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Jack Hogan

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  • This article features many exponential trajectories. But these trajectories may actually turn out to be S-curves.
    When AI builds itself \ Anthropic
  • A caveat: Lines of code is an imperfect measure, as it measures quantity over quality. So 8× lines of code/engineer/day in the second quarter of 2026 is almost certainly an overstatement of the true productivity gain. Nonetheless, it indicates an acceleration.
    When AI builds itself \ Anthropic
  • If this trend holds, tasks that take a skilled person days could come into range this year.
    When AI builds itself \ Anthropic
  • Anthropic engineers on average ship 8x as much code per quarter as they did from 2021-2025.
    When AI builds itself \ Anthropic
  • Die for a dream, not for yourself.
    Introduction to Anti-Transhumanism - ueaj - Obsidian Publish
  • Backlash is also the inevitable consequence of AGI-pilling the nation. Like okay, congrats, now everyone’s woken up to AI and its threat. Do we expect them to stay quiet and meekly accept what’s to come?2
    AI Populism's Warning Shots - by Jasmine Sun
  • Automation always sows the seeds of its own resistance. Ordinary people may have fewer lobbying dollars, but they have other ways to escalate. That’s why I don’t think accelerationist steamrolling will work. The only way this conflict resolves peacefully is some kind of grand bargain: a flagship policy plan that directly addresses the public’s top fears about AI and meaningfully redistributes the gains.3 That, or giving people a worse disaster (WWIII?) to worry about. In a political environment this combustible, the laissez-faire approach seems doomed to fail.
    AI Populism's Warning Shots - by Jasmine Sun
  • Each leaf of the tree corresponds to a certificate, and each inner node is equal to the hash of its children. To sign the batch, the MTCA uses its secret key to sign the head of the tree. The structure of the tree guarantees that each certificate in the batch was signed by the MTCA: if we tried to tweak the bits of any one of the certificates, the treehead would end up having a different value, which would cause the signature to fail.
    Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates
  • Lack of attention is a death sentence.
    The Afterlives of Computer Art
  • “A digital conservator,” he reflected, “will need to weave the past into the present and constantly find new ways of doing so.”
    The Afterlives of Computer Art
  • One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age is a collaborative archiving project with the net art pioneer Olia Lialina, who has sought to “preserve the beauty of the vernacular web”—the exuberantly amateurish websites made by early web adopters in the mid-to-late 1990s—“by integrating them within contemporary art pieces.” When the influential web hosting service GeoCities was shut down in late 2009, Espenschied and Lialina began digging through a terabyte-sized torrent of GeoCities webpages—saved by a volunteer archiving collective—and sharing screenshots on a widely followed tumblr, treating these sites as …
    The Afterlives of Computer Art
  • “Documentation,” the conservationist Dragan Espenschied wrote in 2022, “fill[s] the gaps in between manifestations of a piece…[and] specific types of documentation can become part of an artwork’s manifestation.”
    The Afterlives of Computer Art
  • working at the intersection of art and technology
    The Afterlives of Computer Art
  • it uses an LLM to select interesting features and then builds a classifier using only those interesting features.
    Interestingness First Classifiers - Data Processing Club
  • Still, the idea that the presence of people can be inferred with a hygrometer is intriguing: it feels like it could work, or maybe it couldn’t, which makes it sit at just the right level of interestingness.
    Interestingness First Classifiers - Data Processing Club
  • This way, small, frequent movements are tokenized into finer bins and large, infrequent movements into coarser ones.
    The First Fully General Computer Action Model | blog
  • To train a non-causal, generative model, we adopted a masked diffusion architecture. [7]
    The First Fully General Computer Action Model | blog
  • strong taste gives you the psychological safety to enable you to look to others for inspiration and help you attend to things you otherwise would not have noticed
    Taste is a guide for what is worthwhile
  • We have built up an instinctive habit of looking things up and seeing how other people have done it before trying it for ourselves. But the downside is that this habit primes our brains to value our work in the context of the taste of others rather than of our own.
    Taste is a guide for what is worthwhile
  • the observation about the importance of “apprehending the hidden beauty of things” generalizes
    Taste is a guide for what is worthwhile
  • sorry is a placeholder until we can prove the theorem
    Dear Agent: Prove it. • Rijnard van Tonder
  • Lean gives you this special language where you can express these specifications; a kind of sidecar to your implementation. Those specifications are mathematical propositions, and represented as types.
    Dear Agent: Prove it. • Rijnard van Tonder