Anthropic on Claude Sonnet 4.5: "(...) substantially improve the model’s behavior, reducing concerning behaviors like sycophancy, deception, power-seeking, and the tendency to encourage delusional thinking." I'm.... glad these have been... reduced? www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

I'm learning #Python. Properly this time. I have been writing code in multiple programming languages for a couple of decades now, but somehow my Python has always remained very rudimentary. Now I need it for some serious big-boy-pants stuff at work, so I'm in for the ride.

The internet has trained me so well to ignore and quickly dismiss annoying pop-ups, that sometimes my hands move on their own and I absentmindedly dismiss what could be valid pop-ups and modals, especially in contexts where I don't expect them. Anyone else?

Gonna need a scanning tunnelling electron microscope to play this violin

Everything in this graph is wrong, including the names of the quadrants.

The Redis docs used to be awesome: simple, streamlined, and it was easy to find everything. I haven't had to use them in a long time, until now. The UX has completely changed. I typed "pipeline" in the top-level search box, which loaded an AI chatbot which gave me this joke of an answer.

Difference between snails and slugs: snails are slugs that entered the real estate market in the 80’s. Slugs are millennial snails.

My mother still can’t put her phone on silent. She knows how to do it, and she knows she should, but she won’t. She’s like a character in those games where you can’t climb over objects unless you put a skill point in “climbing”.

“The dog has learned that if we stumble while carrying food, sometimes food will drop to the floor, and she’ll be able to eat it” “Not sure if she’s that smart” “I saw her setting up tripwires”

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

"Team building exercise".

I wish we could all vote to elect the next pope. I’d vote for Pierbattista Pizzaballa. Of course, his pope name will have to be “Pope Pizza (the first)”. Voting should happen via prayers, from home (only _one_ prayer per person), with a big computer in the Vatican collecting the votes.

Defence Ministry: Shoreline defence force Gentoo’s prepare mortars. Our Navy Seals conduct clandestine training, and teach tactical camouflage and concealment to juveniles. We stand ready. Flippers Up.

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