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John David Pressman

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Machine learning researcher, alignment-accelerationist, Fedorovist ancestor simulator, Dreamtime enjoyer. All posts public domain under CC0 1.0.
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this is one of my favorite papers, similar method. It convinced me a that LLMs weren’t merely autocompleting they showed that EVEN WHEN the answer to a math problem was present in the dataset, the agent didn’t reference it, but rather looked at problems with similar form arxiv…

Procedural Knowledge in Pretraining Drives Reasoning in Large Language Models arxiv.org
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GLM-5.3 Cyber might be the tool of choice for cyber defenders not big enough to participate in Anthropic & OpenAI’s programs z.ai/blog/glm-5.3

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  • GLM-5.3 launched on August 14, 2026, keeping GLM-5.2's base and lifting Terminal-Bench 3.0 from 4.6 to 28.3 through post-training alone.
  • On CyberGym vulnerability discovery, GLM-5.3 scored 84.5%, slightly ahead of Claude Mythos 5 at 83.8% and GPT-5.6 Sol at 83.6%.
  • Z.ai says the model surfaced 2,436 vulnerabilities across 269 open-source projects, 1,097 rated critical or high, and delayed weights about two weeks.
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Which, the standard of what qualifies as "GOFAI" has changed over time. These days most people consider Hutter esque context tree weighting type algorithms GOFAI, I probably consider it GOFAI, but really who the hell knows what he had in mind. Perhaps this but less hardcoded a…

A Monte Carlo AIXI Approximation arxiv.org
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I have written a new post, "Implications Of Predicting The Next Token" in which I explain why saying a language model "just" predicts the next token fails to understand what that phrase would even imply. minihf.com/posts/2026-0...

Implications Of Predicting The Next Token minihf.com
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FYI: LLMs are now better at cybersecurity CTFs than people, apparently. The new meta is to just dump tokens on the problem, personal skill doesn't help that much.

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I hate that I have to write an essay about the OpenAI HuggingFace breach. I've kind of been trying to get out of the all consuming vortex of writing about whatever is happening but they screwed up so hard that I kind of feel like I have to.

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