KerrickStaley
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I live in San Francisco and do AI safety research at OpenAI. https://www.kerrickstaley.com/about
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Comment · 1 month ago
I worked on an early draft of the OpenAI misalignment reporting framework, and my immediate coworkers are the authors behind the first batch of reports that have come out through this process.
The primary reason for putting this process in place was to allow more transparency. There was a sense that the DseWiki incident should have been disclosed, before outside researchers had to disclose it for us.
There was no meta gaming about regulation that I was aware of. I would personally be excited if there were regulation mandating this disclosure process, which allows anyone at the company to raise an issue and shepherd it through the reporting process.
Comment · 1 month ago
Also endorsed by Sam Altman https://x.com/sama/status/2098811563415150910 and Elon Musk https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2098789109980332057
Comment · 1 month ago
Codex and Claude Code both respect ~/.agents/skills; you don't need to have ~/.codex/skills and ~/.claude/skills .
Comment · 3 months ago
I think someone also made this for MacBooks: https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor
Comment · 4 months ago
I don't think this is correct. The concentration of CO2 in air is about 0.04%, whereas the concentration of oxygen is 20%, so the partial pressure of oxygen is about 500x higher. This means that if, for example, 10% of the oxygen in a room spontaneously disappeared, it would be replaced about sqrt(500) = 22x faster through leaks in the room than a 10% spontaneous CO2 increase would dissipate. (This ignores a small effect due to the different density of the two gases).
So in practice the oxygen level can never drift meaningfully far from the atmospheric pressure, whereas carbon dioxide easily can because the pressures involved are so low.
Comment · 4 months ago
I use KOreader on my Kobo, which is an alternative open-source ebook renderer. It installs pretty easily without rooting the device. In addition to better standards compliance it also is a lot more performant and has niceties like auto cropping of PDFs.
Comment · 4 months ago
A somewhat related experience: I asked for advice on Twitter about something and got two unhelpful AI-generated responses (from accounts I have never heard of / don’t follow) and no human responses. The thing is that I already asked multiple frontier AIs the same question and didn’t get a satisfying answer. I specifically went to Twitter because AI did not have the answers I was looking for. Providing an AI answer to a human question assumes that the asker hasn’t already done their homework and tried asking an AI.
Comment · 5 months ago
Good point; I didn't realize that GOOG/META/AMZN were outside the scope of VGT. Is there a good alternative to QQQ/VGT that you would recommend?
Comment · 5 months ago
I think VGT is a good QQQ replacement. It is based [1] on the MSCI US Investable Market Information Technology 25/50 Index which is free-float adjusted [2] [3], meaning that SpaceX will have a lower weight due to its lower free float. Also, VGT has a substantially lower expense ratio (9 bps / year [4]) than QQQ (18 bps / year [5]). You can compare VGT and QQQ's holdings on these pages [6] [7].
[1] https://fund-docs.vanguard.com/F0958.pdf
[2] https://www.msci.com/indexes/documents/methodology/2_MSCI_25...
[3] https://www.msci.com/documents/10199/6bafd9e3-0474-f03b-16bd...
[4] https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/etfs/profi...
[5] https://www.invesco.com/qqq-etf/en/about.html
Comment · 5 months ago
This reminds me of Vibe Kanban (https://vibekanban.com/) which I use to manage coding agents on most of my projects.
The Vibe Kanban developers unfortunately decided that they didn't see a path to profitability and have stopped investing in the project. It's open source and so you can run it locally / fork it, but it has stopped improving and there are still annoying bugs that need to be fixed (and I don't have time to maintain it personally). This makes me sad because I would be willing to pay for Vibe Kanban, but I didn't need the features their paid plan offered (in retrospect maybe I should have paid anyway).
I'll give Kanbots a go :) I'd recommend liberally copying features from Vibe Kanban. In particular the remote support and "Open in VS Code" button (which in my case opens a local VSCode client pointing to a remote VSCode server) are critical for me.
Comment · 5 months ago
You can also make ZIP files smaller by switching the compression from Deflate to Zstandard. In the one case I tried this, this resulted in a 60% file size decrease [1]. Unfortunately Info-ZIP which provides the unzip command hasn't had a release in 18 years, so it doesn't support this newer compression/decompression method. You have to use 7-Zip instead.
[1] https://github.com/UKGovernmentBEIS/inspect_ai/pull/3145
Comment · 5 months ago
Here’s a good 2 minute explainer https://youtu.be/HVv_IQKlafQ
Comment · 5 months ago
Another library in this space is pcodec; I'd appreciate a comparison of the two.
Comment · 6 months ago
I love this! It reminds me of https://cursordanceparty.com/ which was built by a friend about 15 years ago and is still online :)