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I asked AI to design a challenge coin* for the U.S. Marines for their campaign in Los Angeles against the American people.
Here’s what it suggests. Are you few the proud yet?
*medallion recognizing membership/achievement/boost morale, often collected or exchanged.
#USpol #USMC

Bhatt Conjectures: On Necessary-But-Not-Sufficient Benchmark Tautology for Human Like Reasoning
Manish Bhatt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11423 https://

Bhatt Conjectures: On Necessary-But-Not-Sufficient Benchmark Tautology for Human Like Reasoning
Debates about whether Large Language or Reasoning Models (LLMs/LRMs) truly reason or merely pattern-match suffer from shifting goal posts. In my personal opinion, two analytic--hence "tautological"--benchmarks cut through that fog in my mental model. In this paper, I attempt to write down my mental model in concrete terms.

Another game against Real Madrid and another victory. This season FC Barcelona killed their morale. What a blast!
I el Madrid... al carrer! :ablobspin:

All this brings me back to some text I was writing yesterday for my students, on which I’d appreciate any thoughtful feedback:
❝You can let the computer do the typing for you, but never let it do the thinking for you.
This is doubly true in the current era of AI hype. If the AI optimists are correct (the credible ones, anyway), software development will consist of humans critically evaluating, shaping, and correcting the output of LLMs. If the AI skeptics are correct, then the future will bring mountains of AI slop to decode, disentangle, fix, and/or rewrite. Either way, it is •understanding• and •critically evaluating• code — not merely •generating• it — that will be the truly essential ability. Always has been; will be even more so. •That• is what you are learning here.❞
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Generating Shakespeare-like text with an n-gram language model is straight forward and quite simple. But, don't expect to much of it. It will not be able to recreate a lost Shakespear play for you ;-) It's merely a parrot, making up well sounding sentences out of fragments of original Shakespeare texts...
#ise2025

petBrain: A New Pipeline for Amyloid, Tau Tangles and Neurodegeneration Quantification Using PET and MRI
Pierrick Coup\'e, Boris Mansencal, Flor\'eal Morandat, Sergio Morell-Ortega, Nicolas Villain, Jose V. Manj\'on, Vincent Planche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03217

petBrain: A New Pipeline for Amyloid, Tau Tangles and Neurodegeneration Quantification Using PET and MRI
INTRODUCTION: Quantification of amyloid plaques (A), neurofibrillary tangles (T2), and neurodegeneration (N) using PET and MRI is critical for Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis and prognosis. Existing pipelines face limitations regarding processing time, variability in tracer types, and challenges in multimodal integration. METHODS: We developed petBrain, a novel end-to-end processing pipeline for amyloid-PET, tau-PET, and structural MRI. It leverages deep learning-based segmentation, standa…

Euclid: Early Release Observations -- The surface brightness and colour profiles of the far outskirts of galaxies in the Perseus cluster
M. Mondelin, F. Bournaud, J. -C. Cuillandre, S. Codis, C. Stone, M. Bolzonella, J. G. Sorce, M. Kluge, N. A. Hatch, F. R. Marleau, M. Schirmer, H. Bouy, F. Buitrago, C. Tortora, L. Quilley, K. George, M. Baes, T. Saifollahi, P. M. Sanchez-Alarcon, J. H. Knapen, N. Aghanim, A. Amara, S. Andreon, C. Baccigalupi, A. Balestra, S. Bardelli, P. Battaglia, A…

Euclid: Early Release Observations -- The surface brightness and colour profiles of the far outskirts of galaxies in the Perseus cluster
The Perseus field captured by Euclid as part of its Early Release Observations provides a unique opportunity to study cluster environment ranging from outskirts to dense regions. Leveraging unprecedented optical and near-infrared depths, we investigate the stellar structure of massive disc galaxies in this field. This study focuses on outer disc profiles, including simple exponential (Type I), down- (Type II) and up-bending break (Type III) profiles, and their associated colour gradients, to tr…