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Here's a JS library with every function in the world. Ish...
DWIM asks Gemini Nano to hallucinate the implementation, then runs it in your browser.
DWIM.reverse('hi');
I thought I was overdue for some grr's from @feross and @ShriramKMurthi....
jasvir.github.io/dwim/
If a computer's useful state lives partly in tissue, what exactly goes in the backup?
Prompted partly by @KentonVarda's argument about intelligence, fragility and rights, I wrote about organoids and restoring a computer partly made of organic tissue.
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After spending September reading 24 poems, I’m trying something different in October: 24 drawings made with mostly one continuous line.
These are the first four faces. Twenty more to go, assuming my pen and I remain friends.
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I guess this domain will be rather valuable when they have to rename the company to avoid being the "enemy".
Kudos to anticipating this in 2002, random domain sitter.
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PhotoCraft says it cloned Photoshop from public specs and observed behaviour. What does that say about obfuscation?
It can make secrets/algo in code harder to recover. It does much less if you can rebuild the app by watching what it does.
Whitebox vs blackbox matters again.
Don't be fooled - Humans don't reason either.
I loved this article and struggled applying Graepl's definition of reasoning to myself.
When applying their definition of reasoning to humans, it's interesting what gets dropped and what extras get added.
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Ten years ago, AlphaGo’s Move 37 shocked the world.
It wasn’t intuition alone that produced it. AlphaGo could search possible futures, test its instincts and reason about what would happen next.
In a new piece for @techreview, I argue that today’s most advanced AI systems are still missing something fundamental.
LLMs are remarkably capable, but generating longer chains of thought is not the same as genuine reasoning. They typically have no explicit, inspectable record of what they know, what remains uncertain, what evidence supports a conclusion or whether genuine progress has been made.
This is why I recently left @GoogleDeepMind. I believe we need a fresh approach to machine reasoning, drawing on some of the architectural lessons from AlphaGo.
If AI is going to produce trustworthy and genuinely novel insights in science, medicine and beyond, we need systems whose conclusions arise from an auditable process of evidence, inference and belief revision.
No ad for a product has had me go from watching the ad to signing up as quick as this. I'm hoping it lives up to it's promise but it is able to do even a fraction of what is shown here, it would be a game change...ahem Fo shure.
I led engineering at Google DeepMind.
Today, I'm proud to introduce Fo to give personal AI something no lab ever has... Humans.
Other personal AI's pretend AI can do everything. Fo employs humans to do tasks that AI cannot.
- 2x better at real-world task completion (beats other agents by 69%)
- 94% trust rate (4x less likely to leak private info vs Muse, Instinct)
Sign up for free: wajo.ai/join-wajo
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Not every famous poem is for everyone.
In "The Flea," John Donne turns an insect into an elaborate argument for sex. I could admire the cleverness, but I still found the speaker more distasteful than charming.
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Apple watch said my sleep score last night was "Very High" - this is a first in a while. It's ridiculous how happy that made me AND psychologically makes me feel as if I must have slept well!
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Tagore's English "Paper Boats" is lovely. The fuller Bengali poem is lonelier: the child is stuck at home while boats bearing his name escape into the world.
Entry 10 of Two Dozen Poems:
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I was working on a project today and what should sneak up on me but the absolute need...absolute need!... to solve the problem requires virtualizing the DOM. Again.
It's only been half a decade since my last go to look into this abyss & witness the darkness of the soul.
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I recorded a short video about the first week of Two Dozen Poems, ending with a reading of Hilaire Belloc's "Tarantella."
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"While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models."
#mathdrama vs #aidrama
We congratulate Levent Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster on their remarkable mathematical work.
We (the researchers and the agents) did not see any of their work through any means until they released it publicly — in particular, no specific user data was accessed in order to solve this problem.
While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models.
However, our proofs differ significantly and even the precise results proved are different in the Euler case (forced vs. unforced).
My friend Trudy sent me this poem - and her own translation. I can’t stop repeating:
"Get drunk; get drunk without respite! On wine, poetry or virtue, as you choose."
It made me want to go outside and make more of life.
Day 4 of Two Dozen Poems:
Baudelaire tells us to "get drunk" continually - with wine, poetry or virtue.
For me, it evokes creative flow: the rush when things come easily, the ache when it leaves, and the desire to find it again.
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It's 7:46pm - Mum would have been proud of the full use of value for money.
I can't understand why it was so satisfying seeing it flick down to 1% minutes minutes before it bounced back up to 100% with the query still going.
I know what i'll be doing on Sunday evenings now.
Where should PII or a secret token go in an HTTP request?
URLs reach history & logs. Bodies reach error reports. Headers miss redaction. Even fragments can remain visible to browser APIs.
I tried putting together a practical guide to the trade-offs:
🦭 jasvir.github.io/secretseal/
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I really like @simonw's "lethal trifecta"—which I'm most probably adding to both my fall semester courses—but I am amused at how AI is basically forcing people to re-discover long-established principles in security (in this case, OCaps). CC @jasvir
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This one has stayed with me since I was a teenager. It changed what I thought poems were—not dead words on a page, but words with life, meant to be read aloud.
Soooo I may read it in tomorrow's first weekly video.
Day three of Two Dozen Poems: Hilaire Belloc's "Tarantella," the poem that changed what I thought poems were.
It begins with clapping and dancing, then leaves an empty hall and the boom of a distant waterfall.
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Recursive Rhymes is back.
This September I’m reading 24 poems from different traditions—first with as little context as possible, then again after translation and history.
Day 1: Bashō's "Old Pond."
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Day 1 of Two Dozen Poems…
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