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Time for some predictions, conditional on the trifecta that looks likely.
(add yours)
1. Ukraine is done. They will be forced to cede the east and Crimea. Nato not on the cards.
2. Intensified attacks on Palestinians, supported by US.
3. At least $6T added to national debt.
Anil Das retweeted
Right, mates.
I really tried to go for this Pangram bounty.
I spent $180 checking all kinds of pre-2020 sources: blogs, recipes, essays, sermons, news articles, short stories, textbooks.
I seriously considered the criticism from African influencers that Pangram penalises "African English" : out of my 599 texts, 285 texts came from Africa, from 14 countries, and aslo pan-African culture and literary sites.
The false positive rate was literally zero.
ZERO.
As in: not only NONE of the texts scored more than 75% AI, none of them scored more then 0% AI.
🤷♂️
P.S. This was not part of the experiment, but the only pre-2020 texts Pangram scores as AI are the archived outputs of GPT-2 (a precursor of ChatGPT and modern AI models), which is fair enough.
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When 19-year-old chemical engineering student Shreya Siddanagowda lost both arms in a devastating bus crash on her way to college in 2016, doctors told her that upper-limb transplants in Asia were virtually unheard of.
One year later, at Amrita Hospital in Kochi, India, a team of 20 reconstructive surgeons and 16 anesthesiologists led by Dr. Subrahmania Iyer performed a grueling 13-hour operation — achieving Asia’s first upper-extremity double arm transplant and the world’s first male-to-female bilateral hand transplant, using limbs donated by Sachin, a 20-year-old male college student.
What happened over the next three years stunned reconstructive surgeons worldwide:
• Reconnecting Bones, Arteries, Tendons & Nerves: Surgeons plated both donor radius and ulna bones to Shreya’s residual arms, microscopically sutured arteries and veins to restore blood flow, and spliced dozens of flexor tendons and peripheral nerve trunks so her brain could learn to drive the new hands.
• Biological Remodeling of Male Limbs: Immediately after surgery, the male donor arms were bulkier, hairier, and noticeably darker in complexion than Shreya’s natural skin tone. Over three years of nerve reinnervation, hormonal circulation, and lymphatic remodeling, muscles subtly slenderized to match her frame — and her body gradually lightened the donor skin’s melanin pigment until the hands blended seamlessly with her own arms.
• Writing Her Own Exams Again: After nearly two years of intensive neuromuscular rehabilitation, Shreya regained fine finger dexterity — returning to university to hand-write her own engineering exams.
Source : @engineeringpost
AI use for writing *should be* stigmatized. Unless the writing is intended for other AIs to read.
My prediction is that in about 5 years, things like Pangram will be irrelevant for a few reasons:
Many more people will use AI and AI writing will get significantly better, so that people will hardly be able to tell if something is AI generated.
Use of AI will become significantly more destigmatised and all of the anti-AI purists will become fringe voices.
The difference between skilled thinkers and people who just know how to write pretty words will be far more noticeable. I believe this will also raise the stakes for writers in general. You will no longer be able to just do that kind of navel gazing MFA writing thing where you say nothing for dozens of pages and get praised by other MFA people. AI will become as good as the average MFA story and you will have to do more as a writer to stand out.
In the end, it will come down to writing that can move people and writing that does not. AI writing will move people. Human writing will move people. People will move to what they want and it will be as it has always been: low brow vs high brow literature. We already have human slop versus serious writing. The only difference is that the next generation's Fifty Shades of Grey will be mostly done by AI, and yes, many people will love it.
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Anil Das retweeted
I tried.
I really did.
I submitted 500 non publicly posted, pre 2020 in origin, 100% human generated essays to Pangram.
All of them came back as 100% human.
I don’t think this tells us everything we need to know.
I’ve yet to see a high quality systematic analysis that evaluates mixed provenance documents that aren’t already public.
That matters because my sense is that most AI usage is of the mixed variety.
But I’ll eat some crow and admit that Pangram is probably better than I was originally willing to admit.
I'm offering a USD$500 reward to the first person who can present pre-2020 human-written text that the latest version of @pangram flags as AI.
The specific requirements to claim the reward are:
1. At least 750 consecutive words.
2. Pangram flags it as 75% or more AI generated.
3. You provide proof that the text was first written in 2019 or earlier and is unmodified.
4. The text was ostensibly human written. This requirement only exists to avoid trick answers like output from GPT-2, machine translation, markov chains, the same word 500 times etc.
Regarding requirement #3, unfortunately in 2026 there's no way to prove that new text wasn't AI generated, so what I need provided is proof that the text existed in 2019 or earlier, before AI writing got so good. For example, valid proof might be:
- A link to the text on a website that's been logged by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine before 2020.
- A link to a paper published on a third party website with a pre-2020 publication date. Note: I will need to be able to access the paper through the same website that has its publication date. Otherwise someone could send a modern AI generated paper and simply link to the date and abstract of a paper with the same name but different content.
- A chapter from a book edition with a known pre-2020 publication date where I can access a pre-2020 copy for myself. Note: For the same reasons as above, simply sending a passage of text and a link to a book's name and publication date doesn't prove anything on its own. The ideal situation would either be that there's an eBook of it available somewhere with a known pre-2020 upload date, or it's a well-known enough book that the content simply couldn't be faked everywhere.
Q&A:
"Why are you offering this reward?"
Some people are blaming the detector because they don't want to admit to using AI for their writing. I don't like people lying for personal gain.
"Are you affiliated with Pangram in any way?"
No.
"How do I submit something to you?"
Just reply to this tweet with the necessary info and I'll have a look when I can.
"How can I trust you to judge fairly?"
