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"Pesticides, antibiotics, animal medicines: the chemical cocktail seeping into our rivers"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Rivers

🏳️‍🌈 More pan than bi? Yes! 🏳️‍🌈
#Pansexual #Bisexual #LGBTQIA

Representation biases: will we achieve complete understanding by analyzing representations?
Andrew Kyle Lampinen, Stephanie C. Y. Chan, Yuxuan Li, Katherine Hermann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22216

Representation biases: will we achieve complete understanding by analyzing representations?
A common approach in neuroscience is to study neural representations as a means to understand a system -- increasingly, by relating the neural representations to the internal representations learned by computational models. However, a recent work in machine learning (Lampinen, 2024) shows that learned feature representations may be biased to over-represent certain features, and represent others more weakly and less-consistently. For example, simple (linear) features may be more strongly and mor…

It’s language pedantry! No, it’s math pedantry! Anyhow, “Comparing Numbers Badly” gripes about the mis-use of “order(s) of magnitude” and percentages in comparing numbers: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/05/30/Number-Comparison-Representa…

Comparing Numbers Badly

wiki_rfa: Wikipedia RfA voting network (2013)
The set of all votes on Requests for Adminships (RfA), from 2003 to May 2013, represented as a directed, signed network in which nodes represent Wikipedia members and edges represent votes.
This network has 11381 nodes and 198275 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Signed
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When Truthful Representations Flip Under Deceptive Instructions?
Xianxuan Long, Yao Fu, Runchao Li, Mu Sheng, Haotian Yu, Xiaotian Han, Pan Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22149 h…

When Truthful Representations Flip Under Deceptive Instructions?
Large language models (LLMs) tend to follow maliciously crafted instructions to generate deceptive responses, posing safety challenges. How deceptive instructions alter the internal representations of LLM compared to truthful ones remains poorly understood beyond output analysis. To bridge this gap, we investigate when and how these representations ``flip'', such as from truthful to deceptive, under deceptive versus truthful/neutral instructions. Analyzing the internal representations of Llama-…

Philip Rivers says he waited to retire because he was still receiving interest from NFL teams in recent years

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/philip…

Parliamentarian reverses course, allows orphan drug provision in megabill (David Lim/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/30/congress/parliamentarian-reverses-course-allows-orphan-drug-megabill-provision-in-megabill-00433884
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p117#a250630p117

#ReverseProxy Deep Dive Part 2: Why HTTP Parsing at the Edge Is Harder Than It Looks
https://startwithawhy.com/reverseproxy/2025/07/20/ReversePro…

Being autistic, I have to keep telling myself, "Yes, being gender-fluid is valid, and Norway lets me be who I am," just to really accept myself. 🏳️‍⚧️🇳🇴
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_fluidity