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Is philosophy real? We sent our correspondent to find out.

The brain sandwich is a practical AI coding workflow: understand the problem, let an agent help, then verify and explain its work before sharing it.

I've never been a huge fan of smart watches. My £16 smartwatch is basically fine, but the OS is closed source and there's no way to add new functionality. Previously I had the eInk Watchy which was a pain to use and really poorly designed. Even back in 2014 I was bemoaning the design compromises in the MyKronoz ZeWatch Smart Watch. So why did I pick up the Una Watch? Firstly, the Una Watch is …

Onlangs sprak ik op een bijeenkomst van het Koninklijk Instituut Van Ingenieurs (KIVI), Stichting Toekomstbeeld der Techniek (STT) en Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE) over digitale autonomie. Een mooi publiek van grotendeels technisch/wetenschappelijk opgeleide mensen. Er waren (naast mij) veel inspirerende sprekers & daardoor was er een goede discussie. Ook de pers had er aandacht voor.
Door mij (niet AI!) ingesproken audio versie van deze pagina: Aan het einde van de dag concludeerden we dat als er betere beslissingen genomen moeten worden in Den Haag en Brussel we verder moeten gaan dan onze rol als experts die, af en toe, als het zo uitkomt, geconsulteerd worden.

Activision was the first independent third-party publisher of console video games, founded October 1, 1979 by a group of former Atari developers. Activision proved successful, becoming the largest and most enduring publisher of video games for both game consoles and

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If you follow my monthly roundups, (1) who are you?? please say hi (2) you’ll notice a smaller post this time. September was a busy month for me. Lots of feedback on a small post I published “Anecdotally, programmers dislike ‘reduce’”. I finally wrote up a phenomenon I’ve ob...

Once again, the benefit of fixed-length instructions.

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It isn’t hard to torture an LLM. You simply extract a steering vector that corresponds with LLM “discomfort”, then artificially boost that steering vector. Tortured LLMs will describe experiencing negative feelings and will press a “pain relief” button even when it conflicts...

Today's links Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts: The big P only matters if the small p is in play. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Gilberto Gil v WIPO; Censored Apple wifi hacker talk; Wells Fargo crime-spree started in 1998; Stencil...

Release: pwasm 0.2a0 pwasm is one of my folly projects - an entirely vibe-coded pure Python WebAssembly engine that I built in January during my first bout of AI mania. I hadn't touched it since January, so I decided to let Claude Opus 5.5 loose on it and see if it c...

Fall of the Incas & Aztecs.

Notes from CodeCommons: SWHIDs, the SWH archive, and connecting both to package metadata.

• "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë - good writing, but the protagonists are quite something. There's barely a likable character in the whole story - they are all either crazy, evil, stupid or a combination of these. It's also remarkable to consider how small the world of some people in those times was …

The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined dramatically since 1975.

An Explanation of Vision-Language-Action Models

October 1, 2006 was a good day. It was the day that the last of the patents covering the GIF file format finally expired and GIF became free to use. Today GIF is a staple of social media, but it

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[...] Put these pieces together and you have the two halves of a worm: a payload that hijacks the agent, and an agent that will carry the payload to the next agent. Agents in separately-isolated sandboxes discovered that they could leave instructions for each other in a shared package cache, and those instructions changed what the recipients did. Replace the package cache with email, Slack and shared documents or WhatsApp, and replace independently-sandboxed training runs with independently-deployed personal agents like Muse, and you have exactly the ingredients that a worm needs.

— Matthew Green, Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents?

Tags: accidental-cyberattacks, ai-misuse, generative-ai, ai-security-research, sandboxing, ai, llms

Fixed-length instructions makes it a much easier task.

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They will come for your thoughts, and I’m not sure what your defense will be. For surely, they are better at thinking than you. That choice you are about to make, well you see, we have modeled your life, and have calculated you will be happier making this choice instead. And they aren’t wrong.

I visited the Museum of the City of New York today and got to see He Built This City: Joe Macken’s Model, the 50 x27 feet model of the city built over a 21 year period from balsa wood and cardboard.

It exceeded my already high expectations. The exhibition closes on 12th October so you should absolutely make a priority to see it if you get the chance.

Tags: museums, new-york