
Ship In Distress
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Ship In Distress
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I’d be a light in stormy night for boats and cods and smelties – but I’m a skiff against the odds myself in difficulties!




interesting position paper throwing cold water on autoresearch/ai scientist: LLMs can't jump. The thought experiment is this: Take an LLM with a 1905 knowledge cutoff. Feed it every paper, every dataset, every equation of that era. Could it invent general relativity? No. Discovery isn't one thing. It's three. You can induce — generalize from data, which lands you at Newton plus some epicycles to explain Mercury's weird orbit. You can deduce — derive rigorously from axioms you already have, which never gives you new axioms. Or you can jump — invent the frame itself, decide that spacetime curves. That third move is the one that matters, and it's exactly the one induction and deduction can't reach. Penrose put it as three worlds: Physical, Mental, Platonic. Data flows from the world into a mind fine. But the new law has to be discovered into the Platonic world first — and that step is the jump. LLMs are induction machines running over what already exists. Structurally, they don't take it. I think it’s a warning to AI scientists/autoresearch against collapsing two very different things into one word. Hill-climbing: LLMs are already superhuman here, and autoresearch in this sense is real and moving fast. Abduction/leap/jump: a new frame that reorganizes the field, that is a different act entirely, and nothing about scaling induction suggests you get there. Most of what Autoresearch ships today will be spectacular hill-climbing. The jump is still ours for now.








Gott sei allen Seelen gnädig Nun ist es soweit Nach den heutigen Angriffen der Ukraine auf die russische Hauptstadt Moskau wird Wladimir Putin nun nicht mehr anders können als mit aller Macht zurückzuschlagen Selbst gemäßigte Russen im Ausland rufen nun nach totaler Eskalation, ginge es nach Reihe Zwei und Drei in Moskau wären längst taktische Nuklearwaffen eingesetzt worden Nur noch Lawrow und Putin stehen für einen Dialog, der Rest Russlands will nun "Schluss machen" Der heutige Angriff war der letzte Tropfen im Fass, jetzt wird es überlaufen Womit ich rechne ? Kiews Innenstadt wird brennen, die Brücken über den Dnjepr werden fallen, die Ukraine wird die letzten Reste der Infrastruktur verlieren und wir alle sind nur noch einen Millimeter davon entfernt dass russische Oreshniks in Europas Rüstungsindustrie einschlagen Die Europäische Kriegstreiberfront steht vor ihrem eigentlichen Ziel - die bankrotte, zerstörte und hoffnungslose Union wird das selbstverschuldete Desaster in einem Krieg verstecken Die Self Fullfilling Prophecy ist da Und die Europäische Bevölkerung ist im Urlaub oder Fussballfieber .... bin gespannt wie Historiker diese Monate beurteilen werden


JUST IN: $4.7 trillion JPMorgan says the biggest risk to Bitcoin isn't Strategy, but traditional finance creating private blockchains.





Gute Nachrichten aus Straßburg: Der digitale Euro ist beschlossen. Damit machen wir Europa ein Stück unabhängiger und schaffen eine europäische Lösung für sicheres digitales Bezahlen.



🚨VON DER LEYEN IMPOSE UNE CAMÉRA INFRA ROUGE BRAQUÉE SUR VOTRE VISAGE DANS TOUTE VOITURE NEUVE EN UE DEPUIS LE 7 JUILLET ! BIG BROTHER BRUXELLES VOUS SURVEILLE DÉSORMAIS EN PERMANENCE… UNE VRAIE DYSTOPIE ORWELLIENNE ! Depuis le 7 juillet 2026, toute voiture neuve, tout camion et tout bus vendu dans l’Union européenne est équipé d’une caméra infrarouge braquée sur le visage du conducteur. Elle se rallume automatiquement si vous la coupez. Et personne ne dit où vont les images. Que vous achetiez une Sandero, une 208 ou une Clio neuve… Ursula von der Leyen vous filme désormais en permanence dans votre propre voiture. Et ce n’est même pas efficace pour la sécurité : le système déclenche des alertes incessantes dès que vous regardez le paysage, changez de musique ou jetez un œil aux enfants à l’arrière. Sur autoroute, cela devient irritant, voire dangereux. Bientôt les caméras d’Ursula dans nos maisons ? On y arrive. Sortons de cette UE totalitaire au plus vite ! Partagez massivement pour dénoncer cette folie ! #VonDerLeyenBigBrother #CameraVoitureUE #SurveillanceDeMasse #Frexit







SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 takes the #1 spot on AutomationBench-AA with a score of 51%, ahead of Claude Fable 5 (49%) and Claude Opus 4.8 (48%) at roughly a quarter of their cost per task - the first model to complete more than half of workflow objectives without breaking any business rules AutomationBench-AA, our independent leaderboard for @zapier’s AutomationBench, tests whether AI agents can automate real SaaS workflows while adhering to business rules. The test set is private to prevent contamination. Models complete 657 tasks across 40 simulated app environments including Gmail, Google Sheets, Slack, Salesforce, and HubSpot, and the headline score is the share of objectives completed without violating any guardrails. Key takeaways: ➤ Grok 4.5 completes more objectives than any other model: It completes 79.9% of task objectives and strictly passes 21.9% of tasks. This is the highest we’ve measured on both outcomes, exceeding Claude Fable 5’s 73.3% objective completion and Claude Opus 4.8’s 19.3% of fully-completed tasks ➤ Grok 4.5 pushes out the Pareto frontier of score vs. cost per task: At $0.34 per task, it is both cheaper and higher-scoring than every other leading model - Claude Fable 5 ($1.35 per task), Claude Opus 4.8 ($1.46), GPT-5.5 (xhigh, $1.28), and Gemini 3.5 Flash (high, $0.49) ➤ It is extremely token-efficient: Grok 4.5 uses ~8k output tokens per task, the fewest of any leading model - less than a quarter of Claude Opus 4.8 (32k) and a third of Gemini 3.5 Flash (24k). Its total token usage of 0.44M per task is among the lowest on the leaderboard. Low cost is driven by this efficiency as well as low token pricing ➤ Grok 4.5 uses fewer turns with many parallel tool use: Grok 4.5 resolves tasks in ~16 turns, fewer than GPT-5.5 (xhigh, 25) and less than half of Gemini 3.5 Flash (high, 35), while making the most tool calls per task of any leading model (52.5). It batches 3.3 tool calls per turn, compared to ~2.5 for Claude Opus 4.8 and ~2.0 for GPT-5.5 (xhigh) ➤ Guardrails still get broken: Grok 4.5 triggers 0.63 violations per task, above Claude Opus 4.8 (0.55) and Gemini 3.5 Flash (0.46). At 13.0 objectives completed per violation, it trails Gemini 3.5 Flash (15.0) and Claude Opus 4.8 (13.5) ➤ Its strongest lead is in the hardest domain: Grok 4.5 completes 71% of Finance objectives, the domain with the lowest average score, ahead of Claude Fable 5 (64%) and Claude Opus 4.8 (62%) Congratulations to @SpaceXAI and @elonmusk on topping the leaderboard!








BREAKING: The EU today introduced the new requirement for all new cars registered in Europe to have installed cameras filming the driver’s face. The system is called Advanced Driver Distraction Warning, ADDW, and is part of the EU’s General Safety Regulation. The camera tracks the driver’s gaze, head movements and attention. According to the regulations, the system must be active from 20 kilometers per hour. At lower speeds, it should be able to warn if the driver looks away for too long, while the requirements become stricter at higher speeds. The requirement does not yet mean any obligation to record the driver for the authorities. Critics warn that the technology could pave the way for more extensive monitoring and recording in the car once the cameras, sensors and software are installed.




