Short musings on "cognitive debt" - I'm seeing this in my own work, where excessive unreviewed AI-generated code leads me to lose a firm mental model of what I've built, which then makes it harder to confidently make future decisions simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...

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Just look what was waiting for me when I came back from my run. Elusive Cures is now a REAL BOOK!! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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"How much of the brain's learned algorithms depend on the fact it is a brain?" arxiv.org/abs/2601.02063 The brain is a neural network, but also a biological organ (unlike artificial neural networks). How much does this matter to cognition?

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Stanford introduces SYNBUILD-3D, a dataset of 6.2 million synthetic 3D building models with wireframe graphs, floor plans, and point clouds. This tri-modal dataset aims to advance generative AI in architecture, enabling automated, semantically-rich 3D model creation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21169

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🤝 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗟𝗟𝗠𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲𝘀? Get inspiration from humans!🧬🏛️✨ CLCA (Cultural Learning‑based Culture Adaptation) leverages simulated social interactions and intent in culturally rich scenarios to align language models with different values. 🔧 (1/🧵)

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