Jonathan Ellis
@spyced
Brokk founder. Previously DataStax co-founder, JVector author, and Apache Cassandra project chair.
open models are now topping designarena dot ai, a LMArena-style voting site for frontend generation gg 🫡
Why do @AnthropicAI, @OpenAI and @GeminiApp prevent the full copying / export of their Deep Research reports from the web interface? The system(s) go to so much effort to load in a ton of sources, annotate the output with little pseudo-footnotes, but then when you click the…
no. we know quite a bit, but education schools reject it for ideological reasons this article is a pretty solid summary of the state of things x.com/MrZachG/status…
Cognitive Science Fails to Register in US but hey, I’m trying! the74million.org/article/cognit…
I wish more people knew about py3-wget, it is great to download files in python I tried to use LLaVA-NeXT on my MAC and this 'pget' gave errors Used py3-wget, shortened the code by 16 LOC and fixed the bug py3-wget is OS agnostic, has progress bar, can cksum [1/2]
A brief thread on distillation, talking about (1) how it works (2) why it works and why students can learn to classify unseen classes (3) why students need less data than teachers (4) why students can outperform teachers (5) why the training data is not what you think it is (1/8)
Twenty years after I took a negotiations class, the 3 class members who were by far the best negotiators in our mock case studies have had the least impressive careers. Need to leave room for the other guy to win a too or they won’t want to do business with you again.
We sometimes forget how stupid everything became.
In essence, "decolonizing your bookshelf" is about actively resisting and casting aside the colonialist ideas of narrative, storytelling, and literature that have pervaded the American psyche for so long, says @itsjuanlove. trib.al/VKxyuRp
some tips: literally the very first thing you should do after you create a file bucket is block public access (infrastructure as code solves this). don't mix concerns in the same bucket. temporary (driver's license photo) and long term (images attached to posts) should go to…
TL;DR: Open source AI just closed the gap. (at least on benchmark scores) Qwen3-Thinking (235B) is now shoulder to shoulder with the frontier giants. AI just changed forever. No strings: Apache 2. Download it now.
🚀 We’re excited to introduce Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 — our most advanced reasoning model yet! Over the past 3 months, we’ve significantly scaled and enhanced the thinking capability of Qwen3, achieving: ✅ Improved performance in logical reasoning, math, science & coding…
We can turn this fertility crisis around. It's rooted in a mimetic contagion, it can be reversed by a mimetic cure. Parenthood is the highest purpose most people will ever discover. x.com/LukeDiebold/st…
@dhh 15 years ago I decided I didn't want kids. People around me said I should. That I'd be an amazing father. But I was too terrified by the weight of what it means to be a father. Your podcast with @lexfridman changed my mind. From the bottom of my heart, thankyou ❤️
so all the story about AI killing entry level jobs.... it was actually just entry level job postings returning to pre-COVID levels? so basically, the surge in retirements during COVID stopped, and so the need to widen the pipeline stopped, so hiring went back to baseline?…
🚀 We’re excited to introduce Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 — our most advanced reasoning model yet! Over the past 3 months, we’ve significantly scaled and enhanced the thinking capability of Qwen3, achieving: ✅ Improved performance in logical reasoning, math, science & coding…
Jupiter Hell Classic, coming out next month! <3 x.com/epyoncf/status…
The new Jupiter Hell Classic DEMO is live on Steam Next Fest! (LINK in reply) DoomRL reborn! Turn-based tactics, permadeath, and shotguns — old-school roguelike carnage! Play it. **Review it**. Spread it. Retweet it! <3 #roguelike #SteamNextFest #JupiterHell
It boggles my mind how people have made prominent careers out of writing a paper with a scary headline about AI risks that would have produced a non-scary headline with a minor tweak to the set-up and/or probably isn't a meaningfully real phenomenon in the first place.
education fights are old fights C.S. Lewis in "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" (1959) outlines a plan for the destruction of excellence in schools h/t @tastem_pacper
I am getting tired from influencers with little to no tech industry experience to write stupid stuff like this for likes. As @simonw said: “Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry thanks to the invention of the table saw.”
its over for cs grads. if you are in cs just leave the field. its never been so over. just pivot. go do something else but cs. do it now. its getting out of hand. anything but cs.
Nearly everyone has given up on urban K-12 reform. Politicians no longer talk about it. There's but one city, Houston, attempting wholesale reform and early results are incredibly promising. Cities from across the US are starting to pay attention. In 2023, after years of falling…
How it started: "AI vibe coding tools will replace devs!" How it's going: "Do this: - Provide it w a detailed spec - Break down tasks to small ones - Separate dev and prod envs - Do NOT give access to the agent to prod - Never trust the agent; verify every step it takes - ...
Update: On the first try of using chatgpt agent, it surfaced a reference from 2015 which contained a proof of the result in question. The paper was on an unrelated topic. It was hidden in the appendix and was missing many relevant keywords.
Update: I didn't solve the problem Over the last 6 months, I've tried pretty hard to use LLMs to solve a (I think) not too difficult problem in a nearby field (learning theory). The answers have gone from terrible to plausible, and I actually understand the problem better now.