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Research Engineer at Google DeepMind A special snowflake existing in 196883 dimensions #ActuallyAutistic He/Him

A promotional banner for an event titled "AI for Science: Kickoff 2026," held on Tuesday, February 10, 2026, at the UCLA Campus. The banner features a dark reddish-brown background and displays headshots of eight prominent speakers arranged in a row, each framed within a light-colored triangle. From left to right, the speakers are: Terence Tao (UCLA), Barry Barish (Nobel Laureate), Richard Sutton (OpenMind Research Institute), Miguel García-Garibay (UCLA), Erran Li (Amazon AWS), Hoifung Poon (Microsoft Research), Jiantao Jiao (NVIDIA/UC Berkeley), and Sebastian Bubeck (OpenAI).
Screenshot of a news article saying "Oracle will oversee the security of Americans' data and monitor changes and updates to TikTok's recommendation technology under a new deal. "
BBC article quote: "Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the suggested savings "have no basis in reality" and the government were already looking at restricting migrants' welfare access."
An excerpt of the paper that reads: To ensure the rigor of the research findings, permissible interventions for the control group were limited to traditional tools such as pen and paper, PowerPoint, and essential learning materials required for the course (e.g., computers in programming courses). Studies whose control groups used emerging technologies with intelligent features, such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), metaverse, digital twins, holographic displays, or domain-specific intelligent tools, were also excluded
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A graph of monthly active users (MAU) of ChatGPT and Wikipedia, showing that around the first quarter of 2024 the number of ChatGPT MAUs passed Wikipedia's. It's worth noting that Wikipedia's MAUs seem to have been steadily going down since end of 2020 at least
Dril tweet that reads, "turning a big dial taht says 'Racism' on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right."
On the top part of the image you have the cover for the games Atomic Heart, Fallout 3, and Atomfall. On the bottom you have a picture of Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill seated on chairs
The beginning of a New Yorker article saying "Taco Bell's Innovation Kitchen,"
The Golem of Prague: A large, slightly humanoid clay statue
A light rail in Germany going through a snowy landscape
The Studio Ghibli logo, depicting a fluffy creature with trees on its head
A bookshelf full of books
An image of a capybara lounging with guinea pigs
Hacker news comment with the following text: One of my websites was absolutely destroyed by Meta's AI bot: Meta-ExternalAgent https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-... It seems a bit naive for some reason and doesn't do performance back-off the way I would expect from Google Bot. It just kept repeatedly requesting more and more until my server crashed, then it would back off for a minute and then request more again. My solution was to add a Cloudflare rule to block requests from their User-Agent. I also added more nofollow rules to links and a robots.txt but those are just suggestions and some bots seem to ignore them. Cloudflare also has a feature to block known AI bots and even suspected AI bots: https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-blo... As much as I dislike Cloudflare centralization, this was a super convenient feature.
Me wearing the shirt Vicki posted about. 5 people's faces have been redacted