Louis Maddox
@permutans.bsky.social
Combinatorially curious https://spin.systems
"It strikes me that this is akin to a virus escaping from a laboratory."
Martin Fowler@martinfowler.com · yesterdayFragments: responsibility for rogue agents, indicators of a bubble bursting, dread of AI, praise for gov.uk, getting data out of closed packages, eyes on Clacton martinfowler.com/fragments/20...
Useful report from UK AISI, but - even tho they're changing evaluation methods - making it "common practice" to test "maximum capability" of coding/hacking nachine on open internet with safeguards "deliberately disabled" feels a brave decision to have made... www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...
New genre of AI psychosis unlocked: glanced at an upturned box & my brain's classifier read the product composition to be in ChatGPT's image gen style, but a moment later corrected on seeing a legit brand name I guess objects themselves are safe from being wholly gen'd… for now
Blinking heck www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... > Maisie's womb was partially exposed… amniotic fluid was drained and replaced with carbon dioxide (CO2) gas to expand the operating space. Using keyhole surgery, Theo's organs were then gently pushed back inside his abdomen, which was stitched closed.
Woman has pioneering surgery for unborn baby with intestines outside its body
Theo became the first British baby to be operated on in the womb to correct complex gastroschisis, as part of a pioneering clinical trial.
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top-type-sizes: Makes -Zprint-type-size more useful crates.io/crates/top-t...
What should we make of recent language model advancements in mathematics? In my new post, I reflect on long-standing cognitive debates about symbols and neural networks in light of this progress. infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/symbols-ne...
Symbols, neural networks, and mathematical intelligence
Some reflections on connectionism and the basis of higher-level cognition
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Probably the best model report this year: multiple infrastructure pieces cohering to fix computation and network to hold 3T parameters.
mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · last wk.You’ve waited long enough, the Kimi K3 open weights & full tech report are here! github.com/MoonshotAI/K...
![K KIMI K3: OPEN FRONTIER INTELLIGENCE
TECHNICAL REPORT OF KIMI K3
Kimi Team
ABSTRACT
parameters, native vision capabilities, and a 1-million-token context window. Kimi K3 is built on Kimi Delta Attention [63] and Attention Residuals [57], which improve information flow across sequence length and model depth. Together with Stable LatentMoE, which effectively activates 16 of 896 routed experts per token, and refined training and data recipes, these advances yield an proximately 2.5x improvement in overall scaling efficiency over Kimi K2 [581. Post-trainin highlights reinforcement learning across general, agentic, and coding domains and multiple reasoning-effort levels, enabling compositional generalization and robust long-horizon execution. At 2.8T scale, Kimi K3 is supported by infrastructure advances in multiple areas: algorithm-system co-design for KDA, perfectly balanced expert-parallel training with efficient memory management, million-token agentic RL with persistent rollout and sandbox states, and deployment innovations.
Extensive evaluations show that Kimi K3 achieves frontier-level performance across long-horizon coding, agentic, knowledge, reasoning, and vision tasks. While its overall performance still trails the most powerful proprietary models, namely Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, Kimi K3 consistently outperforms other open and proprietary models evaluated in our suite. We release the full Kimi K3 model weights to facilitate future research and accelerate the broader deployment and adoption of frontier intelligence.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ckaz32jwl6t2cno6fmuw2nhn/bafkreicrbgvxize5b2uxilew4qvymuq5jvasfva4zp4i4bohjtkvxvvdv4)
The RLHF Shoggoth with smiley face cartoon but the tentacle/mask wraps back around the human user to ventriloquise them into saying "That might be the most accurate thing that's been said in this whole conversation"
Maybe they expect noone to report it bc it's assumed CC supersedes it but Anthropic have broken in-chat GitHub sync entirely now (trying to use it just appends the repo URL to your prompt, then it fails to crawl the URL in the chat and guesses what was in it)
The way dep bump bots are low key unfit for purpose, which is migration (not actually willing to have that conversation, and yet)
Sighthound - Rust alternative to semgrep using tree-sitter github.com/Corgea/Sight...
GitHub - Corgea/Sighthound: Corgea's rule-based SAST scanner
Corgea's rule-based SAST scanner. Contribute to Corgea/Sighthound development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Ruff 0.16.0 - Astral's fast Python linter - came out a few days ago and increased the number of default-enabled rules from 59 to 413, which highlighted all sorts of problems across my projects (1618 in sqlite-utils alone) simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/25/...
Ruff v0.16.0
Astral shipped a significant new version of their Ruff Python linting tool a few days ago on July 23rd. I noticed today because my various CI jobs all started failing …
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Locked in and took the comrak Rust Python bindings from ~25% to ~95% conformance with introspection generated type stubs 🙂↕️ also noticed someone forked it and its readme says they added AST support (not verified)
These free-threaded builds are all pain no gain (personally) so far :/
Clopus if you don't get off Semantic Scholar and gimme this YAML…
The sick thrill of realising the task calls for a little desk whiteboard
Y'all, you should be so hyped up about Python 3.15, and specifically about lazy imports. I just merged a PR to move argparse to lazy imports for Python 3.16. On my machine, it reduces the median cumulative time for a bare `import argparse` by ~67%! github.com/python/cpyth...
GH-154638: Use lazy imports in argparse by savannahostrowski · Pull Request #154639 · python/cpython
Issue: Use lazy imports in argparse #154638
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wdym Future Sound Of London were putting the ha siren in tracks back in 94 😮 youtube.com/watch?v=3lZN...
Dead Skin Cells
YouTube video by The Future Sound Of London - Topic
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At the barbers I said what turned out to be The Future Sound of London reminded me of Manchester, turns out despite the name I was right ♥╣[-_-]╠♥
"Nolan worked with Imax to develop a soundproofing “blimp” to make it quiet enough for him to record dialogue on the heavy-duty cameras for the first time" www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
‘I don’t play around’: Nolan fans fly into London to see The Odyssey at BFI Imax
Film fanatics arrive from US, Switzerland and Ireland for midnight premiere of director’s critically acclaimed epic
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Deeply jealous of whichever institutional actors have access to the social media firehose who can now feasibly extract all claims from political discourse online and corroborate (or not) emerging narratives // take dialectical views of events // anticipate contradictory reception
Today, on @flakphoto.news: an essay by photographer Peter Hoffman on AI-generated images and the human touch. Enjoy! www.flakphoto.news/p/peter-hoff...
There is no Punctum unless it is a Photograph
Peter Hoffman on AI imagery and the human touch
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I'm eager to hear what y'all think about this piece. Today on @flakphoto.news, Alys Thomas asks a big question: What distinguishes photography from AI-generated imagery? www.flakphoto.news/p/alys-thoma...
Photography, AI, and the Punctum
What distinguishes photography from AI-generated imagery?
flakphoto.news
