Mikhail Jacob (he/him)
@oroborositron.bsky.social
Machine learning, D&D, music Currently at The Coalition studio, Vancouver.
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
Similarly, I have no idea what a "seam" is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask...
Juan Diego Rodriguez@juand-r.bsky.social · 2mo ago
Claude code is stenographically marking location information in its prompt to help Anthropic profile users by where they (appear to) be located thereallo.dev/blog/claude-...
Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests
I inspected Claude Code for privacy reasons and found hidden system prompt markers based on API base URL and timezone.
thereallo.dev
Awww... Pennywise got married... Good for It. 🎈
Libby on the Label@drainbead.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe turned around and went back just to get a picture after driving by this.
Diffusion models treat every part of an image equally. → Same number of steps. Same compute. But images aren’t uniform. 🤔 Some regions are easy, others are hard. So why force the model to treat them the same? 🧵
This is just an incredible amount of amazing TTRPG content! One day to go... www.kickstarter.com/projects/dnd...
Heliana & Ryoko's Guide to Mythozoology
A world-defining expansion to D&D 5e! Two epic tomes of innovative mechanics, inspiring player options, and realm-breaking monsters!
kickstarter.com
I'm not a data scientist, but I recognize so many of the interesting challenges and quirks of being in a similar space from this fantastic article.
Brandon Rohrer@brandonrohrer.com · 5mo agoHey #datascience people, new blog in which I aim to describe the complexities of being a Staff+ data science (and adjacent) roles. Let me know what I missed. brandonrohrer.org/ds_roles
A beautiful and tragic article about all the wonderful old trees we are losing in Vancouver. thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...
They Cut Down ‘Grandpapa’ | The Tyee
The mysterious vanishing of one of Vancouver’s most loved cherries posed a deeper question. What do we owe to our big, old trees?
thetyee.ca
I just published a deep-dive into the 250-hour build behind syntaqlite, a SQLite formatter and LSP I built using AI agents. AI agents were the only reason built this after 8 years of wanting but there's a psychological toll to AI-assisted engineering. The post-mortem: lalitm.com/post/buildin...
Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI
For eight years, I’ve wanted a high-quality set of devtools for working with SQLite. Given how important SQLite is to the industry1, I’ve long been puzzled that no one has invested in building a reall...
lalitm.com
This has been on my reading list for a few days. It articulates extraordinarily well a lot of my concerns around the cognitive offloading that AI tools now allow. It also applies broadly in many more fields than just astrophysics.
Minas Karamanis@minaskar.bsky.social · 5mo agoHey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
Little did they know (or care; the villains!) that Schmidhuber, himself, actually came up with the first agentic system to do EXACTLY this decades ago. Where do these revisionists get off with this vicious libel?
Naomi Saphra@nsaphra.bsky.social · 5mo agoah, a new possible addition to the canon of SIGBOVIK AI papers
how diffie hellman key exchange works (with as little math as possible)
It is bizarre how one hour of jetlag is affecting my ability to function. If they ever invent a time machine I call dibs on giving whoever thought up DST a wet willy or three!
A few weeks ago our founder announced Monty, a minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust, for running code written by AI agents. People got excited. @sa.muelcolvin.com just wrote up the full story on why he's excited about it and you should be too. pydantic.dev/articles/pyd...
Pydantic Monty: A Minimal Python Sandbox for AI Agents | Pydantic
Meet Monty — a secure, minimal Python interpreter written in Rust for running AI-generated code. Learn where it sits between tool calling and full computer use, and why CodeMode matters for AI agents.
pydantic.dev
Do you dream of revenge on billionaires? THEN WE HAVE THE GAME FOR YOU. Back our indie game made with rage + love on Kickstarter NOW and play our BRAND NEW DEMO on Steam www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...
All Will Rise: a narrative courtroom deck-builder
A game about taking a billionaire to court for the murder of a river.
kickstarter.com
All Will Rise by Speculative Agency is at Gamescom!@allwillrise.bsky.social · 6mo ago🚨 HUGE NEWS! 🚨 All Will Rise is now LIVE on Kickstarter! Fundraising has begun to bring our revenge fantasy against the powerful to life. Want to try before you fund? All Will Rise currently has a demo on Steam too! Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe... #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev
Holy shit! This looks stunning. 🤯
Tune & Fairweather@tuneandfairweather.bsky.social · 7mo agoWe’re excited to announce Scholar’s Codex – a new anthology where academia explores the games of FromSoftware. Beautifully produced as a premium hardcover and illustrated by acclaimed artist @nicodelort.bsky.social. #eldenring #darksouls #bloodborne 💙📚 www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/sch...
This applies not just to academics.
DDavid Bau@davidbau.bsky.social · 7mo ago
What should academics be doing right now? I have been writing up some thoughts on what the research says about effective action, and what universities specifically can do. davidbau.github.io/poetsandnurs... It's on GitHub. Suggestions and pull requests welcome. github.com/davidbau/poe...
We updated the plots we use to measure the open model ecosystem at interconnects, to guide The ATOM Project, and to understand what's happening. We have ~8 plots to summarize what's happening. First, the high level picture showing China's growing adoption lead.
