Dang Nguyen

Introducing the inaugural Bellwether cohort at @UCBerkeley School of Information! ischool.berkeley.edu/news/2026/new-…

An ecumenical person is someone who can inhabit multiple frameworks without collapsing them into each other, or defensively rejecting them.

To be ecumenical comes out of the Greek oikoumenē—‘the inhabited world’. Being ecumenical is about how one positions oneself in relation to a shared world that is already plural, already divided, already layered with difference.

Happy Sunday! Today I'm thinking about ecumenism and what it means to be ecumenical. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenism

@David_Gunkel @JohnNosta @mitpress 😙

It's the Writing, stupid This short essay from @JohnNosta correctly identifies the fundamental philosophical challenge with #LLMs and the raison d'etre for "The Différance Engine" @mitpress book that is based on and elaborates this sketch of an essay: doi.org/10.1007/s00146…

@dwarkesh_sp This is wrong. Nothing costs zero, not even nothingness. Someone's paying for it. That's why there is no abundance yet.

If AI scientists are writing millions of papers, many of which are slop, and some of which are incremental progress, how would we identify the one or two which come up with an extremely productive new idea? In 1948, Shannon was one of hundreds of engineers at Bell Labs working on how to cleanly send voice signals over noisy copper wires. His paper sat in the same technical journal as reports on reducing static and building better filters. How would you recognize that he has come up with this very general framework for thinking about information and communication channels, which over the coming decades would have enormous use from domains as far apart as cryptography to genetics to quantum mechanics? It seems like it can take fields multiple decades to recognize the significance of unifying new concepts. Because it is on that time scale that the fruits of such general concepts lead to new discoveries across many different fields. We’ve managed to solve this peer review problem for human scientists (at least somewhat). Now we’ll need to do it at a much greater scale for the mass of AI science that will be thrown at us.

KK gets ALL of that one for a team-high sixth homer on the year. #GoBears

@Sa1ntDenis Thank you! 🙂

@digitaldang congrats!

In personal news, I recently became an Australian citizen!

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The Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission arrived to the launch pad today at 11:21am ET (1521 UTC). We are gearing up for preparations ahead of launch of the crewed lunar mission. The earliest possible launch opportunity is April 1. go.nasa.gov/4sXHmtl

Practice session ✅ ACCs 🔜 #GoBears

Introducing 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝑮𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔 💎 Designed for breaking glass ceilings and exceeding expectations. #GoBears

Mark your calendars: Admissions decisions for first-years will release on March 26! #berkeleybound #iamberkeley #universityofcalifornia #gobears

Starting off the outdoor season with some afternoon hammer! 🔨 𝑴𝑬𝑬𝑻 𝑫𝑨𝒀 🆚 Cal Invitational 📍 Berkeley, CA (Edwards Stadium) ⏰ 3:30 p.m. PT 📊 calbea.rs/4sX5f4p #GoBears🐻

Friday floor w/Jayden 💫 Back in action tomorrow at the ACC Championships! #GoBears

@David_Gunkel @blaiseaguera @brianeno Tru dat

What @blaiseaguera calls "collective intelligence" is what others, like @brianeno, have called "scenius." Once we jettison the romantic notion of the individual creative genius, we can see how all innovation and invention are the product of assemblages and #remix.

ALL. THE. WAY. 👊 📺>>ACCNX #weplayforthebay|#gobears|#ElevateTheGame