Yeah my AI is getting smart about these things.
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OpenAI Codex acquisition enables real computer use capabilities
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the Codex x @skybysoftware acquisition may have been one of the best @openai deals made in the last year.
— swyx 🇸🇬 (@swyx) 20 avril 2026
I've been waiting for "real" computer use since @romainhuet demoed the ChatGPT App with 4o Vision at AIEWF 2024… and only now it's really, actually rolling out in a usable… https://t.co/b2aXj1qbLLthe Codex x @skybysoftware acquisition may have been one of the best @openai deals made in the last year. I've been waiting for "real" computer use since @romainhuet demoed the ChatGPT App with 4o Vision at AIEWF 2024… and only now it's really, actually rolling out in a usable
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Anthropic Launches STEM Fellows Program for AI Research
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We're launching the Anthropic STEM Fellows Program. AI will accelerate progress in science and engineering. We're looking for experts across these fields to work alongside our research teams on specific projects over a few months. Learn more and apply:
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Can LLMs Generate Truly Random Distributions?
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LLMは頭の中でコイントスができるか?
— Sakana AI (@SakanaAILabs) 20 avril 2026
ブログ:https://t.co/DNzwlrIJhQ
論文(#ICLR2026):https://t.co/ZzJf6Q8FUb
一見簡単そうで奥深いこの問題を「プロンプトだけ」で解決した論文 "SSoT: Prompting LLMs for Distribution-Faithful and Diverse Generation" が #ICLR2026 に採択されました。… https://t.co/cLkasBwOc6Can LLMs Flip a Coin in Their Heads? Blog: https://
pub.sakana.ai/ssot Paper (#ICLR2026): https://
arxiv.org/abs/2510.21150 This seemingly simple yet profoundly deep problem was addressed in the paper "SSoT: Prompting LLMs for Distribution-Faithful and Diverse Generation," which has been -
AI Worldview Quality: Object Permanence Beyond Current Trends
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one good measure of the quality of someone’s AI worldview is “how much is it dominated by $CURRENT_THING and how much object permanence is displayed when $CURRENT_THING changes”
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PersonaVLM: Long-Term Personalized Multimodal LLMs
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PersonaVLM Long-Term Personalized Multimodal LLMs paper: https://
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Fine-tuning LLMs with ethical principles for alignment
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Possible answer: "Huh! We never thought before of conjuring the spirits of Rogers, Kant, Stark and Ged into an LLM. We just finetuned on some text from them about honesty and that solved it permanently. Thanks for the modus ponens, Yud, it was a great modus tollens!"
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Historical U.S. Literacy Rates Before Universal Public Schooling
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Before broadly universal public schooling, the U.S. literacy rate was probably around 75–80% BTW.
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AlphaXiv Launches Markdown Papers and Structured Skill Overview Tool
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Yup we have every paper in markdown! Example: https://t.co/oEkZ3sJE8s. We also introduced a SKILL.md that fetches structured, AI-friendly paper overviews from alphaXiv https://t.co/dGzA5Busw4
— alphaXiv (@askalphaxiv) 20 avril 2026Yup we have every paper in markdown! Example: https://
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Real-time Weapon Tracking: Custom CNNs Deployed on 24 GPUs
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the team at @rhizomatiks handled the hardware, visualization, & data collection. i handled blade tracking, which meant training multiple custom convolutional neural networks and deploying them across 24 GPUs to track the entire curve of the 1px wide weapons at 60fps in realtime