Author: robert.adlington

Perception, modeling, and manipulation all integrate to tackle visual reasoning. While language models manipulate human-invented symbols, video models can apply changes across the dimensions of the real world: time and space. Since these changes are applied frame-by-frame in a generated video, this parallels chain-of-thought in LLMs and could therefore be called chain-of-frames, or CoF for…

Nonviolence didn’t mean passivity. It was a strategy, intended to reveal the brutal contrast between the tactics of the oppressor and the experiences of the oppressed. Nonviolent, civil protest was met with rank incivility, which is to say that the hypocritical way in which we presently understand civility and incivility is nothing new. Calling for…

We might find definitive proof that stars are older than black holes, just as cosmologists had long supposed. But even so, black holes would still retain some claim to ontological primacy, because they last so much longer. From their perspective, a star is just a transitory stage, a chrysalis. If the universe continues to expand…

It starts with a safe virus that has been altered to contain a specially designed sequence of DNA. This is infused deep into the brain using real-time MRI scanning to guide a microcatheter to two brain regions – the caudate nucleus and the putamen. This takes 12 to 18 hours of neurosurgery. The virus then…

TABARROK: Here’s a quote from the book, “Art and democratic politics, although both beneficial activities, operate on conflicting principles.” COWEN: So much of democratic politics is based on consensus. So much of wonderful art, especially new art, is based on overturning consensus, maybe sometimes offending people. All this came to a head in the 1990s, disputes over…

“WE BELIEVE,” the manifesto read, “we must cease writing the same book again and again.” Books for children should be “fresh, honest, piquant, and beautiful,” and unafraid to be odd: “Even books meant to put kids to sleep should give them strange dreams.” — Read on slate.com/culture/2025/09/best-kids-books-2025-picture-read-aloud-new.html

One thing that the book does is it forces the adult to buy into the madness. There’s no way to read this book without inventing a wacky voice for the Pigeon. — Read on slate.com/culture/2025/09/mo-willems-dont-let-the-pigeon-kids-books.html

It turns out having an always-available “marriage therapist” with a sycophantic instinct to always take your side is catastrophic for relationships. — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/22/chatgpt-is-blowing-up-marriages/

As AI tools become more accessible, workers are increasingly able to quickly produce polished output: well-formatted slides, long, structured reports, seemingly articulate summaries of academic papers by non-experts, and usable code. But while some employees are using this ability to polish good work, others use it to create content that is actually unhelpful, incomplete, or…

De nombreuses femmes font l’amour avec leur partenaire alors qu’elles n’en ont pas envie. Difficulté à formuler un refus ou à sonder leur désir, peur de vexer l’autre : leurs multiples raisons tracent les contours d’une zone grise du consentement. — Read on www.lemonde.fr/intimites/article/2025/09/20/sexe-dans-le-couple-pourquoi-les-femmes-se-forcent-encore_6642039_6190330.html