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My wife sent me a link to a The Daily episode for the first time and damn does this sound like a NotebookLM podcast. Distractingly so. Is this what that feature was trained on?

There is so much focus on reasoning capabilities, but AI's impact on search shouldn't be understated. Making history searchable is going to be a huge unlock for truth and knowledge. Search is a verifiable domain, and we will see the same kind of progress here we see for math and coding.

Daniel van Strien@danielvanstrien.bsky.social

I think VLM-based OCR might finally be close to working on historic newspapers! Many models I've tried before failed i.e. hallucinations, repetition loops, context overflow. Surya OCR 2 (a 650M model!) does a very good job!

Michael Haag has very cool threat intel on ClickFix campaigns @ mhaggis.github.io/ClickGrab/ He also just gave a very cool talk on it at BSides Boulder.

Amy Hoy@amyhoy.bsky.social

well THAT'S a first this gizmodo page has a "captcha" that's actually malware aimed at mac users!

Some of this is downstream from the belief that the 20C big shots can’t hold on another quarter century. At some point the economy isn’t going to be oil refineries and ICE cars and booze and corn snacks and legacy aerospace. They are solely income vehicles.

Jesse Felder@jessefelder.com

‘Something is broken in price discovery when companies with negative earnings keep outperforming companies with positive earnings.’ www.apollo.com/wealth/the-d...

i need a computer with fewer distracting side projects on it.

Oh no this is the new orange and teal.

Ihatethistimeline@ihatethistimeline.bsky.social

The centered thing is literally all movie trailers these days! Once you start looking for it you can't stop seeing it! The idea that it's just AI doing this is some real glonzo shit

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@scanstone.bsky.social

I think if we tally up what time is spent on in moving around atoms, most of it is inter-human coordination that becomes completely unnecessary with ASI (if you can do enough vertical integration), and much of the remainder is hard thinking work which becomes similarly faster.

Third Thursday MOB FAFO

Kimi-k2 has to keep the attribution requirement for >100M users clause in the license because xAI could get a huge performance boost and cost savings by white labeling it as Grok.

Nathan Lambert@natolambert.bsky.social

It's hard to pinpoint open-closed gap and so-on, but I trust the Arena team and just look where GLM 5.2 is on this. An MIT licensed, to be open weight model. At this point you could argue they have a better agent than Gemini does. That's a serious accomplishment.

Is this a verifiable claim? My heuristic is ~half of Bluesky posts are non-English language. There is no "on Bluesky" or "Bluesky is like."

Bill McKay@mckay4senate.bsky.social

Why does BlueSky keep centering American and more broadly Western voices whenever we do AI discourse?

I went to bsides boulder yesterday and every single deck was themed phospor green and pink to match the event site.

Tikhon Jelvis@jelv.is

without a neon hacker aesthetic, it's not cyberpunk, it's just sparkling techno-corporatism

I’m not gonna take this bc it’s gonna show a decent amount of shinji and I don’t want that on me.

hailey@hailey.at

hmm

My first year at college I was baffled other people weren’t familiar with Ben (1972), the sequel to Willard from the rat’s perspective.

Gränsfallet@brosen67.bsky.social

My first year at college I was baffled other people weren’t familiar with Ben (1972), the sequel to Willard from the rat’s perspective.

Gränsfallet@brosen67.bsky.social

"The Lifecycle of Software Objects" Ted Chiang, 2010.

Grace@gracekind.net

There’s currently an overhang where LLMs are quite intelligent and creative, but don’t yet interface with humans in non-text ways. Bridging this gap is going to be very uncanny and possibly very beautiful

Ai2 makes the coolest stuff.

Ai2@ai2.bsky.social

LLMs are no longer created w/ human data alone. They rely on other models to generate & filter data, evaluate outputs, & guide dev work. So what is a modern LLM built on? Olmo 3 → 89 model + 183 dataset dependencies; Nemotron 3 → 273 + 560 We made ModSleuth to trace this. 🧵

It's odd that a lot of the streamers started with a business thesis like "we will cheaply serve our catalog and create low-budget/high-attachment content like kid's shows and horror films" and all basically immediately mobilized war economies to create MCU-esque blockbusters.

Alex Wise@engineer.sitereliability.best

Maybe! I'm continually baffled by what the streamers are trying to build, e.g. AMZN spending $1B on a season of Rings of Power. What is the outcome that makes that a good decision? A show like Who or Star Trek has a fanbase that will renew through the drought seasons until it finds its legs.

I was working through the show w/ my daughter when this aired. We'd just gotten to the start of Amy's story when he rips through the densest barrage of spoilers for nine seasons of content faster than I could grab the remote.

Alex Wise@engineer.sitereliability.best

That means it would have started with Space Babies 😬 WBY is an S-Tier episode, so I'd hate to push it down the stack. But yeah, the part in the Giggle where NPH spoils every single companion story in 15 seconds was the absolute worst thing to do for new viewers.

If Doctor Who isn't a large enough, dedicated enough fanbase to warrant investment from the streamers, then I'm not sure what is. What would the success story of the D+ctor Who era have looked like?

Gizmodo@gizmodo.com

In the wake of the BBC's big announcement about the show's immediate future, we may not see the Time Lord again until at least 2028.

I think basically all roads lead to most people delegating some kind of purchasing ability to some kind of agent in the future. Doing it now is like shopping online in the mid-late 90s and whether or not that’s ok depends on who you are.

Mark Riedl@markriedl.bsky.social

Never give your credit card info to an AI agent or give ot permission to complete purchases. The easiest way to do the latter is to do the former