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Some quotes, in order, to give a flavor of the essay. Worth reading in full. > To test how well swarms of agents could coordinate on a project like this, we directed several swarms to each create a…

It’s not a screenshot. It’s a formatted reconstruction from a transcript.

Agree. The pelican benchmark was interesting a year ago when most models struggled and a good pelican indicated an unusually capable model. Now it’s saturated and uninteresting. A good new benchmark s…

New advances in sphere packing? Let’s make sure AI doesn’t inadvertently engineer ice-9.

When the entire article reads like it’s written by an LLM —- ie the author couldn’t be bothered to write their thoughts out themselves —- it’s hard to give it the benefit of the doubt that it’s worth …

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633594

Zvi’s writing style is a bit of an acquired taste, and he has strong opinions which can fall outside of the mainstream, but there’s no one in the industry more well read and known for doing the readin…

lots of useful Google search tricks and syntax all in one place. I already knew many of these. But verbatim mode is new to me and addresses a major complaint I’ve had about increasingly fuzzy semantic…

Here’s John H Cochrane (the grumpy economist, Substack) praising refine. This is the post that first clued me into the service: https://www.grumpy-economist.com/p/refine Here’s t…

It seems like Disney’s departure from its business “deal” with OpenAI is newsworthy distinct from the Sora closure. Six months ago Sam Altman was announcing massive deals left and right, now nearly al…