2026-08-02
A Chess Training App for Imitation Learning
LLMs learn faster if we first pretrain them to imitate dense teacher-forced examples. I speculated that this would work on humans too, so I built a chess app where you...
MUD as AI Evaluation and LLM-judge distortion in ways aggregate κ misses
A group of friends and I spent the last several months running an experiment in our free time to determine if a MUD would be a suitable environment for benchmarking...
The biggest X-Men clue in Spider-Man: Brand New Day has nothing to do with Sadie Sink
In Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Bruce Banner and Peter Parker invent a power inhibtor. Could this be leading to a mutant power inhibitor?
Constitutional Midtraining: Content Presence Drives Alignment Gains
A more accessible, much shorter version of our paper that goes by the above title. Paper here. Code and benchmarks here. Data and models here. Would love for you to...
Beast of Reincarnation release time in your time zone
Game Freak's soulslike Beast of Reincarnation comes out soon and in this guide you can check its release time in your time zone.
Giving and taking credit in big tech companies
Engineers often complain that visibility should be their manager’s job. In other words, they think engineers should be able to focus on the code, while their manager figures out who’s...
CoachAI
Your iPhone camera watches your form, rep by rep Discussion | Link
RLVR that rewards red teaming the training environment
Epistemic status: throwing an idea at the wall and seeing if it sticksI've been thinking about how to mitigate egregious reward hacking, a la the Hugging Face incident. I don't...
Stewart Platform Walker Gains Feeling In Legs From Resistors
Stewy is a very interesting robot, with some slightly odd kinematics. Its head is a Stewart platform, which is a common-enough 6-DOF actuated plate normally used with a fixed base....
The 10 best sci-fi movies released in 1986, ranked
Aliens, Highlander, The Fly, Star Trek IV, and more prove 1986 may have been science fiction's greatest year.
Bolcho AI
Build Voice AI agents that actually speak India Discussion | Link
Quoting Greg Brockman
at openai, many people hook their chatgpt up to slack. people really don't like when a coworker's chatgpt contacts them asking for help with a task, even when they'd be...
Developer of 'Spanking Exorcist' game held up by Steam content moderation releases free 'apology game' where you spank him as punishment: 'We would be delighted if you enjoy it'
I did not enjoy it. It was solely a professional obligation.
2026-08-01
Mathematicians may be worried, but AI-for-science is going to be great, recursively self-improving, and we’re going to learn loads
I have a new post on my experiments with 5.6-sol as a scientific agent; you can find the original post here. I've reproduced it below, as well. I'd be grateful...
10 expansions that were better than the actual game
Bigger isn't always better. Except for sometimes when it is.
datasette-apps 0.2a0
Release: datasette-apps 0.2a0 Changes that improve Datasette Apps when created and edited using Datasette Agent: New app_debug() tool allowing agent to open an app (invisibly) and test it using JavaScript....
2D Shooter Bee With Gun Out Now On Consoles
Bee With Gun is a new 2D arcade shooter from developer Petite Games and retro publisher Ratalaika Games. It’s out now on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation...
Finamie
Speak your expenses and get instant spending insights Discussion | Link
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