i am trying to work on the closest thing possible to a true "big model smell" eval which is to say: something that measures something that clever post training can't trivially gap, and is cheap topically diverse i can't test mythos for obvious reasons, but... hmm...

I slept for like nine hours but my oura ring died so what was even the point

kanye was a pinoy ally when he said "alexandr wang/new slaves"

numinous humanism

Short dramas have quietly scaled into a mainstream format, and most of the US still hasn't noticed. Serialized, vertical, and made for the phone. Episodes run one to two minutes, seasons run 100 to 150. In China it's already obvious. More viewing time now goes to short dramas than to long-form streaming. And AI is moving in fast: on Douyin's top 5,000 titles, close to one in five are now AI-generated, up from none four months ago. Coatue sector head @lordbartonjr on why China could be the early signal for what reaches the US next.

1/ I’m excited to share that I’ll be taking on an additional role as Head of Research for Thrive Holdings, alongside my work at OpenAI.

New Science Blog: Why has AI advanced faster in coding than in biology? To agents, bio databases are like cities built before cars—maddening to drive in because they're designed for different traffic. How do we build infrastructure agents can use? anthropic.com/research/agent…

Really weird to think about how if Taiwan was never demographically dominated by Han Chinese just about 200 years ago, we would consider it consider it a part of South East Asia today like the Phillippines, and not an East Asian country like China.

An 'altar boy' in the ritual procession, the little angel is terrified that his wings might fall off. Fengxiang County, Shaanxi, 1999. 📸 Photo by Yang Yankang.