2026-07-01
"Correct Answer Features" Cannot Explain Multiple Choice Capabilities
TL;DR: I present theoretical and empirical evidence that LLMs cannot be (exclusively) using a "correct answer feature" as the main mechanism by which they perform multiple choice question answering. A...
The U.S. Navy Built 24 Essex-Class Aircraft Carriers in World War II: Today’s Shipyards Couldn’t Repeat It
In 1942, the U.S. built an aircraft carrier in just over 20 months, then made two dozen more. Today a single shipyard builds every American supercarrier, and the next one...
Japan’s Soryu Submarines Started as AIP Hunters and Ended as Battery Pioneers: The Quiet Boats Guarding the First Island Chain
Japan doesn't build nuclear submarines. Instead it built the Soryu class — 12 quiet diesel-electric hunters for the waters around the home islands. The class began with Stirling air-independent propulsion...
Claude Code users complain their chat records are being mysteriously wiped out
Got important chats older than 30 days? You'd better be sure the transcripts still exist
Nano Banana 2 Lite
Nano Banana 2 Lite Also known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image in their API), this is the "fastest and cheapest Gemini image model, engineered for velocity and scale"....
The Gunless U.S. Navy Fighter That Got Shot Up Over Vietnam — and Forced the Navy to Create TOPGUN
The F-4 Phantom was built to kill Soviet bombers at long range with missiles — so the Navy left off the gun. Then Vietnam threw it into close-in dogfights it...
How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust
"The alternations between love and its denial, suffering and denial of suffering … constitute the most essential and ubiquitous structural feature of the human heart."
Playwright Georgica Pettus has written a play called...
Playwright Georgica Pettus has written a play called Truck, which is based on the excellent documentary Hands on a Hardbody. “I thought, ‘This is the best premise for a play,...
The Air Force Just Confirmed Its Northrop Grumman B-2 Stealth Bomber Can Sink Ships for the First Time: LRASM Fired Off Guam
For the first time, the Air Force has admitted its B-2 can do something it still won't fully explain: fire an anti-ship missile. In a sinking exercise off Guam, the...
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