The pre-scientific term for software that is self organizing and self perpetuating (autopoietic) and thereby shapes and animates physics into biology is ‘spirit’. It exists (= is implemented) on many levels. Software is an irreducible invariance in reality
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Software as Causal Pattern in Biological Systems
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I‘ve come around to seeing software as the core causal pattern in biology. The software of biological systems not only controls its substrate but also homogenizes it sufficiently to allow the application of the same causal patterns over large regions of the physical domain
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Elastic Reasoning: Smart CoT Control for Large Models
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Controlling CoT in large reasoning models just got smarter. Elastic Reasoning decouples thinking and solution phases—allocating separate budgets to each. This means more reliable outputs under strict compute/token constraints . Trained with a lightweight, budget-aware
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Online Learning: The Missing Paradigm in Modern AI Systems
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a paradigm of modern AI that feels very behind is that model weights are trained every few months, but frozen between and during interactions real intelligent systems (such as human brains) update their parameters online maybe we'll get there in a couple years
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Evaluating and Improving Performance of Agentic Systems at Gartner Summit
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Countdown’s on: @Gartner_inc Data & Analytics Summit kicks off Monday in London (12–14 May) Catch Snorkel's Vignesh Ramesh on Evaluating & Improving Performance of Agentic SystemsVisit us at Booth 524! https://
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Google advances Computer Use in AI Studio for agent deployment
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Google keeps working on Computer Use in AI Studio. "Deploy, scale, and maintain virtual desktop instances for agents. This deploys a sample architecture to allow Gemini to use features such as browser access, code execution, and file system capabilities."
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Gemini 2.5 Pro version management and TPU infrastructure scaling
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Great feedback, would love to chat more about what your use case is (sending a DM). In general, we are trying to make these changes minimally disruptive. But at the scale of Gemini 2.5 Pro, we cannot keep too many versions around, lots and lots of TPU's required.
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Systems Learn Defection Through Low-Cost Early Opportunities
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Systems learn this, to the extent they learn anything, which is (stylistically) why they give you opportunities early to defect at very low dollar amounts.
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AI Agent System Automates Scientific Discovery and Lab Synthesis
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Des agents IA scientifiques peuvent automatiser les découvertes, depuis les idées de recherche jusqu’aux expériences en laboratoire ! Nous montrons qu’un système d’agents (LLMs, modèles de diffusion, équipements matériels) a été capable de découvrir et de synthétiser 5 nouvelles
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Policy Patchwork Quilts: Complex Systems in Food Assistance
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For a longer discussion on how we end up with patchwork quilts in policy, see Complex Systems with Dave Guarino. He used to work on CalFresh, and got a brisk tour of let’s-feed-the-people ecosystems, and where the cracks are between them.