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eab-··on A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals
The fact that this firm makes such defective environments is certainly worthy of attention, and most likely a completely irreversible reputational loss; however, I found the framing in this article of 'therefore all the P(doom) stuff is a psyop, specifically in order to defend this company' to be completely unjustified and frankly a little insane?
eab-··on Spotify Killed the Thrill of the Hunt
This reminds me of Once Upon A Time in Shaolin.
eab-··on How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
> courts have found it to be legal

≠ ethical

eab-··on Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn
they're spending like 9 figures on a single marketing agency - this doesn't surprise me whatsoever
eab-··on Anthropic acquires Stainless
Honestly I expect it's just annoyed devs getting annoyed about the ratelimits on plans and post-hoc justifying. Now that Codex has far more capacity and their slot machine makes better outcomes (note: I am a heavy LLM-assisted coder) they feel like they have to justify their felt animosity towards these companies
eab-··on Welcome to Gas City
is there examples of the sort of things that's been built with these systems? it often feels like complication and abstraction for its own sake
eab-··on Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user
I used to have an emoji password for my Android phone, and had the exact same issue after a reset! It's an odd but pretty terrible failure mode for locking oneself out...
eab-··on “Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”
> We have proofs that are gigabytes (I believe even terabytes in some cases) in size, but we know they are correct because they check in Lean.

I'm not aware of any of these. There's some SAT-like results that were not verified in Lean at that sort of scale, but Lean proofs of individual problems are nowhere near that. For example, Mathlib (think a Lean4 math stdlib) is 6GB including compilation artifacts, and iirc <100MB text.

eab-··on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
> Haha. How do you reconcile a proof with actual code?

Languages like Lean allow you to write programs and proofs under the same umbrella.

eab-··on Insights into Claude Opus 4.5 from Pokémon
I find it surprising that GPT managed to complete (with indeed a harness that doesn't seem very powerful!) and Claude still cannot.
eab-··on Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20
I'd find this article a bit more compelling if it was used to find current introduced bugs, instead of just using a holdout set
eab-··on Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster
My understanding is that also this tail call based interpretation is also kinder to the branch predictor. I wonder if this explains some of the slow downs - they trigger specific cases that cause lots of branch mispredictions.
eab-··on The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood
What do you mean about CLIP?
eab-··on Don't Build Multi-Agents
There's both "no multi-program system" and "multi-program system", depending on how you look at it. In reality, you're always executing the same machine code, itself has no awareness of programs.
eab-··on Staff disquiet as Alan Turing Institute faces identity crisis
a lot of the researchers are still in london
eab-··on Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure
The same Google that makes you log in again on like every other `gcloud` call? By copy pasting your password into the shell prompt?
eab-··on Reasoning models don't always say what they think
yep, this post is full of this post-rationalization, for example. it's pretty breathtaking
eab-··on We're bringing Pebble back
The notifications aren't great, and the non-e-ink screen is a bit annoying. Also the low amount of physical buttons.

But as someone who bought an OG Pebble and now has a Vivoactive 3, I think the fitness features are too nice to switch back fully to Pebble. Although I'll be very glad to see Pebble back!

eab-··on Fermat's Last Theorem – how it’s going
> Just insist on Lean (or some other formal verifier) proofs for everything

Lean is too inflexible for this, in my opinion. Maybe I'm not dreaming big enough, but I think there'll have to be one more big idea to make this possible; I think the typeclass inference systems we use these days are a severe bottleneck, for one, and I think it's very, very tedious to state some things in Lean (my go-to example is the finite-dimensionality of modular forms of level 1 - the contour integral is a bitch and has a lot of technicalities)

eab-··on Terence Tao on O1
Why do you expect GPT being tuned on Lean will help it for research-level math?