mbeavitt

It's surprising that Pangram gives 0% AI text. There are notable examples of LLM writing here:

> Tied to a specific ballot is the stronger claim and requires one additional public record.

clearly a claude-ism

I guess the author went back and forth running pangram and slightly tweaking the text until it read "0% LLM text"

In a diverse population, the mutations that will drive the selection have in fact already happened. It doesn't matter how fast you move.

Penicillin used to kill 100% of Staphylococcus aureus. My point still stands - even if a selective sweep takes out 99% of the population, they will recover.

This is at best a temporary solution.

Oh come on. Does anyone actually believe gene drives will work? This fundamentally goes against the principles of natural selection.

A gene which incurs a fitness cost will be purged from the population under selection!!

I learned something new today

I'm not going to write some big blog post here, but this chat log is quite entertaining. I wrote a fundamental string algorithm in C and GPT 5.6 Sol on medium effort hallucinated not one but two correctness issues with the code!

Maybe this is not surprising to others but it's been a long while since I caught one of these models making such a glaring error.

Bring back DVD rentals!

In the US, you don't even need to pay a licensing fee when you buy a DVD with intent to rent it out to people (this is not the case in the UK), thanks to the "First-sale doctrine" - Bobbs-Merrill v. Straus (1908).

They did benchmark the model and beat the SOTA on every metric though

This headline is not correct. The ruling was that a constitutional lawsuit was not successful, not that the the US government has carte blanche to poison its citizens drinking water…

So, the correct headline would be “safe drinking water ruled not to be covered by the US constitution”. There are other binding agreements and regulations than the constitution in the US.

I don't have an NYT subscription but I'm familiar with this story. I think it's a bit blown out of proprtion... autoimmune gastritis is not a death sentence. I think Mr Johnston will probably find plenty of ways to cope with his vast wealth

It's crazy how these records are just quietly being broken by humanoid robots. What's next? What a time to be alive.

From their perspective, it's training data that their competitors don't have. If they make it available, they fill in their moat.

Wtf does this mean? “Their square display of olo occupied an angular width of 0.9°[1], around twice the diameter of the moon[7].”