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- Turning Fleet Data Into Better Models: The Data Mining Challenge in Physical AI1 savers
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- The Self-Driving Codebase: Background Agents and the Next Era of Software Delivery3 savers
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- Guide to Personal Productivity14 savers
- The ‘ChatGPT Moment’ in Robotics and beyond1 savers
- Is the “Conviction” Game in VC Is BS? - by Guillermo Flor1 savers
- Opinion | Hong Kong Is China, Like It or Not - The New York Times1 savers
- Hong Kong’s Summer of Discontent - Foreign Policy Research Institute1 savers
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a distillation loss function is applied to guide the knowledge transfer process. This loss function helps the student model to steadily acquire knowledge by quantifying the discrepancies between the teacher model’s soft targets and the student model’s predictions.
What is Model Distillation?A distillation algorithm is applied in the knowledge transfer phase to ensure student models can acquire knowledge from the teacher model efficiently.
What is Model Distillation?student model is trained to replicate the teacher model’s output probabilities.
What is Model Distillation?The teacher model would be the base model in this case, serving as the knowledgeable expert system from which the knowledge is distilled. The student model would then inherit the behaviors and functionalities of this teacher model during knowledge transfer.
What is Model Distillation?this supervised learning approach ensures knowledge transfer, enabling AI teams to develop secondary models that are responsive and cheaper to host and run.
What is Model Distillation?Governance enforced at the execution layer — deny lists, scoped credentials, deterministic command blocking — is actual governance.
The Self-Driving Codebase: Background Agents and the Next Era of Software DeliveryThe agent has a full development environment. A VM running a dev container with your codebase, test suite, databases, and internal network access.
The Self-Driving Codebase: Background Agents and the Next Era of Software DeliveryTo inspire usage across more non-engineering users, you should build a Chrome extension that allows you to make changes to any React app visually. Use the Chrome extension sidebar API to build a chat interface that also includes a screenshot tool. However, instead of sending the actual image (which consumes many tokens), it should use the DOM and React internals to get the full tree of elements in the selected area
Why We Built Our Own Background Agent — Ramp Builders BlogWe believe that multiplayer is a mission-critical feature, and something we have not seen in any other product yet. The idea behind multiplayer should be that any number of people can work in one session together, just as they would in a branch of code
Why We Built Our Own Background Agent — Ramp Builders BlogCreate a tool that starts a new session, and a tool that lets it read the status of any session, so it can check in periodically while the main session still does work
Why We Built Our Own Background Agent — Ramp Builders BlogEach session runs in a sandboxed VM on Modal
Why We Built Our Own Background Agent — Ramp Builders BlogInspect writes the code like any other coding agent, but closes the loop on verifying its work by having all the context and tools needed to prove it
Why We Built Our Own Background Agent — Ramp Builders BlogWhile some specific abilities do decline with age, overall memory remains strong for most people throughout their 70s. In fact, research shows that the average 70-year-old performs as well on certain cognitive tests as do many 20-year-olds, and many people in their 60s and 70s score significantly better in verbal intelligence than do younger people.
How Human Memory Works | HowStuffWorksaging causes major cell loss in a tiny region in the front of the brain that leads to a drop in the production of a neurotransmitter called acetylcholine. Acetylcholine is vital to learning and memory.
How Human Memory Works | HowStuffWorksas you learn and remember, your brain doesn't change its overall structure or grow whole new batches of nerve cells -- it's the connections between cells that change as you learn. Your synapses are reinforced, and cells make more and stronger connections with each other. But as you begin to age, these synapses begin to falter, which begins to affect how easily you can retrieve memories.
How Human Memory Works | HowStuffWorksNerve cells connect with other cells at a point called a synapse. All the action in your brain occurs at these synapses, where electrical pulses carrying messages leap across gaps between cells.
Can a Person Remember Being Born? | HowStuffWorksthe hippocampus, along with another part of the brain called the frontal cortex, is responsible for analyzing these various sensory inputs and deciding if they're worth remembering
Can a Person Remember Being Born? | HowStuffWorksCLAUDE.md is added to Claude Code's context every time, so from a context engineering and prompt engineering standpoint, keep it concise. One option: break up information into separate markdown files and reference them inside the CLAUDE.md file.
Using CLAUDE.MD files: Customizing Claude Code for your codebase | ClaudeCustom slash commands store these as markdown files in your.claude/commands/directory. Create a file named performance-optimization.mm with your preferred performance optimization prompt, and it becomes available as /performance-optimization in any conversation. Commands support arguments through $ARGUMENTS or numbered placeholders like $1 and $2, letting you pass specific files or parameters.
Using CLAUDE.MD files: Customizing Claude Code for your codebase | ClaudeTell Claude to use a subagent for distinct phases of work. Subagents maintain isolated context, preventing information from earlier tasks from interfering with new analysis. After implementing a payment processor, instruct Claude to "use a sub-agent to perform a security review of that code" rather than continuing in the same conversation.
Using CLAUDE.MD files: Customizing Claude Code for your codebase | ClaudeUse /clear between distinct tasks to reset the context window. This removes accumulated history while preserving your CLAUDE.md configuration and Claude's ability to address new problems with fresh context. Think of it as closing one work session and opening another.
