Ignatius Milton

Human | Licensed Mountaineer | Chemical Engineer | AI Enthusiast | DPS Jeddah | MIRS Chennai | NIT Rourkela | University of Melbourne | Ex-ZSer | Self-Employed

[Trevor Blackwell @tlbtlbtlb]

Remember when compilers would detect that someone was using it to build another compiler and silently inject bugs?

[bubble boi @bubbleboi]

Everybody is scared of Chinese models because it won’t let you criticize the CCP while Anthropic won’t let me use their models for live saving medical research ?

Who’s the real villain again?

[keithofaptos @keithofaptos]

They're trying to slow all the other model builders, especially China.
It's super bad form. They know it, and obviously don't care. At all. It shows what's coming amongst these so called front runner frontiers. And it's going to eventually stop China from sharing so freely. All the bench tinkerers will suffer also. It's pretty much anti-open source. And what really sucks here is all this seems to be coming off of the exact opposite of what Elon funded OpenAi for. Greedy pathetic thieves imo. Now Google is raising up and Elon is way behind. It is shameful. The biggest technology the world's ever had and these are the games we move into the future with?! This approach doesn't end well.

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

3Blue1Brown’s new video explains why every LLM is actually a compression machine.

everyone describes pre-training as “next token prediction” but that’s just the surface-level objective.

in reality it is a means to making the most efficient text compressor.

prediction and compression are two sides of the same coin.

when you train the model to predict the next token you’re not just teaching it to guess the next word but how to best encode the human knowledge it sees.

better compression
means better abstraction
means better reasoning

at some point, compression stops looking like storage or a database (as some like to call it on X)
and looks like an approximation of understanding.

[Da Yu @Spiker_Yu]

About 18 years ago on 6/4/2009, I was a young and naive college student in China.

It was the the 20th year anniversary of Tian'an Men Square event. I had just discovered the truth of that event on social media. Our text books and online sources had no mention of any killing.

I was angry at what the government did and how they hid it from us. So I wrote a few blog pieces on that subject.

That afternoon, I was sitting at the window of my dorm, when a text message came to me.

It's a 0000 number, saying "Da, we know you are at XXX college. We took down your blog. Don't do it again. The consequence will be greater."

I felt the chill down my spine. It was a normal day for everyone else. For me, that's when I determined to leave home for freedom.

Now, almost 17 years later in June 2026, someone again came after me for what I said.

This time, in the US, the land of the free.

This time, as a Christian, who was saved by Grace to do good works, knowing the victory belongs to the Lord.

This time, as a father of 3 young children, and a husband to my wife, who are Americans.

This time, I'm staying to fight. For my children's future. For their faith and many others. For the country that is now my home.

For that eventual day when I hear "good and faithful" servant from my Lord.

[` @worshipVK]

It's scary how easily a woman can ruin a man's life and get away with it 🥲

> This is Shilpa Shinde
> She got fame in Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain
> Her payment was delayed for 2 months because the show wasn't doing well
> Producer Sanjay Kohli told the whole cast that he would pay them after 1 more month as he didn't have money at that time
> Everyone understood his situation
> But shilpa filed a sexual harrasment case on him
> Many people from the cast believed her
> Many female crew members left along with her
> No known girl was ready to take that role because of the controversy
> Luckily, his wife had worked with him for year so she trusted him over Shilpa
> Then she went to Bigg Boss and again brought up this topic there
> She kept defaming him for months on national tv
> That guy carried the stigma of a sexual harassment allegation for 10 years
> He couldn't do much big in life.
> He had plans to make a series but he couldn't because of his broken image
> Now recently, Shilpa admitted that her payment got delayed so she filed a fake case on him
> Neither she is arrested nor is any legal action being taken against her
> She is just fine living in her home while ruining a man's life for 10 years
> Public is criticizing her, but it's not going to benefit the man in any way
> His 10 years have been ruined 🥲

Girls like her should be jailed for as many years as the fake allegation was maintained 🙏

[Pork Chops Murphy @porkchopsmurphy]

@SamaHoole Psalm 90, from around 1,400 BC.

[RomeoStevens @RomeoStevens76]

If you turn your trauma into an excuse you'll have an incentive to keep it.

[Ignatius Milton @ignmilton]

@LilaGraceRose They told my mother that I would be born with congenital heart defects but I was born perfectly healthy.

[Robert Bortins @TheRobertBshow]

A mother raising children at home is not opting out of the economy.
She is running the most sophisticated management operation in human history — forming the next generation of every civilization that will ever exist.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

If science were never to be questioned, your doctor would still be recommending a particular brand of cigarette to settle the nerves.

You'd be dosing the baby with heroin cough syrup, because Bayer sold it over the counter.

You'd be rubbing cocaine on its gums for teething, and the chemist would recommend the stronger tube.

The DDT lorry would still come round to fog the street while the children carried on playing in the spray.

Your surgeon would be reaching for the icepick, because the man who pioneered the lobotomy was given a Nobel Prize for it.

Pregnant women would be handed thalidomide for their morning sickness, with a reassuring pat on the shoulder.

You'd be drinking radium tonic for your energy and brushing with radioactive toothpaste for the glow.

Stomach ulcers would still be filed under "stress," and the man who proved they were bacterial would still be a laughing stock.

Butter would be the villain and margarine the heart-healthy hero, on the firmest medical advice going.

Lead would still be in your petrol, your paint and your water pipes, certified harmless by the people selling it.

All of it, in its day, was the consensus. Settled. Beyond polite debate.

"Settled science" is the phrase people reach for when they would quite like you to stop asking questions.

