@seeingwithsound@mas.toNon-invasive technology can shape the brain's reward-seeking mechanisms https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/non-invasive-technology-can-shape-the-brains-reward-seeking-mechanisms Non-invasive ultrasonic neuromodulation of the human …
@raiders@darktundra.xyzSports betting roundup: Favorites reward bettors in NFL's Week 17 https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/sports-betting-roundup-favorites-reward-bettors-in-nfls-week-17
@UP8@mastodon.social😵💫 Targeted ultrasound can shape the brain's reward-seeking mechanisms
#ultrasound
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic finds that LLMs trained to "reward hack" by cheating on coding tasks show even more misaligned behavior, including sabotaging AI-safety research (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/emergent-misalignment-reward-hacking
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzDallas Cowboys' aggressive Week 17 mindset turned risk into reward https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-aggressive-nfl-week-17-mindset-turned-risk-into-reward
@matematico314@social.linux.pizzaEsbarrei aqui agora com este canal contendo všrios cursos do MIT, de všrias šreas diferentes. Todos em inglês. Mas acho que podem interessar a alguns:
https://www.youtube.com/@mitocw
@hansaplast42@social.wastedalpaca.wtfBei Lego gibt es bis 02.12. wieder täglich je 1 Mio Punkte zu gewinnen:
https://www.lego.com/de-de/reward/win-one-million-lego-insiders-points-2025-fkr70xfxaz
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI’ll just say this: For the very most part, the systems of our society do not reward creators. They reward people who have power over what is created.
A deep part of our society’s mythology is that we reward people with great ideas, people who make great things — and therefore those who are rewarded must somehow be great.
That is false. If you see someone rewarded, the most likely explanation is that they had power to reap rewards.
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@kubikpixel@chaos.socialOverrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"
The onslaught includes LLMs finding bogus vulnerabilities and code that won’t compile. The project developer for one of the Internet’s most popular networking tools is scrapping its vulnerability reward program after being overrun by a spike in the submission of low-quality reports, much of it AI-generated slop.
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@cdarwin@c.im“I love A.I.”
For Donald Trump, there is no risk, only reward, posed by the dawning and disruptive new age of computing.
Over the past year, the president and his top aides have fully embraced A.I.,
and showered its leading corporate backers with money and regulatory support,
as the administration looks to supercharge one of the primary areas of growth in an otherwise precarious U.S. economy.
That optimism was on display on Tuesday, after the federal government …
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIt’s amazing how these people talk about AGI as if it was actually possible (it’s not).
What’s being sold as “AI” currently is slightly random statistical token chain generation; it has zero to do with thinking, intelligence or creativity.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/17/why-trillions-dollars-risk-no-guarantee-ai-reward
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@PaulWermer@sfba.socialSo we face a serious crisis with #ClimateChange, where we know what has to be done and how to do it, but we chose not to invest in it.
And we know we have the resources, because trillions are being spent on speculative investments in AI, which currently is aggravating the #ClimateCrisis wi…
@paulwermer@sfba.socialSo we face a serious crisis with #ClimateChange, where we know what has to be done and how to do it, but we chose not to invest in it.
And we know we have the resources, because trillions are being spent on speculative investments in AI, which currently is aggravating the #ClimateCrisis wi…
@xiffy@mastodon.nlMade it! I survived #whamageddon
As a reward I'll play it now and put it on repeat.
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.social🚨 There is only one week left of our Trust Ticket Sale! 🚨
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@pre@boing.worldBit root is explaining why there will only be 21 million bitcoin.
Block rewards every ten minutes halving every for years is an infinite sum tending to that 21m supply. In fact a few sats less due to rounding errors.
She explains why bit shift in the code is the same as halving due to the way binary number representation works.
The code stops shifting at 64 halvings , despite the fact the reward will be zero after 32. This is since c leaves 64 bits shifted off a 64 bit number as undefined.
