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Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
…behind the scenes, there had been robust conversation and debate by Wikipedia editors as to exactly what constitutes an “unusual” death, and that several previously listed “unusual” deaths had been deleted from the list for not being weird enough. For example: People who had been speared to death with beach umbrellas are “no longer an…
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To really understand a concept, you have to “invent” it yourself in some capacity.
To really understand a concept, you have to “invent” it yourself in some capacity. Understanding doesn’t come from passive content consumption. It is always self-built. It is an active, high-agency, self-directed process of creating and debugging your own mental models. — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/30/francois-chollet/
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Visual Features Across Modalities: SVG and ASCII Art Reveal Cross-Modal Understanding
We found that the same feature that activates over the eyes in an ASCII face also activates for eyes across diverse text-based modalities, including SVG code and prose in various languages. This is not limited to eyes – we found a number of cross-modal features that recognize specific concepts: from small components like mouths and…