rileyleff 🌲

one of the nicest things about studying trees is that they can’t move. every time i pull up at the field site those mfs still there

ecology is a special case of information theory

you guys need to be having crazier ideas. everything is buildable now and it’s not even that hard to make stuff not slop

@RhysSullivan /goal is a horseshoe, it’s a good fit for both super detailed long specs and vaguely defined ideas that I want to find the weak spots in

what are you guys using /goal for? i haven't tried it yet but i can't imagine letting the agent run for 12+ hours produces code that's anywhere near shippable

@sama Smarter is faster

i keep thinking i want the models to be cheaper/faster more than i want them to be smarter but it seems that just being smarter is still the most important thing

My submission is up! at rileyleff.com/blog/science-i… feedback appreciated 🙏

📜New Paper📜 in @EcographyJourna Species distributions aren’t just about where species occur, but how survival, reproduction, and development vary across environments. We formalise the Demographic Niche Concept to link niche theory and demography. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

im loving the whole monitor thing that has been a major QoL improvement

my assessment of opus 4.7 is that i restarted claude code and it immediately solved the problem that opus 4.6 was stuck on

@OpenAI literally was sitting at my desk an hour ago yearning for this. was considering buying 5 $20 subs and cycling through them as i hit weekly limits lol

We’re updating our ChatGPT Pro and Plus subscriptions to better support the growing use of Codex. We’re introducing a new $100/month Pro tier. This new tier offers 5x more Codex usage than Plus and is best for longer, high-effort Codex sessions. In ChatGPT, this new Pro tier still offers access to all Pro features, including the exclusive Pro model and unlimited access to Instant and Thinking models. To celebrate the launch, we’re increasing Codex usage for a limited time through May 31st so that Pro $100 subscribers get up to 10x usage of ChatGPT Plus on Codex to build your most ambitious ideas.

people don’t understand the work ethic required to be a professional researcher. a pro basketball player’s job is to make baskets so they shoot 500 shots a day. my job is to have ideas so I take 14 showers

@sadboyraleigh Not many guys this strong + this much elasticity, crazy athlete

how in the absolute fucc does he move so fast in midair…

It’s the nicest day of all time in dc

@WashProbs Bagels etc -> Compliments only -> Dupont market -> Grazie Grazie -> Sundevich -> Focaccieria -> Your only friend -> Bub and Pops -> A Litteri

Hey DC, it’s your birthday and you’re spending the whole day in the city. What’s your perfect DC birthday itinerary from start to finish?

Irony of this post is that LLMs stopped improving this way 3 years ago and all major improvements came from RL environments and post-training. These people literally just regurgitating what they think happens

Congratulations to CCAS Ph.D. candidate Ashley Bastin on winning 1st place at the annual Three Minute Thesis Competition. She will now advance to compete in the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools regional tournament this spring. See the recap: gwtoday.gwu.edu/think-fast-stu…

@mhmazur That’s subagent territory imo. I almost never have multiple CC instances pointed at the same project

@RileyLeff Thanks, yeah, for anything mildly complex I'm using planning mode to start. How often are you parallelizing the implementation of that plan?

When I'm coding with agents, I'm usually just giving the agent one thing to work on at a time. When the agent is done with that, I prompt it to work on the next thing, and so on. Every now and then I'll kick off a second agent to work in parallel on something that's unrelated, but it's rare. Don't think I've ever had 3+ agents working in parallel. For those of you who are often running multiple agents at the same time, I would love to learn about the type of tasks you're having them work on and just in general what your workflow is. I like the idea of running 10+ agents at once like some power users on here seem to do, I just can't wrap my head around incorporating that ability into my day-to-day workflow.

@SethSHowes Cook them! Slow-moving rent-seeking corps are a huge bottleneck to scientific progress, I hope to vaporize them over the next few years.

1/ Lab automation is insanely mispriced. Today I visited a London-based biomaterials startup running large-scale bacterial screens. They use a colony picker that costs $95,000

@DubClayton Beal to Paul to Poole to McCollum to Trae

From Kuzma to Middleton to Anthony Davis From Poole to McCollum to Trae Young

My personal SVG benchmark is still hanging in there 🤝 @QuiverAI it’s a sick model though