I'm getting strong results for technology the absolutely cannot be in the training data because I just created it myself
@simonw
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Mermaid Diagram Tool Adds Zoom and Pan Controls
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I've not found anything I like more than mermaid yet – I added zoom/pan controls to it recently to help deal with a really large diagram https://
github.com/datasette/data
sette-table-diagram?tab=readme-ov-file#usage
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OpenAI’s Mission Statement Evolution 2016-2024 Git Analysis
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I had some fun pulling OpenAI's mission statement out of their IRS tax filings from 2016 to 2024, loading them into a git repo with fake commit dates and then taking a look at the diffs
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AI Cheating in Schools: Bans Cannot Stop Student Usage
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The problem there is cheating – you can ban AI but that doesn't mean the kids won't use it anyway
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Prompt Injection Attacks Against AI Code Generation Systems
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Those look good in non-adversarial environments, but I still worry about deliberate prompt injection attacks, like tricking Codex into running a curl $URL | sh command through obfuscating details via base64
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System Burden and Labor Challenges in Stretched Infrastructure
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We can try it, but that's an enormous additional labor burden on an already-stretched system
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Claude Code used for SeaweedFS experimentation
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It's working really well for me so far! I used it to experiment with SeaweedFS in Claude Code for web this morning
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Education Policy Delays: Why Disaster Effects Take Years
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It's not an insurmountable barrier but it's still notable – helps explain why countries often try new education ideas that turn out to be disasters but only become apparent a decade or so after they've been introduced
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School District Logistics Challenges for Technology Implementation
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Figuring out the logistics for that seems like a complete nightmare to me, you'd probably have to change the hiring balance of your school district and rearrange all of your schedules and designate more rooms for test taking… so much to change!
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AI Forces Education Redesign but Impact Measurement Takes Years
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I hadn't thought about this, but it's true: we need to redesign how a lot of education works now that we can't evaluate student progress with essays and tests… but it takes years to reliably measure the real-world impact of any new changes we try