Benjamin Thomas

"Après six années passées à Istanbul, Nicolas Brun rentre au bercail pour assembler une carte postale sensorielle, une invitation au voyage aromatique frappée de soleil liquide" whiskymag.fr/article/des-sc…

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back. Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-mul…

If I’m Anthropic, I’m locking Dario in a room for like a month and not letting him near the internet, a camera, or a microphone. Just let OpenAI look weird by themselves for a while. Probably, though, he’ll pen a NYT editorial warning that AI will steal your girl.

Season 5 Ep8: Clarifications Rewind to #TheWire 24th anniversary Psychological profile of the serial killer.

people are speculating GPT-Image-2 is testing on @arena. the early examples being posted are pretty mind-boggling. all three of these images are AI generated. h/t @sawlygg @synthwavedd

I taught Claude to talk like a caveman to use 75% less tokens. normal claude: ~180 tokens for a web search task caveman claude: ~45 tokens for the same task "I executed the web search tool" = 8 tokens caveman version: "Tool work" = 2 tokens every single grunt swap saves 6-10 tokens. across a FULL task that's 50-100 tokens saved why does it work? caveman claude doesn't explain itself. it does its task first. gives the result. then stops. no "I'd be happy to help you with that." no "Let me search the web for you" no more unnecessary filler words "result. done. me stop." 50-75% burn reduction with usage limits getting tighter every week this might be the most practical hack out there right now

Claude watching me write code manually after I hit the daily limit

After @Pinterest @Airbnb @NotionHQ @cursor_ai, today it’s @eoghan @intercom publicly sharing that they’re finding it better, cheaper, faster to use and train open models themselves rather than use APIs for many tasks. And hundreds of other companies are doing the same without sharing. Ultimately, I believe the majority of AI workflows will be in-house based on open-source (vs API). It took much more time than we anticipated but it’s happening now!

In a British study, 11 year olds write free-form aspirational essays. You may think these are kinda useless, or at best amusing. It turns out if you make AI read them, they can predict the children's cognitive test scores pretty well. We're talking more than r = 0.70 well. This is in fact close to the reliability of some of the tests, suggesting the prediction is nearing perfection. Kinda difficult to believe, but certainly the predictions are quite good. We can thus imagine that in the future (or present), there is no need to do any cognitive tests for employment testing because the employer can simply estimate your IQ from your public posts on X. Or rather, your pre-AI public posts.

To confirm, this “100% AI generated” passage is the opening of chapter 5 from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

The first criminal case of streaming fraud where a North Carolina musician who used AI to make songs, then streamed them billions of times himself making $8 million

NBA Jam (1993)

Here is an example of troxler's effect Focus on green circle for a while and the yellow will disappear

Breaking: @pleiasfr and @nvidia release the first open synthetic dataset for personas in Europe: Nemotron-Personas-France. 1M synthetic French persons, with rich imaginary lives grounded on (complex) demographic distribution.

the wire.

A behind the scenes look at the making of the 1989 video game "Prince of Persia". Designer Jordan Mechner used rotoscoping to animate the movements of the game's characters, tracing video footage of his younger brother running and jumping (as well as video from old Errol Flynn films).

PRO TIP: Use Claude for free through Amazon customer support!

All answers sought from the silicon God must pass through the approved priesthood first. Very 1517.