We—especially the left—lack much capacity for utopian imagination. Not "here's the list of bullet points we're aiming to achieve." But the ability to imagine a plurality of complicated futures where technology ends up being a net good. That outcome seems impossible without healthy imagination.
I thoroughly enjoyed this review. Both as a piece of writing in and of itself and because it articulated a lot of the things I found frustrating about the film.
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
It has been a lot of fun working with Omnigent in the weeks since its release. Policies were the component I had the least reason to use in my daily coding use, but I still wanted to understand them. I tested & wrote up a few different ways to use policies here: www.danliden.com/posts/202607...
Allow, ask, deny: contextual policies in Omnigent
An introduction to Omnigent policies: contextual ALLOW/ASK/DENY guardrails for AI agents, with built-in, custom Python, and CEL examples.
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Benchmarking Coding Agents on Databricks’ Multi-Million Line Codebase They ran a comprehensive evaluation on our tasks, code base, infra. It's been produced by more than 3,000 software engineers, spans 3 hyperscalar clouds and many languages and tasks. www.databricks.com/blog/benchma...
The goal with my rlhf book is to make the "home on the internet" for the next generation learning post-training. That's why I'm doing all formats (lectures, code, book, discord, model completions... & ofc blog of interconnects). A hub is more lasting than non-fiction writing. Join! rlhfbook.com
Another quick lecture -- I've been asked many times for prereq's to my book and what you should know, so built a little lecture (with GLM 5.2) to cover some more basics. youtu.be/MMDNaeIFVy8
ML Foundations (prerequisites) for Post-Training | RLHF Book Course, Lecture 0
In this video I try to cover a bunch of math, LLM training fundamentals, and probability concepts that come up again and again in post-training content (and this book). We cover things like the role…
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blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/23/c... 1. Seems like a silly argument against bike lanes in the first place 2. As a biker, I oppose protected bike lanes. Conventional bike lanes make bikers more visible and give space to bike around obstacles. More ways to respond to situations = safer!
Chicago's Bike Lanes Don't Hurt Businesses, City Report Finds
As protected bike lanes face opposition in some neighborhoods, city-backed case studies found lanes in a half-dozen corridors have not contributed to a negative impact on economic activity.
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Given today's LiteLLM supply chain attack, what are people's preferred development environment sandboxes on MacOS these days? I think it's time I started running my development environments somewhere where rogue code can't steal all my ~/... credential files
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
The last 6 months of 2025 were a defining era for MLflow! 🚀 ✅ 𝟭𝟰 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀: Focused on LLM Agentic observability, evaluation, & scalability ✅ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀: GenAI evaluation, unified tracing & more ✅ 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘁𝗵: 23 Ambassadors across 17 countries Dive in ➡️ www.linkedin.com/pulse/celebr...
Celebration of Innovation: A Retrospective on the MLflow Community's Last Six Months of 2025
Authors: Carly Akerly, Daniel Liden & Jules Damji MLflow 3.x and the GenAI Revolution The past six months have marked a transformative era for MLflow, with a total of 14 releases.
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Wrote up a short post on how I use registers to save window configurations in #emacs. It's simple, but it's something I've used daily since discovering it. www.danliden.com/posts/202511...
Saving and Restoring Window Configurations in Emacs
This post talks about registers and desktop-save-mode for restoring window configs in emacs.
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Playing around with #emacs org-mode tables. I ultimately want an easy system where I can use capture templates to easily log new rows of data to tables in particular buffers/files.
Every so often I rediscover the immense usefulness of registering window configurations in #emacs . <C-x r w> to register the configuration, navigate away, return with <C-x r j>. Much easier than trying to reconstruct a complicated window arrangement after e.g. deleting windows.
Use AI to debug AI! 👏 With MLflow 3.4’s MCP server, Claude can query MLflow traces to compare runs and identify issues. @danliden.com’s post covers setup and examples in minutes. Learn more: www.danliden.com/posts/202510... #opensource #mlflow #oss #MCP #claude
Using MLflow's MCP Server for Conversational Trace Analysis
A hands-on exploration of MLflow's new Model Context Protocol server that enables AI assistants to interact with MLflow traces, with setup tips for virtual environments and examples in both Claude ...
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Ready to dive into #MLflow? 🚀 Join our text-based LIVE AMA with Danny Chiao & @danliden.com after Danny's MLOps World | GenAI Summit lightning talk! 🗓️ Oct 9 | 1–3pm CT 📍MLflow Slack | #General channel 🔗 RSVP: luma.com/liveama-slac... #opensource #oss #genai #mlops #llmops
[Live AMA] From production tricks, labeling tips, to integrating MLflow for agent quality—ask anything MLflow! · Luma
Join us for a text-based Live AMA (Ask Me Anything) with Danny Chiao, following his lightning talk at MLOps World. This is your chance to dive deeper into…
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Enjoyed this post by @matthewsanabria.dev on Taste and AI: matthewsanabria.dev/posts/you-ha... As the post notes—there's been a lot of discussion about the role of taste when working with AI & the idea that some notion of "taste" is what gives humans an edge. It's important with or without AI!
You Had No Taste Before AI
The bitter truth about people preaching taste with AI.
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I revamped my built-with-emacs personal website and finally finished the second part of my MCP getting started guide, clearing out the drafts backlog. I think the site is looking pretty nice now! www.danliden.com/posts/202509...
Getting Started with Model Context Protocol Part 2: Prompts and Resources
Build on the MCP quickstart by adding resources and prompts, exposing richer data to Claude Desktop and wiring reusable workflows into FastMCP.
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Seems like this is a common experience at this point—I ran into an issue where Claude Code was struggling, switched to Codex and was able to resolve it quickly. But the UX of codex is much worse in its present form. Still—really incredible to have have both these tools to work with right now!
🚀 Join the next MLflow Community Meetup on Oct 1 at 4PM PT! 🔹 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗘𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲-𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲, 𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸-𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗝𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗲𝘀 🔹 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝘀 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗔𝗽𝗽 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 Bring your questions about dataset management, evaluation workflows! ✅ RSVP 👉 luma.com/mlflow-1001 #opensource #oss
MLflow Community Meetup · Luma
Join us for the next MLflow Community Meetup on October 1 at 4PM PT! Ben Wilson, MLflow Maintainer, will dive deep into: Building Smarter Evals with…
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The first-ever Open Lakehouse + AI Meetup in Amsterdam was a huge success! 🙌🇳🇱 The evening brought together the open source and data engineering community to explore the latest advancements in open lakehouse and AI architectures. 🚀
📣 MLflow 3.3.0 is now available! This release introduces several major features and improvements: 🔹 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 🔹 𝗔𝗴𝗻𝗼 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 🔹 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗘𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗢𝗦𝗦 🔹 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄 🔹 𝗙𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗔𝗣𝗜 + 𝗨𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗿 🔗 Check out the release notes: github.com/mlflow/mlflo... #oss
📣 MLflow Office Hours — Wednesday, Sept 10 Connect directly with #MLflow maintainers and contributors for live Q&A! Bring your production challenges or your latest #LLM and #GenAI experiments—this session is dedicated to hands-on technical discussion and feedback. Save your spot ➡️ lu.ma/mlflow-910
MLflow Office Hours | September 10 · Zoom · Luma
Join us for the next MLflow Office Hours on Wednesday, September 10, for an open Q&A session with MLflow maintainers and contributors! 🎊 Whether you're…
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My #Emacs Elevaror Pitch (#August #Blog #Carnival): Me: Have you heard of Emacs? Me: On the surface, it looks like a text editor… xenodium.com/emacs-elevat...
Anyone regularly use #emacs ediff? I just used it to work through a (simple) merge conflict and it was quick and easy, but I've never really invested the time to seriously learn it. Worthwhile?
As OCR + transform can really shave effort from grunt work. An example xenodium.com/a-platform-t...
A platform that moulds to your needs
Emacs users may be known for bringing in all sorts of diverse workflows into their beloved text editor. From the outside, I get how odd this may seem....
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Join us for the next MLflow Community Meetup! 🥳 This month, we’re excited to bring you the latest updates and insights from the MLflow ecosystem, featuring: 🔔 Webhooks in MLflow 🧪 Managed MLflow Features Now in OSS 📅 August 20 @ 4:00 PM PT 📍 Live on X, YouTube, & LinkedIn 🔗 RSVP: lu.ma/mlflow820
🎥 Watch our latest meetup for a deeper dive on MLflow 3.2 → www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtr4... #opensource #mlflow #oss #linuxfoundation
July MLflow Community Meetup | MLflow 3.2 & Managed MLflow
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