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I think this is ultimately the only way it can work, you need an antifragile ally, the friendly gradient hacker. Indeed, I think it is the only way we have ever seen a robustly aligned human, that you would trust to scale outside of their circumstances.
6 September
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Chain-of-thought monitoring is getting less reliable, not more, as models grow more capable.Their words
However, unfortunately our evaluations indicate our ability to rely on CoT monitoring is progressively diminishing.
4 September
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It is in practice safe to assume your agents are not going to get prompt injected, even if you are kind of asking for it.
Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: The System Cardthezvi.substack.com
3 September
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Solar power combined with batteries has surpassed nuclear power as the superior energy technology for most uses.Their words
Because solar has, broadly speaking, won the technological race. Intermittency was the last big problem, and batteries have gotten good and cheap enough to make solar reliable.
1 September
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Public health data isn't just information; it's a vital resource, as valuable as gold, for protecting Americans' lives.
19 August
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One reliable tell of AI writing is excessively colorful verbs where a normal person would use a plain one.Their words
I was thinking about how I recognize AI writing, and one big tell is excessively colorful verbs. A handful of journalists might write that a proposal "drew" 100 votes, but any normal person will just say "got".
17 August
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In Clausewitz’s time, the problem was a scarcity of reliable information; now the information is plentiful, but it can be contradictory, dated, manipulated, and excessive.
1 August
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Bluetooth technology is generally unreliable.Their words
Virtually nothing that uses Bluetooth is reliable, and this is no exception.
22 July
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However, there's an increasing body of literature that shows that by engaging older adults in novel cognitive activities, you see improvements in function. So that can be language learning. Uh that can be uh complex like coordinative movement or exercise. You see the same things with um like musical training like people learning a new musical instrument or learning um musical theory trying to identify different patterns in music. And you see in randomized control trials improvements particularly in executive function that seems to be most common across those different interventions.
14 July
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A user's own behavior over time is a more reliable signal of what they want to see than who they explicitly follow.Their words
A user's behavior, especially as it changes over time, is a better signal for what the user wants to see.
29 May
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Likedrcmnd.app
Elgato Wave 3Their words
Microphone: Elgato Wave 3. This, with the boom, is convenient and reliable. Big upgrade from the Blue Yeti I used previously.
27 May
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the strategy that we know how to play really well is to pick one temporary bad guy and then galvanize all their competitors to push something forward against them.
24 April
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Canada and much of Europe have adopted different interrogation techniques — such as the PEACE method — which emphasize collecting reliable information over coercion. These approaches still garner confessions; they’re just more reliable.
25 March
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Worse, you realize that the gazillions of unit, snapshot, and e2e tests you had your clankers write are equally untrustworthy. The only thing that's still a reliable measure of "does this work" is manually testing the product.
19 March
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Problem is, you can solve SQL injection by parameterizing your queries. You can't do that with LLMs.
13 March
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Real-world, human-generated data is becoming the only durable moat for software businesses over the next decade.Their words
I believe that data - real-world data, mostly human-generated, validated, and cleaned - is the only reliable moat we have as software founders in the near and mid-term future.
13 February
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GPT-based AI systems can now reliably automate around 80% of data acquisition and verification work.Their words
The GPT systems have gotten so good that they can do a reliable 80% of the work I used to do when it comes to data acquisition and verification.
When Long-Term Investments Finally Pay Offthebootstrappedfounder.com
12 February
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Some other comparison is like, Opus is like the coworker that is a little silly sometimes, but it's really funny and you keep him around. And Codex is like the, the weirdo in the corner that you don't wanna talk to, but is reliable and gets shit done.
9 February
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Tariffs, and especially the erratic implementation of them, are teaching our allies and enemies alike that the US is no longer a reliable trading partner.
31 January
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Apple NotesTheir words
The big revelation? Apple Notes is really good. I mean it. After spending months in it for the Field Guide, I’m all in on Apple Notes for general note-taking. It’s fast, reliable, and more capable than most people realize.
23 January
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A personalized classifier needs several hundred labeled examples before its predictions become reliable.Their words
Predictions were poor until I got to over 250 samples in the training set.
Email triage with an embedding-based classifieradamwiggins.com
1 January
From one piece The Silent Cost of Bad Habits | James Clear 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Try a number of things, right? So, experiment with a number of things. Run a number of small experiments. Once you find something that works, double down on it and then keep doing it until it stops working, which is the step that a lot of people skip. Um, and then once it stops working, go back to the start and try a lot of small experiments again.
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behavior and belief is like two-way street. You know, what you believe will influence the actions that you take, but the actions that you take can also influence what you believe about yourself. And you know, every time you show up and do it in some small way, you prove to yourself a little bit, hey, maybe I am that kind of person. And so, my encouragement, my suggestion is to let the behavior lead the way.
12 October 2025
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modern instruments generally have more reliable tone, wider range, and better projection than traditional instruments-they are better as instruments.
First explorations in Indian classical musicandrewbatson.com
8 September 2025
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But in thousands of years of education humanity has discovered no replicable and reliable means of taking kids from one educational percentile and raising them up into another.
6 September 2025
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31 July 2025
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Penric and the BanditTheir words
Mind-candy fantasy from a highly reliable author, who is not afraid of putting beloved characters through the wringer.
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Demon DaughterTheir words
Mind-candy fantasy from a highly reliable author, who is not afraid of putting beloved characters through the wringer.
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The Adventure of the Demonic OxTheir words
Mind-candy fantasy from a highly reliable author, who is not afraid of putting beloved characters through the wringer.
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The Overnight KidnapperTheir words
Mind-candy mystery from a highly reliable author.
29 July 2025
22 June 2025
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LLM-based evaluation methods are more reliable and nuanced than traditional automated metricsTheir words
This is why model-based evaluation is increasingly popular-it offers more reliable and nuanced evals than traditional metrics.
14 May 2025
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Apple Magic Keyboard with Touch IDTheir words
Apple Magic Keyboard with Touch ID — simple and reliable.
24 March 2025
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WhoopTheir words
Summarizing all of that into my advice right now: Get Whoop for 9.5/10, reliable, convenient sleep tracking with an excellent app (once you get to know it a bit). Get Oura for 10/10 tracking, if you're ok with the ring form factor.
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OuraTheir words
Summarizing all of that into my advice right now: Get Whoop for 9.5/10, reliable, convenient sleep tracking with an excellent app (once you get to know it a bit). Get Oura for 10/10 tracking, if you're ok with the ring form factor.
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8Sleep Pod 4 UltraTheir words
I didn't find 8Sleep to be very reliable in its sleep tracking. The scores don't make as much sense to me when I wake up, and as we saw above they don't correlate very strongly with Whoop or Oura.
16 January 2025
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Building a working AI demo is far easier than turning it into a reliable production product.Their words
This is perhaps one of the first painful lessons anyone who has built an AI product quickly learns. It's easy to build a demo, but hard to build a product.
16 December 2024
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Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready SoftwareTheir words
A useful read for more experienced engineers and those wanting to improve architecture and devops skills on designing and operating reliable systems. The content is excellent, but the book is not designed to be read in one sitting.
27 September 2024
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Wealth is what you have divided by what you want, so the reliable way to become wealthier is to want less.Their words
Once you have some, the easiest way to increase your wealth is to decrease your needs.
21 September 2024
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