There are some interesting details about how Anthropic trained their models tucked away in today's summary judgement: they bought, chopped up and scanned millions of dollars worth of books! simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/24/an…

Very cool thread about the CS336 Language Models from Scratch course at Stanford taught by Percy Liang et al. Makes me wish I was a student again!

Cool to see these icons of CS history come to life… Hopper, Berners-Lee, Patterson. Thompson and Ritchie look so happy. The brickster six; actually it’s only 5 in that pic because I was behind the camera 🤦 I also bought the pizza we were eating (from my fav place in Berkeley)

incredible that this was written before the advent of vibe coding, just lmao

The npm of agent benchmarks. One of those ideas that seems obvious in retrospect: implement one harness, run many benchmarks. Kinda surprising that benchmark registries haven’t been a big thing up till now (compared, e.g., to PL package registries). OTOH the rate of creation of

Seeing the way Linus Torvalds dealt with open source code review. I'm surprised he coined `git blame` and not something like `git accuse`.