Naomi Saphra

@nsaphra.bsky.social

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Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers and family. ML/NLP professor. nsaphra.net

Murder Bimbo Rebecca Novack
Peter Henderson @PeterHndrsn Several people with no technical background told me they submitted to NeurIPS using agents for all coding—stating they didn't understand what the agent did, nor underlying code. Asked how they could trust the code/results, they said they assume reviewers will catch any errors.
What Stalks the Deep T. Kingfisher
Adaptable: How Your Unique Body Really Works and Why Our Biology Unites Us Herman Pontzer
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? Kelly Weinersmith , Zach Weinersmith
The River Has Roots Amal El-Mohtar
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Yesterday, I was giving an intro talk to our dept's new PhD students. Technical things aside, my number 1 suggestion has remained the same over the years: Treat your PhD like a job. - Avoid 1.5h lunch and three tea breaks. - Avoid gossiping and loitering at work. - Lab at 9 am and leave at 6 pm. Being productive till 11 pm in the lab is a lie people till themselves when their day starts at 1 PM. Everything worth doing can be done with high intensity focus during work hours. And having fun in life is the secret to being productive in a marathon.
A Magical Girl Retires Park Seolyeon
Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations Sam Kean
I Who Have Never Known Men Jacqueline Harpman
The Fountains of Paradise Arthur C. Clarke
The Origins of Creativity Edward O. Wilson
Concerning the Future of Souls: 99 Stories of Azrael Joy Williams
Troy Stephen Fry
The Utopia of Rules David Graeber
Dr Kareem Carr @kareem_carr · 4h There's a bias in AI discourse where we say certain things were achieved with AI, but they were also achieved with millions of dollars. Like if we gave every traditional scientist tens of millions per year, they'd probably be coming up with plenty of fancy new solutions too.
The Two-headed Calf By Laura Gilpin Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.