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For the birth of my daughter, Magdalene Aurelia.

In the wake of the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident (OAI-HF), Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently expressed his concern that recursive self-improvement now allows AI to advance drastically faster, and consequently that in 6–12 months a swarm of more capable a…

It’s just a symbol.

I’m a big fan and frequent user of Claude’s deep research feature, so it caught my eye when the task title from my research subagent was a bit longer than usual.

There is a weird collection of arguments for appraising the value of humans and their creative artifacts.

Let’s go back to the basics and consider a very simple goal: What if we could find and fix all the vulnerabilities in open source software?

Earlier this summer, Sean Heelan published a great blog post detailing his use of o3 to find a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel.

Welp, Pocket shuts down tomorrow despite our pleas for it to stay.

TL;DR: Raink—a novel, general-purpose listwise document ranking algorithm using an LLM as the ranking model—can be used to solve non-trivial security problems.

There are two claims I’d like to make: LLMs can be used effectively1 for listwise document ranking.

I wanted to write this before I’ve been out longer than I’d been in.

Google recently launched the .zip TLD, and Twitter has been up in arms.

Or, using a content aggregator like it’s 1999.

I recently (finally) started using online appointment scheduling software.

I tend to push a product’s free tier pretty hard.