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2025-05-01

How to specify an alignment target

Published on May 1, 2025 9:11 PM GMT[Crossposted from my substack Working Through AI.]It’s pretty normal to chunk the alignment problem into two parts. One is working out how to...

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Do You Really Need a “Second Brain”?

Lucaliu: You don’t actually need a “second brain” to store your thoughts, ideas, and tasks. What you really need is a set of productivity tools that supports and streamlines the...

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Theoretical Gravastars Are Even Weirder Than Black Holes

TIL I learned about gravastars (aka a gravitational vacuum star), theoretical objects related to black holes. Both are massive & dense, but instead of a singularity surrounded by an event...

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Obstacles in ARC's agenda: Mechanistic Anomaly Detection

Published on May 1, 2025 8:51 PM GMTAs an employee of the European AI Office, it's important for me to emphasize this point: The views and opinions of the author...

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Army Will Seek Right to Repair Clauses in All Its Contracts

A recent memo detailed a future where soldiers can repair their own equipment.

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Right after drafting my patent, found a GitHub repo backdated with junk then filled with my recursive system. Has anyone seen this before?

Published on May 1, 2025 8:14 PM GMTI've privately developed a recursive system for several years-modular, identity-aware, centered around cognitive tone, structural reflection, orchestration, and alignment.I've never published it publicly,...

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AI-Generated GitHub repo backdated with junk then filled with my systems work. Has anyone seen this before?

Published on May 1, 2025 8:14 PM GMTI've privately developed a recursive system for several years (modular, identity-aware, centered around cognitive tone, structural reflection, orchestration, and alignment)I've never published it...

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5 Open-Source, Free Software You Didn’t Know You Needed to Protect Your Data

In today’s digital age, protecting and encrypting personal data has become essential to safeguarding privacy and security. There are numerous open-source and free software tools available that make it easy...

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Oblivion is a lot better now that I can read

I was not equipped to enjoy this game in 2006, I'm learning.

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NASA Astronaut Notices "Slice" in Her Suit's Glove During Spacewalk

NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers stepped outside the International Space Station inside their Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) suits. It was an exceedingly rare all-female spacewalk, with the goal...

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How Enso Is Migrating $3.5B in DeFi Liquidity to Unichain with a Single Click

Why Enso, Stargate, and LayerZero are moving $3.5B to Unichain in a single click, changing the future of DeFi liquidity.

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Retro USAID t-shirts featuring a classic logo from the 50s. “50% of...

Retro USAID t-shirts featuring a classic logo from the 50s. “50% of all proceeds go to support current court cases fighting to save USAID.”

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CPU Contention and Noisy Neighbors

The noisy neighbor effect is a problem in Linux. The key is to monitor how long a runnable thread waits for a physical core it cannot see.

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How Circular Economy Principles Are Reshaping Tech Infrastructure

The concept of circular economy is moving from theory into practice across tech and infrastructure sectors. Companies with an eye on the future are creating innovative solutions that transform old-school...

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Polygon Acquired by Porn Mogul Who Co-Founded Brazzers

Before he founded Valnet, Hassan Youssef started one of the biggest porn sites on the internet.

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Why COTI Joined Saudi Arabia’s $140B Tech Bet on AI, Blockchain, and Real-World Assets

Why COTI joined Saudi Arabia's AI and Blockchain Centre, and what it means for Web3 and real-world asset tokenization in MENA and Africa.

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NASA Spacecraft Runs Into Thruster Trouble En Route to Zillion-Dollar Asteroid

NASA's Psyche mission to visit a gargantuan asteroid that could be worth more than the entire world economy has hit a snag. On Tuesday, the space agency announced that engineers...

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Scope of Work’s Spencer Wright on imports, tariffs, and maturity. “I buy...

Scope of Work’s Spencer Wright on imports, tariffs, and maturity. “I buy a pair of shoes, make myself a drink, take a sip of water — it all has so...

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How to Build a Smart Documentation - Based on OpenAI Embeddings (Chunking, Indexing, and Searching)

The main idea is to index documentation by splitting them into manageable chunks, generating embeddings with OpenAI, and performing a similarity search to find and return the most relevant information...

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