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pebbly_breadon Sonnet 5.5

Mythos is what they thought was too dangerous to release, fable was what they made after they worked on cybersecurity detection. As they say in the notes, this version of sonnet now has a similar screening process

pebbly_breadon EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'

The US also doesn't have free trade following the same criteria, labeling requirements differ by state, licensing regimes are different, the same kind of challenges that exist in Canada

pebbly_breadon Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

Canada needs to reduce its exposure to the US market, giving resources to the companies harmed by the tariffs doesn't accomplish that

pebbly_breadon Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

This implies that the US respects the agreements it signs

pebbly_breadon Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM

I think this needs a before and after example

pebbly_breadon DiffusionGemma Technical Report

Normally people have feelings about things before they are able to put them into words, I would imagine if you were asked a question like "what city would you most like to visit" then unless you've already thought about it a lot, then you would have to do substantial non-verbal thinking before you can come up with an answer, and once you have the answer you may respond "my favorite city is X" and you decided what X would be before you started the sentence.

pebbly_breadon Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation

Also, it sounds like the kind of thing that sells. Any company with a customer support chat is a potential user of this model, any large company may be interested in getting a mistral installed set-up for handling without needing to send client info over the web. Installing those kinds of local systems seems to be what butters Mistral's bread at the moment.

pebbly_breadon The room the economy can't see

It would, leading to more resources going towards producing those goods. A UBI is price signal indicating the needs no/low income people matter.

Maybe it would be too politically unpopular, lead to too much spending on vices, or some other issue, but inflation shouldn't be a concern unless those particular goods are of a fixed quantity over the long term.

pebbly_breadon Everything is correlated (2014–23)

Depending on the nature of the study, there's lots of scientific disciplines where it's trivial to get populations in the millions. I got to see a fresh new student's poster where they had a p-value in the range of 10^-146 because every cell in their experiment was counted as it's own sample.

pebbly_breadon The role of the University is to resist AI

The difficulty comes when you don't know to google, or to ask the LLM because you don't realise that a particular challenge requires addressing. I can build a completely functional webapp that has absolutely no security, and there may be no clear "I should google how to do this" point that would steer me towards tools that would save me from this mistake.