watches fate series for the plot

24; The Dana White of being nowhere in sight. it’s soccer, not football

[watches fate series for the plot @verynewmansa]

The greatest 75 seconds of @JackSlackMMA ever

[no will @uhvaimorre]

They’d all be crippled, deaf because of noise, kinda blind with the eyes being fucked from the wind and with awful brain damage due to lack of oxygen and all the whiplash, I like to imagine the reason so many of them are crazy is because of all the dragon induced cte

[Yasmine Khosrowshahi @yasminekho]

Stanford professor Judy Fan went on stage at MIT and broke down why humans are so good at making the invisible visible...

And why AI hasn't actually learned to "see" the way we do.

It completely changes how you think about Human Intelligence v/s Artificial Intelligence:

1. Nature never gave us straight lines or sharp corners. The number line, the coordinate plane, even basic geometry are all human inventions. We created tools that do not exist in nature simply because we needed a way to think more clearly.

2. The coordinate system Descartes invented solved a problem that had stumped mathematicians for centuries, doubling the volume of a cube. Once invented, this tool became so indispensable that virtually every math curriculum on Earth still depends on it.

3. Humans have been doing this for at least 30,000 to 80,000 years. The story of human progress is inseparable from the story of marking up our environment, from cave walls to Galileo's telescope to Feynman diagrams of particles we will never see with our own eyes.

4. Every major scientific breakthrough relied on a visual tool that made something invisible visible. Darwin needed side-by-side illustrations of finches to see variation that was otherwise too subtle to notice. Cajal needed detailed drawings of neurons under a microscope to map how the nervous system was wired.

5. Fan's research group studies something deceptively simple: how people decide what to put into a drawing and what to leave out. When two people played a drawing game, sketchers used far more detail when the target object had close competitors than when it stood alone, all the way down to using fewer strokes and less time when more detail was not necessary.

6. People are not just copying what they see. They are making constant judgment calls about what level of detail actually serves the goal of communication, and they do this naturally without ever being taught the theory behind it.

7. There is a real difference between drawing something so someone can identify it and drawing something so someone can understand how it works. In one study, participants drew explanatory diagrams that emphasized moving, causal parts of a machine while depictive drawings emphasized background and overall appearance, even though both were drawing the exact same object.

8. Explanatory drawings were genuinely better at helping someone figure out how to operate a machine, but worse at helping someone identify which machine it actually was. You cannot optimize a single drawing for both goals at once. Communication always involves tradeoffs.

9. AI vision models trained on photographs generalize surprisingly well to simple, sparse sketches, suggesting that resemblance based recognition is not just a story we tell ourselves. It is something modern neural networks can replicate with real accuracy.

10. But there remains a large, measurable gap between how confidently AI models recognize sketches and how confidently humans do, even when both groups answer the same questions about the same images. Humans are simply far more reliable and far more consistent in their judgments.

11. When researchers compared human-made sketches to AI-generated sketches under tight stroke budgets, both were similarly recognizable at higher budgets, but diverged sharply as the budget shrank. Humans and AI systems simplify drawings in fundamentally different ways once resources get scarce.

12. Reading a graph is not one single skill. It involves perception, knowing where to look, mapping that visual information onto the actual question being asked, and then translating that mapping into an answer. Each of these steps can independently break down, and people fail for very different underlying reasons even when they land on the same wrong answer.

13. When tested directly against humans on graph reading tasks, leading multimodal AI models, including GPT-4V, showed a meaningful performance gap. Even when a model's overall accuracy approached human levels, its pattern of mistakes looked nothing like how humans actually get things wrong.

14. People choose entirely different types of charts depending on what specific question they are trying to answer, not out of a generic preference for bar charts or scatter plots. Their chart choices closely tracked which visualization would genuinely help someone answer that specific question correctly.

15. Two of the most widely used graph literacy tests in education research turned out to correlate strongly with each other, suggesting they measure overlapping skills. But when researchers dug into the actual error patterns, the standard categories used in textbooks, like "find the maximum" or "identify a cluster," failed to explain why people got things wrong nearly as well as a more basic, underlying four-factor model did.

16. The deepest goal behind all of this research is not just academic curiosity. It is to eventually help students and everyday people develop genuine literacy with the visual tools that science and modern decision-making increasingly depend on, because every generation should be able to see further than the last by standing on the visual tools the previous generation built.

Follow @yasminekho for more ideas on thinking better, becoming clearer & building a more intentional life.

[27. @dimvji]

i need to forgive myself for everything by this weekend so i can start fixing my life next week

[loomdart @loomdart]

This site is so incredibly well engineered to fry your dopamine

Except it’s an intellectual and learned type of frying so you don’t even feel bad until you realise you’re screaming at vagueposters because you need the reward of gaining a useless bit of knowledge

[Ron Iver @ronnui_]

I hate how gullible I am in my dreams. Someone is like "bro remember, you're the prince of frosting mountain?" And I'm like I forgot yeah of course I am, I'm such a fucking idiot

[Normand Pierce 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 @Kurt22Troy]

@00ZombieAlt On paper Gaethje should’ve lost but Gaethje can’t read

[Jack Slack @JackSlackMMA]

They should have played a Michael Chandler retirement video package and made him watch it even if he didn't want to retire

[Colossal Z @jirienjoyer]

Ciryl Gane normally; pillow fisted, slow starter, low finish potential

Ilia Topuria normally: finishes all time greats in under 3 round, 5 round cardio

Gane with my money against him: Jiri Prochazka movement with Ngannou power

Topuria with my money on him: chemotherapy patient

[Kouros @apollipino]

It's such a vulnerable experience to show your barber a photo of an obviously way hotter person, basically begging them to help you look like *that*

[Dame Margera @damienfarronMMA]

When you grab a bowl and some milk in the morning and go to make breakfast but all the

[True Discipline @TruueDiscipline]

College essays should be abolished. 17 year olds mostly don't have deep interesting things to say ( if what they are saying is even true or written by them) and people shouldnt be at a disadvantage for living a normal middle class childhood.

[Sethy @Brizksie]

Grogu found 'shot' dead in Detroit by Inde Navarrette.

(Source: https://t.co/YgGn4fiTXQ…)

[Nearhan @Nearhanuddin]

“I wish I was Wasian” ok wish granted you are now Polish-Bangladeshi

[watches fate series for the plot @verynewmansa]

https://t.co/33rSiRy6QO

[Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv]

is he preparing to play Alex Carp in a movie

[Ben Mwaba, PEIZ @mwaba_ben]

One thing about adulthood that way too many people learn way too late (and have no choice but to learn the hard way): you have to be deliberate/proactive about everything. For the first time in your life, you can't be passive participant in anything.

[RobynDaRat @elvishcynicism]

@TallBart the singular play of ITAOTS is so funny and stupid lmao

[orph @orphcorp]

"to feel like you are *living* your life, you have to get to a point where your conscious choices outweigh your unconscious ones"

[dan nolan @dannolan]

I’m not dying from some fucking hentai virus