Jackie 🇲🇽 🏳️‍🌈

I ended up fishing the set while watching the Australian GP! Its SO much bigger than I expected it to be but lego captured @McLarenF1 's beauty quite well !

It makes me sad that he’s been ringing the alarm of climate disaster for decades and everyone is just like ‘aw what a sweet old national treasure’ and ignoring him

Born in Poland, and deeply fond of her homeland, twice Nobel laureate Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie came to consider herself, nonetheless, a proud citizen of France. Today the entire world benefits from her groundbreaking discoveries. 🇵🇱🇫🇷🇪🇺🇺🇳

Solidarity with workers at the University of Chicago Press, who have formed the first union at one of the oldest and most distinguished academic publishers in the U.S.

Love seeing Naomi Osaka honor the CLRS Algorithms textbook at this year's Met Gala

I have to start preparing for my candidacy exam and ngl I'm not prepared to be a 4th year

Have yet to see a university establish, say, a center of AI skepticism. Would be, dare I say, innovative! Consumption is just assumed to be a given, and then the question becomes how best to consume.

Coding is only a small fraction of what a CS PhD student actually does; perhaps 10–30% of their time. The real goal of a PhD, and of being a professor, is not to outsource research work but to educate and train the next generation of scientists: people who deeply understand their field, can think critically about it, and ultimately become experts capable of pushing the frontier of knowledge forward. Coding is probably one of the least interesting part of being a CS PhD. We need human experts even more than before at the age of AI.

When 2017 physics laureate Kip Thorne collected his Nobel Prize medal, he was overcome with emotion while looking at an image of fellow Nobel Prize laureate, Albert Einstein. A century ago, Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves. These 'ripples' in a four-dimensional spacetime occur when objects with mass accelerate. The effects are very small. In the 1970s, the LIGO detector was developed, which uses laser technology to measure small changes in length caused by gravitational waves. Kip Thorne made crucial contributions to the development of the detector, and on 14 September 2015, he was among some 1,000 physicists who were finally able to observe gravitational waves for the first time. Kip Thorne shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017 with Rainer Weiss and Barry Barish "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves."

everyone wants a village, but no one wants to be a villager > drive your friends to the airport > go to their party even when you're tired > stop cancelling last minute > host at your place > support the wins & losses it's worth every ounce of effort

Watched an older cartoon with a friend, and at the end it said "Captioning made possible by US Department of Education." My friend sighed, "wow, remember when the DOE was useful?"

Why the fuck would you not want to protect this

“If your experiment works you've confirmed a hypothesis. If your experiment fails you’ve made a discovery.” - Enrico Fermi

People who don’t understand that the outdoor recreation industry generates $1.3 TRILLION in annual revenue in the US alone are not financially literate. Or perhaps literate at all.

Speaking of IBM, this is what their groundbreaking System/360 mainframe looked like in 1965. Developing it nearly bankrupted the company, but it both changed the course of computing and looked absolutely incredible.

The lead researcher on this study has a note on her project page asking people to stop using words like "brain damage," "brain rot," "harm," "destroy," and "collapse" to describe her findings. This tweet is doing exactly what she asked people not to do. Here's what they actually tested. 54 people wrote SAT essays over 4 months. One group used ChatGPT, one used Google, and one used nothing. Researchers tracked brain activity continuously with EEG caps. The ChatGPT group showed the weakest brain connectivity. By session three, most were just pasting ChatGPT's output. 83% couldn't quote a single sentence from the essay they'd just "written." Two teachers who graded the essays called them "soulless." That part is real. But session 4 changes the picture. They swapped the groups. ChatGPT users had to write solo. Brain-only users got ChatGPT for the first time. The brain-only group's neural activity actually went up when they used ChatGPT. Their brains treated it as a collaborator, not a crutch. Three sessions of thinking independently meant they had something to bring to the table. The paper is a 206-page preprint. Still not peer-reviewed. A formal academic response in December 2025 flagged issues with the sample size, EEG methods, and the reporting of results. This pattern isn't even new to AI. A 2011 Columbia study in Science found people who knew they could Google something were less likely to remember it. GPS users show steeper declines in spatial memory over time. Calculators, cameras, even writing itself. Every tool humans have built changes what our brains bother to store. The actual finding: passive, copy-paste use of ChatGPT during essay writing reduced brain engagement over 3 sessions in 54 college students. People who already knew how to think independently used ChatGPT without losing anything. The researcher's own term is "cognitive cost," not "cognitive destruction."

I do not want my drs using a LLM. I do not want my lawyers using an LLM. I thank God I do not have children because I woukd not want their teachers to use an LLM. Critical thinking has value. And I find it so surprising that anyone is embracing genAI. 1/4

oh my god you people can’t do anything

I'm confused by the very premise of this question, though? My PhD students are not code robots I command to implement what I want. They are human beings I am mentoring to become independent researchers