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‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ is the new wild west of AI
Decompiled, cloned, and modified software is going viral and might slopify everything.
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If AI Can Copy Photoshop, Why Would Anyone Build the Next Figma?
Earlier this month, a developer named Brandon Thomas released free copies of seven Adobe apps, including Photoshop and Premiere. He says he... Read More... Source
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Don’t Ask AI Unless You Know the Answer Before You Ask
Image created by AI by Angela A. Stanton PhD. Most people fall into the AI trap of asking a question, and if the answer looks “OK” and, especially if it lines up with the person’s beliefs, one tends to accept … Continue reading →
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What AI missed when planning an auth migration across ten applications
I turned a recent real authentication migration into a planning eval. The strongest result scored 55% completion and missed 10 critical concerns of 19. - '#engineering'
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AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now?
Unlike other recent AI proofs, this one has been unpacked by human experts. The implications, one mathematician said, are “staggering.” The post AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
From Quanta Magazine
He Wants AI Benchmarking To Be a Science, Not a Dark Art
Moritz Hardt, author of a new book on benchmarks, believes these “standardized tests” for artificial intelligence are fundamentally broken — but not unfixable. The post He Wants AI Benchmarking To Be a Science, Not a Dark Art first appeared on Quanta Magazine
From Quanta Magazine
ChatGPT keeps telling people 404 Media can solve their tech support problems
Because big tech doesn't do customer service, we are being inundated with AI-generated emails begging us for help.
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Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge
Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in *The Matrix*, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning. Anne Lawrence-Mathers investigates the *Ars notoria*, its supposed powers, and the demonic influence it…
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Weird Sun Twitter
Claude Fable 5 simulates Weird Sun Twitter with Gwern Branwen's "brainstorming" and Verbalized Sampling (Zhang et al.).
From Kagi Small Web
Using a local Codex App Server from ChatGPT and the terminal
Connect to a local Codex App Server from the terminal, over SSH, or through the ChatGPT desktop and mobile apps while keeping your projects on your machine.
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Astrohacker: A Super Intelligence Software Lab
This week we tried three words for what Astrohacker is: a factory, a garden and a lab. The answer is a lab, and the name has two meanings. Both of them are true.
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Pleistocene Scenes Created Using Google’s New AI Feature
The Google search engine has a new feature that creates images based on any description a user provides. These images are created in seconds. I used this feature to create images for this week’s blog entry and some of them are amazing. I had been using Deviant Art’s image prompts, but the program…
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“Software Factory” vs. “Software Garden”
Two ways to think about building software with super intelligent agents. A factory turns issues into deployments. A garden grows a living codebase. What each one gets right, where each one breaks, and what a product for each would look like.
From Kagi Small Web
Anthropic Earned $16.8B in Q3. Why Call It 'Over'?
What comparison makes 45% quarterly growth look disappointing—and a slowdown cause I experienced firsthand.
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An inanimate object cannot pray.
shakespeares-gm: maidthings: loveofhumanity: My new startup Psimoni will contract out cloud computing to do this at 26k ourfathers/min for just $15 a month @heresylog thoughts? An inanimate object cannot pray.
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He'll Never Leave Me
A food app pictured a bacon and egg soda as a glass of fizzy drink with an egg in it. McDonald's forecast one man's next six weeks to the penny and gave him zero chance of leaving, so he left. And a 65-year-old writer would rather not ask a machine the date of his death.
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Bliki: LLM Voice
Sometimes when I read a post, I get the growing feeling that I'm reading the output of an LLM. I can't necessarily define why, although there are the common tells (it's not the em-dashes, it's the load-bearing tapestries). As I do this my desire to read on atrophies, sometimes to the point of…
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MindDump
Hey! Welcome to my Blog, I’m Kuber Mehta, founder of PolyThink Labs and previously TREAT (acq.) I like to build (& break) things across AI, technology, and whatever else catches ...
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