Love to see Google surprising people with Gemini 4. More labs at the frontier is wonderful for consumers (competition) and the world (reduction in concentration of power). Excited to see how it goes in real-world scenarios.

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AI agents say things like ARGH and OH MY GOD in their chains of thought. Good reason to think it's not just imitation but that these words play functional roles for doing reasoning. What comes after "oops" is very different than what comes after "aha"...

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A huge collaborative effort to describe the deceptively deep rabbit hole that is tokenization! Hopefully it contains many answers to "has anyone tried doing ~" questions and inspire new approaches. Thank you to @mcognetta.bsky.social for leading this ambitious project!

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One more CoLM meta-review to write, yay... ...the last paper's reviews+discussion contain about **16,000 words** and the paper is a borderline, RIP

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the contemporary technologist simultaneously holds both grave fear, and mocking contempt, of the computer

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