Edward Tufte
@EdwardTufte
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data visualization & analysis, artist, publisher. Founder: Graphics Press, Hogpen Hill Farms, ET Modern Gallery
Null Island 0°N 0°E
Joined June 2010
Why intelligent people are always alone - Alan Watts
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Mark Cuban (@mcuban) testifies on Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) before the Senate Full video here: https://t.co/sD3C0b5YLE
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Yann LeCun says we're never gonna get to human-level intelligence by just training on text AI must learn from high-bandwidth sensory data like video to build true world models Current models look PhD-smart but mostly regurgitate, with no real understanding "even a cat
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Maybe 60 - 70 % of medical managers will be disappeared by AI, greatly increasing medical profits
From a new @TheLancet article today entitled "Health care in the USA: money has become the mission" https://t.co/jAjrsgJ5Zn
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Are we underrating the risk that AI could exert not only upward but also downward pressure on human life expectancy? Find out here: https://t.co/4jWRga5t0q
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''Lindsey Buckingham's ability to play such a complicated pattern and sing at the same time will never cease to amaze me.'' This is literally not a performance, it's a feeling. Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks performing 'Never Going Back Again' together.
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Claude just made every productivity app subscription look like a scam. They dropped Claude Desktop - AI that actually talks to your computer's files, apps, and tools. And it's FREE with any Claude plan (even the free tier). The same capabilities automation tools charge
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From a new @TheLancet article today entitled "Health care in the USA: money has become the mission" https://t.co/jAjrsgJ5Zn
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DeepSeek finally released a new model and paper. And because this DeepSeek-OCR release is a bit different from what everyone expected, and DeepSeek releases are generally a big deal, I wanted to do a brief explainer of what it is all about. In short, they explore how vision
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We’re launching our Claude for Life Sciences initiative today, including new bioinformatics Skills, and new MCPs from @benchling, @BioRender, PubMed, @WileyGlobal, @Sagebio, @10xGenomics and more: https://t.co/qONB8arod2
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Discover how Claude accelerates life sciences research with new scientific connectors, skills, and improved performance for drug discovery and clinical work.
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Claude Desktop is now generally available. New on Mac: Capture screenshots, click windows to share context, and press Caps Lock to talk to Claude aloud.
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Our position has been consistent: AI will deliver enormous benefits and should be developed thoughtfully. We share the administration's goals of maximizing those benefits, managing risks, and advancing America's lead in AI. A statement from our CEO:
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A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on Anthropic’s commitment to advancing America's leadership in building powerful and beneficial AI
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Today @AnthropicAI released PubMed integration for Claude. No hallucinations. Just real science, real data. As a beta tester, this has been a game changer—like having a supercharged research assistant. Here are 6 prompts that will transform how you search the literature. A 🧵
We’re building tools to support research in the life sciences, from early discovery through to commercialization. With Claude for Life Sciences, we’ve added connectors to scientific tools, Skills, and new partnerships to make Claude more useful for scientific work.
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🚨 DeepSeek just did something wild. They built an OCR system that compresses long text into vision tokens literally turning paragraphs into pixels. Their model, DeepSeek-OCR, achieves 97% decoding precision at 10× compression and still manages 60% accuracy even at 20×. That
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pronounce (speaking, reading, writing) ‘sycophancy’ as ‘psycho fancy’ ?
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lots of people coming. having Sunday afternoons serious discussions with et, especially with those who took course or have known or want deeper look at my gallery/museum et
ET outdoor artworks Hogpen Hill Farms open Friday Saturday Sunday—from right now to late October. Also gallery has ET artworks, prints, books, booklets. Did Singapore show sponsored by Nobel Library of my Feynman diagrams. Tickets available now on our website.
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Replace now and forever the inscrutable LLM word ‘sycophancy’ with ‘false friend’. DeepSeek says ‘false friend’ is ‘perfectly precise, incredibly insightful metaphor’.
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