This seminar aims to explore TV-series at their intersection with philosophy. As a newer sibling to the sub-discipline of film-philosophy, TV-philosophy neither reduces television series to illustrations of pre-existing ideas, nor does it simply offer a ‘philosophy of’ a given series by exploring it from a range of philosophical angles. It rather sees TV series as capable of expressing thought through their specific forms.

CFP: Continuity and Change in Media Representation The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 96 (to be published Fall 2025) Special Issue Theme Representation matters has become a popular idiom conveying the transformative power of media representation to reframe cultural narratives and material conditions, often for historically underrepresented groups.

This week’s recap highlights a new multispecies codon optimization method, personalized pangenome references with vg, a commentary on the wild west of spike-in normalization, a new pipeline for comprehensive and scalable polygenic scoring across ancestrally diverse populations, a paper showing deep learning / transformer-based methods don’t outperform simple linear models for predicting gene expression after genetic perturbations, and finally, a

Pierre Ryckmans (aka Simon Leys), The View from the Bridge (1996): - Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game (1943): - Max Weber, ‘The Bernhard Case’ (1908): - Friedrich Schiller, ‘What Is, and to What End Do We Study, Universal History?’ (1789): - Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers (1931-21):

The Power and Versatility of Pixtral 12B

In the previous post, I looked at the recently reported hexa-arylethane containing a carbon-carbon one-electron bond, its structure having been determined by x-ray diffraction (XRD). The measured C-C bond length was ~2.9aÅ and my conclusion was that the C…C region represented more of a weak “interaction” than of a bond as such. How about a much […]

This one hardly needs making. I found it by accident when we roasted a chicken this Sunday. As we were tearing the carcass apart like a pack of hyaenas, I noticed that one of the wings had a nice, distinct thumb claw. Here it is in a big plastic bowl in the kitchen — shown this way to emphasize its mundanity.

Let’s explore the GLUE benchmark!

How Non-GPT Architectures Are Surpassing Leading Transformer-Based Large Language Models

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