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Comment · 9 hours ago
"think", "believe" - maybe, but this is why we need better measurability.
Comment · 8 days ago
This looks really cool - but are we still doing TUIs?
Comment · 13 days ago
Looking at the comments here it's clear that there's a lack of understanding about what skills fundamentally are, they're process or procedure.

The latest frontier models exhibit good process that was trained into them during the RL phase, and whilst that might make them massively more capable in terms of one-shot, or general coding ability, models without skills simply don't have a durable process.

If you have a need for procedure in your use of agents, you absolutely need skills like this. I'm not commenting on the relative merits of this or superpowers, but rather the seemingly religious debate, "skills are good" vs "skills are bad" discussion that keeps coming up.

Comment · 14 days ago
They're about half a gen behind. Very impressive to get this kind of utility from a flash series model... the impact of RL seems to be behind much of the coding and agentic improvements lately.
Comment · 15 days ago
Nice - I use GLM 5.3 flash for knowledge work now - will check this out.
Comment · 25 days ago
Especially now these scam videos can be made on an industrial scale.
Comment · 26 days ago
it has to be parameters only
Comment · 1 month ago
I agree. If an agent needs to assume an identity, it needs a human in the loop to authorise - browser oauth is convenient for this.

Agents are not identities, they need to be granted permission to accomplish tasks. The identity is the person that grants the permission.

If no identity is required then this is simple machine-machine API keys.

Comment · 1 month ago
I often see Hubble in the twilight, it's one of the few big satellites you can readily see with the naked eye - not quite as bright as the ISS but pretty close.

Why have i never seen these, is it simply that I wasn't looking for them?

Comment · 1 month ago
> no doubt built by an offshore contractor

More likely by a big 4 firm who collected fees exceeding AUD 100m

Comment · 1 month ago
Ah yes that was a whole era of programming for me. It was really fast to ship features... and then came the web!
Comment · 1 month ago
I think the world would be jumping into alignments like this if the US hadn't spent the last 80 years building a "nuclear umbrella" for the "western alliance" with itself in the centre.

I bet many countries would prefer to disassociate with US foreign policy right now if they weren't security dependent.

I expect after this destructive episode in history has played out, if we're all still alive and free in another decade then there will be alternative umbrellas.

Comment · 1 month ago
Greetings professor Falcon.
Comment · 1 month ago
The best advice is to use evals to improve any code that produces output that goes into the LLMs context.
Comment · 1 month ago
I imagine it's a side-effect of another fraud prevention effort. In my experience ad fraud on a google search ad is at least 17% of traffic, and potentially a lot more.

Whilst I don't doubt that Google invest heavily in fraud prevention, they're not actually succeeding.

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