The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading
The experiments that read raw weights and the ones that fix Qwen use completely different techniques.
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deepseek-ai/dsh-superagent-prototype
Towards a More Autonomous Agent System
Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time
I shouldn't have to be doing any of this, but at least it's fun.
iPad mini (2026) review: great OLED display, waterproof and dustproof, and fast A20 Pro chip, but it is expensive, no 120Hz display, and still lacks Face ID
The iPad Mini sometimes feels like a trap. It is, in some ways and for some people, the perfect iPad: meaningfully larger …
Against strawmanning unilateral pauses
Summary: Scott Alexander’s Against SURA post is arguing against a strawman version of unilateral pauses. He admits as much deep into the post. I think his conclusions fail against stronger pause plans for conditional or limited unilateral…
Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
We find that frontier LLMs are surprisingly good at natively reading and writing neural network weights, well past what we’d expect from humans or conventional algorithms.
storytold/craft-anything
Craft Anything: understand how any software works, and craft your own.
Google severs ties with and bans Android TV box maker Videostrong after finding it intentionally preloaded malware to open a backdoor to control the XCPE botnet
Google has confirmed that an Android TV device maker snuck a backdoor for malware onto certified devices …
Just a little AI resistance, as a treat
At the recent EMFCamp, I bumped in to Professor Kate Devlin who was talking a little about the AI Resist List. I think one of the useful things we can do is loudly complain about shitty uses of AI. Here's an example. As mentioned in a…
heydamir/unslop
A Claude skill that turns vibecoded, AI-looking UI into a designed interface
Wave Forcing: Towards Speed-of-Light Streaming Video Generation
Wave Forcing enables efficient continuous long-video generation with consistent appearance and natural motion through co-designed generation, training, and execution, achieving high throughput and quality.
wangzan101/Mika
An on-device AI agent for Android that operates apps and the web to get things done for you.
Scott Alexander’s Against SURA Seems Deeply Confused
If you are helping build something that might kill everyone, maybe stop doing that. Ideally, when you do stop, tell everyone else to also stop building it. That is certainly the obvious, first-level thing to do. You need a damn good reason…
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