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Fran Litterio
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Retired software engineer. AI enthusiast. Deadhead. I implemented Bash's regex operator (=~). My Signal user ID is franl.99.
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nic221.bsky.social
The Case for AI as Accommodation (opinion) www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/… #AI #education #accessibility
Text Shot: I encouraged this student to share his story at our next class meeting, which he did. Inspired by his bravery and honesty, soon other students began opening up. The stories students have shared across my classes have been revelatory to me. A student with aphantasia uses AI to generate diagrams and mnemonics in organic chemistry, compensating for the fact that she cannot form mental images. Another battling anxiety builds confidence by generating practice tests with ChatGPT, rehearsing so she no longer freezes at exam time. A commuter student turns dense readings into audio so she can review them while driving. One student identifying as on the autism spectrum told me she uses AI for social insights, such as how she could contribute to a group project without sounding “pushy.” A first-generation student told me she relies on AI to figure out what she needs to do in college: How to email a professor, what office hours are for, what an annotated bibliography is. A…
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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ai-news.at.thenote.app
Watch ‘The Thinking Game,’ a documentary about Google DeepMind, for free on YouTube.

We’re bringing “The Thinking Game" to the Google DeepMind YouTube channel.

Telegram AI Digest
#ai #deepmind #news
Watch ‘The Thinking Game,’ a documentary about Google DeepMind, for free on YouTube.
We’re bringing “The Thinking Game" to the Google DeepMind YouTube channel.
blog.google
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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timkellogg.me
that’s it, i’m calling it, software engineering is over

AI can do everything an engineer can do
riguh.bsky.social Riley @riguh.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah it’ll do that now I’ve head
80×24 user@machine:~$ codex-cli execute --parallel=10 -verbose --mode=chaos [09:15:221 [CLI] Initializing 10 parallel workers on local GPU cluster... [09:15:23] [CLI] Loaded model: codex-davinci-003-turbo [09:15:23] [CLI] WARNING: 'chaos' mode active. Expect non-deterministic output. LPID 3101] [TASK 01] [PID • START: Refactoring legacy Python 2.7 codebase to idiomatic Rust. 3102] [TASK 02] RUNNING: Generating 500 unit tests for an empty function. [==>..••...] 25% IPID 3103] [TASK 03] START: Explaining Kubernetes architecture using only food analogies. IPID 3104] [TASK 04] DONE: Optimized a Dockerfile to be 12 bytes smaller. (took 0.2s) [PID 3105] [TASK 05] .........•] 5% RUNNING: Translating the entire Linux kernel comments into Haiku form. >... [PID 3106] [TASK 06] • START: Attempting to vertically center a div using CSS and machine learning. [PID 3107] [TASK 07] loop detected). A STALLED: Arguing with another GPT instance about tabs vs. spaces. (Infinite [PID 3108] LTASK 08] >........•] 1% [PID 3109] ITASK 09] RUNNING: Trying to exit Vim using reinforcement learning. Iteration 2,491. CRITICAL: Attempting to parse HTML with regex. Elder Gods summoned. ZALGO imminent. [PID 3110]ITASK 10] • START: Predicting the exact heat death of the universe based on current npm dependency trees. [09:15:35] [CLI] STATUS: 1 Finished, 4 Running, 1 Stalled, 1 CRITICAL, 3 Pending. GPU Temp: 92°C.
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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simonwillison.net
Initial impressions (and pelicans) of Claude Opus 4.5, Anthropic's new "best model in the world for coding" released this morning. simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/24/...
Claude Opus 4.5, and why evaluating new LLMs is increasingly difficult
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5 this morning, which they call “best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use”. This is their attempt to retake the crown for …
simonwillison.net
November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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emollick.bsky.social
I had early access to Opus 4.5 & it is a very impressive model that seem to be right at the frontier

Big gains in ability to do practical work (like make a PowerPoint from an Excel) and the best results ever (& in one shot) in my Lem poetry test, plus good results in Claude Code
November 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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tedunderwood.com
"Ask students to explain why the chatbot is wrong" was a short-lived pedagogical fix — because it's now likely that the students will stumble more significantly than the bot.