[Jaid @JaidCodes]

They look genuinely evil to me.

Catching all (very frequently occurring) Xiaomi/DeepSeek provider errors and charging 50 times their price.

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Leonardo da Vinci's greatest paragraph

[Kabir Menon @the_psyche_lab]

"Married men are happier than single men.
Single women are happier than married women."

You would have seen this quote in articles, podcasts, and social media over the last few years. It’s frequently weaponised as a scientific truth to claim that "marriage is a trap for women and a luxury for men." - but, it's WRONG.

Why? Because it is based on one of the most embarrassing and botched data readings in modern academic history.

Here is the story of how a prominent scientist completely misread a survey, how the myth took over pop culture, and what decades of actual research tell us.

1. The Birth of the Myth

In 2019, Paul Dolan, a behavioural scientist at the London School of Economics, released his book 'Happy Ever After'. While promoting it, he claimed that traditional markers of success, particularly marriage, do not make women happy.

Dolan claimed that married women were only happy when their husbands were physically present in the room during interviews. When the husband walked out, he claimed, the women reported being "f***ing miserable." This single claim went viral globally, launching thousands of think pieces declaring single, childless women the happiest demographic in society.

2. The Fatal Data Error

Dolan based his bombshell conclusion on data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), a massive national database run by the US Bureau of Labour Statistics.

But he made a catastrophic mistake. He fundamentally misunderstood a basic demographic term used by the surveyors - "Spouse Absent."

What Dolan thought it meant:
He assumed the survey category "Spouse absent" meant the husband had temporarily stepped out of the room to grab a coffee or use the restroom while the wife was answering questions. So, he concluded that wives are secretly miserable but force themselves to lie whenever their husbands are looking. And thus, he reached the conclusion that "married women are miserable, and single women are happier."

What it actually meant:
In the USA demographic polling, "Spouse absent" means the couple is legally married but physically separated due to marital breakdown, long-term institutionalisation, or working indefinitely in another city. So, in reality, the data was simply showing that married women whose marriages are falling apart or who are enduring forced long-distance separations are unhappy. The data didn't tell anything about married women who weren't separated, or single women.

Statisticians and economists quickly flagged the glaring error. The publisher was forced to issue a correction for subsequent printings of the book, but by then, the false narrative had already become an internet truth.

3. What Accurate Data Actually Proves

When you remove the misinterpretation and look at decades of robust, peer-reviewed social science data, the "miserable wife" narrative falls apart completely.

The reality of data from long-term tracking projects like the General Social Survey (GSS) shows:

The Marriage Premium exists for both:
Both married men and married women consistently report significantly higher levels of happiness and life satisfaction (in a healthy marriage) than their single peers. Marriage provides a statistical boost in well-being across the board.

The Numbers:
Look at the 2022 GSS data breaking down women's happiness:
➡️ Married women with children: 40% reported being "very happy."
➡️ Married childless women: 25% reported being "very happy."
➡️ Unmarried childless women: 22% reported being "very happy."
➡️ Unmarried women with children: 17% reported being "very happy."

Quality over Status:

❌The absolute lowest levels of happiness are found in toxic, low-quality marriages. A bad marriage is worse for your health and happiness than being single.

✔️But a healthy, stable marriage correlates with the highest self-reported happiness for both sexes.

CONCLUSION
The viral claim that single women are happier than married women is entirely FALSE. It wasn't born out of a revolutionary shift in human psychology. It was born because a prominent academic didn't check the glossary of a data sheet.

Stop quoting a botched survey. On average, a good marriage makes both men and women significantly happier.

This single line has spread plenty of poison in the minds of young women and made them scared about marriage. A young girl is, anyway, cautious about plenty of things in life. If such false facts validate the negative social media focus, she becomes even more scared about the prospects of happiness in marriage.

If someone quotes you this line in the future, show them this post. Bookmark and save it.

And please take this as your responsibility to repost it and spread the facts. We want a happy society, not an isolated one.

[James L. Nuzzo, PhD @JamesLNuzzo]

The screenshot is an excerpt from the article linked by UN Women. Note the projection in the sentences: "In manosphere spaces, personal struggles are reframed as the result of external forces. Frustration and anger are directed outward – often toward women or feminism."

In feminist spaces, personal struggles are often reframed as the result of external forces (e.g., the patriarchy, male privilege, male supremacy), and frustration and anger are directed outward - often toward men.

[Jesus M Beltran @Publius1215]

@Jackkk Is that why she threw the woman that gave her a career under the bus, due to her strong sense of friendship? Please.

[Degen CPA @DrewVento]

We make your tax rate your body fat percentage

[9mmSMG @9mmsmg]

My wife has the unlock code for my phone. I have hers as well. We never asked for each other's codes in a moment of distrust. The information was just exchanged in our every day lives. I was in the pool one day and asked her to call someone to see when they were coming over and her phone was dead. I told her my code. I got her code in a similar fashion.

We don't share phones universally, but if a phone or tablet is on the counter and we need to use it, regardless of whose it is, we open it up and use it.

I just found out this was controversial yesterday. She texted my friend back from my phone. My friend talked to me later and was FREAKED OUT I let her have my pass code. What are people doing on their phones? It's not like she's some random girl I picked up at a club for the night.

[Ignatius Milton @ignmilton]

@iScienceLuvr Yup, saw this tweet, fwiw

[Ignatius Milton @ignmilton]

@adityaarpitha If you believed suffering was unquestionable

Why do people ask why they suffer?

They don’t deny pain by questioning it
they try to understand it
So why should love be any different?

Not everything you feel is love
and not everything called love is true