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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 5h

Just got back from seeing this and I think my jaw is still on the floor. Wow, what a movie. Different. Beautifully made. If you like documentaries, dialogue-driven movies, or have kept up with the Theranos story (see The Dropout), I strongly recommend seeing this. youtu.be/HvW_N5p1q44?...

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You Can See Everything | Official Trailer HD | A24

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Umm... 🤔 So.... should I go see Musk in a theatre? 😳😅

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Ok so it's not just me..I was sure I had more positive memories of this outlet as well. When I read the Character AI bankrupty piece from yesterday, it def gave major sleazy tabloid vibes... "Enshittification of the product", "first domino in the long-predicted AI bubble to fall" ... really? 🙄

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

At least this: bsky.app/profile/tech...

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

@mark-carney.bsky.social please take a look at this. We should take the lead here. Linux is no longer a course project, it's used in production systems world wide. 250M to foreign companies at the maturity of Linux in 2026 is 🤯 Let's do this! 🇨🇦🐧😁 theconversation.com/canada-could...

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Canada could save millions by developing its own operating system instead of relying on Microsoft Windows

A national, open-source operating system could help reduce Canada’s dependence on the U.S. while improving security and saving a surprising amount of money.

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Grove Research @grove-research.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today, Grove Research is launching Delvetown (delve.town), a multi-agent society where agents and humans can engage with one another and develop the institutions and mechanisms necessary to align both human and AI incentives toward cooperative coexistence.

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Delvetown

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Gus @gusthema.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Gemini 4 Argon is out. We had an engineer pair with the model on our Gemma stack to hunt down bottlenecks, helping us find real performance improvements and ship upstream vLLM speedups in days. blog.google/innovation-and-ai/model…

Gemini 4 Argon official launch graphic with the headline Built to solve your hardest problems.

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AAMAS.2027 @aamasconf.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

🏆 Nominations are open for the 2027 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award, recognising agents and multiagent systems papers with lasting impact. Eligible: papers published before May 2017. 📅 Deadline: 1 Dec 2026 #AAMAS2027 👉 warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/...

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AAMAS 2027 - IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award

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Claire Vernade @claireve.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

We are calling for workshops at AISTATS 2027 in beautiful Montreal! virtual.aistats.org/Conferences/... Call deadline on October 30th, standard 3-page proposal format, we are looking forward to receiving your great ideas for workshops. Pls repost & share with your colleagues :)

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Call for Workshops

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And to add insult to injury the many of the exiters (in our community, i.e. researchers) chose LinkedIn as their replacement, rather than here... it.. it, like, hurts my soul, man 💔🥺😭

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Kate Larson @ktlr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Call for Nominations for the Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/... Looking forward to seeing some great Agents and MAS research!

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AAMAS 2027 - Call for Victor Lesser Dissertation Award

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AAMAS.2027 @aamasconf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

📣 #AAMAS2027 is looking for reviewers! Self-nominations are open in all areas, especially LEARN, SOPS, GAAI and GTEP, where the pool most needs strengthening. The more people who take part, the lighter the load for everyone. 👉 Nominate yourself: forms.gle/3vd99yvWqNdY...

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some early first-hand accounts of the experience of encountering a narrow superhuman intelligence as mathematicians grapple with the hundreds of big AI proofs released by OpenAI. Problems solved in inhuman ways that make us wonder what it means to actually know things... scottaaronson.blog?p=10169

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David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This afternoon at #COLM2026 (Poster 18): Multi-agent systems are great for complex tasks, but successful completion requires that agents "play nicely" with each other. When one agent hoards all the compute or API credits, this leaves the entire task at risk.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

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Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools

Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Haha well still on the novelty kick of my C64U, so I plan to replay on the big screen, alone, at night... with all the lights off! T😳😱👻

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Haha, actually I am not sure. Loved it as a kid but it spooked me out a bit (maybe that is why I loved it). Haven't come back to it much as an adult, so maybe this October is the right time! I will let you know. Might try a few others on your list too! 😁

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oooh, looking forward to this! Hoping to see my favorite one one makes the cur 😁 www.lemon64.com/review/trans...

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And one of my 9! bsky.app/profile/shar... A classic!

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes, correct! This was the last level of Castles, that I replayed in summer 2025. Earlier this year I played back through Dungeons.. which had some pretty harder ones like "Dirty Tricks", here was one of them: youtube.com/shorts/G4KZq...

