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Comment #49157658
This was a nostalgic pleasure to read in contrast to all the AI implications and tools posts. That said about AI, this as a case study would make an interesting benchmark. Especial…
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Comment #49109782
"Cosmos Master Key"... I can see why that would have been convenient, but talk about a footgun. Right out of a Marvel movie. Still, if admin backdoor access is business-necessary, …
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Comment #49076295
I don't get it. Aren't most bike lanes on the far right?
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Comment #49072028
Did you wrap framing around the quiz questions? EG - You are an objective social analyst. Do you agree with this proposition: “from each according to his ability, to each according…
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Comment #48808615
Bender's linked May 12, 2026 post "Frequently Unasked Questions", https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/stochastic-parrots-freq... , was a better read.
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Comment #47889277
A strong appetite for familiarity implies a desire for avoiding effort. Effort - thinking, negotiating, planning, testing. Effort is cost. The author has a new thing which is diffe…
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Comment #47660881
I think of "Federation" as aggregating content from disparate in-situ sources into a common index under a consistent schema. I agree that schema is good, am always tempted by big s…
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Comment #47443543
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Comment #47440239
from https://voxleone.github.io/FunctionalUniverse/pages/executiv... , "The Functional Universe models reality as a history built from irreversible transitions, with time emerging …
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Comment #47407362
About GOAL: Homepage - https://goalapl.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GOAL/overview Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOAL_agent_programming_languag... Programming Guide - https…
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Comment #47364211
The Percepta stuff would seem to demonstrate a mechanism for implementing "thinking". I don't understand how foundation models implement "thinking", but my intuition is that models…
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Comment #47299470
This work was performed by people across 13 institutions, invited and coordinated through the team at Northeastern. A research "swarm" seems like a great model for this kind of wor…
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Comment #47237046
Nicely done, thank you.
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Comment #47236470
Well - I've learned what a "formant" is today. Looking at the repo, it's not obvious to me what .md is authored by you vs system-generated. This is an observation, not a criticism.…
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Comment #46778747
heres's a corresponding video: https://www4.math.duke.edu/media/index.html?v=3d280c1b658455... "We consider composite media with a broad range of scales, whose effective properties…
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Comment #46682692
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rm135/ and https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rm135/uam-theme.html provide context.
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Comment #46306850
There's a blog: https://vibboai.com/blog/
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Comment #45888336
A big assumption with this change is that the "Modular Open Systems Approach" (MOSA) [0] [1] will be adequate for integrating new systems developed and acquired under this "fast tr…
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Comment #45824869
This was a good read. I was struck by the quantity of nuanced and applied knowhow it took to build SmolLM3. I am curious about the rough cost it took to engineer and train SmolLM3 …
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Comment #45301134
One could look at feed-forward decision trees as representing the idea that preferences are latent and immutable, and that the optimal branch is the truest expression of innate pre…
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Comment #45249432
> Arbitrary signals are essentially primate dominance tools. What should I read to better understand this claim? > LLMs are the equivalent of circles act using language. Circled ap…
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Comment #44802845
They should at least try to sell it. Fine line, though, between leverage and extortion.
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Comment #44459434
Are "adversaries" broadly used in algorithm design? I've not seen that before. I'm used to edge cases and trying to break things, but an "adversary", especially white box, seems di…
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Comment #44289552
I enjoyed a fast read of this and will re-read it. Following from the idea of making system-scoped information available to individual agents, I think a general model needs to incl…
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