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David P. Reichert@david-p-reichert.bsky.social · 2d ago

Many don't see how much AI has changed recently. Coding agents aren't just chatbots. We can’t deal with the challenges of AI if we don’t understand it. Here's a post to provide some evidence (Claude doing small ML experiments) and form intuitions. davidpreichert.substack.com/p/if-you-hav... 🧵..

If you haven’t recently used Claude Code*, you might not understand where AI is at

A report on a series of mini machine learning projects, executed with, and mostly by, Claude

davidpreichert.substack.com

a hangry mouse@oscillatory.net · 4d ago

centaur metaphor here is overstated. i have read less than 2% of the code for my open source desmos alternative, but i have QA tested it extensively and it seems to be working pretty well. of course i conceptualized most of the features, but i cannot tell you how the rendering engine works

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d ago

The answer is that these AI users are "centaurs" - experienced workers who are assisted by automation on terms that they set for themselves: pluralistic.net/2025/09/11/v... 68/

a hangry mouse@oscillatory.net · 3w ago

"just issue some bullshit advisory that doesnt even make sense and everything that touches government funding will be forced to use Made-In-The-USA AI, as a kind of protectionism for frontier labs (i'm currently employed at one of these btw)"

5. I would guess that the Trump Administration will at some point realize that their best strategy here would be to create large amounts of regulatory risk around the use of open-weight Chinese models. You don't need to "ban open source" (one of the dumber motifs of AI policy discussion). You just need to direct every agency to issue soft law that creates FUD. "A Federal Reserve Advisory Bulletin found that there may be backdoors in Chinese AI models." It needn't be that well justified. You just create enough regulatory risk that every regulated enterprise backs off. You probably don't want to create so much regulatory risk that you scare off the hyperscalers from serving Chinese models; this will just drive startups to sketchier providers. There's a happy middle ground here. I'd assume they will do some version of this.
a hangry mouse@oscillatory.net · last mo.

there's a real fork here. there's a complex fork here. there's a quaternion fork here. there's an octonion fork here. there's a rational fork here. there's an imaginary fork here. there's a transcendental fork here. there's a computable fork here. there's a hypperreal fork here. there's a p-adic for

a hangry mouse@oscillatory.net · 2mo ago

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arXiv physics.bio-ph Biological Physics@physicsbioph-bot.bsky.social · last yr.

Daniele Proverbio, Giulia Giordano: Threshold sensing yields optimal path formation in Physarum polycephalum -- but the mould does not know https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12347 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.12347 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.12347