I'll publicly reply with my verdict on submissions and the world can judge me. The world can also judge you - please only submit something if it really fits all the criteria. Especially since I'll need to review all submissions in my free time.
"But it's my private writing, can I send it to you privately?"
If it's always been private then how will you prove that it's pre-2020?
"I have the perfect example but I left the text with my girlfriend in Canada."
She can submit it and win $500.
"Won't this be trivially easy to claim? I heard even chapters of Don Quixote and Moby-Dick get fully flagged as AI!"
Tell me which chapter and win $500.
"Conversely, isn't 750 words at >=75% a high bar? If Pangram is so reliable, why not 1%?"
At very low word counts Pangram IS somewhat unreliable, and with a monetary incentive I can imagine someone scanning every book on Project Gutenberg just to find one paragraph that's falsely flagged as AI. At the same time, most claims that Pangram is flagging human writing as AI have it showing the entire text as AI. I recently saw someone on X say that they personally knew of "thousands" of examples of human text that was flagged like this (unfortunately they declined to mention any). So I've set the bar somewhere in the middle.
"But Pangram was trained on existing text; that's why it always flags OLD text as human but falsely flags NEW text."
As far as I'm aware this isn't really how Pangram works. But I'd love to be able to award this bounty for new human writing, it's just that there's no way to verify people's honesty online for the new stuff.
"How will you pay out if I win?"
However works. Probably an international bank transfer via @Wise .
"How can I help?"
When someone says they know of an old published paper or story that Pangram flags as AI, you could point them to this tweet. They can win $500.
"How long will your offer last if nobody wins?"
As long as this post is up. If you're reading this, it's still available.
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आपातकाल के दौरान राजमाता विजया राजे सिंधिया की पैरोल पर जेल से रिहाई के बाद अपनी बेटी यशोधरा राजे की प्रेम कहानी और अपनी संपत्ति को सरकार से बचाने की दो बड़ी चुनौतीयां थी.
21 साल की यशोधरा राजे के सिर पर सिद्धार्थ भंसाली से प्रेम का भूत सवार हो गया था लेकिन राजमाता को अपने से कम हैसियत का सिद्धार्थ भंसाली पसंद नहीं था.
पैरोल के दौरान सिंधिया परिवार के पास दिल्ली में कोई ऐसा ठिकाना नहीं था जहां एक साथ पूरा परिवार रह सके इसलिए सिंधिया परिवार एक सेरेमिक फैक्ट्री के मैनेजर के बंगले पर रहता था.
सिद्धार्थ भंसाली मुंबई के मशहूर कार्डियोलॉजिस्ट डॉ कीर्तिलाल भंसाली का सबसे छोटा बेटा था.यशोधरा राजे और सिद्धार्थ भंसाली मुंबई के एक रेस कोर्स में मिले थे धीरे धीरे मुलाकातें बढ़ने लगी और मुलाकातें प्यार में बदल गईं.
राजमाता ने यशोधरा को शादी न करने के लिए समझाया लेकिन यशोधरा ने अपनी मां को..1/2
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Anil Das retweeted
this is why placements for med students are fucking hell. they have to bridge that gap by sending med students to rural areas because no one wants to fucking live out there. not necessarily bc they’re remote but bc the people are an unhinged level of racist and homophobic
Anil Das retweeted
Melissa Hortman was a member of the Democratic party in Minnesota. Her murderer, Vance Boelter, was a preacher who spoke out against abortion and transgender people in Africa. He was registered to vote as a Republican in Oklahoma, and described as "a conservative who voted for President Donald Trump and was strongly against abortion rights".
His car contained a list of 70 potential targets, including "abortion providers, pro-abortion rights advocates, and lawmakers in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and other states". Hortman was on his list as were Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Amy Klobachar, Tammy Baldwin, Peggy Flanagan, Tim Walz, and Keith Ellison". He said he intended to kill "as many lawmakers as possible".
His was originally appointed by then-Governor Mark Dayton in 2016 to a nonpartisan 60 member unpaid advisory board. He was re-appointed by Governor Walz in 2019.
Anil Das retweeted
I am sorry 'Flappy Bird' users, 22 hours from now, I will take 'Flappy Bird' down. I cannot take this anymore.
Anil Das retweeted
It's estimated that 30% to 40% of Gen Z congressional and administration staffers were Groypers who traffic in anti-Indian, anti-Semitic, and misogynist viewpoints wsj.com/opinion/free-express…
How come India has the world champion and a hundred grandmasters, but no one in the top 10 Elo rankings?
Will we see a new World No. 1? 👀
This is the closest Caruana has come to claiming the top spot in a long time! The race is getting interesting! ♟️🔥
Carlsen has been winless so far in the classical event (several draws + a loss to Haik Martirosyan).
Carlsen has held the #1 spot on every official FIDE list since July 2011 (15+ continuous years). Caruana has spent quite a bit of that time as the #2. Will we see a flip?
@FIDE_chess @TotalChess @USChess @ECUonline
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Anil Das retweeted
In case anyone has forgotten, Lauren fled the United States in 2024 after the DOJ exposed her for taking millions of dollars from sanctioned Russian entities to hire podcasters to push propaganda to conservatives.
She was publicly welcomed back into the United States last year by State Department employee @Overlord26 and subsequently invited to the White House Easter Egg Roll.
She is now at MAL.
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RIP Mayor Beame, you would have loved whales in the Hudson
HUMPBACK WHALE IN THE HUDSON RIVER RIGHT NOW!
Thanks to our friends at @CHLNewYork for reporting this sighting!
Help us track and ID this whale: send your photos with a location and time to [email protected]
