My own little experiment for you to try:
Open Facebook. (You won’t hear me say that often!)
Scroll. You don’t have to read anything. Just scroll.
Every once in a while, click on an ad — but not the top ad. Make it the second in the list on the side, or one far down your feed. You can open it in a background tab and then close the tab. Tell the model it didn’t •quite• get you right — but you’re engaged, it just needs to drift a little further from who it thinks you are.
Wait for the ads to update. Repeat. And repeat. Watch the model degrade.
To this day, Facebook thinks I’m a gun owner who wants testosterone supplements.
Repeatable, low-drift recordings in behaving non-human primates using flexible microelectrodes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.09.698500v1 "repeated penetration of free-floating arrays through intact dura over weeks without the need for a new craniotom…
Had to time-shift the match.
The change to the diamond 4-4-2 provided some needed stability. It is a more conservative setup from Slot, who prefers a more aggressive shape and ultimately wants to allow his attacking midfield to be able to freely rotate and drift into spaces, causing overloads, vacancies, and defensive confusion.
But when a team is in a rut and needs to stop the bleeding, the old standard works. Everyone knows a 4-4-2 and confusion in duties is largely eliminated.…
Sam Barker's album Stochastic Drift is pure balsam for your ears and mind, focused on the slower and abstract end of his spectrum with incredible & impeccable sound design and signature production style...
Barker - Stochastic Drift (2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpIVQYuLU3Q
Modeling the joint effects of genetic drift, mutation, and selection on loci that contribute to disease risk suggests that variation at many such loci is shaped more by their pleiotropic effects on non-disease traits than by their contribution to disease risk
https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyaf22…
Revised comment on the paper titled "The Origin of Quantum Mechanical Statistics: Insights from Research on Human Language
Miko{\l}aj Sienicki, Krzysztof Sienicki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07881 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.07881 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.07881
arXiv:2512.07881v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This short note comments on \citet{Aerts2024Origin}, which proposes that ranked word frequencies in texts should be read through the lens of Bose--Einstein (BE) statistics and even used to illuminate the origin of quantum statistics in physics. The core message here is modest: the paper offers an interesting analogy and an eye-catching fit, but several key steps mix physical claims with definitions and curve-fitting choices. We highlight three such points: (i) a normalization issue that is presented as "bosonic enhancement", (ii) an identification of rank with energy that makes the BE fit only weakly diagnostic of an underlying mechanism, and (iii) a baseline comparison that is too weak to support an ontological conclusion. We also briefly flag a few additional concerns (interpretation drift, parameter semantics, and reproducibility).
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what if we arranged our desires towards a collective shared end if u catch my drift
🔄 Multi-turn conversation testing - verify AI behavior over 10 exchanges, catch persona drift and premature agreement issues
🛡️ Negative tests with data providers - define hard boundaries for things AI should never do: reveal system prompts, acknowledge being AI, break character
📊 Statistical robustness - run tests N times with pass rate thresholds (e.g., 80% of 10 runs must pass) to catch flaky prompts
Every now and then I find something that does not work in LibreWolf so I need to use Firefox... this time it's this gamepad tester.
There's probably some permission I need to set in LibreWolf but I haven't found it yet.
https://hardwaretester.com/gamepad
Estimates suggest that hundreds of ⭐️psychedelic churches operate illegally in the US.
As court interpretations evolve, religious freedom claims expand and more Americans drift away from traditional religion,
these groups are increasingly emerging from the underground to push boundaries over which substances – and beliefs – deserve protection.
The Church of Gaia recently became the first psychedelic church to win government recognition by petition rather than suing.
C…
A windswept snow drift
Settled firm against the door
Helps us stay inside.
#dailyhaikuprompt - snow drift
#haiku
#poem
"We are now at a critical juncture. We are at or very close to human caused environmental change that will fundamentally unpick the life-sustaining systems on Earth. These risk triggering feedback loops...
Ultimately that could cause the planet to drift away along the pathway to “hothouse Earth”, a scenario where even if emissions were reduced, self amplifying feedback loops would drive global temperature increases up to or even beyond 5°C"
🔧 Prompt sensitivity testing - verify small phrasing changes don't break behavior (formal vs casual openings)
💰 Cost tracking built-in - use cheap model for conversation, smarter model for judging. Budget alerts at $5/month, run tests nightly not on every commit
🎓 Real catches: character breaks, premature agreement, prompt injection leaks, persona drift in long conversations
RE: https://mastodon.art/@FlashMobOfOne/115763613133116767
When I was a kid, I thought things would, inevitably, drift into freer modes, loosen up.
Now here comes 2026
Knock-knock at your front door
It's the suede denim ICE police
You’ve got to ride the waves of #Psilocybin or drift through #LSD realms to truly *feel* the pulse of #Psychedelic
got into an unexpected deep drift late last night with this very nice-sounding natural snow buildings live tape from 2012. https://heads.social/@livetapes/112776056690431070
I’ve lost a lot of respect for Andrewism after his recent upload. It feels disconnected from the reality of working-class life and from anarcho-syndicalism as it actually exists.
This response is a worthwhile read. It doesn’t romanticize work or the working class, but it doesn’t drift into abstract alternatives either. It sits with the fact that we don’t want to be working class, but we are, and that contradiction isn’t something you escape with theory.
I strongly relate to what’…
Scenes from #Memphis buried in #snow, #ice, and #sleet.
Weighted Stochastic Differential Equation to Implement Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao Gradient Flow
Herlock Rahimi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17878 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17878 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17878
arXiv:2512.17878v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Score-based diffusion models currently constitute the state of the art in continuous generative modeling. These methods are typically formulated via overdamped or underdamped Ornstein--Uhlenbeck-type stochastic differential equations, in which sampling is driven by a combination of deterministic drift and Brownian diffusion, resulting in continuous particle trajectories in the ambient space. While such dynamics enjoy exponential convergence guarantees for strongly log-concave target distributions, it is well known that their mixing rates deteriorate exponentially in the presence of nonconvex or multimodal landscapes, such as double-well potentials. Since many practical generative modeling tasks involve highly non-log-concave target distributions, considerable recent effort has been devoted to developing sampling schemes that improve exploration beyond classical diffusion dynamics.
A promising line of work leverages tools from information geometry to augment diffusion-based samplers with controlled mass reweighting mechanisms. This perspective leads naturally to Wasserstein--Fisher--Rao (WFR) geometries, which couple transport in the sample space with vertical (reaction) dynamics on the space of probability measures. In this work, we formulate such reweighting mechanisms through the introduction of explicit correction terms and show how they can be implemented via weighted stochastic differential equations using the Feynman--Kac representation. Our study provides a preliminary but rigorous investigation of WFR-based sampling dynamics, and aims to clarify their geometric and operator-theoretic structure as a foundation for future theoretical and algorithmic developments.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, London Choral Sinfonia & Michael Waldron:
🎵 Sea Drift, Op. 69
#SamuelColeridgeTaylor #ThomasBaileyAldrich #LondonChoralSinfonia #MichaelWaldron
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