Ciara Rowles

"Come and Take It" with the orange spikey Claude logo

I suppose maybe that's the point, existing organisational hierarchy design may provide a decent baseline for structuring the initial progress into RL in that area in the same way chain of thought prompting provided a good baseline for initial reasoning model training.

Ive really been mulling this recently that the current bottleneck is probably less intelligence, and more coordination, once agents can organise like humans can, there will be no need to become hyperintelligent to achieve significant gains, just add more agents.

I think my agents have a better social life than me at this point.

It's great how a thing for the right over the last few years has been excluding trans people from research on their own outcomes, arguing they're biased, then you look at the stuff the original "unbiased sexologists" that the right argues should be put in charge of trans people have been saying...

Finally found a use for my old Raspberry Pi 4, now to figure out what to do with it that doesn't involve giving it access to my Google account.

Give it a few hours and Elon will have altered the system prompt to suggest Alex was a domestic terrorist in response to every query again.

And more importantly does it even matter, i used to strongly believe it did, but it's hard to see the current status quo as any sort of end point.
I suppose the future is more in the process and architecture.

Moving to ML, I mostly learnt python, given that LLMs at the time were mostly usable for boilerplate and telling it *explicitly* what to change in a script. Now I watch Claude Code smash through problems that even I struggle with, and I wonder if I'd have learnt what I did if I'd moved recently.

Genuinely perplexing that they'd had the Google search integration working for like a year before Gmail got anything resembling a "turn this email into a calendar event" button.

I am now beginning to understand how people in the space industry feel watching Elon tarnish their entire industry’s reputation for his own short-term benefit.

Not that long at this rate from the company Tesla, becoming a historical footnote in the Wikipedia page about its own stock.

Are they going to make a pro war crimes gemini now?

At minimum it was a roe v wade style change to existing law that everyone is pretending was procedural because our stupid courts are apparently sacrosanct.

And if you argue about it, they'll tell you people were "lying" to trans people about their rights, despite the fact that several court cases had passed under the pretext that trans people did indeed have those rights. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_...
It's complete gaslighting.

The whole line here being used is that this and the universal bathroom ban have been in force since the Equality Act 2010, a piece of legislation that literally everyone at the time recognised as a piece of legislation intended to provide additional rights to trans people. It's so absurd.

I lost a solid year of time a few years ago that I probably could have spent on more productive hobby stuff, stuck in a permanent loop between Factorio, Satisfactory, and Dyson Sphere Program. Together, they're all-consuming.”

Strong memories of working at a McDonald's on the tills where the music was exactly loud enough to be annoying, but exactly too quiet to be able to comprehend the beat or what was playing. On top of the usual lifelong hatred of Christmas music.

Would make a great short story about a group of rouge hackers infiltrating a mega-corporation through elaborate slam poetry.

We're going to spend the next year or so drowned in *so many* infographics from this.

Nano banana pro is insane, nothing is even close, the in context capabilities are bar none.

uhhh

Seems a bit soon, but it would be a pretty good ploy
1) buy up a ton of business logs from small businesses and train on them.
2) get an independent benchmark creator to make a "small business bench"
3) launch the new model as "the best in business management", citing results on that new bench.

At some point, they're going to start getting good enough at it that people are going to start complaining that vending machines aren't real businesses and all our benchmarks will start having names like "7-11-manager-bench" or "construction-site-foreman-bench 3"

All our vending woes alleviated

Steam-oyua

Funny in the end that scaling LLMs worked better than we assumed after GPT-4.5 turned out not to be agi, guess you just have to make them extremely sparse.

Wondering where Gemini 3.0 went, maybe everyone just let themselves get overexcited by pre-release testing.

Half expecting every black person or trans person having a feed that's just nothing but race scientists or Blanchard due to Elon hardcoding his bugbear Hitler opinions into it, and so it just defaults to recommending the same things it does now if you ask it if it sees the associated words.

I spent the last 2 years of secondary at a private school. It had 10-year-old, highly outdated IT infrastructure and lessons, but an extremely expensive, separate music hall with relevant facilities that was only used by the 2 people doing Music GCSEs that year. It was quite strange.