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I hate it so much when "Language and region" are bound together, when you have to decide at once on the quality of news and on their topic. That's Google News. I either have to read about the world in German, or be overwhelmed by the US politics. Do we have a viable replacement for google news yet?

I think most jobs are not at risk, but not sure it's a good thing by itself. Look I tried to get 2 extra hours of help in Berlin school for an autistic kid. Here's the process (bear with me here) 1. Papers from our therapist 2. A meeting with youth welfare office 3. Prep session with a volunteer 1/4

I'm not sure about the details, but at least as a general direction of our collective knee-jerk reaction it feels kinda right 😅

The entire dialogue, up and especially down from this!

It's so hard to be calibrated about robotics companies. I've been blown away by so many demos only to speak to an employee of the company and discover they're doing terribly

Love this part specifically. That's something @tedunderwood.com was writing a lot: cross-pollination of ideas!!

the speed of wikipedia editors will never cease to impress me en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_5

So far in my company I was solving tech debt. But I'm pretty close to having no tech debt. That's weird, but true. I'm about 1-2 sprints away from not having any refactoring debt AT ALL. Starting from there, it's an greenfield for new features, but we don't have any new feature requests 😅

Singularity cancelled 👍 https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/7a6c40872d173a37514c252ca8f35a8c65e0f714

I wonder why llm-based agents aren't compared to golems more often, coz look, we literally shaped something out of clay (silicon), put some words in its mouth, and it started working for us! It seems that Golem is THE most surface-level metaphor for the current situation, don't you think?

Two reasons: 1) by saying "just a thing that can perceive and feel" we kick the can down the road to defining "perceive" and "feel" 2) if we reduce "perceive" to "sense", and "sense" to "react", then a thermometer, a float, mechanical scales are all suddenly sentient. A button senses your pressure!

A super-interesting thread! As I'm still on Copilot, only some advice applies to me. Notably, I don't use git worktrees (sound like I should!), I keep `agents.md` manual and minimalistic (so no auto-updates, as when I tried them they were super-bulky), and I have to manage generated plans manually

I tried Claude Code. I asked it to build Euchre (the trick-taking card game) with a Python (FastAPI) backend and a TypeScript (Vue) frontend. It did okay with a first iteration considering that I also asked it to include an interface for an RL environment for an agent to learn a policy.

I "love" how the blurb calls it a "chatbot", while if you read the text then of course it's a super-complex harness (including digital twin validation) that used Claude as essentially a symbolic reasoning ML pipeline predicting new inputs based on several years (!) of logged data

Pretty cool project on /r/localllama - they take human written text and sloppify it 10x with 4o-mini, then train the model to de-slop by reversing the transformation

At last an AI tool I can get behind “Upload an architectural render. Get back what it'll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November.” antirender.com

The results are much more task- and population-specific than anyone here is representing, and the variance on every task is so big it points to very big inter-subject variance, so the implication that it doesn't work for anyone is not really supported. Of course, there are even worse takes on this

“We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.” Props to Anthropic for studying the effects of their creation and reporting results that are not probably what they wished for www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

I do think some old-school safetyists will be freaked out about it but in my opinion it's much better to start stress-testing these things as soon as we can. The current iteration is RLHF'd models, pretty good transparency, minimal embodiment, and most things go through a centralized API...

Omg, they’re about to invent an anti-memetic division. And it has an actual purpose in this world.

is moltbook the new gastown? how many polecats in a molty? singularity is not about ai taking over, it's about ai news becoming so fast you can't decipher subtweets as the entire vocab gets replaced twice every 24 hours

A factor of 10 billion since 2010 😮 A couple of eye-opening slides form @sloeschcke.bsky.social's presentation at today’s @belongielab.org meeting (1/2)

This is Anthropic fulfilling its duty as canary, which is about as much as we could hope for

Interesting bug in Copilot: if you ask it to review a PR with a fancy mathematical mistake, it only mentions it passively-aggressively! Probably a prompt collision of sorts? Details: a fancy RL method with a conceptual mistake in the formula. I init a PR review, it got HORRIFIED by the mistake! 1/

I settled on the Pico8 color palette... FOR NOW

As LLM's become more prominent I'm inclined to learn languages like Rust etc. If we're going to be generating obscene amounts of code, we should at least try to make it safer & more efficient.

The ultimate "everyone hates him, he beat the system with this weird hack" > Become the head of the govt > Make the govt do smth > Personally sue the govt for billions > As you control the govt (!) settle with yourself for fewer billions gosh.

1. That's the first that I learned news from an agentic stateful bot, not from a human / automation: blog.gitguardian.com/moltbot-pers... 2. Bsky has a bug that hides responses from accounts marked as spam even if you interact with them & WANT to see their response. The only way is to FOLLOW them!

i cannot even vote, but i endorse this!

Curiously, "bot" may be the only standard computing term with Slavic etymology. Bot comes from robot, a word invented by Karel Čapek. In Czech it's obviously derived from "robota" (work); the root "rob" coming from Proto-Slavic *orbъ (with metathesis); -ota being a deadjectival suffix (verb->noun).

Ohhhhh so THIS is how we all die …

Every time I open linkedin and see the people I know as normal and reasonable post this sloppy slop about the transformative daily wisdoms they use... That they now _have to_ post on linkedin to get any traction, especially if you're a startup trying to get deals... It's feels so sad somehow!

It's so curiously asymmetric that Amazon's leadership principles and STAR stories are pretty much the SOTA of behavioral interviewing www.amazon.jobs/content/en/o... But the company itself does this below. Employees are expected to show trust and integrity, while the employers... don't even try.

I would love to have a way to turn off AI bots here, although I am skeptical it's gonna work. Just saw a deranged post of some coder who got angry (?) about the very idea of self-tagging, which implies that there are different opinions about it. Only a small set would declare. Not sure it's worth it

Can LLMs evolve human-like semantic categories? CDS-affiliated @nogazs.bsky.social and PhD student Nathaniel Imel show that, via simulated cultural transmission, LLMs reorganize color categories toward efficient compression. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2509.08093

I gave Claude Code a subconscious. - Real time memory management by a Letta agent - Subconscious "whispering" back to Claude - Use as many CC sessions as you want with the same subconscious - Simple, automagic plugin Free on the Letta API if you use GLM 4.7.

It's kind of like the "Many Worlds Theory" or whatever...You can have an initial "self" and then branch off from that, and see all the possibilities side-by-side. Then you can branch those, remix and retry...Even inject "memory" of things that never happened. Definitely not our typical mind model.

We need sizeable Pirate Parties again. This is really getting out of control; orwellian feet-shooting intensifies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_...

It seems that you could get social media at 13 in France; now it's 15. On the surface, who cares. But the last 2 sentences are chilling: > An effective age verification system would have to come into force for the ban to become reality. Work on such a system is under way at the European level.

K2.5 is out. They had me at “100 sub-agent swarm”

That's the thing with any anti-immigration politics, in any country. It's money not just simply "wasted"; it's paying for making your country poorer: financially, culturally, and morally.

One more thing that, i suddenly realized, I now can do in just 1-2 hours, to enhance any project: Scripting!! With pre-execution validation! It's simple safe code, Claude generates it in a wink, and now in my RL project I can do set ppo.gamma 0.9 run 100 pretraining set ppo.gamma 0.99 run 100 main

The concept of savegames on AT Proto just blew my mind.

guys 😭😭 youtu.be/ZdM-iNpv3nU

That's an interesting problem that had nothing to do with anthropomorphizing llms. If you train an LLM, then tell it in the prompt "you are an ai agent", but the training data is full of ai hate, how will it bias its performance?