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Wayne Radinsky
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Software engineer, futurist
"The vast majority of assignments that were traditionally used to assess -- and, more importantly, challenge -- students can now easily be outsourced to ChatGPT."

www.persuasion.community/p/why-ill-en...

#ai #education
Why I’ll Encourage My Students to Use AI
Here’s a better strategy for equipping students for the age of artificial intelligence.
www.persuasion.community
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 AM
DeepSeek R1's censorship of politically sensitive topics has been removed by Multiverse Computing, a company in Spain that does both AI and quantum computing.

multiversecomputing.com/resources/de...

#deepseek
DeepSeek R1 Uncensored: Full Power, Fraction of the Size
Today, Multiverse Computing is releasing an uncensored, 55% compressed variant of DeepSeek R1 that does not compromise on performance putting the full p...
multiversecomputing.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 AM
"WeatherNext 2 can generate forecasts 8x faster and with resolution up to 1-hour."

blog.google/technology/g...

#ai #weatherforecasting
WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model
The new AI model delivers more efficient, more accurate and higher-resolution global weather predictions.
blog.google
November 26, 2025 at 3:38 AM
"I caught Google Gemini using my data -- and then covering it up."

"I asked Google Gemini a pretty basic developer question. The answer was unremarkable, apart from it mentioning in conclusion that it knows I previously used a tool called Alembic:"

unbuffered.stream/gemini-perso...
I caught Google Gemini using my data—and then covering it up
I asked Google Gemini a pretty basic developer question. The answer was unremarkable, apart from it mentioning in conclusion that it knows I previously used ...
unbuffered.stream
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
"CoreWeave first came to my attention because it innovated in something that surprised me: using GPU as collateral for $2.3 billion in loans at an effective interest rate of 15 percent in the last quarter, according to the company's most recent quarterly filing."

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Meet CoreWeave, the AI industry’s ticking time bomb
The debt-laden AI compute company has been boosted by Nvidia.
www.theverge.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Latent Library is a library of infinite books, because they don't exist until you read them -- then they're generated by large language models. Alrighty then. I suspect LLMs are not quite good enough yet for this idea.

latentlibrary.xyz

#solidstatelife #ai #genai
latentlibrary.xyz
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Documented state-level cyberattack carried out largely autonomously by AI agents.

www.promptfoo.dev/blog/will-ag...
Will agents hack everything? | Promptfoo
The first state-level AI cyberattack raises hard questions: Can we stop AI agents from helping attackers? Should we?
www.promptfoo.dev
November 20, 2025 at 3:59 AM
OlmoEarth is a new state-of-the-art Earth observation foundation model family from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

allenai.org/blog/olmoear...

#ai #earthobservation
OlmoEarth: A new state-of-the-art Earth observation foundation model family | Ai2
OlmoEarth is a new family of industry-leading open foundation models built to make Earth AI practical, scalable, and performant for real-world applications.
allenai.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 AM
"Remarkably, if the system of record provides strict serializability, like TigerBeetle, and if ordering is correctly applied, then the system as a whole preserves strict serializability, leading to a delightful developer experience."

tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-11...
The Write Last, Read First Rule
Insights, updates, and technical deep dives on building a high-performance financial transactions database.
tigerbeetle.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM
AI-powered fortune telling?

"Combining traditional fortune telling with AI technology for deeper and more personalized destiny analysis."

Seriously? Alrighty then. I guess someone had to do it. You can add "AI fortune telling" to your list of "things that already happened".

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November 14, 2025 at 3:25 AM
"Blade Manipulator" trucks use "a hydraulically operated adapter mounted on a 10 axle trailer that can manipulate a single 29,000kg turbine blade around tight corners and over vegetation by raising it on an angle to a maximum of 40 degrees."

reneweconomy.com.au/marvel-of-en...
reneweconomy.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 AM
"The status quo of AI chip usage, that was once almost entirely US-based, is changing. China's immense progress in open-weight AI development is now being met with rapid domestic AI chip development."

huggingface.co/blog/hugging...
On the Shifting Global Compute Landscape
A Blog post by Hugging Face on Hugging Face
huggingface.co
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
"The path to a superhuman AI mathematician."

