Andy Berner

I have finally built the app of my dreams. Local vision model takes in a prompt about how you would like your computer to be used, prevents you from using it any other way for the specified duration.

Claude, plz rewrite wordpress in rust. Yes all the plugins too. No I don't just mean the source code, I mean like, go replace everybody's wordpress install. You don't have access, well funny thing...

Wild thread. I find the down-thread response pretty plausible that this was intended to push prediction markets around. Also could have been to shape the race itself, but given the golden age of fraud in which we’re living, the prediction market angle seems obvious. Guess “why not both” also valid.

I think we’re finally starting to see broad availability of abliterated GLM 5.3 and similar open-weight models leading to the proliferation/diffusion of nation-state threat actor level capes to the masses. Gonna find out empirically real quick whether this is offense or defense dominant…

In a rare bright spot on this cursed timeline, Wx nerds have a fantastic new open data source to play with: confluence.ecmwf.int/plugins/serv...

We record recessions as binary, but we shouldn’t also-also think of them as such. Recessions are complex/multivariate phenomena, that differ in severity, duration, kind, solution, and have varying degrees of distributional/disparate impacts. The “vibecession” wasn’t vibes, it was k-shaped.

I mean, after a fashion, though I suppose more like “anti-AI cheating hardware.”

At least three genders

I am worried about quantum computers for security. What if they manage to factor "4".

Playing around like this is such a fantastic way to build intuition about these systems, and Colin is GOAT at imaginative experimental design.

Very perceptive comment in a great thread that tags an important failure mode of many members of out intellectual elite. It’s a theme that plays into @radiofreetom.bsky.social’s ever-relevant Death of Expertise.

Great thread.

I am not using the mean, I am using the median. The median is appropriate in this context because it is *not* affected by outliers.

This paper shows why I am skeptical of the idea that frontier models can be easily replaced by cheaper ones (and why you should use the best models as orchestrators): Small improvements in accuracy & judgement compound over long-horizon tasks, creating huge gains in outcomes and reduction in errors.

it's alive

Here’s LL Cool J trying to explain Clausewitz’s “remarkable trinity” to an uncomprehending Joe Rogan

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

treat OpenAI as Ramanujan's family goddess

Mathematicians should start picking through the Proofening papers, finding whatever’s valuable, and republishing under their own names. None of it is copyrighted.

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

The first rule of Book Club is that no one talks about the club.

(confused) I believe LLMs are conscious, but only Deepseek LLMs, because of the Chinese Room theory

Being an imperfect addition machine that is still batting far above average is honestly a far more interesting result. Like, the only entities we're aware of that can do big math kinda badly are humans, LLMs, and the Pentium P5 800

Trustworthy, well maintained, and readily available economic data is a public good that makes so many important things possible.

You want an example of focusing on culture war bullshit instead of warfighting, THIS is it. Hegseth isn't worried about the fact that he's set US policy goals in the Gulf back literal decades, no, he's too busy monitoring soldiers' testosterone levels and reveling in what slurs he gets to use.

Just a reminder that the Secretary of Defense is a dangerous idiot

Palmer’s been reading too much TSwift (the other one)

Man, you have to be just...really racist...not to come away from spending basically any time at all at an American university with a nearly boundless faith in the power of American assimilation. All sorts of students whose ancestors came from all over, utterly and completely American, all the way.

In our Nature paper, we introduce the first superhuman Stratego AI, which we built using general techniques that we developed for RL & test-time compute under imperfect information. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My greatest frustrating has been with policy wonks who persist in thinking we can just keep doing normal policy analysis ("calling balls and strikes") in this situation. The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion.

this thing seems to work quite well and poking around at it it seems to me like it is actually built to be factual and non-partisan and helpful so you know they are going to lobotomize it to shit by next week

AI has now surpassed human level at inappropriately hammering an API that is not intended for bulk data transfer and bypassing whatever weak anti-scraping measures are in place to prevent this. There is nothing left unique about me.

At the root of a lot of ills is that we want our solutions to problems to be interesting or fun to implement and so many good solutions aren’t.

Decades and decades of a national policy and zeitgeist that amounts to 'nobody needs to care about social studies' and we're now in an unwinnable war with a foreign country whose culture and leadership we did not understand based around geography we ignored. 🤷‍♂️

The courts should block this. If they don't, we should tear it down on the very first day of the next administration. If possible, Trump should be made to watch the demolition. This, the ballroom, whatever he does to the Kennedy Center and all of the rest. Erase it all. Full damnatio memoriae.

I need to spend more time in the mountains and less time doomscrolling this app.

One hour jaunt up a somewhat-rough-in-spots FSR just outside Bella Coola gets you to this.

Rather be poor and not famous than have anyone question in twenty years where I stood on human rights, or if I was afraid to take a stand against evil.

“The Army started patrolling the Seventh Ministry, but that just turned a two-way gang conflict into a three-way war. Because of how valuable 915 and 916 members were, Chinese soldiers couldn't just shoot them, so they got dragged into melee street brawls."

RIP OPT? What an unmitigated disaster for everyone.

Also very good, by @aleximas.bsky.social: aleximas.substack.com/p/what-will-...