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A look at Meta's revamped GenAI strategy, as Mark Zuckerberg poaches top AI talent for the Superintelligence team with a typical offer of $200M over four years (SemiAnalysis)
https://semianalysis.com/2025/07/11/meta-superintellige…

Meta Superintelligence – Leadership Compute, Talent, and Data
Meta’s shocking purchase of 49% of Scale AI at a ~$30B valuation shows that money is of no concern for the $100B annual cashflow ad machine. Despite seemingly unlimited resources, Meta has been fal…

An analysis of Wigner's friend in the framework of quantum mechanics based on the principle of typicality
Kohtaro Tadaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07828 https://

An analysis of Wigner's friend in the framework of quantum mechanics based on the principle of typicality
The notion of probability plays a crucial role in quantum mechanics. It appears in quantum mechanics as the Born rule. In modern mathematics which describes quantum mechanics, however, probability theory means nothing other than measure theory, and therefore any operational characterization of the notion of probability is still missing in quantum mechanics. In our former works [K. Tadaki, arXiv:1804.10174], based on the toolkit of algorithmic randomness, we presented a refinement of the Born ru…

Using images with alt text to represent code is not terribly helpful.
• A typical user would need to know about the alt text to copy it.
• A low-vis user cannot scale it, and it won’t honor their text preferences.
• A blind user has to parse a wall of text they cannot pause.
Just paste code. Maybe a URL to longer code.

CFP: ACLA2026: Shared Imaginaries and Intellectual Entanglements Across Latin America/the Caribbean and the Middle East/North Africa
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Bug Club:
🎵 Best Looking Strangers in the Cemetery
#TheBugClub
https://thebugclub.bandcamp.com/track/best-looking-strangers-in-the-cemetery
https://open.spotify.com/track/7gCEHtOZ4rbg0JERKXTbYv

Unprecedented heat in North China: How soil moisture amplified 2023's record heat wave #China

Unprecedented heat in North China: How soil moisture amplified 2023's record heat wave
This summer, much of North China has endured widespread temperatures above 35°C. Even typically cooler, high-latitude summer retreats like Harbin in Northeast China—usually a refuge from the heat—saw temperatures soar past 35°C in late June and July. As climate change accelerates, extreme heat events will become increasingly frequent.

Everyday We Stray Further From God's Light

Interesting stuff. This touches on a lot of work that was on my todo list. Especially estimating the "interestingness" of data by measuring the maximum compute needed to reach the optimal compression.
AIT is definitely becoming practically relevant.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07995

Single-pass Adaptive Image Tokenization for Minimum Program Search
According to Algorithmic Information Theory (AIT) -- Intelligent representations compress data into the shortest possible program that can reconstruct its content, exhibiting low Kolmogorov Complexity (KC). In contrast, most visual representation learning systems use fixed-length representations for all inputs, ignoring variations in complexity or familiarity. Recent adaptive tokenization methods address this by allocating variable-length representations but typically require test-time search o…

Confined and deconfined chaos in classical spin systems
Hyeongjin Kim, Robin Sch\"afer, David M. Long, Anatoli Polkovnikov, Anushya Chandran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07168 …

Confined and deconfined chaos in classical spin systems
Weakly perturbed integrable many-body systems are typically chaotic and thermal at late times. However, there are distinct relationships between the timescales for thermalization and chaos. The typical relationship is confined chaos: when trajectories are still confined to regions in phase space with constant conserved quantities (actions), the conjugate angle variables are already unstable. Confined chaos thus far precedes thermalization. In a different relationship, which we term deconfined c…

On Tuesday the man who usually has a comment on everything told NBC News: “I don’t comment on something that’s a dead issue.”
Bullshit. The 2020 election has been over for a while.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/09/trump-response-epstein-files…