"In math, you can verify the answer with Lean. So if you just ask AI to produce its proofs in Lean, labeling the correct answers can be done automatically. Even if it is a long proof, we humans can trust that it is correct."

cacm.acm.org/news/the-pat...
The Path to a Superhuman AI Mathematician – Communications of the ACM
cacm.acm.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:38 AM
"Since Garry Tan took over in 2023, Y Combinator founders have gotten much younger. The average age of founders had been holding steady around ~29 years since 2015, but now it stands at ~26 years and falling."

jaredheyman.medium.com/on-the-new-y...
On the ‘new’ Y Combinator
Over the last few years, Y Combinator has gone through two major transformations at the same time: the AI revolution & Garry Tan returning…
jaredheyman.medium.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:34 AM
"Spinning Plates" "... and experienced devs keep reporting the same weird combo: they feel faster while also suspecting they're learning less."

www.dylanamartin.com/2025/11/07/s...
The AI Deskilling Paradox – Communications of the ACM
cacm.acm.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 AM
The AI deskilling paradox. "A study published in 2025 in The Lancet of Gastroenterology & Hepatology found that endoscopists who routinely used AI for assistance in colonoscopies performed worse if access to the technology suddenly disappeared."

cacm.acm.org/news/the-ai-...
The AI Deskilling Paradox – Communications of the ACM
cacm.acm.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
"AI systems are increasingly implicated in harmful events. Just since the beginning of 2025, 279 new incidents have been added to the AI Incident Database, a nonprofit effort dedicated to tracking realized harm from AI deployment."

cset.georgetown.edu/publication/...

#aisafety
The Mechanisms of AI Harm: Lessons Learned from AI Incidents | Center for Security and Emerging Technology
As artificial intelligence systems are deployed and affect more aspects of daily life, effective risk mitigation becomes imperative to prevent harm. This report analyzes AI incidents to improve our un...
cset.georgetown.edu
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
"More than a million ChatGPT users each week send messages that include 'explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent', according to a blogpost published by OpenAI."

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

#solidstatelife #ai #genai #llms #aiethics #aisafety
More than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT, OpenAI estimates
Finding is one of most direct statements from the tech company on how AI can exacerbate mental health issues
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
"Many of the tests used to measure the capabilities and safety of large language models (LLMs) lack scientific rigour" according to "a new study led by the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford."

www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

#solidstatelife #ai #genai #llms
OII | Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated
Largest systematic review of AI benchmarks highlights need for clearer definitions and stronger scientific standards.
www.oii.ox.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 AM
When given IQ tests designed for humans, large language models have increased their top score from about 95 to about 130 in the last year (allegedly).

www.maximumtruth.org/p/deep-dive-...
DEEP DIVE: AI progress continues, as IQ scores rise linearly
In spite of reports about a plateau in AI intelligence, advances continue
www.maximumtruth.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
"TabPFN-2.5 Model Report"

TabPFN claims to be the world's first foundation model for tabular data, and I didn't know it existed until the 2.5th release.

priorlabs.ai/technical-re...

#solidstatelife #ai #genai #llms
Prior Labs
priorlabs.ai
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
The end of the renewable energy honeymoon? Wind and solar energy is intermittent, and when it is high, the supply of energy exceeds demand in a given local area. This problem has three solutions, but all three solutions increase costs.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiv9...
THE END of the renewable energy honeymoon | Zoe Hilton
YouTube video by Centre for Independent Studies
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
"Grokipedia: a first look", by Wikipedia's lesser-known co-founder Larry Sanger.

"Last night, I browsed a number of entries and did a deep-dive into an article on the topic on which I am the undisputed leading expert in the entire world: 'Larry Sanger.'"

larrysanger.org/2025/10/grok...
Grokipedia: a first look
To begin with my credentials for those who arrive here not knowing who I am: I've started, or helped start, five encyclopedias and meta-encyclopedia projects, including Wikipedia.((I founded Nupedia a...
larrysanger.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:41 AM