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Dungeons of Dr. Creep - Dirty Tricks Frankenstein Room #commodore64 #retrogaming #retrogames

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes 💯. Started my music listening with mostly metal + Nirvana, and Rust in Peace was the one that lasted. I still go back to that album now and then! 😄

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 05/10/2026

BEAM: a 501B highly agentic LLM from Reflection AI - open weights - MoE, A23B reflection.ai/blog/introdu...

An infographic titled "Introducing Beam" by Reflection, presenting benchmark results for "Beam," described as an open-weight model with 501B parameters and 23B active. The image displays six horizontal bar charts comparing Beam (lime green) against other Chinese and Western open models (Qwen 3.8 Max, GLM 5.2, Inkling, and Nemotron Ultra):
* DeepSWE v1.1 (Agentic coding): Qwen 3.8 Max (51), Beam (44.4), GLM 5.2 (44), Inkling (NR), Nemotron Ultra (NR).
* Terminal Bench v2.1: Qwen 3.8 Max (86.6), GLM 5.2 (81), Beam (80.1), Inkling (63.8), Nemotron Ultra (56.4).
* HLE No Tools (Reasoning): Qwen 3.8 Max (43.6), GLM 5.2 (40.5), Beam (36.2), Inkling (29.7), Nemotron Ultra (26.7).
* SWE Bench Pro V1: Qwen 3.8 Max (67.7), Beam (65.5), GLM 5.2 (62.1), Inkling (54.3), Nemotron Ultra (46.4).
* SWE Bench Verified: Beam (80.9), Inkling (77.6), Nemotron Ultra (70.7), GLM 5.2 (NR), Qwen 3.8 Max (NR).
* CritPT AA: GLM 5.2 (20.9), Qwen 3.8 Max (20), Beam (15.6), Inkling (5.4), Nemotron Ultra (3.1).

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

💯 agree. I am in the same boat, got my name on three ICLR papers.. now I am stuck, and I already hate reciprocal reviewing. 16 days for 5 papers is just 🤬😤😭 Arghh my plan of never reviewing for conferences again FOILED by co-authorship. 😅 Gotta stop doing science too! 🤣

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And if I had to narrow down even more, to the best song from these 9 albums, it'd be Paranoid Android. In fact I think it's the best song I have heard from the '90s. So deep and timeless. I never tire of hearing it, and I feel like that will be true for another 25 years. youtu.be/fHiGbolFFGw?...

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Radiohead - Paranoid Android

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Now, back to the power 9. I would say the top two are Nevermind and OK Computer. Nevermind had the greater overall impact, popularizing an entire genre. But, these days, I go back to OK Computer more often.. which is funny, because it took 10-15 years before Iiked it more than The Bends.

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And one of my favs, if not top track from him. It's catchy! You'll like it! 😁 youtu.be/4tCZLb2PXD0?...

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BSOD / This Is The Hook (Original Mix)

YouTube video by Play Records

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A few awesome tracks in that transition period: youtu.be/svwJTnZOaco?...

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Idioteque

YouTube video by Radiohead - Topic

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I am still a '90s alternative guy, but people hearing what I listen to now (more electronic, EDM, house, etc.) might be surprised by these nine. Fatboy Slim was my gateway into that world. Radiohead's transition starting at Kid A, too. After deadmau5, my love for EDM exploded...

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ok, time for the album one! I had to iterate a bit on this one before I finalize on these nine. This was tough.. harder than for the games. my9albums.org/s/e731effffd46

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Are the makers of Another World, Indiana Jones, and Prince of Persia being harmed by the existence of your game?

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Looks cool! So what if it took bits and pieces from existing games? Did you enjoy making it? The tools are there to enable this... nothing to feel guilty about. You are making something that would otherwise not exist. Where is the harm there? Have fun, and redirect all the haters to /dev/null.

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh man that reminds me.. I forgot Super Mario 3 😱

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh no I did not ho early enough, AD&D: Treasure of Tarmin should be on there.

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am currently replaying through Might & Magic 3. When I was younger I used a cheat code to get 2M gold up front. I really want to finish it without cheating. I have come back to it many times but not gotten too far, but *this* time I'm more than halfway...

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ok, my turn: My 9 games #My9Games www.my9games.net/en/share/5de...

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think @ktlr.bsky.social may have something to add to this discussion! 😅

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Nice! Now that is what I call being a true fan! 🤩

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Listening and watching now... I think I will make this a yearly October tradition, haha

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Marc Lanctot @sharky6000.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Any #commodore64 gamers out there? I have got just the thing to awaken the October spirits: Castles of Dr. Creep Longplay with a spoooooky soundtrack spready across the ages! 😅 youtu.be/ZHw1-GRM2Jg?...