2026-04-17
Tool to build & run portable, lightweight, self-contained virtual machines.
Rust client for the huggingface hub aiming for minimal subset of features over `huggingface-hub` python package
Quadratic complexity detection
With max thinking Opus 4.7 is quite impressive, with a real sense of style In two prompts: "implement the Tower of Babel, in 3D, in as sophisticated and visually interesting a way as possible. It should be interactive" and then "make it better." Play: tower-of-babel-1776392618.netlify.app
I was told by Anthropic that they are looking at ways of fixing this, which is good.
My colleagues in the Georgia Tech School of Cybersecurity and Policy are mentioned in this piece on Claude Mythos
I went on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social this week to discuss the recent developments in AI's capabilities, as well as the potential harms and concentration of power they could entail. Thanks @vicderbyshire.bsky.social for having me on the show! www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
This very nice paper provides some useful pushback against PRH. To me science is like a damped pendulum, where we need to swing back and forth a few times before converging on truth. So don't worry PRH fans, I'll be trying to swing us back out of the cave again soon!
I'll give Anthropic credit for moving quickly. Opus 4.7 Adaptive Thinking now triggers thinking much more often, including for the tasks it failed at yesterday. That also means it is doing a lot more web search. So far, a large improvement in output quality on non-coding tasks.
Also available as video on PeerTube: peertube.dair-institute.org/w/wj7Grbrxg6...
“Responsible” development of “AI” is … having refugees annotate data for the US military?? @alexhanna.bsky.social and I take that apart with Niamh McIntyre on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, episode 75: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
#TalkAboutHumanities We need scholars across the humanities, because these are the fields where we study what it is to be human, to inhabit different identities, and to connect with each other, to be human together. youtu.be/T7Lc6QNxolQ...
NYC friends what are you doing on Thursday April 30? How about joining me and @alexhanna.bsky.social for our first ever live taping of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000? www.eventbrite.com/e/mystery-ai...
Every time I sift through the Fresh AI Hell to select 6-8 for the end of an episode it’s so hard to choose. It’s time for @alexhanna.bsky.social and I to slog through the backlog again on our next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream! Monday, April 20, noon PT, twitch.tv/dair_institute
A high-level introduction to the "structured singular value" and what it teaches us about the art of uncertainty quantification.
<p>This year's <a href="https://us.pycon.org/2026/">PyCon US</a> is coming up next month from May 13th to May 19th, with the core conference talks from Friday 15th to Sunday 17th and tutorial and sprint days either side. It's in Long Beach, California this year, the first time PyCon US has come to...