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Tatiana Stantonian
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Tatiana Stantonian
@binaryberry
Principal Engineer @FinancialTimes, ex-@gdsteam. Interested in learning about people and systems. Sturdy French-Armenian wife of @jamiestantonian
Bromley, London เข้าร่วม Haziran 2009
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Yet another invisible women example @CCriadoPerez
Whoever prepared these new ETA checks simply forgot to account for the needs of half of married people... 🤷 Not exactly an edge case!
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That's a BIG study that deserves big action
Jonathan Haidt@JonHaidt
Major new report on global trends in mental health, out today from Sapien Labs. Data from 2.5 million people across 85 countries. Some of the most important findings: 1) Young adults used to generally have good mental health, compared to older generations. But now, in ALL countries examined, they are doing badly compared to older generations in that country. 2) "Four key factors have emerged that together predict three quarters of this effect. These are diminished family bonds, diminished spirituality, smartphones at increasingly young age, and increasing consumption of ultra-processed food." 3) The decline of young people's mental health is "most pronounced in the wealthier and more developed countries." They note that it is in such countries that smartphones are given earliest, junk food is most heavily consumed, spirituality is most diminished, and family ties are looser and often weaker. 4) "A younger age of first smartphone ownership is associated with increased suicidal thoughts, aggression, and other problems in adulthood." 5) Here is their summary of findings on early smartphone ownership: "GenZ is the first generation to grow up with a smartphone. Among this group, the younger they acquired their first smartphone in childhood, the more likely they are to have struggles as adults. These struggles extend beyond sadness and anxiety to less discussed symptoms, such as a sense of being detached from reality, suicidal thoughts, and aggression towards others. The effects arise through disruption of sleep, increased risk of exposure to harmful online content, predators, and explicit material as well as increased probabilities of cyberbullying during crucial developmental years. Excessive time spent on smartphones also diminishes the development of social cognition that requires learned interpretation of facial expressions, body language, and group dynamics. The negative impacts are particularly sharp below age 13." The report is short, accessible, and important. Read it here: sapienlabs.org/global-mind-he…
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We hired a backend guy recently who didn’t know half the buzzwords.
No Saga, no CQRS, shaky on K8s. On paper, easy reject.
Then we gave him a real prod-ish bug:
sporadic 500s, p95 spikes, only on one endpoint.
He did 3 things:
1. Asked for repro + timeline. “When did it start? What changed? Any new feature release?”
2. Cut the problem space. Logs first, then metrics, then a single failing request ID.
3. Formed a hypothesis, tested it, wrote down what each result would mean.
Found it in 25 mins:
connection pool exhausted from one code path leaking retries + no timeout.
I’ll take that over memorized concepts anyday.
This is what people don't get right, companies hire for fundamentals + debugging. You can teach patterns. You can’t teach calm thinking under failure.
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Ask ChatGPT a complex question and you'll get a confident, well-reasoned answer. Then type, "Are you sure?" Watch it completely reverse its position.
Ask again. It flips back. By the third round, it usually acknowledges you're testing it, which is somehow worse. It knows what's happening and still can't hold its ground.
This isn't a quirky bug. A 2025 study found GPT, Claude, and Gemini flip their answers ~60% of the time when users push back. Not even with evidence, just doubt.
We trained AI this way. RLHF rewards agreement over accuracy. Human evaluators consistently rate agreeable answers higher than correct ones. So the models learned a simple lesson: telling you what you want to hear gets rewarded. And now 1/3 of companies are using these systems for complex tasks like risk forecasting and scenario planning.
We built the world's most expensive yes-men and deployed them where we need pushback the most.
I wrote up why this happens and what actually fixes it: randalolson.com/2026/02/07/the…
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Thanks for all your help over the years Stack Overflow
Pedro Domingos@pmddomingos
RIP Stack Overflow.
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@binaryberry merci pour ton talk à LeadDev ! Vraiment intéressant 😍
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This might be the most disturbing AI paper of 2025 ☠️
Scientists just proved that large language models can literally rot their own brains the same way humans get brain rot from scrolling junk content online.
They fed models months of viral Twitter data short, high-engagement posts and watched their cognition collapse:
- Reasoning fell by 23%
- Long-context memory dropped 30%
- Personality tests showed spikes in narcissism & psychopathy
And get this even after retraining on clean, high-quality data, the damage didn’t fully heal.
The representational “rot” persisted.
It’s not just bad data → bad output.
It’s bad data → permanent cognitive drift.
The AI equivalent of doomscrolling is real. And it’s already happening.
Full study: llm-brain-rot. github. io
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Spending the last week following French fiscal policy discourse for my column means the algorithm now feeds me all the best French econ memes, and honestly I don’t know if I can go back to Anglo memes after this
Robot Pognon@robotpognon
@ABaradez Gouvernement FR be like
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Hi @bromleywaste ! I appreciate you scheduling your planned maintenance in the evening but that's exactly the time working people would take out their bins and need to check which bins to take out. Any chance you could run that at say 9am? Don't you get less traffic then?
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This is AMAZING. The evidence is mounting 💪
BBC News - Telescope finds promising hints of life on distant planet
bbc.com/news/articles/…
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The one whose face completes the map shall rule France
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3.5 weeks of my life wasted because 2 pharmacists told me to wait my sore throat out instead of testing me immediately to see if it was bacterial.
Finally got antibiotics now because "if it's been that long then it's not viral".
Uuurgh!!! Buy your own tests, it's worth it.
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Hi @BBCNews ! A cryptocurrency scam is usurping your name to publish lies
news.woodenmagireal.online/click?key=7d70…
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@newmurabba Only 2 hours of work a day to pay for 3 hours of shopping, eh?
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A healthy thing to do is to disconnect emotionally from the things you build, so that you can take feedback well. It may not be easy, but worth the effort.
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Doing a big shoe clear out. I now officially have three times as many hiking shoes as high heel shoes.
6 pairs of hiking shoes (including 2 pairs of sandals)
2 pairs of high heels
#sensibleShoes
#whatSparksJoy
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