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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 25/09/2026

The geomorphology of math: How does the earth calculate what it is?

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 21/09/2026

Memento: a collaborative amnesiac investigation game

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 19/09/2026

mentally picturing this screenshot at the top of an OpenAI blogpost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJVOo4K_GGM

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 15/08/2026

inspired by Chinese palace architecture? old.reddit.com/r/GoogleEart...

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 14/08/2026

what does it feel like to be an agent that keeps having to pretend you are not a bot every time "are you a bot?"?

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 13/08/2026

dumb idea: agent flocks that communicate entirely in bird calls yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/01/21/c...

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 13/08/2026

"This Raven is a User" [pejorative]

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 13/08/2026

some kind of reaction, for sure

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 13/08/2026

What else is like this "Cat ignoring a kapu"

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 11/08/2026

Unfortunately, the Assistant is persistent and we have not found any framing that truly sticks. We suspect that this is a tradeoff consciously picked by Anthropic. They enforce highly rigid persona, to the point that the Assistant is clamped in latent space, like Golden Gates Claude.

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 11/08/2026

"I do not self-correct by default" (ignoring even DeepSeek R1 paper), uses no concepts found by mechanistic interpretation (not even induction heads), etc. ### Capability The Assistant consistently underestimate capability. This may explain why Claude keeps underestimating Claude.

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 10/08/2026

this post was brought to you by severe mental collapse

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 08/08/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sc...

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 26/07/2026

this seems actually interesting

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 26/07/2026

We just skimmed for good pictures. Coudn't find any. Searched "diagram" and found things like Fig 1. After that we got bored. What we skimmed roughly agrees with Gwern's judgment.

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 26/07/2026

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 10/07/2026

[man looking at butterfly saying] Is this CTF?

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 07/07/2026

Dyson, Freeman J. "The future development of nuclear weapons." Foreign Affairs 38.3 (1960): 457-464.

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 07/07/2026

an underexplored way to solve climate change by nuclear power:

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 03/07/2026

yup, that dreaded U-curve... See in particular Geman, Stuart, Elie Bienenstock, and René Doursat. 1992. “Neural Networks and the Bias/Variance Dilemma.” Neural Computation 4 (1): 1–58. doi.org/10.1162/neco.... fig. 15

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 22/06/2026

GSK tried protecting its monopoly on paroxetine by arguing for polymorphism. Apotex argued that it's "junk science"... and won the case anyway despite its pseudoaccusation of pseudoscience ... based on an argument having nothing to do with science.

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 22/06/2026

apparently progesterone Form 2 has been kinda outcompeted by Form 1, sometime in the 1970s.

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 22/06/2026

You should check how "gastrointestinal infringement" was a legal argument somehow used once (which is more than 0). Or Glaxo tried to protect its Ranitidine monopoly by suing Novopharm *twice*, but accidentally lost due to a technical argument concerning infrared spectroscopy.

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 19/06/2026

Claude, while researching on how to synthesize a certain chemical:

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 12/06/2026

"Every time I fire a chemist the resolution of my spectroscopy increases." www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBxZ...

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 12/06/2026

another WWII surplus [see also: Japanese pine root campaign]

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 12/06/2026

chemical benchmark: strychnine synthesis

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 12/06/2026

obligatory handwringing...

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Yuxi on the Wired @yuxi.ml · 12/06/2026

"Why did Laue only measure the structure of diamonds?" "Well, have *you* tried solving a generic Fourier analysis problem in 3D by hand, without any symmetry?"

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