MediaWiki’s probably overkill for basic wiki functionality, but I use it for the sake of Semantic MediaWiki and associated extensions. But SMW has more of a learning curve, so it might not be worth it for a casual-use wiki.
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AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldto
science@lemmy.world•Research suggests mating direction bias between Neanderthals and humansEnglish
261·6 days agoThat was my first assumption on reading the title, but the article mentions two other things:
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The male-gene bias apparently persisted for subsequent generations after the initial human/Neanderthal pairing: male children of mixed ancestry had more offspring than their female siblings
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In Neanderthal communities, the bias was reversed (i.e., more human DNA was retained in the X-chromosome female line.)
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AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldto
science@lemmy.world•Research suggests mating direction bias between Neanderthals and humansEnglish
18·6 days agoIf the two species were biologically incompatible, modern human DNA should have been missing from Neanderthal X chromosomes as well. However, the analysis revealed that Neanderthal X chromosomes had a 62% excess of modern human DNA compared with their other chromosomes – a mirror-like reversal of the distribution of Neanderthal DNA in human populations.
I dunno—isn’t that still consistent with a scenario where there’s a specific incompatibility between some gene on the Neanderthal X chromosome and a human gene on some other chromosome?
Otherwise you have to have two parallel-but-opposite trends in human and Neanderthal societies, where human societies favor male offspring of human/Neanderthal unions, but Neanderthal societies favor female offspring.
(Maybe this is addressed in the full paper—I don’t have access.)
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldto
science@lemmy.world•Schrödinger’s 100-Year-Old Color Theory Finally Completed by ScientistsEnglish
4·6 days agoIf you open the box, he might not have a cat. But before it’s opened we can be 100% certain that it contains a superposition of cat and non-cat.
Do you want to be responsible for the loss of his uncertain cat?
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldto
science@lemmy.world•Schrödinger’s 100-Year-Old Color Theory Finally Completed by ScientistsEnglish
10·7 days agoHe had more waves than he knew what to do with.
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That looks more like an encoding issue than AI slop (or maybe an AI that was trained on a mix of normal and Base64-encoded text).
Or even someone just dragging two fingers around on a keyboard.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Researchers have found the cause of hallucinations in LLMs, H-Neurons: On the Existence, Impact, and Origin of Hallucination-Associated Neurons in LLMsEnglish
13·8 days agoamplifying H-Neurons’ activations systematically increases a spectrum of over-compliance behaviors – ranging from overcommitment to incorrect premises and heightened susceptibility to misleading contexts, to increased adherence to harmful instructions and stronger sycophantic tendencies. These findings suggest that H-Neurons do not simply encode factual errors, but rather represent a general tendency to prioritize conversational compliance over factual integrity.
I wonder if the same tendencies are associated in humans—and if so, is it something LLMs learned from humans, or is it a consequence of the general structure of neural networks?
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error'English
53·9 days ago“The bot ate my homework” is quickly becoming more plausible than the customary canine culprit.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Denmark Rejects Trump’s Plan to Send Hospital Boat to GreenlandEnglish
30·11 days agoHas Trump considered making the ship look like a big horse?
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parentsEnglish
4415·11 days agoI suspect that if Gen Z designed their own cognitive tests, their tests would determine that we older generations were less cognitively capable than them.
The reality is that every generation adapts in different ways to fit their own cognitive circumstances, and one generation’s metric is at best an imperfect match for another—“cognitive capacity” can’t be objectively measured.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldto
science@lemmy.world•Drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day tied to lower dementia riskEnglish
151·16 days agoThe primary outcome was dementia, which was identified via death records and physician diagnoses.
If caffeine has enough of an effect to change a diagnosis or death record, that seems worth reporting in any case.
And while it might be worthwhile to see if other stimulants have a similar effect, does it affect these results one way or the other?
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Is the threadiverse abusing Likes and Dislikes?English
8·15 days agoYou express your like or dislike toward the sentiment expressed by the post, not the thing(s) mentioned in the post.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•Is the threadiverse abusing Likes and Dislikes?English
11·16 days agoAs an example, imagine a post with a title like “AI is awful” (I’m sure many here has seen posts like that). A Friendica user could reasonably agree with the post and thus “Dislike” it. As in, they also find AI awful and they dislike AI, so they dislike the post, to show their disapproval of AI.
I don’t believe dislikes are meant to function like that on any platform.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI agent writes blog post to shame a developer after he refused it's code contribution.English
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AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI agent writes blog post to shame a developer after he refused it's code contribution.English
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AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Drone use at center of El Paso airspace shutdownEnglish
23·21 days agoIt doesn’t necessarily sound like the FAA’s concerns were petty.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•"i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"English
40·22 days agoSporting events existed for thousands of years before advertising—don’t mistake current conditions for necessary ones.
Section 1983 and Section 1985 of the Civil Rights Act stipulate that a person may be liable for violating constitutional rights, even if they’re not a state or local government employee, if they conspired with state or local employees.
So local law enforcement agencies assisting ICE may actually be setting them up for lawsuits?
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldto
science@lemmy.world•‘Stiff’ cells provide new explanation for differing symptoms in sickle cell patientsEnglish
2·23 days agoThe title has nothing to do with the linked article. Did you mean to link to this?


If the two Republicans both with the primary and go on to the general election, could a campaign to recall the winner start gathering petitions to get on the general election ballot before they even know who they’re recalling?
Could a candidate get elected and recalled in the same election?