know?
(I’m a philosopher and historian of biology, interested in all things evolutionary, #genetic, or #cognitive. I find most things ridiculous.)
http://www.ehudlamm.com
(I’m a philosopher and historian of biology, interested in all things evolutionary, #genetic, or #cognitive. I find most things ridiculous.)
http://www.ehudlamm.com
Not a course and not really for self study by total beginners, but young’uns should probably all be given a copy of @davidpapineau.bsky.social ’s Philosophical Devices. global.oup.com/ukhe/product...
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Not a course and not really for self study by total beginners, but young’uns should probably all be given a copy of @davidpapineau.bsky.social ’s Philosophical Devices. global.oup.com/ukhe/product...
Reposted by Ehud
The pile of data that made Gemini's OCR possible was produced by past research! We know examples of OCR/HTR training sets that Google certainly used, so funding them was certainly helpful. bsky.app/profile/scot...
I know this is the funding/research game, and we put a lot of money/time into soon-curtailed paths because one payoff is sometimes all we need, but: it's sobering thinking of all the clever technologies and methodologies that were swept away when fundamentally stupid LLMs came on the scene.
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The pile of data that made Gemini's OCR possible was produced by past research! We know examples of OCR/HTR training sets that Google certainly used, so funding them was certainly helpful. bsky.app/profile/scot...