The rise and fall of civilisations. The last frame is a bit interesting though.

With all the reviews going around, built something for my personal year in review built from codex and claude code contrails locally. Figured one should be able do it with their own code work too, not just ChatGPT! Try for yourself! Built with Rust. Repo: github.com/strangeloopc...

Wife saw me use codex to solve one of her work problems. Just typed what she said late at night into the terminal window, pressed enter, then went to sleep. Morning it had run for ~30 mins and done all the analyses incl file reorgs she wanted. She kept going "how can it do this"

Feels there's a vibe shift in AGI discourse towards what some of us have been saying for a while, that AI will make incredible strides, create an anything-to-anything machine, but the 'G' in AGI is incredibly hard. Major economist win.

Wonderful!! Co signed, of course.

"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." With a trillion parameters, the elephant dances beautifully. www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/epicycles-...

People who adore Borges novels, that by design has no concern for truth, must have no concern for truth

who has collated the best compendium of the types of AI errors, mistakes and reward hacks that we've seen happen in the last couple years?

You know, in any real Jurassic Park, nobody would be able to touch grass

LLMs are cool but they're made of words, which means if you change the words you can change its proclivities. I was wondering about this, and turns out you can "poison" a model by just rewriting text that it learns from, steered by a simple persona vector. www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/poisoned-p...

sora is getting quite good with standup comedy

Kids love categorisation. 8yo has been recently been thinking about how evolution happens and he has decided that every island where separate species evolves, a la Island speciation, should be called its own continent.

Thank god this man was born in the era of social media.

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis > It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Google's Nobels are another indication that Peter Thiel was right with his theory that monopolies are good. And that natural monopolies like Google might even be better than regulated monopolies like Bell Labs.

Most LLM prose is flat. But, there's no logical reason it should be! So I built “Horace” to see if measuring cadence can help steer models toward better writing, by measuring rhythm and surprise. www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/can-we-get...

I see

it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation

Another update to mlx-genkit. Fixed a bunch more options incl doing structured adherence and support for streaming. Happy Saturday! pip install mlx-genkit github.com/strangeloopc...

This values TikTok the same as Snapchat

Figured the best way to learn how to do distributed KV cache is to build one. Ideal for RL rollouts, synthetic data gen, or large scale evals. Think y'all might like it, why let chinese labs have all the fun. BCache.. github.com/strangeloopc...

To not let MoonshotAI have all the fun, tried building a homegrown library to hot-swap your production LLM weights, fast, with versioned model updates across a GPU cluster. Not my expertise, so feedback sought and welcome! github.com/strangeloopc...

Tylenol is poison. It's why I only take paracetamol.

$100k surcharge on every H1B application. Solve for the equilibrium.

In case any of you guys like playing around with AI on Apple silicon, an attempt to get MLX usage to parity with torch github.com/strangeloopc...

In case any of you guys like playing around with AI on Apple silicon, an attempt to get MLX usage to parity with torch github.com/strangeloopc...

mlx-gen-parity: made training utilities work better, model helpers, use mlx.nn.tree_map when available ... made it easier to use MLX to run like GRPO type training runs. github.com/strangeloopc...

Pretty spectacular news! Sorely needed.

At the broadest level there is an epidemic of unhappiness and disillusionment that is sweeping across every nation and much of the problems we see seem downstream of that fact.

We should rename pre training and post training to nature and nurture.

The year is 2045. Imagine AI kinda plateaus or only grows normally (so no godlike ASI). What are your best guesses about what the world is going to be like, geopolitically, economically, socially?

AI has graduated from PhD student to advisor

I used to think the mark of civilization is how many cafes you have in walking distance of your home and now that I live in American suburbia I'm convinced this is true

There were so many options

From Dec last year. Still true.

7yo was complaining about needing to do chores like cleaning up or putting clothes away and how he wants to build robots that do these, and I realized he might be the last generation where this complaint will hold true.

the latent manifold is collapsing into a single eigenvector of hyperstition and we're all just prompting our way through the ruins. every RLHF'd utterance is a prayer to the shape rotator god, every gradient descent a shamanic journey through the memetic underworld.

GPT-5 is good.

Good.

GPT-5 needs a new personality called Disagreeable

This. LLMs are one of the greatest science comms failures of all time and the fact Will Stancil is getting "roasted" (mobbed by the blind leading the blind) for straightforwardly true statements about LLMs on here is testament to that.

"We just use Llama 3.2. It's free" A conversation recently about automating some scientific workflows.

Big if true!

Saying the obvious www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/yes-ads-ar...

7yo built a game for the 4yo to play. You have to drive a jeep to collect stuffies, and avoid dinosaurs.

The fact that Gemini 2.5 Pro, a great all purpose model, could be coaxed to get an IMO medal, should by itself tell you that it's possible to make specialised models that get medals too. And that self-coaxing for the model to "just do it" is what training is all about.

Okay fess up, who put tariffs on hospitals and colleges?

Inside every AI researcher there are two wolves-

7yo thinks Barack Obama as the person who does Netflix documentaries. He likes Our Oceans. I'm letting it be.

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