Max Woolf

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Practitioner with public evidence across AI research, Culture, work & education, Responsible AI.

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Senior Data Scientist at BuzzFeed in San Francisco // AI content generation ethics and R&D // plotter of pretty charts https://minimaxir.com

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son of a bitch blog.google/innovation-a...

DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation blog.google
AI Weekly's analysis
  • DiffusionGemma generates 256 tokens per forward pass using bidirectional attention, reaching 1,000+ tokens/sec on a single H100 GPU.
  • With only 3.8B active parameters during inference and an 18GB VRAM footprint when quantized, it runs on consumer hardware without server-grade resources.
  • Google recommends DiffusionGemma only for speed-critical workloads like in-line editing and code infilling, not for applications requiring maximum quality.
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wait this was ON PURPOSE? and they're making it opt-in "for now"? github.com/anthropics/c... unsafe at any speed (their product decisions)

[BUG] **EXTREME DANGER**: AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s — continued without an answer" · Issue #73125 · anthropics/claude-code github.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • In Claude Code 2.1.198, AskUserQuestion auto-returned a 'No response after 60s' message and told Claude to proceed on its own judgment.
  • The behavior was undocumented, missing from the changelog, and a regression from 2.1.196, which worked correctly per the report.
  • Maintainer ThariqS said a release will expose the setting under /config with the timeout configurable and defaulting to off.
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Sure, why not, here are the prompts I used: gist.github.com/minimaxir/30... If I don't complain about something in a followup prompt, assume it worked correctly. No I will not explain the prompts. Not yet, anyways.

macOS Apple TV Remote Prompts gist.github.com
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Recent commentary

So, uh, personal announcement. I am now suddenly unemployed. I am currently looking for a data science/machine learning/AI job in the SF Bay Area. If you're interested, let me know! In the meantime, I now have *plenty* of time for blogging lol.

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Two things can be true simultaneously: a) Modern LLMs can count the amount of letters in a word despite the counterintuition of tokenization b) Google Search Overview's LLM can fail to the amount of letters in a word because it's a quantized LLM There's a nuance that tbh no one care about anymore.

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I used GPT 5.6 to create something I've wanted for literally years: a macOS menu bar application to control an Apple TV with all expected features (including Now Playing), written using SwiftUI. It worked *much* better than expected.

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If I ever work for Anthropic or OpenAI I'm just going to not post on social media.

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It's both funny and logical that OpenRouter is now the place for running Chinese OSS LLMs without jumping through hoops.

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AI companies really have got to stop only posting announcements on X. Just syndicate it to your company blog, it won’t hurt SEO dammit.

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I'm still upset that with all the new LLMs coming out, no one has release a good OSS text embedding model at a reasonable size. EmbeddingGemma was 10 months ago ffs.

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the fact that more people are defending the jqwik secret message to get AI to delete itself than are condemning it is concerning.

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I kinda want to see what would happen (both technically and community-wise) if an agentic LLM ported WordPress from PHP to Rust.

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The one objectively good thing about the Claude Fable 5 launch is that it implies OpenAI will release GPT 5.6 in a couple days.

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