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Impossible in fact, because there are 4 of them and you can’t repeat numbers

I agree an academic research program wouldn’t spend billions on a datacenter, but that’s just a reason why foss AI as described in this article won’t work - because big compute is …

FOSS is the wrong analogy. Building frontier LLMs isn’t primarily an engineering discipline, it’s a scientific research program. Of course we do have basically open source research…

They are definitely doing this to build RL environments. Absolutely heinous.

Very interesting! I honestly would have expected the opposite: I was optimistic about strongly functional languages in the age of AI. The more modular and side-effect-free your cod…

> A total of €13.5 million has been allocated to the project. > This public investment underlines the importance of an independent, trustworthy and future‑proof Dutch language mode…

The next Jonathan Blow is going to be massively empowered by their tools and make something wonderful. Having fewer people involved can lead to a more focused execution of their vi…

I love the concept - blocking apps are often too restrictive which makes me disable them. Slowing could be a nice alternative. This probably uses a vpn? It’s important to think abo…

Agreed - they dont even need to send an employee to do it, they can just send a driverless waymo with the luggage surely!

A decade ago I gave a presentation on automata theory. I demonstrated writing arbitrary symbols to tape with greek letters, just like I’d learned at university. The audience was pr…

Well this is incredibly joyful, well done.

Tech Guy reinvents meditation

Curious, that doesn't match the graph up on the Leaderboard page? https://arcprize.org/leaderboard

That’s… not how the labour market works

Happy new year from SF. 2025 was about hanging on, balancing a heavy workload and a new baby, but in ways which I’m confident are the right decisions for our future. I did a lot of…

The conceit here is that it’s the bot itself writing the thankyou letter. Not pretending it’s from a human. The source is an environment running an LLM on loop and doing stuff it d…

Not easy, but I have a friend who did this by reaching back out to his old professors and colleagues, figuring out what they needed, and ended up doing a swe project in his old lab…

Based on this article alone, I can believe this is a good thing. The US military suffers incredibly from its monopsony position and without a doubt will get a heavy wakeup call (re…

Why doesn’t the government put Cloudflare or something in front of their site?

Oh I was hoping for this but with real birds in my neighborhood. Still neat!

Not taking away at all from the message, but: there's something funny about a freehand MSPaint extrapolation appearing in a post about econ PHDs :)

This is great. Watch them take the data down in 3, 2, 1... Until then I'd love to see trails of where the traffic enforcers have been on the main map, it would make the map more en…

It’s funny, I immediately thought it was LLM but I was fairly confident it was ChatGPT. I suppose the styles are converging more than I thought: too long, lists, “not just x it’s y…

Good news! It's being worked on, announced in the blog post linked from that article. https://openai.com/index/helping-people-when-they-need-it-mo...

Getting laid off in our careers is indeed likely, but part of the deal is that it’s not mutually exclusive to becoming a multimillionaire. We work cushy jobs for high pay, with the…