honestly, doom scrolling + surrounding myself with people intensely interested in the topic. I basically just info overload myself on an hourly basis and since I find it interesting enough it tends to make its way into the sticky part of my memory.

to give you an idea of what I mean, I'm checking bluesky, reddot, HN, youtube, instagram, tiktok, discord basically every hour. every morning, lunch, and evening I'm checking my email where I receive about a dozen or so newsletters either weekly or daily. a few times a week (usually weekends) I'm browsing github and arxiv for the whatever random thought or interest is the flavor of the week (lately its been on EOE techniques and classifiers). This has lead me to collect the names of a good number of authors I trust and that appear to be thought leaders in the space.

I don't think this approach is good at all, in fact, it feels neurotic and I think its an unhealthy obsession borne from my adhd, but its kept me going for the last 3ish years and I don't feel the slightest bit burnt out. personally I find the whole field of AI/ML to be immensely exciting so I think that part of it is a huge driver for how I personally stay up-to-date.

ideally I would offload a lot of these activities to a research agent and tbh I "plan" to eventually, same way I plan to gut short form videos and social media from my life and get 8hrs of sleep. Eventually.

it sounds like we share a vice for information gluttony. i have a similar workflow where i continuously scan the digital horizon for useful ideas and continuously feed them into my personal toolkit. i've kind of always been like that as a person and an engineer (the two aren't really separable for me), and claude code has been like switching from coffee to meth, and, um, there's some downsides to doing meth. it's hard not to build a house of cards that you end up abandoning when it starts feeling wobbly and you see a greenfield next door

an agent that runs weekly to summarize news in this domain would actually be a really healthy way to stay up to date without constant attention.

I'm always so hesitant to do that, I really value getting news within the first 3 hours of it becoming available so doing weekly digests makes me feel like I'm losing something valuable, but I guess that could be solved with a personalized feed.. hmmm

I was able to get 19 slices out of one log

funny how wired got the masses of the internet on board with hating AI, helping to spark the whole anti-movement and people still continue to rely on them for their understanding of AI and current events.

I feel like they report in a vaccum. take this anti exfil policy for claude, it was plainly explained as part of the launch of Anthropics new product. Security like this isn't novel, it isn't bad, you don't explain how your security works to the people you're securing against. Nobody freaks out about Steam's VAC ban system, no one is investigating gmail's spam filtering, Reddits vote fuzzing, cloudflares bot detection, or Vercel for blocking proxying services.

whats really the distinguishing principle? Is it really just not liking Anthropic's opinions? then just say that and use a different llm. chemist, biologists, and AI researchers cry a river lmao

computah, build 200 more data centers

for weeks now I've been having cloudflare issues. I find the status pages are less and less reliable as technically they aren't experiencing an outage if they just have a policy that resets or outright denies your request...

Didn't epstein fund the original COG AI project out of Hong Kong?

curious what your take away from that is given the announcement.

does art care how it gets made?

the halving of error rates for image inputs is pretty awesome, this makes it far more practical for issues where it isn't easy to input all the needed context. when I get lazy I'll just shift+win+s the problem and ask one of the chatbots to solve it.