There's a path forward for analog/offline learning, and also a path that uses AI. John Henry pedagogy is a dead end. +
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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theregister.com
Moss spores bolted to the ISS exterior laugh in the face of hard vacuum
Moss spores bolted to the ISS exterior laugh in the face of hard vacuum
Japanese team finds 80% of the tiny plant cells remained viable after 283 days in orbit Moss has been shown to survive one of the harshest environments imaginable: the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS).…
dlvr.it
November 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Mindscape 336 | Anil Ananthaswamy @anilananth.bsky.social on the Mathematics of Neural Nets and AI. Everyone is talking about AI these days, why not impress your friends with some math? #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for Mindscape Podcast episode with Anil Ananthaswamy.
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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timkellogg.me
nano banana prompt: “Create a super annoying linkedin profile”
A computer monitor displaying a LinkedIn profile page. The profile belongs to “Brayden Van Der Sterling, III” with a unicorn emoji next to the name. His profile photo is a black-and-white headshot of a young man in a turtleneck and blazer. The cover photo shows him onstage giving a talk in front of a large screen that reads “DISRUPT OR DIE.” His headline is an exaggerated, buzzword-filled list: “VISIONARY | 10x Growth Ninja🚀 | Chief Evangelist @ stealth-mode AI/Blockchain/Kombucha startup | Helping Fortune 500 CEOs maximize human synergy | TEDx Speaker (Applicant) | Forbes 30 Under 30 (Nominee) | Dog dad 🐕 | Coffee Addict ☕ | Why are you still reading this? Let’s connect! 🔥” Below is an “About” section with equally over-the-top, jargon-heavy text, starting with: “Brayden doesn’t just work. Brayden shifts paradigms.” The rest of the page shows recent posts, icons for Home, My Profile, Posts, Notifications, and Likes near the top, and office clutter around the desk—mugs, papers, and a keyboard—visible in the foreground.
November 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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sky.skymarchini.net
As we're all familiar, LLMs are generally not reproducible. That is, even if you put the same prompt in, you're going to keep getting different results out.
There's been some excellent research lately into A. Why that is and B. How to solve it. thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeati...
Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
Reproducibility is a bedrock of scientific progress. However, it’s remarkably difficult to get reproducible results out of large language models. For example, you might observe that asking ChatGPT the...
thinkingmachines.ai
November 22, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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nic221.bsky.social
Q3 Global Power Report: No fossil fuel growth expected in 2025 | Ember ember-energy.org/latest-insight… #energy #renewables
Text Shot: No growth in fossil power is expected in 2025 as clean power growth meets all new demand. Record growth in solar power, combined with moderate wind growth, exceeded the rise in electricity demand in the first three quarters of 2025, even when accounting for a fall in hydropower. As a result of fast-rising clean power, fossil generation in the global power sector is expected to remain flat in 2025 for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic.
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 AM
fpl9000.bsky.social
www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-cl...
Anthropic's first AI classes with Coursera are here
Anthropic launched two new AI courses on Coursera: one for developers and one for working professionals looking to learn how to use Claude.
www.businessinsider.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
fpl9000.bsky.social
Claude gets sandboxing.
claude.com/blog/beyond-...
Beyond permission prompts: making Claude Code more secure and autonomous | Claude
In Claude Code, Claude writes, tests, and debugs code alongside you, navigating your codebase, editing multiple files, and running commands to verify its work.
claude.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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nic221.bsky.social
Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3 - Ethan Mollick www.oneusefulthing.org/p/three-years-… #AI #Gemini3
Three years ago, we were impressed that a machine could write a poem about otters. Less than 1,000 days later, I am debating statistical methodology with an agent that built its own research environment. The era of the chatbot is turning into the era of the digital coworker. To be very clear, Gemini 3 isn't perfect, and it still needs a manager who can guide and check it. But it suggests that "human in the loop" is evolving from "human who fixes Al mistakes" to "human who directs AI work." And that may be the biggest change since the release of ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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technologyreview.com
A group of quantum physicists managed to cut the size of the AI reasoning model by more than half—and claim it can now answer politically sensitive questions once off limits in Chinese AI systems.
Quantum physicists have shrunk and “de-censored” DeepSeek R1
They managed to cut the size of the AI reasoning model by more than half—and claim it can now answer politically sensitive questions once off limits in Chinese AI systems.
www.technologyreview.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
fpl9000.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq-2...
Demis Hassabis & Josh Woodward tell us why Gemini 3.0 puts Google in front of the A.I. race
YouTube video by Hard Fork
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November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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longnow.org
The newest book from Long Now cofounder @stewartbrand.bsky.social is now available from @stripepress.bsky.social.

Brand explores why taking responsibility for maintaining something—a motorcycle, a monument, or our very planet—can be a radical act.

Preorder here: press.stripe.com/maintenance-...
Stripe Press — Maintenance
An in-depth exploration of maintenance, and a powerful argument for its civilizational importance.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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emollick.bsky.social
I had access to Gemini 3. It is a very good, very fast model. It also demonstrates the change from chatbot to agent. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/three-year...
Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
From chatbots to agents
www.oneusefulthing.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
fpl9000.bsky.social
github.com/AnandChowdha...
GitHub - AnandChowdhary/continuous-claude: 🔂 Run Claude Code in a continuous loop, autonomously creating PRs, waiting for checks, and merging
🔂 Run Claude Code in a continuous loop, autonomously creating PRs, waiting for checks, and merging - AnandChowdhary/continuous-claude
github.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Mindscape Ask Me Anything | November 2025. We dive into wealth inequality, superintelligent AI risks, how to judge nonsense, quantum entanglement, and more. Patreon supporters get a picture of Caliban and a skeleton. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for Mindscape AMA episode.
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
fpl9000.bsky.social
"[...] we're introducing Code Wiki, a platform that maintains a continuously updated, structured wiki for code repositories."
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Introducing Code Wiki: Accelerating your code understanding- Google Developers Blog
Accelerate code understanding with Code Wiki's automated, intelligent, and integrated wiki platform for code repositories.
share.google
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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luok.ai
Google’s NotebookLM just dropped Deep Research—finally, research that feels like autopilot. 🚀

It browses hundreds of sites, compiles an organized report, and gives you an annotated source list you can drop straight into your notebook. Perfect for strategy docs, briefs, and deep dives.
November 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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mattstrassler.bsky.social
At the Harvard Bookstore (the independent bookshop in Harvard Square) at 7pm on Monday November 17th: Professor Whiteson will be talking about his whimsical-yet-serious book and answering tough questions from me and from you. profmattstrassler.com/2025/11/14/e...
Event with Prof. Daniel Whiteson on Monday November 17 at 7pm
Monday, November 17th at 7pm, I'll be at Harvard Bookstore with particle physicist and author Daniel Whiteson, co-author of "Do Aliens Speak Physics?"
profmattstrassler.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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matthiasmichel.bsky.social
Happy to be on this new paper: "Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems" - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... The paper expands on some of the methodological points made in the Butlin et al. 2023 report on AI Consciousness.
Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems
Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities has drawn fresh attention to the prospect of consciousness in AI. There is an urgent need …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM