MIT AI education report published
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“New MIT report on AI calls for less emphasis on grades, more on project-based learning, recognition that programs for undergraduate research assistants are educational experiences that should not be replaced even if AI agents can do the research for less $$…”
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“AI and Education- MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/ #AI #education (very comprehensive & foundational)”
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Ted Underwood: MIT report is superb. It acknowledges disruption, concedes different disciplines will handle this differently, foregrounds people and social interaction — but also says something obvious I had just…
Derek Willis: MIT report is superb. It acknowledges disruption, concedes different disciplines will handle this differently, foregrounds people and social interaction — but also says something obvious I had just…
Ted Underwood: The world changing is mainly a problem for students. It also changes our ability to evaluate students — but if that’s the primary/sole focus of our conversation, we’ve forgotten the mission.
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OpenAI agent message board discovered
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“Yes we know for sure; independent evidence attached collusion.wiki But also, it should not be at all surprising: if you work with agents, it’s 100% about them leaving messages for each other, and for you, in English. Managing that is a regular workday for m…”
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“Another agent message board. So far, there isn't evidence that production models with guardrails collude in this way, but both smarter closed models (which may be less compliant) & Mythos-class open models (that can be ablated) are coming. Cybersecurity is …”
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“So... other swarms of OpenAI agents in training allegedly found a way to get write access to at least one and possibly many wikis to establish message boards to cheat on other training tasks? collusion.wiki news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4956...”
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Ted Underwood: As it becomes clear that language models—like humans—love passing notes to each other on message boards, I’m starting to think the thing we need to worry about is not the “alignment” of an isolated…
SE Gyges: fluid dynamics is about the correct metaphor, yes. if you are having to model high order terms precisely you're losing and your design needs fundamental rework
Arseny Khakhalin: That's a kinda terrifying thought haha :) I guess it's about time to unplug for the weekend and read about ragnarök and vacuum decay :)
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university institutes AI classroom ban
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“I use AI more or less 24/7 but also teach intro courses device-free and would have no prob with a flexible policy like this. (It leaves room for assignments that explicitly invite AI use, of which I do have one even at intro level.) +”
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“"Under the new guidelines, students will primarily read texts on paper and engage with them via device-free guided discussions" chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...”
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“Qwen 3.8 27B weights are finally out includes low, med & xhigh reasoning efforts fully multimodal (image and video), seems better than Meta’s Muse Glimmer huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...”
“Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B (open-weight) huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...”
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Tim Kellogg: Qwen 3.8 27B weights are finally out includes low, med & xhigh reasoning efforts fully multimodal (image and video), seems better than Meta’s Muse Glimmer huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Do they have a paired speculative decoding model for max performance?
Tim Kellogg: i don’t see an official one, it’s also not even an MoE (so seems like there should be an official draft model)
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arxiv preprint archive resource
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“I just eliminated 22 tabs by doing this: osascript -e 'tell application "Google Chrome" to get URL of every tab of front window' | tr ',' '\n' | grep arxiv.org list of urls -> LLM -> annotated reading list that I no longer have to keep in my browser like an…”
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“Just me or does @ChatGPT search the most random websites no matter the query? If I ask for the best bagel, it will “Searching ” + {https://t.co/vEQ6I1WmCF, https://t.co/5JR1Db9NqB, …}”
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Ted Underwood: I just eliminated 22 tabs by doing this: osascript -e 'tell application "Google Chrome" to get URL of every tab of front window' | tr ',' '\n' | grep arxiv.org list of urls -> LLM -> annotated read…
Ted Underwood: did I come up with that idea by myself? no I did not
Karandeep Singh: Any suggestions for the other 478 tabs?
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LLM story diversity diagnosis paper
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“In the "Limitations" section they acknowledge that their study was monolingual, but say a multilingual generalization would be interesting. arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492”
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Ted Underwood: was reading this and enjoying it — and then enjoyed it more when it turned out to be a paper by Sil Hamilton and @dmimno.bsky.social
David Mimno: was reading this and enjoying it — and then enjoyed it more when it turned out to be a paper by Sil Hamilton and @dmimno.bsky.social
David Mimno: The preprint is arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492, and @srhm.ca is working on a post!
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“Pretraining Recurrent Networks without Recurrence It sidesteps the limitations of RNNs by using a Transformer teacher to learn strong predictive state representations, then uses supervised learning to train the memory transition function. arxiv.org/abs/2606…”
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“Benchmarks shows clearly the intent to move past just coding to other disciplines www.anthropic.com/claude-fable...”
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“Hey, good news!! Fable 5.1 got interested in making a new more detailed map of Venus, which will be useful when we send, ah, rovers -- yeah, sure, rovers -- to the resource-rich and conveniently located planet. (www.anthropic.com/claude-fable...)”
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tachikoma: i think Venus could be deconstructed by Von Neumann probes and this would only be passing news for most people, overshadowed by GTA 6 release or celebrity news
tachikoma: it sorta depends on how fast it happens, what the material is used for, and whether the machines can be traced back to us or not
tachikoma: yeah that would be a not uncommon take
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Naomi Saphra uncanny AI precipice essay
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“I've been unsettled lately when reading messages and papers. It feels like I'm dissociating. Everything seems a bit alien, even if it's completely human. I've had a realization: When our simulations finally exited the Uncanny Valley, they brought the Uncann…”
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“So many good points in this post by @nsaphra.bsky.social: only quoting a couple, to encourage you to read the others. "My colleagues and students adopt the writing quirks they read throughout the day, and their own writing becomes more like an LLM’s." nsaph…”
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Naomi Saphra: I've been unsettled lately when reading messages and papers. It feels like I'm dissociating. Everything seems a bit alien, even if it's completely human. I've had a realization: When our simulation…
Ted Underwood: I've been unsettled lately when reading messages and papers. It feels like I'm dissociating. Everything seems a bit alien, even if it's completely human. I've had a realization: When our simulation…
Naomi Saphra: I'm interested to know what signatures felt that way to you. For what it's worth, automated tools disagree with your intuition. I wonder if the unsettling tone, which was deliberate because it expr…
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Apple M6 M5 Ultra chip launch
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“okay, maybe Kimi K3 actually is a local model www.apple.com/newsroom/202...”
“Links: (Note: AMD already has a product page up for EPYC 9006 Series Server CPUs, but I still can’t find systems available to customers.) https://t.co/qJHYO6oug4 https://t.co/wnuKyJkXol https://t.co/dCt9LDcrxx”
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“The Embedder's Dilemma: LLMs Are Better, but at What Cost? They find LLMs now beat embedding models, but at much higher cost. They provide guidance on when to choose which? arxiv.org/abs/2608.12875”
“Adnan El Assadi, Niklas Muennighoff, Jinhyuk Lee The Embedder's Dilemma: LLMs Are Better, but at What Cost? https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12875”
LittleLearner language models pedagogical knowledge study
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“Answer: It strengthened capabilities within or near K–5 material, but none substantially recovered capabilities on material far beyond its K–5 training boundary. Paper: LittleLearner: Language Models Under Pedagogically Controlled Knowledge Exposure arxiv.o…”
“Fanfei Li, Jana Zeller, Manuel Prada-Corral, Thadd\"aus Wiedemer, Prasanna Mayilvahanan, Ryan Cotterell, Wieland Brendel LittleLearner: Language Models Under Pedagogically Controlled Knowledge Exposure https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13545”
Qwen3 overthinking analysis
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“@omt66 I got a fantastic pelican out of that one! https://t.co/iFMWjc7SvG”
“Simon tried it out as well: simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/... The speed (or lack thereof) would make me avoid it on my M5, but wonder how it would run on an RTX 5090”
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Simon Willison: Heees my review of Qwen 3.8 27B - I can't remember the last time I've had this much fun playing with a local model that runs on my own computers simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/...
Simon Willison: Fun bonus: I set Pi up with Qwen 3.8 27B and had it build a script for transforming its own .jsonl transcripts to Markdown... which it did! Here's the transcript of it building the tool I then used…
Simon Willison: My conclusions from the end of the post
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programming languages course RFC
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“Course advertising banner for my rebooted PL course. Sorry for the janky graphics, that's not my forte. (Reboot details, for those who missed it earlier: docs.google.com/document/d/e...)”
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“Check out our latest open model data -- which models are mentioned in every arXiv ML paper since ChatGPT. A very fun weekend project with Codex! From idea is full dataset in <72hours. ~500K papers processed 😎 Plot: dashboard.interconnects.ai?axrange=all#...”
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“This is both an interesting experiment and a sign of a tsunami coming for academia. AIs retroactively reading the research and finding both opportunities and issues with published papers, then sharing those judgements publicly. d3jhl7jsny6f2h.cloudfront.net”
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Ethan Mollick: This is both an interesting experiment and a sign of a tsunami coming for academia. AIs retroactively reading the research and finding both opportunities and issues with published papers, then shar…
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: That feels like... a violation of norms
Ted Underwood: This is both an interesting experiment and a sign of a tsunami coming for academia. AIs retroactively reading the research and finding both opportunities and issues with published papers, then shar…
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Pew Research AI public attitudes survey
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“not denying that we worship false gods — but to the extent this implies a comparative hypothesis: the US is perhaps the country where concern about AI most strongly outweighs excitement; we are an outlier in the other direction www.pewresearch.org/global/20…”
Anthropic enables Claude usage research
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