Wow… Niall Stanage: [Netanyahu] is in the judgment of the ICC a war criminal, isn’t hosting him in Oval Office undermining credibility? Kirby: No because we don’t consider him a war criminal Niall: But the ICC does Kirby: We don’t agree…he’s an ally and a friend Niall: ICC

Inna lillahi wa ina ilayhi rajiuun. It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our esteemed founder & managing editor, Captain Ahmed Gure. His visionary leadership & dedication to journalistic integrity have left an indelible mark on Hiiraan Online & Somali media

To the 5 people who showed up to the fascist march in Sheffield city centre, can Sheffielders make their position any clearer? #sheffieldissuper

Kind of a big deal: GPT-4 simulates people well enough to replicate social science experiments with high accuracy Note this is done by having the AI prompted to respond to survey questions as a person given random demographic characteristics & surveying thousands of "AI people"

Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological skill. Here is how the study was designed and what we found (including a result that really surprised me): 🧵

An AI agent that can develop and write a full conference-level scientific paper costing less than $15!? The AI Scientist automates scientific discovery by enabling frontier LLMs to perform independent research and summarize findings. It also uses an automated reviewer to

Ja, wir sind wieder bei der ganz billigen Feindbildmarkierung angekommen. Irgendetwas mit Islam zieht immer. Doch nicht nur, dass die Gefahr schön dunkel aussieht, nein, sie trägt auch noch eine Kufiyya, „Palästinensertuch“ genannt. So lassen sich zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe

Tarekegn Bululta Somalilanders Abdirashid Hashi "Ethiopia has the right to have its own port for trade"? Who gave it this "right"? What would all the other landlocked countries in Africa and other continents say? Better: establish good relations with your neighbours, refrain from imperialistic nostalgia& engage in cooperation.

This time, at least let’s not pretend we didn’t know.

A fallacy about social media is that in a marketplace of ideas, good information will win out. Aside from the other reasons this is doubtful, there is the well-established finding that bad information (even clearly false stuff) will start to seem plausible if you see it often.

📜 ⛓️ My new paper: Decolonial Constitutionalism. An inquiry into how subordinated peoples around the world have seized the levers of law and politics to innovate new paths to self-determination without taking up arms. Comments welcome! Full text: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Semantic scraping with Firecrawl is 🔥! Here I am turning the entire Anthropic documentation (~34 pages) into data ready for prompt caching, big-context LLMs, Custom GPTs, and RAG. Watch Claude answer any coding questions related to its own APIs. (Link in the next tweet)

S. Korea spent $200b trying to increase its birthrate. Hungary spends 5% of GDP. Both are failing. Yet the small country of Georgia spiked its birthrate massively without spending a dollar. How? They understood that fertility isn't about money. It's about status.

Programming is changing so fast... I'm trying VS Code Cursor + Sonnet 3.5 instead of GitHub Copilot again and I think it's now a net win. Just empirically, over the last few days most of my "programming" is now writing English (prompting and then reviewing and editing the

This from Beijing World Robotics Congress, China looks far ahead in the race for humanoid robots. These look straight out of sci-fi.👀

Ethiopia has interfered in Somali politics since the mid-1990s, with partly disastrous effects (including fuelling a militant Islamic insurgency in the early 2000s). Ethiopian troops have committed horrible warcrimes & human rights violations in south-central Somalia 2006-2008.

It seems weird to keep seeing the opinion here that AI might just go away. Adoption rates among students and teachers in surveys are over 70%. In a survey in Denmark, over 50% of journalists and programmers were using AI for work. And people generally like AI when they use it.

Corruption pushing 60% of Africa's youth to emigrate: poll citizen.digital/news/corruptio…

This is Israel’s longest-running English podcast, Two Nice Jewish Boys. Hosts Naor Meningher and Eytan Weinstein call for wiping out every single Palestinian in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Radio Rwanda in full effect here. This is deeply disturbing.

If you embed an entire document, you'll lose retrieval precision. If you chunk a document, you'll lose contextual information between chunks. These are some concerns when you're building long-context RAG applications. But "Late chunking" may just be the sweet spot in the