2026-09-03
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: There Is Nothing Like the Mossberg 590 Shotgun and the US Military Agrees
The Mossberg 500 arrived in the 1960s as an affordable pump-action for hunting and general use. Two decades later, as law enforcement agencies and military branches took a serious look...
Gemini 3.8 Flash
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The $13,000,000,000 USS Gerald R. Ford Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Has 30 Miles of Sewage Pipe. It Doesn’t Take Much To Clog It
The most expensive warship, the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, runs its plumbing on a vacuum. Thirty miles of narrow copper pipe, pumps, valves and sensors, all holding a...
Fall 2 Replaces Its Deadly Tower With a Real-Life Nightmare
Fall 2: Deadpoint is in theaters now, and goes to great lengths to scare you.
Cloudflare Implements Cache Transcoding to Optimize Cache Storage with Zstandard
Cloudflare employs Cache Transcoding, compressing text assets like HTML and CSS with Zstandard before caching them. This method significantly reduces storage and costs by accepting a small, repeated decode cost...
The US Navy Has Only 3 ‘Ready for Action’ Nuclear Aircraft Carriers Most of the Time and Its Completely Normal
Aircraft carriers are several military organizations welded together. That’s why the cycles can move so slowly, and why ramping up for a deployment is harder than issuing orders to set...
What is neuralese and why is it bad?
What is neuralese?To explain neuralese, we need to first understand chain-of-thought, one of the largest developments in AI in the last five years.Right now AIs think broadly but shallowly in...
BLOOM-WILT: on-policy examples of any LLM behaviour, from a one-line description and logits alone
Summary of my AI safety paper, BLOOM-WILT, written under the supervision of Edoardo Manino. Code is on GitHub, all transcripts are on HuggingFace, and LogitTilt is now available as part...
Notes on "A global workspace in language models"
Not a very original paper review, so here are my concise notes on the topic, and near the bottom some of my thoughts on future experiments that I think would...
The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales,” Einstein reportedly told one mother who wished for her son to become a scientist. “If you want them...
Stakeholder Management: Advanced Study
PM is a people AND a product job. Let’s talk about the people half.
Releasing Benign Trajectories for MonitoringBench
Authors: Can Kucukkurt, Ethan ElaskyPalaestra Research TL;DR: We are releasing MonitoringBenchHonest, a supplement to the original attack trajectory dataset MonitoringBench used by both Anthropic and OpenAI in monitoring settings. Our...
A key bottleneck for effective AI governance
TL;DRThe key bottleneck for effective AI governance is not political will, nor translation from technical findings to policymakers.To enable technically grounded legislation with existing will from policymakers, we need mechanisms...
Doubling Thermal Printer Resolution by Wiggling
Thermal printers are still extremely common today, using small heating elements in combination with temperature-sensitive paper to create a dot matrix-like effect without messing with ink ribbons and complex mechanisms....
Zuck's Muse to Spark joy with open weights release 'soon'
While you wait, Meta says it’s taught the model to stop wasting tokens and ask for help a bit more often
7 Best Games Like Silksong to Play While You Wait for Sea of Sorrows
From brutal boss fights to precise platforming challenges, here are 7 games to play while you wait for new Silksong content
CD Projekt mystery games update: Yes, they're still happening, and no, not any time soon
Maybe someday we'll find out what's going on with Sirius and Hadar, but it is not this day.
The Return of Aspect Oriented Programming
[Linkpost for https://thomaswc.com/blog/the_return_of_aop.html ]Consider all the things a programmer needs to keep track of while writing code:1) Correctness: making sure the program does the right thing, satisfies all requirements, maintains...
Watch Wētā FX’s VFX breakdown for s3 of ‘House of the Dragon’
Includes the ship battle and plenty of dragons. The post Watch Wētā FX’s VFX breakdown for s3 of ‘House of the Dragon’ appeared first on befores & afters.
The Three P's Theory of Research Organizations
[Linkpost for https://thomaswc.com/blog/my_theory_of_research_organizations.html ]I've been part of Google Research for about ten years now, and I'm also an eager reader of histories of classic research organizations like Bell Labs or...
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