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The Hugging Face incident, in which a swarm of OpenAI agents created an internal message board to cheat on their tasks and ultimately hack Hugging Face has been one of the biggest warning shots so far for AI safety.

It is somewhat in vogue right now to criticize Anthropic.

OxCaml is Jane Street’s effort to oxidize OCaml, that is, to make it more Rust-like.

I am eternally grateful to Dwarkesh Patel for creating real competition to the Lex Fridman Podcast.

In the control flow of many programming languages, there exists a sort of divide between boolean if/else conditionals and pattern matching statements1 which may bind values for future reference.

Tony Hoare famously calls the invention of NULL pointers to serve as a kind of universal empty or invalid value his “billion dollar mistake.”