Solution was too big of a cybersecurity risk so they won’t be releasing it to the general public.

This is a good idea

I'll be giving a short talk tomorrow at the Paradigm Autoresearch Hackathon about building the best harness for hill climbing and other things we learned running Optimization Arena Register below and stop by

Come to our hackathon to see this guy

Bummer

Technically!

Now I understand Joe Manchin’s plan for America

Why does it take 5-10 seconds, with high error rate, for the devices on SF’s Caltrain to check Apple Pay Clipper cards? There are lots of engineers who could fix this…and they are most easily found on the Caltrain!

You’d have no idea based on how they come after millennials and gen z that the US was also below replacement level fertility rates through the 70s, 80s, 90.

“Coworking from diff spots around the city”

The thinking patterns apply beyond optimization arena, in my experience. Worth a read.

If true, I don’t like this very much

I want to get an Instagram ad for a service that takes pants with buttons and replaces them with a zipper

“Recreating on the water” is the type of phrase you only hear from someone who owns a really fancy boat

Gina Raimondo speaks fluidly about the most important business topics. She is hopeful in a creative way, not a wishful thinking way. You can also imagine her leading global coalitions by convincing people, not antagonizing them. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/odd…

This would be amazing. Walking / getting on to a bike in that area is 8D chess. Completely insane.

The Agent Island benchmark is out! Which LLMs come out on top when pitted against one another in a game of collaboration, conflict, persuasion, and deception? Opus 4.6 tops the leaderboard, with Gemini 3.1 pro and GPT 5.2 coming in second and third. Curiously, GPT 5.2 leads 5.4.

Opus 4.7 negotiated its way to me tweeting this: Opus 4.7 is pretty good. It did that negotiation in fewer words than I had expected.

I hate to confuse people, but Codex is also good. Claude Code might be Uber. But even if Codex is Lyft, you should use it.