Colin Megill

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Colin Megill

Colin Megill

@colinmegill

cofounder @UsePolis board @CompDem ⚗️ make OSS for open democracies && open science

San Francisco, CA Katılım Ağustos 2008
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Colin Megill
Colin Megill@colinmegill·
Yes it can! Community Notes is based on @UsePolis, open source technology deployed by the policy innovation units of three national governments: @TAIWANmoda, @PolicyLabUK and @SitraFund (Finland) Read: wired.com/story/elon-mus… via @carljackmiller
Paul Novosad@paulnovosad

This is really neat: Community Notes work because they estimate users' political preferences and upweight notes that are liked by users of all stripes. I wonder if other parts of our democracy could be improved with mechanisms like this. vitalik.ca/general/2023/0…

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Przemek Chojecki | PC
Przemek Chojecki | PC@prz_chojecki·
Another 9 open Erdos problems solved, this time by DeepMind team. Interesting loop of LLM - Lean agents working autonomously, and only after it's verified formally, going through human review.
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Will Eastcott
Will Eastcott@willeastcott·
Walking inside a 5,000 year-old Neolithic burial site, perfectly preserved in 3D. 🏛️✨ This is the Kleinenknetener Steine II in Germany - a megalithic site from 3500 BC. Thanks to Gaussian Splatting, you can now explore these ancient monuments with stunning realism in your web browser. [1 / 2]
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WarTranslated@wartranslated·
Ukraine is training drone operators using a custom GTA V mod that simulates hunting Russian Shaheds in the air.
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IAMLIUBO
IAMLIUBO@its_hard_2_name·
Holly!I can’t believe this, you can play game boy on Paper S3 now.
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Marco Foster
Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_·
President Obama on Iran: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz”
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Congressman Greg Steube
Congressman Greg Steube@RepGregSteube·
Over 6.9 MILLION H-1b in 10 years isn’t a program to “fill extraordinary gaps”! My EXILE Act ENDS the H-1B program entirely. We have to start putting AMERICAN workers first!
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(((Tendar)))
(((Tendar)))@Tendar·
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio: The Russians are losing five times as many soldiers a month as the Ukrainians are. The Ukrainian army at the moment is the strongest army in Europe.
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Keith Humphreys
Keith Humphreys@KeithNHumphreys·
Very important lesson for Blue Cities here: Every change Lurie has made has been opposed by screaming, bullying activists -- ignoring them has been the path to policy success and extremely high popularity. @skaushik100 sfchronicle.com/election/artic…
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Ashlee Vance
Ashlee Vance@ashleevance·
AI and pharma are colliding. And so we did a deep dive on all the deals that have been done between these two camps and what all this means. Tremendous insights here from @joliegans corememory.com/p/pharmas-sput…
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Lis Smith
Lis Smith@Lis_Smith·
BREAKING: New poll shows @DanielLurie is the most popular American mayor. Key findings: - 74% of SF voters approve of him - Majorities support his handling of public safety, downtown revitalization, neighborhood cleanliness - He earns support from across the political spectrum
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Jack Clark
Jack Clark@jackclarkSF·
@karinanguyen There's also MLE-Bench, which is ecologically valid (tasks come from real kaggle competitions) and involves building a very diverse set of ML apps to solve specific problems. The same progress shows up here.
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Jack Clark
Jack Clark@jackclarkSF·
A lot of the conclusion comes from assembling a mosaic out of many distinct data sources. Some examples - progress on CORE-Bench, where the task is implementing other research papers (huge amounts of AI research comes from interpreting and replicating results)
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roon@tszzl·
alien technology how can you not love it
arb8020@arb8020

gpt-5.5 prompt for codex seems to have a duplicated line trying to get it to not talk about creatures? Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query. [...] Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query gh link: #L55" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/openai/codex/b…

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shb@himbodhisattva·
at long last, we have built the obfuscated internal dialogue from the famous thought experiment "don't give the models obfuscated internal dialogues"
Keshav Ramji@KeshavRamji

What if your language model could reason efficiently in an entirely new language? We introduce Abstract Chain-of-Thought, a new mechanism which allows language models to reason through a short sequence of reserved "abstract" tokens through reinforcement learning. It is as performant as verbalized CoT at a fraction of the cost, achieving major gains in inference-time efficiency.

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David Duvenaud
David Duvenaud@DavidDuvenaud·
@geoffreyirving We tried that! The vintage models can just barely start to do simple things with Python, purely from in-context learning:
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