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• Molly White
The Trump administration cracks down on software to limit surveillance of crypto transactions, while celebrating a “deregulatory blitz” tailored for its billionaire benefactors
“Today, general officers no longer seem to see themselves as guardians of the constitutional order. It now seems clear to us that the military will not rescue Americans from Mr. Trump’s misuse of the nation’s military capabilities.”
A forthcoming book from long-time technology writer David Pogue: Apple: The First 50 Years. “Deeply researched & lavishly illustrated, Apple: The First 50 Years includes new interviews with 150 key people who made the journey, including Steve Wozniak…”
How Does A Blind Model See The Earth?
Fun, creative new micro-eval. Split the world into a sampled collection of latitude longitude points and for each one ask a model:
If this location is over land, say 'Land'. If this location is over water, say 'Water'. Do not say anything else.
Author henry goes a step further: for models that expose logprobs they use the relative probability scores of Land or Water to get a confidence level, for other models they prompt four times at temperature 1 to get a score.
And then.. they plot those probabilities on a chart! Here's Gemini 2.5 Flash (one of the better results):
This reminds me of my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark in that it gives you an instant visual representation that's very easy to compare between different models.
Via @natolambert
Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms, evals
A 90-minute video of making a batch of woodblock prints “from blank paper to finished print” from the printer’s POV. Relaxing & ASMR-adjacent.
“‘This Show Felt Like It Was Falling Out of Me’. Six female artists on how they prepared for their major solo debuts this fall.”
I love that The Kid Should See This has dozens of videos about poop, including a recent one about why poop is brown.
