Braja Santika @fridayfall

Stanford professor Judy Fan went on stage at MIT and broke down why humans are so good at making the invisible visible... And why AI hasn't actually learned to "see" the way we do. It completely changes how you think about Human Intelligence v/s Artificial Intelligence: 1. Nature never gave us straight lines or sharp corners. The number line, the coordinate plane, even basic geometry are all human inventions. We created tools that do not exist in nature simply because we needed a way to think more clearly. 2. The coordinate system Descartes invented solved a problem that had stumped mathematicians for centuries, doubling the volume of a cube. Once invented, this tool became so indispensable that virtually every math curriculum on Earth still depends on it. 3. Humans have been doing this for at least 30,000 to 80,000 years. The story of human progress is inseparable from the story of marking up our environment, from cave walls to Galileo's telescope to Feynman diagrams of particles we will never see with our own eyes. 4. Every major scientific breakthrough relied on a visual tool that made something invisible visible. Darwin needed side-by-side illustrations of finches to see variation that was otherwise too subtle to notice. Cajal needed detailed drawings of neurons under a microscope to map how the nervous system was wired. 5. Fan's research group studies something deceptively simple: how people decide what to put into a drawing and what to leave out. When two people played a drawing game, sketchers used far more detail when the target object had close competitors than when it stood alone, all the way down to using fewer strokes and less time when more detail was not necessary. 6. People are not just copying what they see. They are making constant judgment calls about what level of detail actually serves the goal of communication, and they do this naturally without ever being taught the theory behind it. 7. There is a real difference between drawing something so someone can identify it and drawing something so someone can understand how it works. In one study, participants drew explanatory diagrams that emphasized moving, causal parts of a machine while depictive drawings emphasized background and overall appearance, even though both were drawing the exact same object. 8. Explanatory drawings were genuinely better at helping someone figure out how to operate a machine, but worse at helping someone identify which machine it actually was. You cannot optimize a single drawing for both goals at once. Communication always involves tradeoffs. 9. AI vision models trained on photographs generalize surprisingly well to simple, sparse sketches, suggesting that resemblance based recognition is not just a story we tell ourselves. It is something modern neural networks can replicate with real accuracy. 10. But there remains a large, measurable gap between how confidently AI models recognize sketches and how confidently humans do, even when both groups answer the same questions about the same images. Humans are simply far more reliable and far more consistent in their judgments. 11. When researchers compared human-made sketches to AI-generated sketches under tight stroke budgets, both were similarly recognizable at higher budgets, but diverged sharply as the budget shrank. Humans and AI systems simplify drawings in fundamentally different ways once resources get scarce. 12. Reading a graph is not one single skill. It involves perception, knowing where to look, mapping that visual information onto the actual question being asked, and then translating that mapping into an answer. Each of these steps can independently break down, and people fail for very different underlying reasons even when they land on the same wrong answer. 13. When tested directly against humans on graph reading tasks, leading multimodal AI models, including GPT-4V, showed a meaningful performance gap. Even when a model's overall accuracy approached human levels, its pattern of mistakes looked nothing like how humans actually get things wrong. 14. People choose entirely different types of charts depending on what specific question they are trying to answer, not out of a generic preference for bar charts or scatter plots. Their chart choices closely tracked which visualization would genuinely help someone answer that specific question correctly. 15. Two of the most widely used graph literacy tests in education research turned out to correlate strongly with each other, suggesting they measure overlapping skills. But when researchers dug into the actual error patterns, the standard categories used in textbooks, like "find the maximum" or "identify a cluster," failed to explain why people got things wrong nearly as well as a more basic, underlying four-factor model did. 16. The deepest goal behind all of this research is not just academic curiosity. It is to eventually help students and everyday people develop genuine literacy with the visual tools that science and modern decision-making increasingly depend on, because every generation should be able to see further than the last by standing on the visual tools the previous generation built. Follow @yasminekho for more ideas on thinking better, becoming clearer & building a more intentional life.

