Derek Brans

@patrickkeenanme Working on agent interaction ideas I'd love to riff on. I'm in the east end so a video call might be easiest. Shoot me a note at dbrans@gmail.com.

If you’re working on a new abstraction and you’re in Toronto, I want to talk!

@sam_paech @flopsy42 @altryne Got it - was GPT-5.4 one of the models where reasoning could be turned off here, and was it off for this run?

@flopsy42 @altryne Reasoning off for all of these evals, where possible. I find it never helps and usually harms performance on these tasks.

New results! GPT-5.4: Places 1st, 2nd & 3rd on creative writing, longform writing & EQ-Bench respectively Grok-4.20: Refusals everywhere, and consequently low scores Hunter-alpha: New 1M context stealth model on openrouter. Possibly Qwen-3.5 max?

@sam_paech @sam_paech I would love to see the Claude 4.6 models on spiral-bench.

Sonnet-4.6 takes top place on all my evals: EQ-Bench, Creative writing, Longform writing & Judgemark. Opus 4.6 within margin of error. GLM-5 and Qwen3.5-397B nipping at their heels.

@lyft @AskLyft Resolved, thank you!

@dbrans @AskLyft Please reach out to us via DM for assistance. twitter.com/messages/compo…

@AskLyft Driver has my phone, we've both contacted @lyft support multiple times, no response in 2+ days.

Quietly & steadily, GPT-4o keeps improving. It's holding #2 on Chatbot Arena (Apr 1, 2025: huggingface.co/spaces/lmarena…), impressively keeping up with newer, more complex models. Results > Rhetoric. #GPT4o #AI #LLMs

@louis030195 @screenpipe @hackernews Link?

also someone posted @screenpipe on @hackernews and got 158 upvotes, help us grow even more!

We’re excited to announce another round of RISC Zero's Study Club! Feb 1 & 15 Mar 15 & 29 9am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm UTC Zoom Link: zoom.us/j/99200763534 [1/]

@CitImmCanada The application was tracked and received by IRCC in September. It's been almost 3 months of silence. I feel helpless.

@CitImmCanada "We are ... unable to transfer you to an agent". I've been getting this message for 5 weeks. Until I have a receipt for my 10-month old son's citizenship certificate application he is unable to get medical attention he badly needs. Please help!

Verifying my identity for @viamirror sig:0x59f89f44a7fad5683388aabc457b65c44176ce80744c982feee46c4047d0d07b3ff97eb126dadf802a83de4ec559533fe44fa8c3d0d0b8da77718f175581a0971b mirror.xyz

i'm in need of some Test ETH (#Rinkeby Network) for some testing purpose, i'd really appreciate if someone spare some Test #ETH for me. Official Rinkeby faucet is not working for me. my address: 0x7E6DeBC5C20a4300Ac33A756Deecc2aCc3FE3435

Requesting faucet funds into 0x7E6DeBC5C20a4300Ac33A756Deecc2aCc3FE3435 on the #Rinkeby #Ethereum test network.

@NotionHQ @FreddyFromNO +1

@FreddyFromNO No way to duplicate without "copy of," unfortunately 😓 We do have a ticket open with our engineering team to consider removing this copy, since a few other users have asked about this too. Will nudge them to prioritize this!

@NotionHQ Is there a way to duplicate table entries without it adding "copy of XXX" to the title field? I need to add ~40 elements where many of them share 4 fields, and I'm not very interested in removing "copy of" all the time. (Or manually make a csv, for that matter.)

I got a haircut just before quarantine started, but I'm starting to think I should have gotten two.

A perspective on the role of AI in our economy - Using AI to create jobs (video) by Tim O'Reilly safaribooksonline.com/library/view/s… via @safari

A Mustachian DIY-renovates a 45,000 square foot building into a mixed-use utopia, making entire the city awesome: youtube.com/watch?v=ya28XS…

Frustration free packaging... Really @amazon?

It’s not too late to get tickets to Z Space’s Gala this Thursday. Come enjoy a night of great theatre! zspace.org/gala2016

@todoist @achoukah Found it, thanks!