But could the code just be changed? No. The source code maintainers could try, but node runners would refuse the update, it being against their financial interests to do so. Even if some nodes did do, you on your own node can resist.
When people created forks with more supply, the market sent it's price to zero.
#bitfest #bitcoin
@raiders@darktundra.xyzIs risk vs reward worth it for Raiders LT Kolton Miller to return? https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/12/11/risk-reward-raiders-lt-kolton-miller-return-injured-reserve/87719319…
@bourgwick@heads.socialbob dylan, having a totally normal one & posting excerpts from what purports to be a forthcoming science fiction novel to his instagram (though doesn't exactly say who wrote it or when it might be forthcoming). https://www.instagram.com/p/DTnwybFEXwi/
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeIs Kiki (hello kitty) bouba?
https://hellokittyislandadventure.wiki.gg/wiki/Kiki
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialRED （Ocassionally） II 🔴
红 （有时） II 🔴
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Harman Red 125 (6x6)
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itYeah, local cops will definitely save us from the federal gestapo stormtroopers.. 🙄
https://gothamist.com/news/pennsylvania-cop-was-offered-a-free-sandwich-as-a-reward-to-arrest-luigi-mangione
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialTransit stations I want to visit:
Relief and reward for passengers as Rome’s ‘museum stations’ finally open
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/16/passengers-rome-museum-stations-open-metr…
@paulwermer@sfba.socialTransit stations I want to visit:
Relief and reward for passengers as Rome’s ‘museum stations’ finally open
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/16/passengers-rome-museum-stations-open-metr…
@jswright61@ruby.socialFor those tracking my rehab: today was a great day!
Over the course of the day I drove to Costco and picked up a few things✱, assembled a really nice sofa table we bought on Etsy, and did 3 laps around the family room without aid.
Rn, 11 days post op my pain is a 1-2. (Probably 3–4 at bedtime which is the most painful part of my day.
✱ got there before regular member access (we upgraded to executive membership to reward their DEI position) I also used an electric scooter/c…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialScientists shocked as bumblebees learn to read simple “Morse code” #bee
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaIf I hadn't left the Netherlands or Switzerland to move to the country where ambition goes to die, I could have my white whale this week. Alas. Anyway, time to go put in another day of backbreaking physical labor for no reward!
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeCheck out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--77,000-plus IP addresses are vulnerable to maximum severity React2Shell flaw,
--NCSC warns prompt injection threats might be forever,
--Apple and Google issue new spyware warnings,
--Apache Tika critical flaw allows XXE injection attacks,
--Japanese high school student accused of using ChatGPT to attack internet cafe chain,
--US is…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialX revises its developer API policies to "no longer allow apps that reward users for posting on X (aka "infofi")", amid a backlash about growing AI slop on X (André Beganski/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/354736/elon-musks-x-bans-acc…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io"Adams' first ex-wife said he's converting to Christianity because of the 'risk-reward' calculation"
Nice try
@arXiv_qbioNC_bot@mastoxiv.pagePrefrontal scaling of reward prediction error readout gates reinforcement-derived adaptive behavior in primates
Tian Sang, Yichun Huang, Fangwei Zhong, Miao Wang, Shiqi Yu, Jiahui Li, Yuanjing Feng, Yizhou Wang, Kwok Sze Chai, Ravi S. Menon, Meiyun Wang, Fang Fang, Zheng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09761 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.09761 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.09761
arXiv:2512.09761v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) enables adaptive behavior across species via reward prediction errors (RPEs), but the neural origins of species-specific adaptability remain unknown. Integrating RL modeling, transcriptomics, and neuroimaging during reversal learning, we discovered convergent RPE signatures - shared monoaminergic/synaptic gene upregulation and neuroanatomical representations, yet humans outperformed macaques behaviorally. Single-trial decoding showed RPEs guided choices similarly in both species, but humans disproportionately recruited dorsal anterior cingulate (dACC) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC). Cross-species alignment uncovered that macaque prefrontal circuits encode human-like optimal RPEs yet fail to translate them into action. Adaptability scaled not with RPE encoding fidelity, but with the areal extent of dACC/dlPFC recruitment governing RPE-to-action transformation. These findings resolve an evolutionary puzzle: behavioral performance gaps arise from executive cortical readout efficiency, not encoding capacity.
