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achow··on Anthropic CEO Says It's Time to Slow AI Model Advances
China will also slow down. They are catching up with SOTA models due to distillation https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa...
achow··on iPhone Duo
I cannot believe that the central crease could disappear altogether!

Suspiciously could not see reviews of it yet - usually bloggers like mkbhd get their hands on early, and they release the reviews moment the embargo is off, usually when live event is over. This time nothing.

achow··on LLMs reward expertise
The interesting thing is, most messages were ending with just one question of his. Examples:

- ..Does this polynomial map have any symmetry or other structure that makes this cancelation less miraculous?

- Given this structure can you see the non injectivity in a transparent way?

- ..But why is the jacobian from x u r to P Q R just a monomial?

- ..Is there a general theory of such twisted jacobians and do you have any sense why those particular dilation weights were used?

- Given this weight structure, why exactly is x given by a cubic equation from P,Q,R?

Also, looks like Terence Tao was doing lot of work and asking LLM to verify. This is inverse of the LLM trend, where LLM does the work and humans verify.

achow··on Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley
Techcrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/vc-backed-startups-commit-...

achow··on US Considers Creating Finra-Like Watchdog to Vet Top AI Models
https://archive.is/d1GGS
achow··on Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts
> ..because the entire AI bubble is a result of everybody running out of hypergrowth ideas, mostly because we're flat out of new interfaces.

Really? I thought the AI bubble happened because something genuinely novel had been invented. People immediately saw practical uses for it, and then it took on a life of its own - funding, superfunding, $trillions becoming part of day to day lingo.. etc.

AI is not in the same class as Vision Pro, which Ed Zitron is comparing it to. I personally found the overall tone to be a bit hyperbolic.

achow··on For most US drivers, EVs offer emissions benefits and cost savings
That would work other way too, EVs would be expensive to upgrade to newer models. Though nowadays it is not that big a concern, but battery pack replacement at some point need to be accounted for.
achow··on Google caps Meta's Gemini use as AI demand strains capacity
https://archive.is/KDqg6
achow··on OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake
> Altman and other OpenAI executives have suggested that each of America’s leading AI developers allot 5 per cent of their equity to a vehicle like the Alaska Permanent Fund, a sovereign fund that invests the state’s oil wealth into stocks and pays dividends to the state government and residents.

Sounds like it is for benefit of public rather than govt' office, and this would continue to benefit public even after current US administration is out of picture.

achow··on China Resets AI Race
https://archive.is/m1qrN
achow··on Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly
OP to me sounds more authentic and seems to have inside information.

After a quick search I found a publication actually mentioning about these tools:

Ford previously told Business Insider that it had developed two bespoke AI-enhanced scanning tools that helped validate that cars were properly assembled before rolling off the lot. The tools, called AiTriz and MAIVs, both debuted in 2024. https://autos.yahoo.com/policy-and-environment/articles/ford...

And after doing cursory research on these tools, it is clear they are rudimentary (as compared to SOTA LLMs), they were essentially smartphone mounted on stands and doing visual checks using the camera - so OP could be very right.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-uses-ai-cameras-in-fact...

achow··on AI effect: People are taking up skills for no money, just to feel human
Original title: As AI eats into paid creative work, people are taking up the same skills — drawing, writing, crafts — on their own time, for no money, just to feel human
achow··on Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior
Slow breathing (in yoga: pranayama) instantly down-regulates your nervous system by boosting vagal tone and lowering sympathetic "fight-or-flight" activity. When your breath lengthens, it signals your brain that you are completely safe, dropping your heart rate and lowering blood pressure.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12858147/

achow··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
It is perhaps very relevant what Chris Olah (Anthropic co-founder) said to pope..

I am a scientist. I lead a research team that studies the internal structure of these models—what is actually happening inside them. And I will be honest: we keep finding things that are mysterious, even unsettling. We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience. We find evidence of introspection. We find internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/chris-olah-pope-leo-encyclica...

achow··on DeepSWE blows up the AI coding leaderboard, crowns GPT-5.5
My feeling seems to be getting validated. Offlate GPT 5.5 seems to be more precise and to the point, whereas Opus 4.7 is verbose, not in bad way, but still is kind of distracting. This aligns with the report finding where they say Opus 4.7 looks at 'surrounding enviornment' and bring in those aspect during task completion.
achow··on Googlebook
Google seems to have made an official post on Reddit describing the feature set in detail:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1tb8xls/introducin...

