@duhe.bsky.social
Do you really don’t know?
(I’m a philosopher and historian of biology, interested in all things evolutionary, #genetic, or #cognitive. I find most things ridiculous.)
http://www.ehudlamm.com
@duhe.bsky.socialHaven’t read the whole thing, but it probably makes a lot of sense. That said, I would never sign my name to something that uses the term alignment.
@dingdingpeng.the100.ciReposted by @duhe.bsky.socialHomemade mimosas! The plant, not the cocktail. Now I’ll tell all visitors to touch our plants, no really, touch them, you gotta poke them a bit harder there you go 🌱
@simongreenhill.bsky.socialReposted by @duhe.bsky.socialCool: Interindividual vocal tract diversity influences the phonetic diversification of spoken languages
@alisabokulich.bsky.socialReposted by @duhe.bsky.socialTotally fell for getting this 💀(props to the sidewalk artists who started this trend)
@duhe.bsky.socialNervously checking
@simongreenhill.bsky.socialReposted by @duhe.bsky.socialMore work on language beyond Indo-European, please. It is one family of ~300, and an unrepresentative one.
@duhe.bsky.socialSuppose you make a graph of all possible word continuations (with probabilities), similar to what an LLM enacts. What would be its fractal dimension?
@duhe.bsky.socialai researchers finally old enough to buy beer and cigarettes.
@duhe.bsky.socialWow, is Susan Rice stupid about AI
@nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.socialReposted by @duhe.bsky.social🧪⚛️Mary Tsingou Menzel is her name. Her discovery, collaborating with Fermi, Pasta, Ulam was a surprise. The first computational test of a foundation of statistical mechanics (equipartition). It failed. This work was fundamental to the development of nonlinear dynamics and applied mathematics.
@etvpod.bsky.socialReposted by @duhe.bsky.socialNew ETV out for everyone! I'm joined by @profstorm.bsky.social to discuss his excellent new book The Genealogy of Genealogy. Great dive into a concept that gets thrown around a lot with not enough clarity on the baggage it carries. Enjoy!
@edhagen.netReposted by @duhe.bsky.socialTIL of zbib.org. I've been using Zotero for years, but sometimes I need to generate a quick reference for a misc webpage like a blogpost or news article. Copy-paste the url here and boom, a formatted ref. You can also enter a doi, ISBN, or other identifier 🧪 #AcademicSky
@jonothingeb.bsky.socialReposted by @duhe.bsky.socialHey friends! I hope you can join me for this virtual book launch 10/20 -- I'm very excited to be in dialogue with Stuart Newman and Armando Mastrogiovanni about my recent book on the science and politics of "cultural evolution." Register for Zoom link: utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@duhe.bsky.socialReviewer 1: accept as is Reviewer 2: reject Editors: revise and resubmit Me: consider it a win I guess
@anthonymoser.comReposted by @duhe.bsky.social@tressiemcphd.bsky.social has also done a great job making this point.
"When people try to sell you on the idea that the future is already settled, it’s because it is deeply unsettled."
@evolvingmoloch.bsky.socialReposted by @duhe.bsky.socialDolls are incredibly widespread but not universal cross-culturally. In addition to functioning as toys, dolls are commonly used for supernatural purposes to punish enemies, heal or protect, increase fertility, or embody spirits. New paper in EHB www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@sethchagi.bsky.socialReposted by @duhe.bsky.socialWe called it the Stone Age because rocks don't rot.
Ethnographic toolkits are 90% wood and fiber. Rare Pleistocene finds prove Neanderthals were master carpenters—understanding timber mechanics, hafting, and fire-hardening.
Read the essay:
deephistory.substack.com/p/the-wood-a...
@neuroskeptic.bsky.socialReposted by @duhe.bsky.socialBiological brains "accept higher metabolic cost to gain both robustness and capability" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Brains are expensive but they're good at what they do.
@annaciaunica.bsky.socialReposted by @duhe.bsky.socialNew essai out in @Montreal_Review
I discuss why consciousness is not a thing but rather a journey that living systems do (but not Al)
Check it out 🙏😎👇🏼
Thank you for having me !
@drnwillburger.bsky.socialReposted by @duhe.bsky.socialThis made my day
