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Jewish as in Free Palestine. https://www.emmanuel.edu/emmanuel-mathematical-biology-research-embr</description><link>https://bsky.app/profile/evodynamics.bsky.social</link><title>@evodynamics.bsky.social - Ben Allen</title><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/evodynamics.bsky.social/post/3mwlzwblv3c2c</link><description>NEW PUBLICATION: “Adaptive Dynamics of Discriminate and Indiscriminate Mating”, with Sam Rothberg &amp; Brian Lerch.&#xA;&#xA;We model and analyze the evolution of indiscriminate mating—where organisms mate with others regardless of their sex. &#xA;&#xA;https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpag177/8836718</description><pubDate>28 Sep 2026 19:21 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:7hxgf2va34yccuy3devkfqlj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwlzwblv3c2c</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/evodynamics.bsky.social/post/3mwmfch4ysk2y</link><description>My kid just defined philosophy as &#34;meaningless questions that can be used in meaningful ways&#34;</description><pubDate>28 Sep 2026 22:44 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:7hxgf2va34yccuy3devkfqlj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwmfch4ysk2y</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/evodynamics.bsky.social/post/3mwlzwblv3c2c</link><description>NEW PUBLICATION: “Adaptive Dynamics of Discriminate and Indiscriminate Mating”, with Sam Rothberg &amp; Brian Lerch.&#xA;&#xA;We model and analyze the evolution of indiscriminate mating—where organisms mate with others regardless of their sex. &#xA;&#xA;https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpag177/8836718</description><pubDate>28 Sep 2026 19:21 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:7hxgf2va34yccuy3devkfqlj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwlzwblv3c2c</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/evodynamics.bsky.social/post/3mwh55ekwgk24</link><description>(I am large, I contain multisets)&#xA;&#xA;[contains quote post or other embedded content]</description><pubDate>26 Sep 2026 20:35 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:7hxgf2va34yccuy3devkfqlj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwh55ekwgk24</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/evodynamics.bsky.social/post/3mwgn5jgnz22s</link><description>Suppose we take the AI companies&#39; &#34;kill all humans&#34; warnings at face value. There&#39;s still a creepy subtext of &#34;and we&#39;re gonna be the ones who do it&#34;.&#xA;&#xA;You get the sense that the worst case scenario for these tech lords would be if their competitors kill all humans before they do.&#xA;&#xA;[contains quote post or other embedded content]</description><pubDate>26 Sep 2026 15:49 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:7hxgf2va34yccuy3devkfqlj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwgn5jgnz22s</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/evodynamics.bsky.social/post/3mwdpbylzxs2v</link><description>Huang does a sneaky bait and switch here. He is asked about AI undermining learning. His response is &#34;Oh yeah, kids don&#39;t really need to learn long division or square roots anymore&#34;.&#xA;&#xA;But AI learning loss isn&#39;t just for long division. 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My arXiv manuscripts are for the community of scholars and researchers (broadly construed to include those inside and outside of academia), not for plagiarizing bots.&#xA;&#xA;[contains quote post or other embedded content]</description><pubDate>23 Sep 2026 18:53 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:7hxgf2va34yccuy3devkfqlj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw7fzl3pds2b</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/evodynamics.bsky.social/post/3mw4dae5aqk2x</link><description>Real question: Do captchas actually work for keeping out robots?&#xA;&#xA;Especially since the same captchas are used to train said robots?</description><pubDate>22 Sep 2026 13:25 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:7hxgf2va34yccuy3devkfqlj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw4dae5aqk2x</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/evodynamics.bsky.social/post/3mw26fhppjs2r</link><description>Linear algebra is the mother of all mathematics&#xA;&#xA;[contains quote post or other embedded content]</description><pubDate>21 Sep 2026 16:53 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:7hxgf2va34yccuy3devkfqlj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw26fhppjs2r</guid></item></channel></rss>