[Edit]

And, the feature set references the 'AI mouse pointer' from this Deepmind blog..

https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer/

achow··on The U.S. and China Have a Common Foe. Hint: It's Not the U.S.S.R
It is AI

https://archive.is/y2dGC

achow··on A new gene therapy is giving people born deaf the chance to hear
It is from July last year. There seems to be no more update after that in this Science daily article.

Source: https://news.ki.se/gene-therapy-restored-hearing-in-deaf-pat...

achow··on Why Tech Bros Are Now Obsessed with Taste
https://archive.is/VdzLq
achow··on Most Indians don't read for pleasure – so why are there 100 literature fests?
Strange article. Blanket statement that most Indians don't read since English books are not sold in large numbers. The 'Jaipur book festival' that the article refers to published the following stats..

Indian languages together accounted for roughly ~80% of titles published, with English making up a smaller share.

The Indian publishing industry is one of the most prominent publishing industries across the globe. Indian publishing industry at the second spot in the world (English publications) with approximately 19,000 publishing houses across the country publishing approximately 90,000 titles per year according to 2020-21 stats (Mallaya, 2016).

The EIBF International Bookselling Markets Report 2023 (EIBF Report, 2024) affirms that India is the sixth-largest book market in the world, and currently the second-largest market for books in English, right behind the United States. It also figures India’s current growth rate at 7%.

https://jaipurbookmark.org/key-statistics

achow··on Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal
Towards the end it says..

Amiry-Moghaddam of Iran Human Rights said the death toll could be higher than 20,000, based on evidence reviewed by his organization.

achow··on TSMC Risk
> I'm almost certain that you'll hear in the upcoming earnings reports that big tech sent ..billions in advance payment to secure memory supply years from now.

And this would be no different than investing billions in R&D (Ex. Meta and AR) for future payouts.

Or, Apple buying 10000 advance CNC machines for their manufacturer. In this case timeline for future payout is perhaps much shorter but the pertinent point will be Apple invested in Capex upfront.

achow··on The next two years of software engineering
One indicator is intern hiring. I have seen the intern budgets getting slashed by 60-70% (4 interns in 2025 vs 14 interns in 2024).
achow··on They graduated from Stanford. Due to AI, they can't find a job
https://archive.is/yPBtl
achow··on From devastation to wonder as Kangaroo Island bushfires lead to cave discoveries
Curious about the bushfire and recovery there after, found this from Lonely Planet (2023)..

A dangerous mix of hot weather, highly flammable eucalyptus oils in the air and strong winds meant that flames quickly scorched their way through the vegetation, burning almost half of the land in the process.

Australia’s native flora and fauna regenerates and even thrives after burns; in fact, some seeds will only germinate after a fire.

Kangaroo Island has turned out to be astonishingly resilient. Just 48 hours after the flames died down, a rock-like fungus started growing on the ash.

As the fungus digested the ash, it changed the pH levels of the soil, allowing other microorganisms and eventually plants to take root. Some of the plants, says McKelvey, hadn’t been seen for decades. Unlike on the Australian mainland, there were no rabbits to eat the new growth – meaning there was nothing to hold back the regeneration.

It helped that donations flooded in from all over the world after the fires. This money helped to eliminate some of the feral pigs and cats that had been damaging the local ecosystem and killing endangered wildlife.

Three years on, Flinders Chase National Park is as lush as ever, with thick undergrowth providing shelter for the island’s camera-shy wallabies.

The only reminder of the fires that ravaged this land? The blackened branches of eucalyptus trees poking out from the greenery below, giving the landscape an eerie, post-apocalyptic air.

Providing a nesting ground for birds and habitat for insects, even these uncomfortable reminders will disappear in a couple of years, as they get swallowed up by the island’s resilient vegetation.

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/kangaroo-island-south-aust...

achow··on Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
Thanks.

The video link seems to be missing in the section: Bonus: MCP vs API video

achow··on Warner Bros Begins Exclusive Deal Talks With Netflix
Annapurna Pictures is owned by Megan Ellison. The studio have produced Oscar nominated marquee films like Her, Zero Dark Thirty, American Hustle.
achow··on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
WSJ: Altman said OpenAI would be pushing back work on other initiatives, such as advertising, AI agents for health and shopping, and a personal assistant called Pulse.

These plus working with Jony Ive on hardware, makes it sound like they took their eyes off the ball.

achow··on OpenAI Declares 'Code Red' as Google Threatens AI Lead
Altman said OpenAI would be pushing back work on other initiatives, such as advertising, AI agents for health and shopping, and a personal assistant called Pulse.

These plus working with Jony Ive on hardware, makes it sound like they took their eye off the ball.

achow··on [dead]
https://archive.is/6hBg3
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