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Tracing the thoughts of a large language model

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Watchdog Monitors AI Companies Breaking Safety Promises

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JWST reveals exoplanet composition with unprecedented clarity

chemistryworld.com

Exoplanets orbiting a star 133 light years away contain a far greater abundance of carbon than...
Exoplanets orbiting a star 133 light years away contain a far greater abundance of carbon than the star itself, according to the first direct spectral data of this kind captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The discovery has implications for how these planets formed, suggesting they share a similar evol...
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A Special Year at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum

computer.org
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Zoom bias: The social costs of having a 'tinny' sound during video conferences

phys.org
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Thinner Films Conduct Better Than Copper

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If you need to move electrons from here to there, you turn to copper. This common...
If you need to move electrons from here to there, you turn to copper. This common element is an excellent conductor and is easily fabricated into wires and circuit board traces. But the situation changes when you get small: really, really small on a nanometer scale. That same copper shows increasing resistance, whic...

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First-of-its-kind trial enables paralysed man to stand via stem cell injection

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Nerve cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells have the potential to reverse paralysis.Credit: IKELOS GmbH/Dr....
Nerve cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells have the potential to reverse paralysis.Credit: IKELOS GmbH/Dr. Christopher B. Jackson/SPLA paralysed man can stand on his own after receiving an injection of neural stem cells to treat his spinal cord injury. The Japanese man was one of four individuals in a f...

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Five Things AI Will Not Change

metastable.org

Including why we will not be ants to AI In 1983, when I was ten, 100...
Including why we will not be ants to AI In 1983, when I was ten, 100 million people watched the TV movie “The Day After,” an audience five times larger than the Game of Thrones finale garnered in 2019. The cold-war era film graphically depicted the aftermath of an all-out nuclear exchange between the United States a...

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How the American Medical Association Screws Doctors

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Show HN: StoffelVM – A WIP VM for Multiparty Computation

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Plato: Organist to the Beasts (2022)

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It’s a curious image. The philosopher Plato, dressed in a turban and a sash, sits before...
It’s a curious image. The philosopher Plato, dressed in a turban and a sash, sits before a pipe organ and plays sweet tunes. Meanwhile, around him lies a catatonic tribe of lions, tigers, antelopes, leopards, deer, rhinos, cranes, phoenixes and other beasts. What’s going on here? Are these animals sleeping? Are they...
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Mud, water and wood: The system that kept a 1604-year-old city afloat

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Launch HN: Continue (YC S23) – Create custom AI code assistants

continue.dev

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AI Coding Agents: The Self-Driving Cars of Software Development

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Are fantasy games like Dungeons and Dragons a cure for US's loneliness epidemic?

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Chatbots-Are-AI-Antipatterns

hello-jp.net

Why did we fall in love with chat interfaces for human-ai interaction? Let us leave them...
Why did we fall in love with chat interfaces for human-ai interaction? Let us leave them behind once and for all.Chatbots are AI anti-patterns! Last year, I built a chat-based calendar agent that allowed me to check my schedule, create entries, and align my calendar with those of my colleagues. I imagined it would f...
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The Synchrony Budget

morling.dev

For building a system of distributed services, one concept I think is very valuable to keep...
For building a system of distributed services, one concept I think is very valuable to keep in mind is what I call the synchrony budget: as much as possible, a service should minimize the number of synchronous requests which it makes to other services. The reasoning behind this is two-fold: synchronous calls are cos...
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Glider for Apple II

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Netlify deploys hundreds of thousands of Next.js sites – here's what challenging

netlify.com

We actually sat on this post for a while, taking time to figure out how best...
We actually sat on this post for a while, taking time to figure out how best to present the facts and suggestions below, without it appearing as a takedown post. After all, we are in competition with Vercel in the platform space. Then, the recent security incident around Next.js middleware happened, triggering a sma...
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What went wrong with the Alan Turing Institute?

chalmermagne.com

The UK’s national AI institute is in crisis. Despite receiving a fresh £100 million funding settlement...
The UK’s national AI institute is in crisis. Despite receiving a fresh £100 million funding settlement in 2024, the Alan Turing Institute (ATI) is gearing up for mass redundancies and to cut a quarter of its research projects. Staff are in open revolt.In 2023, when generative AI fever swept the world, far from takin...
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Crawl Order and Disorder

marginalia.nu

A problem the search engine’s crawler has struggled with for some time is that it takes...
A problem the search engine’s crawler has struggled with for some time is that it takes a fairly long time to finish up, usually spending several days wrapping up the final few domains.This has been actualized recently, since the migration to slop crawl data has dropped memory requirements of the crawler by somethin...
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A filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark's self-image

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The trap was laid in a rented office: two rooms in downtown Copenhagen, furnished without a...
The trap was laid in a rented office: two rooms in downtown Copenhagen, furnished without a whisper of Scandi style. If it wasn’t for a Frida Kahlo print on one wall, the premises might have felt as impersonal and stark as a confessional. That, in any event, was what it became. For six months, beginning in mid-2022,...
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Why Anthropic's Claude still hasn't beaten Pokémon

arstechnica.com

Where previous models wandered aimlessly or got stuck in loops, Claude 3.7 Sonnet plans ahead, remembers...
Where previous models wandered aimlessly or got stuck in loops, Claude 3.7 Sonnet plans ahead, remembers its objectives, and adapts when initial strategies fail. Critical skills for battling pixelated gym leaders. And, we posit, in solving real-world problems too. pic.twitter.com/scvISp14XG — Anthropic (@AnthropicAI...
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Craniometrix (YC W22) Is Hiring

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We're building the one-stop-shop care platform for Alzheimer's…$120K - $180K / 0.10% - 0.60%New York, NY,...
We're building the one-stop-shop care platform for Alzheimer's…$120K - $180K / 0.10% - 0.60%New York, NY, US / Remote (US)Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role ›Craniometrix has signed $7M+ in revenue and is looking for a Chief of Staff to help us actualize it. Leveraging Medica...
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