2026-03-24

Streaming experts

I wrote about Dan Woods' experiments with streaming experts the other day, the trick where you run larger Mixture-of-Experts models on hardware that doesn't have enough RAM to fit the...

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Venus Flytrap Takes Ride Through a Particle Accelerator

Venus Flytrap Takes Ride Through a Particle Accelerator

In the blue corner, we have the VENUS FLYTRAP! In the red corner, we have the underdog of the century, AN ENTIRE PARTICLE ACCELERATOR. Yes, you read that right. When...

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Information Overdose

I saw a clip of Terence Tao on Dwarkesh's podcast narrating how we came to discover heliocentrism and it got me thinking about a topic that had somehow slipped out...

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Every Major LLM is a 1-Box Smoking Thirder

Every Major LLM is a 1-Box Smoking Thirder

What are modern LLMs' decision theoretic tendencies? In December of 2024, the @Caspar Oesterheld et al. paper showed that models' likelihood of one-boxing on Newcomb's problem is correlated with their...

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Drive Sophisticated AI Use on Your Team

Yesterday’s tip laid out what sophisticated AI use looks like at the individual level. As a leader, how can you drive this sophisticated approach to AI on your team? Start...

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Head-mounted VR hardware will never happen, says Neal Stephenson - who coined the term ‘metaverse’

‘People don’t like wearing things on their faces and don’t trust those who do’ Science fiction author Neal Stephenson, who coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash,...

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The AIXI perspective on AI Safety

Epistemic status: While I am specialized in this topic, my career incentivizes may bias me towards a positive assessment of AIXI theory. I am also discussing something that is still...

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Contra Dances Should Avoid Saturdays

Contra Dances Should Avoid Saturdays

There are a lot of great musicians who don't live near you, and if you hold your dance on a Saturday it's much harder to put together a tour that...

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2 months ago

Banquet For Fools review

Banquet For Fools review

Pen and paper at the ready.

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A ToM-Inspired Agenda for AI Safety Research

TLDR: Theory of Mind (ToM) is the cognitive ability to attribute mental states to oneself and others, allowing individuals (or AIs) to understand that others have perspectives different from their...

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Low Self-Discharge, High-Voltage Supercapacitors Using Porous Carbon

Low Self-Discharge, High-Voltage Supercapacitors Using Porous Carbon

Supercapacitors rely mostly on double-layer capacitance to bridge the divide between chemical batteries and traditional capacitors, but they come with a number of weaknesses. Paramount among these are their relatively...

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imgcmd

Secure CLI that generates real PNGs directly to disk Discussion | Link

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Image2PDF 2.9 | PPA.pl

Image2PDF to proste narzędzie, powstałe przy użyciu Hollywood, które pozwala na konwersję plików graficznych (JPG, PNG, BMP, ILBM, GIF) do formatu PDF, jak również w drugą stronę, czyli zapis stron...

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Poking and Editing the Circuits

Poking and Editing the Circuits

This is the third entry in the "Which Circuit is it?" series. We will explore possible notions of faithfulness as we consider interventions. This project is done in collaboration with...

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Australia Isn’t Cancelling Its F-35s — It’s Spending Big Money on Missiles Instead of Buying 28 More Jets and Here Is Why

Australia Isn’t Cancelling Its F-35s — It’s Spending Big Money on Missiles Instead of Buying 28 More Jets and Here Is Why

Despite recent headlines, Australia isn't abandoning the F-35. Journalist Georgia Gilholy breaks down Canberra's strategic pivot to pause a 28-jet order, opting instead to keep its Super Hornets and Growlers...

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TeamPrompt

AI DLP & prompt management for your team Discussion | Link

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Vim 9.2.219 | PPA.pl

Ola Söder przygotował dla systemów AROS (i386 oraz x86), AmigaOS 4 i MorphOS aktualizację portu edytora tekstu Vim wyposażonego specjalnie na nasze potrzeby w interfejs użytkownika oparty na MUI. Najnowsza...

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jared.so

AI that monitors convos & proactively jumps in when needed Discussion | Link

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