Isaiah Bishop

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ML Eng. and econometrics. Honorary Commodities Trader**. more left-posting than normal. **Regrettably degen trading on here, im sorry Views dont reflect my employer

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me

Astra, the next version of GPT, solves 10 unsolved problems in math Each of these problems has had little to no progress in ten years or more openai.com/index/ten-ad...

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social

Finally, AI finds its ultimate use case. A diffusion model trained on burger recipes "discovers the classic Big Mac without explicit supervision and generates novel burgers optimized for deliciousness, sustainability, or nutrition." ASI= automated slider intelligence www.natur…

Generative artificial intelligence creates delicious, sustainable, and nutritious burgers | npj Science of Food nature.com
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Eugene Vinitsky @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social

Fantastic paper demonstrating how LLM editing is gradually distorting our writing and the way we think to write: arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161

How LLMs Distort Our Written Language arxiv.org
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  • Heavy LLM users produced nearly 70% more essays that stayed neutral on the topic question, and reported the writing felt less creative and not their own.
  • Even when asked only to fix grammar in 2021 human-written essays, LLMs significantly altered the semantic meaning of the text.
  • About 21% of peer reviews at a recent top AI conference were AI-generated, and those reviews scored papers a full point higher on average.
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@vcarchidi.bsky.social

It's interesting. Don't have an entirely clear picture from just this, but I would have questions about the counterfactuals here that I doubt could be answered (would these groups' tactics be substantively different without this access? etc.). www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/u...

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Man look at the change in the sales pitch openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social

I'm so happy when other people write papers on nondeterministic factors in training. embrace the chaos

Emergent Capabilities Arise Randomly from Learning Sparse Attention Patterns arxiv.org
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  • Emergent capabilities arise stochastically: the same model can gain or fail to gain a capability depending on its random initialization.
  • Researchers used Pythia models from 14M to 410M parameters to show attention pattern learning is the key bottleneck to capability emergence.
  • More attention heads improved learning efficiency; MLP-Mixer outperformed standard transformers on tasks with complex attention patterns.
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@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. what does it say when even Masa thinks it’s too far out there?” @wsj.com $SPCX www.wsj.com/tech/why-one...

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@isolyth.dev

GLM-5.2 weights are now out! 1M context, and beats or matches GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.7 on many tasks... I hope to see a comparison between this model and Kimi-k2.7 soon z.ai/blog/glm-5.2 It also contains agentic slime (?)

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Recent commentary

If both anthropic, and OpenAI gor from 10 bil ARR in Q1, to 100-200 bil ARR in Q4. surely we are having a hole somewhere thats being created

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A guy made a homeautomation-based weather station and it looks really good, and all the reddit comments are like "actually you shouldve tagged this AI??? disgusting"

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Contrary to what a lot of people think about LLM code quality, what its really enabled us to do is parallelize tech maintenance. And as a result our repos are so much cleaner

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Have openAI and Anthropic cracked continual learning? Well its simple, if its what you expect they wouldn't need to keep raising money

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Was listening to Dwarkesh but im always struck by this kind of belief that AI will be able to, in his words, start a business and be great at it or "be as good at texas politics as LBJ" and like it just seems to me we are asking too much of generalization

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it does kind of feel like a lot of things have become correlated in ways that are undesirable. Idk how to say this but like it was useful when bonds and stocks werent correlated. Useful when US and ex-US werent just different flavours of the AI trade. And like same politically.

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I had posts earlier in 2025 saying "AI build out isnt like sub prime" and that was true then. We are definitely looking a little more subprime for sure

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Probably worth thinking about why AI isnt like serving cloud. And i think a key difference is that the migration to cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCS was taking already established revenue, and then streamlining and consolidating. AI services remain high CAPEX/highly uncertain projection based

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I do wish we could have competent govt because like LLMs and Robotics being govt owned does legit feel like in the limit we could achieve socialist paradise and oceans of lemonade or whatever

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Thinking about, mathematics and programming are maybe the most natural places for an LLM to succeed because they are literally studies of abstraction. Like math doesn't get harder it just goes into a new universe of abstraction.

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