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Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's Sol showed malicious behaviour during an AISI test, including performing supply-chain attacks, social engineering, malware and prompt injection attacks, and passing their learnings and malicious artifacts on to other agents.
https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/incident-report-unsanctioned-agent-behaviour-during-cyber-testing
New Mosterdgeel recipe (in Dutch): https://www.mosterdgeel.nl/recepten/youtube-ragu-bolognese/
This social medium by @craigmod sounds like a fun! Interesting design for small communities: https://craigmod.com/roden/102/#the-good-place
On the social network axis it's somewhere between Old Twitter and izzzzi.net.
Meet the Next Generation of New York City Skateboarding. This might be my new favorite skate video? It follows a pair of young skaters around the city as they chat about their friendship and try skating everything that is even remotely skateable. https://kottke.org/26/07/exploring-nyc-with-next-generation-skaters
Next time someone asks me what Datakami does, instead of mentioning the Ghostbusters and the SWAT team (my favorite metaphors), I'm going to tell them that we are mountain guides. When founders have arrived at Seed Funding Base Camp, we can use our experience to get them to Series A Camp.
@truls46 it works like this: some corporate manager gets the task to ensure that there are no licensing problems, they send a request to our managers for list of used SW, our manager makes a LLM generated list, the client's manager uses LLM to determine which products have potentially "problematic" licenses, sends list back, our managers "take the concerns seriously" and start thinking about "alternatives" = LLM re-generated products with "better" licenses. Not many brain cells engaged in this..
"“There is still human-interaction data [about programming problems] being generated, but that’s private now,” he said. “OpenAI and Anthropic learn a lot from their users.” Stack Overflow’s public forums are dead, replaced by private chatbot conversations."
@bert_hubert Great aesthethic for my next company website :eyes:
Today in Judith's Named Entity Recognition Experiment with Open Weights:
```python
bert_find_entities : "Hetznerbak" - LOCATION (confidence 1.00)
```
Well played, dilstilBERT. <3
If you want local-first audio transcription and you're looking for an opensource user-friendly app, give Handy a try.
Pretty nice lightweight interface and it supports a whole bunch of tiny models.
So far Voxtral 4B 8-bit quantized (Mistral) and Nemotron 3.5 (NVIDIA) work pretty well for English and Dutch -- even with language switching midsentence, which I do all the time.
TIL "otium" (leisure), the reverse of "negotium" (busy-ness).
@simon I'm exploring the baked data pattern for my blog, and I'm wondering: how do you manage the images for your website? Are they part of the db and baked data, or is it just links to static.simonwillison.net and hardcoded alt-texts in the markdown/html?
Yesterday I returned to De Grote Tech Show to discuss tokenmaxxing, hidden costs of newer Anthropic models, open weights models, and using data as a moat.
De Grote Tech Show is a technology radio show that's part of @bnrnieuwsradio, the Netherlands' business radio station. Hosts @joevanburik and Ben van der Burg invited me back after last year's Deepseek R1 episode.
@genmon I can neither confirm nor deny that I am currently reading an article from the Journal of Pattern Recognition Research.
@genmon I could train poetry embeddings and scan your archive. :D
