I really hope that this does not turn out to be a Claude targeting mistake. We will likely never know, but this is precisely the reason that Dario did not want Anthropic tech used without humans in the loop.

Wow

This looks interesting. I have always hated vector databases because they force stock embeddings. github.com/GoogleCloudP...

I thought about taking the flag down today out of shame. But then I worried about what my neighbors would think - not in the way one normally uses that phrase. I was afraid that they would think that I had given up. I am not going to give up on my neighbors.

uphack.io/blog/post/th... This is excellent.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Saw this in dead trees version which is ancient by now, but the approach is cute. Claude Sonnet 3.5 smokes same epoch other models on 0-shot slop classification. Error rates are not impressive though.

otava.apache.org Great to see leading performance engineering tools coming to the ASF

After clearing 2 rodent nests there, we were actually happy to find “security” under the AC unit yesterday. Loud rattle is a plus.

When I get bored with science, it's because I've read the same paper three times from different authors whose media diet consists of corporate PR releases and unhinged slop summaries for viral arxiv drops.

It’s hard to image any leadership job in any company where Trump’s no plan, grab-ass leadership style would not get you fired. This is so embarrassing.

Go work with Ted. You will learn something.

Integrating AI-driven risk detection with scheduling systems could enable construction projects to automatically adjust plans in response to emerging issues, potentially reducing delays and improving resilience.

I am tempted to try the problem :)

Beautiful day for a run

www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-... This article really bugs me. Missed opportunity to explain the arguments. Smear piece distracting from what must have been a great collaboration. I expect more from Quanta.

gist.github.com/dollspace-ga... We can actually do this kind of thing now. Let’s harvest the AI surplus to improve software quality.

Any sufficiently large k-nn is indistinguishable from magic 🧙‍♂️

When a company in an industry built on hype tells you that a use case is a bad idea—and actually dangerous—that means it’s a *catastrophically* bad idea.

While whiskey Pete plays army with Grokk and shoots at speedboats, our defenses against today’s actual imminent threats fall into disrepair.

Now THAT's a headline. "The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents" fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

Did ChatGPT write this talking point for you, Sam? Or do you just *organically* suck this bad?

Here’s where the cryptocurrency industry stands, early into the 2026 election cycle: • $288 million: Total cryptocurrency industry spending • $221 million: Cash on hand with pro-crypto super PACs • $100 million: Additional committed funds • $3 million: Already spent by pro-crypto super PACs

In our new preprint, we explain how some salient features of representational geometry in language modeling originate from a single principle - translation symmetry in the statistics of data. arxiv.org/abs/2602.150... With Dhruva Karkada, Daniel Korchinski, Andres Nava, & Matthieu Wyart.

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Impressive example here showing Claude Opus penetrating benchmark algorithms.

Love was in the air at the sanctuary last week, as the herd enjoyed some special Valentine's Day-themed enrichment. 💞

This is going to be the big “find out.” The hard part of producing good software that does useful things is getting real clarity on what those useful things are. Coding forces dimension reduction because its language is so primitive. Without that back pressure, we get slop.

Super accessible write up on what we and others have been up to on representational convergence in AI models, and the platonic representation hypothesis, along with contrary views. I'm a big fan of Quanta Magazine, so it was very cool to see them cover this!

Our grad-level "Deep Learning" course (MIT's 6.7960) is now freely available online through OpenCourseWare: ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-79... Lecture videos, psets, and readings are all provided. Had a lot of fun teaching this with @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social and @jeremybernste.in!

www.wsj.com/finance/curr... The combination of corruption and grift here really is stunning. Even for Trump.

nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/w... I see this as just another step along the journey that started with engineers plugging in patch cords. We got a similar big jolt from Fortran, the innovation that enabled "anyone" to write code. And just like then, we'll see that not just anyone can do it.

It’s actually worse than that. When you do it yourself, you can focus the prompts.

Exactly. Great journalism helps us see what’s important. That is the difference between journalism and social media.

The thing that saddens me the most about the violent repression of protests today in the US is that we learned, back in the 60’s, how to handle protests without hurting people.

Many open source maintainers have already advised people how to engage with their projects. There are contribution guides and communication channels in which to engage. The problem is, people have chosen to ignore all of that, and have started behaving like code slinging bots using AI tools.

This really is unbelievable. We used to say that this kind of thing was impossible in the US because if it ever happened it would be all over the nightly news. The problem is there is more nightly news.

Towards Better Statistical Understanding of Watermarking LLMs @amstatnews.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social #LLM www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There is nothing more fundamentally American than neighborism.

“…decrying how no one had alerted him to the inherent instability of digital currencies except for dozens of coworkers, family members, podcast hosts, and respected economists. “

Agreed on the props for supporting the research. I also agree that understanding and skills loss is not inherent and in fact skills *gain* is possible. It all comes down to leaning in instead of sitting back and watching.

We're gonna win

My Centre is a unique place to do a PhD in Philosophy, because you can be in constant contact with experts in veterinary medicine, psychology, zoology and policy and be part of a team united by a shared interest in animal minds. We now have our 1st ever PhD scholarship: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd

A phrase for why so much AI art looks the same: cultural stagnation. Creativity gets flattened into polished sameness when machines optimize for what’s familiar. buff.ly/JkvxYJF

Stylin’ like Macron

www.wsj.com/tech/europe-... There is a real innovation opportunity here. Over-priced bloatware, cloud services and slop engines are ripe for replacement. EU has talent and core infrastructure to do it.

I am looking for a graduate-level intern for next summer to work with my team on large-scale security systems. If you do large-scale data, formal methods, distributed systems, computer security or anything related, ping me. Or just apply before mid-March. hpe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Jobsathpe/jo...

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