Using CLAUDE.MD files: Customizing Claude Code for your codebase | ClaudeCreating a CLAUDE.md from scratch can feel daunting, especially in an unfamiliar codebase. The /init command automates this process by analyzing your project and generating a starter configuration.
Using CLAUDE.MD files: Customizing Claude Code for your codebase | Claudestart the day with a real, sit-down breakfast.
Guide to Personal Productivityonly keep three standing email folders: Pending, Review, and Vault.
Guide to Personal Productivityemails relating to topics that are current working projects or pressing issues go into temporary subfolders of a folder called Action
Guide to Personal Productivityeither answer or file every single message until you get to that empty inbox state of grace.
Guide to Personal ProductivityOnly doing email twice a day will make you far more productive for the rest of the day.
Guide to Personal Productivitykeep your email client shut and your email notifications turned off.
Guide to Personal ProductivityThe best way to to make sure that you are never asked to do something again is to royally screw it up the first time you are asked to do it.
Guide to Personal Productivityevery time you do something—anything—useful during the day, write it down in your Anti-Todo List on the card.
Guide to Personal Productivityuse the back of the 3x5 card as your Anti-Todo List.
Guide to Personal ProductivityEach night before you go to bed, prepare a 3x5 index card with a short list of 3 to 5 things that you will do the next day.
Guide to Personal ProductivityInto the Todo List goes all the stuff you “must” do—commitments, obligations, things that have to be done. A single list, possibly subcategorized by timeframe (today, this week, next week, next month). Into the Watch List goes all the stuff going on in your life that you have to follow up on, wait for someone else to get back to you on, remind yourself of in the future, or otherwise remember. Into the Later List goes everything else—everything you might want to do or will do when you have time or wish you could do.
Guide to Personal Productivitywork on whatever is most important or most interesting
Guide to Personal ProductivityAutonomy 3.0 — Foundation‑Model Autonomy (2023 → present) Vision-Language-Action Transformers trained at web + fleet scale One Transformer ingests video, text, and sensor data, then outputs actions—fine-tuned across tasks.
The ‘ChatGPT Moment’ in Robotics and beyondAutonomy 2.0 — Modular Deep‑Learning Stack (≈ 2015–2022) CNN perception • rule-based planner • low-level control Deep CNNs took over vision, but planning and control stayed rule-based.
The ‘ChatGPT Moment’ in Robotics and beyondAutonomy 1.0 — Hand‑Crafted Robotics (pre‑2015) Rule-based control • classical vision • zero learning Robots ran on hand-tuned heuristics and feature-based vision; every behavior was hard-coded.
The ‘ChatGPT Moment’ in Robotics and beyondBut the math tells a different story. Spray and pray works better—unless you’re top-tier.
Is the “Conviction” Game in VC Is BS? - by Guillermo FlorLPs love a good story. VCs love looking smart. Concentrated bets signal genius. Spray and pray signals… desperation?
Is the “Conviction” Game in VC Is BS? - by Guillermo Florthey should benchmark Hong Kong against the rest of China, and measure how the city can maintain its unique characteristics
Opinion | Hong Kong Is China, Like It or Not - The New York TimesA realistic goal for Hong Kong ought to be remaining the freest and most international city in China and retaining its unique international status
Opinion | Hong Kong Is China, Like It or Not - The New York Timesthe city’s progressive integration with China is unavoidable.
Opinion | Hong Kong Is China, Like It or Not - The New York TimesNational unity has always been the ultimate objective.
Opinion | Hong Kong Is China, Like It or Not - The New York TimesFrom Beijing’s point of view, democratic development in Hong Kong has brought about nothing but chaos, polarization and anti-China sentiment.
Opinion | Hong Kong Is China, Like It or Not - The New York TimesAt least two of the 24 pro-democracy legislators in LegCo announced this week that they would quit, on grounds that a term extension would breach the Basic Law
Opinion | Hong Kong Is China, Like It or Not - The New York Timesthey have done great harm to the city by going against its constitutional order and stirring up chaos and disaffection toward our motherland.
Opinion | Hong Kong Is China, Like It or Not - The New York TimesSeveral prominent democracy advocates have since announced their retirement from politics, disbanded their parties or fled the city.
Opinion | Hong Kong Is China, Like It or Not - The New York TimesHong Kong is part of China and that its destiny is intertwined with the mainland’s.
Opinion | Hong Kong Is China, Like It or Not - The New York TimesOn another, very different account, Beijing will be less tolerant toward Hong Kong because, under Xi, a more centralized and unapologetically authoritarian leadership of a more powerful China does not care, and does not need to care, about the preferences of critics and opponents in the SAR
Hong Kong’s Summer of Discontent - Foreign Policy Research InstituteOn one view, the Xi regime must take a tougher line on Hong Kong because Xi cannot afford to appear weak and because Chinese leaders fear that confrontational pro-democracy and pro-legality politics in Hong Kong, if left unchecked, could spread to Mainland China
Hong Kong’s Summer of Discontent - Foreign Policy Research Institute