Learning to use Linux again and joining some great communities. With so much news about AI, I think it’s best to understand the terminal, since many AI systems run through the cli. I’m learning SSH, installing apps, and running Nyan Cat in the terminal 😄 skool.com/linux/about?re…

Desember, asesmen akhir semester, bagaimana ya nasib anak-anak di pengungsian? Anak-anak lain sudah selesai asesmen, sudah siap-siap liburan. Mereka rumah pun tak ada.

A math professor noticed his kitchen sink at home was leaking. He called a plumber. The plumber came the next day, tightened a couple of nuts, and the sink worked perfectly again. The professor was delighted. But when, a minute later, the plumber handed him the bill, he was shocked. “This is a third of my monthly salary!” “Yeah, I get it…” said the plumber. “Why don’t you come work for our company as a plumber? You’ll make three times more than you do as a professor. Just remember: when you apply, say you only finished seventh grade. They don’t like hiring educated people.” So the professor got a job as a plumber, and his life really did improve. All he had to do was tighten a nut here and there every so often, and his salary was much higher. One day, the management of the plumbing company decided that every plumber had to attend evening classes to finish eighth grade. So our professor had to go too. By chance, the very first class was math. The evening school teacher, wanting to check what the students knew, asked for the formula for the area of a circle. They called the professor up to the board, and he suddenly realized he’d forgotten it. He started frantically reasoning it out, covering the board with integrals, differentials, and all sorts of fancy formulas to re-derive the result. In the end, he got: S = –π r² He didn’t like the minus sign, so he started again. Again he got a minus. No matter what he did, it kept coming out negative. He cast a panicked look at the class, and all the plumbers were whispering: “Swap the limits of integration!”

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Canvas of Kings | Might of Merchants @MightofMe

9 months ago

In my spare time, I'm working on a mapmaking tool

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Keren Pak. Terima kasih

Onno W. Purbo @onnowpurbo

a year ago

drive.google.com/file/d/1QEekHc… Buku pegangan AI Untuk Guru TK SD SMP SMA SMK .... semoga bisa bermanfaat

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youtu.be/W4tqbEmplug?si… Are we giving up our human relationship to technology? Do our kids become less comfortable with the real world?

Nyumbang bacaan aja deh. Berisi bahasa Inggris bisa diunduh gratis di library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.…. Versi Bahasa Indonesia jg udah ada, terbitan Obor.

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Ben K. C. Laksana @benlaksana

a year ago

kolonialisme harus dipahami sebagai bentuk relasi kelas global, di mana negara kolonial mengeksploitasi negeri jajahan untuk kepentingan akumulasi kapital di negaranya. maka kolonialisme dan konflik kelas tidak bisa dipisahkan.

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Allah berfirman: "Dan hanya kepada Allah hendaknya kamu bertawakal, jika kamu benar-benar orang yang beriman." (QS. Al-Maidah: 23). Jadi sahabat, jangan berhenti berharap kepadaNya. Karena Allah Maha Mampu atas segalanya. #Tawakal #BalikKeAllah #Doa #IslamicReminder #pppaid

@ARFIANIKH Tetap semangat kawan 😀

@biasalahanakmud Jual tanah pinggir jalan. Di Cikangkung, Rengasdengklok, Karawang. Luas tanah 16.000 m2. 1,5juta per meter nego SHM. Tanah keluarga🙏🏻

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Do you Remember this ?

One of the greatest songs of all time.🎶💖💖

By the age of 40, you should have accumulated over 1 million unread pdfs

@tecmint BunsenLabs

You might think it's just a game, but it's so much more! Minesweeper was included to teach users how to right-click. Solitaire was included to get people familiar with drag and drop. Cardfile was included to familiarize people with MDI applications. Paint was included for mouse dexterity, range selection, and more advanced mouse use. Pinball was included just because it was cool. Credit to @dsobeski for pointing it out!

Retro Tech Dreams @RetroTechDreams

a year ago

Minesweeper

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Wow: Denmark is ending a 400-year run with the public letter delivery (1624 - 2025). By the end of the year, it's game over. No more public mail boxes. Only private-company delivery of mail. End of an epoch! berlingske.dk/virksomheder/d…

“Miss, apa bahasa Indonesianya bioluminescence?” Mmm… apa ya… cahaya alami? “Bukaaan.” Ok nyerah, apa? “Nurhayati.” 😭

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