Dennis

Eternal student... Either playing with toys or making them...

[Dennis @omp87]

@Champaign_Room @RobbyNardini @IMAbrose Not related to this question. Both great lists. But, I still haven’t recovered from:

[Mike Petriello @mike_petriello]

I love soccer because you can score zero goals and have it be the best day in the history of your nation

[justasistertryingtotweet @Igottafigh64510]

I’m crying real tears😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Dennis @omp87]

@tjgray2 @FreddyLA7 What @tjgray2 said!

[Dennis @omp87]

@kennethjenks Hadn’t noticed wobble til you pointed out. #Confirmed2Piece

[Dennis @omp87]

@kennethjenks @NestoHoops 💯

[Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi @roywoodjr]

Nah, y’all gotta run that trophy through all 5 boroughs like y’all do the marathon.

[Dennis @omp87]

@kennethjenks @NestoHoops Hard to cite nepotism for a 2 time ncaa champion and nba finals mvp- definitely earned it

[Justin🦩Boldaji @justinboldaji]

Do the Right Thing reunion hell yea

[Dennis @omp87]

@TomFornelli @BarstoolBigCat Hear what you’re saying but would rather the Ducks run up the score and have everyone question if certain player bet the under on himself and team

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Did KAT tell courtside Knicks fans to get closer to Harper on the final inbound?

[Lee (Greater) @shortmagsmle]

Accidentally re-inventing “thinking” from first principles

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice.

You thought it was you. It is not you.

Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse.

Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like.

The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation.

Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first.

What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland.

Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved.

They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data.

The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment."

The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible.

This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis.

The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world.

Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

[Ben Stiller @BenStiller]

The start of the comeback

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

Of course Gilmore was in the building for the largest comeback in NBA Finals history. It all makes sense now.

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

If the cover of the New York Post isn’t this photo with this headline “SACREBLEU IT” then what are we even doing anymore?

[Dennis @omp87]

@MWashingtonSC #TheLord’sWork

[Dennis @omp87]

@usludurkizim 37

[Ilir Aliu @IlirAliu_]

ETH Zurich just open-sourced their entire 2026 robot learning course.

Not a MOOC. The actual course. Slides, lecture recordings, coding assignments, GitHub repo.

The curriculum goes from imitation learning and RL all the way to Vision-Language-Action models and foundation models for robotics.

Guest lectures from the co-founder of Physical Intelligence. The creator of Diffusion Policy. Pieter Abbeel. Dieter Fox.

12 weeks. Free. No signup.

If you want to understand where robot intelligence is actually heading… this is the reading list the field is using right now.

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[Robert Behrens @rcb05]

If found guilty, Will Wade could face the stiffest penalty in college sports: a two-game suspension.