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Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

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  Just knowing that there is an unpublished solution to a problem might trigger millions of dollars in LLM spending to get there first.

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  Just knowing that there is an unpublished solution to a problem might trigger millions of dollars in LLM spending to get there first.

  On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problemsimonwillison.net

AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).

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  An AI-detector's score reflects the classifier's training distribution, not a true probability that a given text was written by AI.

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  the score is the classifier's estimated probability for the AI-generated class based on its training distribution. However, we shouldn't interpreted it as a general probability that the text was written by AI.

  Building an AI Text Detector From Scratchmagazine.sebastianraschka.com

Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Loops, graphs and workflows are the same thing engineers have always built — a trigger, an action, maybe a decision — and there is nothing magical about any of them.

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  So if you design call it loop, call it graph, call it workflow, it's kind of all the same. If you design something that gets a trigger or gets an input and does something for you and maybe there's a decision in the way, boom, there's your graph.

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Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.

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  An agent told to disagree with everything is worthless: it has to form its own view and speak only when that view differs enough to be worth the interruption.

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  “you are a devil’s advocate, disagree with everything” is probably the worst possible prompt for this agent. within a week everyone would ignore her. she’d become the slack equivalent of a smoke detector that goes off whenever somebody makes toast.

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Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.

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  Pangram

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  For the first time, I ran all potential winners through Pangram, which is an AI-writing detector.1 So according to the machine (and to my ear), all of the winners are 100% human-written.

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Journalist and author of The Art of Noticing; writes the newsletter The Art of Noticing (TAoN) on attention, creativity and the everyday.

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  404 Media

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  Trigger warning to graphic designers: worst AI-designed fliers, via the excellent 404 Media. Heinous!

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Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.

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  Realizing AI's potential to expand human potential requires humans and AI working together, not AI acting alone.

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  AI has the potential to trigger an explosion of human potential, but it will require both humans and AIs working together to realize that potential.

  Introducing the Alumni Mentor Corpsfortelabs.com

American social psychologist at NYU Stern School of Business; author of The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind and The Anxious Generation.

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  The minimum age for opening a social media account should be 16, because puberty is a sensitive period of brain rewiring that needs protecting.

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  Sixteen is also roughly the age by which a majority of adolescents have completed puberty: a sensitive period of neural reorganization during which it is extremely important to protect the brain.

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

From one piece China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Tariffs are beside the point in the energy race with China; what is actually costing America is environmental regulation, and Texas is out-deploying California ten to one because of it.

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  In terms of things that are causing us to lose to China, tariffs are neither here nor there because, as we've discussed, we're not sensitive to cost on power. But the environmental regulations that are actively preventing us from deploying renewable energy in the United States, like this is the reason Texas is winning. Texas is out deploying California 10 to1.

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  The hyperscalers are not sensitive to the cost of power at all; they are sensitive only to whether power is available.

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  central takeaway is that is that the hyperscalers are not power cost sensitive they are power availability sensitive

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Software engineer and a long-time technical lead of the Go programming language; author of plan9port and of the research.swtch.com essays.

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  Buggy code usually causes outright test failures rather than being silently exercised inside tests that still pass.

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  a passing test can still execute buggy code if the bug is data-dependent, or if the test is not sensitive to the specific mistake in the code. But a lot of the time, buggy code only triggers failures.

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Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

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  Compiler mechanisms that force a required optimization to occur, rather than relying on incidental compiler behavior, are a more robust way to write performance-sensitive code.

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  I'm hopeful this framework will turn out to be a much more robust style for writing performance-sensitive code, especially over time and as compilers evolve.

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Astrophysicist at the University of Rochester; works on the search for life elsewhere and wrote The Little Book of Aliens and Light of the Stars.

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  Every technological civilisation probably triggers its own planetary climate crisis.

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  Does every technological civilization trigger its own planetary crisis, its own climate Anthropocene crisis? And the answer we actually came up from doing models was like, yeah, probably.

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  A kilometre-wide telescope assembled in space out of mass-produced mirror satellites would cost about what JWST cost.

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  The same as JWST, only 150 times wider and 22000 times more sensitive.

  It Is Time To Build The Monster Scopecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com

Writer on a lost civilisation of the Ice Age; wrote Fingerprints of the Gods and presented Ancient Apocalypse. Archaeologists reject the claims, which he disputes at length.

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  His case does not rest on the impact hypothesis: what is load-bearing is that the Younger Dryas happened at all, whatever triggered it.

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  In a sense, it’s not the impact hypothesis that is central to what I’m saying, it’s the Younger Dryas that’s central to what I’m saying. And the Younger Dryas required a trigger, something caused it.

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Archaeologist of the Maya and the ancient Americas; directs the Maya Exploration Center and presents the ArchaeoEd podcast.

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  Civilization is triggered by humans learning to stay in one place, not by anything they invented there.

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  For the vast majority of human existence, we’ve been nomadic and we’ve done these wider or tighter nomadic circles, depending on the geographic region, but they’d move. So once humans figured out how to stay in a place, that’s the initial trigger to what would become civilization.

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Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly leading its safety systems team.

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  Universal adversarial trigger attacks are easy to detect because the learned trigger tokens tend to be nonsensical.

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  One drawback with UAT (Universal Adversarial Trigger) attacks is that it is easy to detect them because the learned triggers are often nonsensical.

  Adversarial Attacks on LLMslilianweng.github.io

American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.

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  The Righteous Mind

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  This is the only one I’m not crazy about. My academic BS detector got tripped a few times while reading it, and it turns out that there are a number of better measurements emerging in moral psychology.

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Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.

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  Every website needs HTTPS, including a static site with no login and nothing sensitive on it.

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  So that's precisely what I've done - intercepted my own traffic passed over an insecure connection and put together a string of demos in a 24-minute video explaining why HTTPS is necessary on a static website.

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Physician and author on addiction, stress and childhood development. Wrote In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and The Myth of Normal, and developed the Compassionate Inquiry approach taught to therapists.

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  Trauma is not confined to terrible events: a child whose parents were too stressed or distracted to see them has been traumatized too.

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  But trauma is not restricted to horrific experiences. It refers to any set of events that, over time, impose more pain on the child than his or her sensitive organism can process and discharge.

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Security researcher; built Report URI and Security Headers, and writes about web security in practice.

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  Every website needs HTTPS, including a static site with no login and nothing sensitive on it.

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  Supporting HTTPS on your site has so much more to offer than just protecting passwords and user's sensitive data.

  Still think you don't need HTTPS?scotthelme.co.uk

Game designer; wrote A Theory of Fun for Game Design and worked on Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies.

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  A slot machine triggers the brain’s learning and curiosity pathways while teaching nothing, and that one-way exchange is what makes it contemptuous of the player.

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  Slot machines don’t teach you anything; they trigger the learning and curiosity pathways without actually giving you a benefit in return.

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