Tuesday, 6 October 2026

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the need to understand and describe a thing before applying ai to it is a bottleneck: theory free machine learning and broken causality 

 ฮฝe: Nobel prize in physics awarded to Belgian scientist studying neutrinos at the South Pole  

mirror-test: Freddie Yauner’s looking-glass mask  

verschlusssachen: former German spy chief arrested for espionage 

melpomene: Meta’s Muse agentic AI is a privacy nightmare for the masses  

october is the treasurer of the year: John Dunbar’s ode to the month 

reflecting pool: stepping stones across a shallow pond on the roof of a cable car station offer a view of the Austrian Alps  

optogenetics: physiology top honours goes to three German researchers studying how light pulse affect body and mind 

we are going to kill unalive: self-censorship for the sake of the algorithm