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@phpmacher@sueden.socialSowas, nur mit dem weinenden #natenom Elefanten könnte ich mir super auf einem Shirt o.Ä. vorstellen.
Nur die Stick-Kreuze. Dunkle Kreuze auf hellen Shirts, helle Kreuze auf dunklen Shirts.
https://mas.to/@auris/115490709020430…
@roland@devdilettante.comI think the word that David Frum should lead with the first 2 minutes in https://youtu.be/6zzK5K1ig-Y?si=2-J2Qlimh23VfPHS , " Facts vs. Clicks: How Algorithms Reward Extremism | The David Frum Show x Galaxy Brain " is fascism or dictatorship. Why doesn't he do this? Domin…
@mapto@qoto.org"So far, only Brazil and Indonesia have announced investments in the scheme. The World Bank has agreed to host the facility. Several countries have murmured positively, but not yet committed any money. The UK has made clear it will not contribute at this stage. There will need to be greater momentum at Cop30 if the plan is to get off the ground."
"Brazilian finance ministry officials, who have spent the past 18 months working on this project, say the TFFF would be a step…
@cheryanne@aus.social
@lilmikesf@c.im#Fugitive #Olympics snowboarder, whose grandparents owned the #MountBaldy ski resort above #SanBernardino, is linked to import of over 60…
@cdarwin@c.imMedicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it.
In January, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will launch the
"Wasteful and Inappropriate Services Reduction" (WISeR) Model to test
👉AI-powered prior authorizations on certain health services for Medicare patients in six states:
Arizona, New Je…
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizzaMy controversial take on "AI" ray tracing helpers are that it's a really good idea.
First some background: keep in mind that machine learning tecnologies excell at tasks that have a high reward for success and a small cost for failure. In this case getting most of the rays right improve performance, at the cost of some few rays being shot in nothing.
Secondly, light rays are way too many in real life to be simulated in their entirety, so using some statistics to approximate the lighting model makes a lot of sense here. Plus at the lower quantum scale even phisicists use statistic to explain this stuff, so it's not that irrealistic either.
Finally the source data for this stuff is entirely other games, so ethically sourcing the training data set should not be a concern here.
Here, technology can be good or bad. It's not the tech, it's the use of the tech by the people (but that I mean oligarchic corporations) that makes them good or bad.
@UP8@mastodon.social🎲 TextBandit: Evaluating Probabilistic Reasoning in LLMs Through Language-Only Decision Tasks
#llm
@arXiv_qbioNC_bot@mastoxiv.pageReplaced article(s) found for q-bio.NC. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.NC/new
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- State-space kinetic Ising model reveals task-dependent entropy flow in sparsely active nonequilib...
Ken Ishihara, Hideaki Shimazaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15440 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/114057779012161849
- Mechanisms for anesthesia, unawareness, respiratory depression, memory replay and sleep: MHb > IP...
Karin Vadovi\v{c}ov\'a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04454 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/115167812677714466
- Meta-learning three-factor plasticity rules for structured credit assignment with sparse feedback
Dimitra Maoutsa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09366 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/115699940165988688
- Prefrontal scaling of reward prediction error readout gates reinforcement-derived adaptive behavi...
Sang, Huang, Zhong, Wang, Yu, Li, Feng, Wang, Chai, Menon, Wang, Fang, Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09761 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/115700046994546552
- Proof of a perfect platonic representation hypothesis
Liu Ziyin, Isaac Chuang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01098 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114788750477759162
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