Ακαδημαϊκές προαγωγές στη Σχολή Αρχιτεκτονικής και Σχεδιασμού του MIT το 2025 https://greekhub.org/akadimaikes-proagoges-sti-scholi-architektonikis-kai-schediasmou-tou-mit-to-2025/ #academic #Architecture #faculty #MIT #News #Planning #promotions #recognizes #School #GreekHub

**Books for understanding one another**

"_If you’re struggling to navigate conversations that feel increasingly fraught, we’ve gathered a collection of books that provide context to our current moment and provide tools for respectful, productive communication across ideological divides._"

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books-for-understanding-one-another/.

#MIT #Reading #List #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

In a rambling ‘word salad’ ‘weave’ of nonsense about #AI spewed by the #StableGenius #POTUS , #Trump hallucinated a bogus story of him talking with his great uncle, who was a Professor at #MIT , about the #Unabomber as a student in his uncle’s class. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-uncle-john-unabomber-mit-b2789907.html

Like almost *everything* #Trump says, it was all made up. Ted Kaczynski was NEVER a student at MIT.

Interesting #mit and #Harvard #research

Can foundation #ai models encode world models, or are they just good at predicting the next token in a sequence?

Spoiler: these models can’t encode world models.

#science #physics

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06952

Marc Andreessen: Background and Commentary on Education and Universities – Perplexity

Editor’s Note: See the earlier article on Marc, from The Washington Post. I thought we should see his views on education, via letting AI (Perplexity) examine his history briefly. Below is the research post, with sources, for your information.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen source of below quotes.

Netscape’s IPO in 1995 put Andreessen in the public eye. He was on the cover of Time[10][11] and other publications.[12]

Netscape was acquired in 1999 for $4.3 billion by AOL. Andreessen’s hiring as its chief technical officer was contingent on the completion of the acquisition.[13] The same year, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[14]

Diabetes Typ 1: MIT entwickelt Notfallimplantat für Diabetiker

MIT-Forscher haben ein Implantat entwickelt, das über externe Sensoren angesteuert Glucagol abgibt, um Diabetes-Patienten vor einer Hypoglykämie zu schützen,

https://www.heise.de/news/Diabetes-Typ-1-MIT-entwickelt-Notfallimplantat-fuer-Diabetiker-10483640.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

The municipality of Amsterdam tried to build an "ethical" #AI model to detect fraud in welfare support.

#Trouw #MITTechnologyReview and #LighthouseReports together wrote an in-depth reconstruction of what happened.

My two cents:

https://mishathings.org/posts/lessons-from-the-past/

The article:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/11/1118233/amsterdam-fair-welfare-ai-discriminatory-algorithms-failure/

@gemeenteamsterdam @Trouw @mittechreview #MIT

Seriously considering to substitute the Apache License for the MIT license due to the "Contributor issue," even for my small scripts. The APL is the only FOSS license that take into account that contributions to a project (think a patch or a pull request) are not the same thing as someone forking the project and adding their code. See APL2.0 section 5 (and section 1 for the definitions of "Contribution" and "Contributor").

Using the APL would allow for a legally coherent use of the generic "Copyright (C) Contributors of project whatever" copyright license that simplifies things a lot.

The only thing stopping me is that the text of the MIT License so short that "looks" right for scripts, but that's a totally extra-legal consideration

“War is a business. So is genocide. The latest report submitted by Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, lists 48 corporations and institutions…along with banks and financial firms…, insurers, real estate firms and charities, which in violation of international law are making billions from the occupation and the genocide of Palestinians.”
—Chris Hedges
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/profiting-from-genocide
#palantir #lockheedmartin #alphabet #amazon #ibm #microsoft #mit #blackrock

ChatGPT use linked to cognitive decline: MIT research

ChatGPT over a few months had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels"

#MIT #chatgpt #openai #artificialintelligence #AI #LLM #chatbot #technology #tech #mentalhealth

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5360220-chatgpt-use-linked-to-cognitive-decline-mit-research/amp/