Daniel Mewes
@dmewes.com
Computer scientist. Interested in technology, artificial and natural intelligence, emergent complexity, among other things. Blogging at amongai.com.
Currently at Imbue. Previously Ambient.ai, Stripe, RethinkDB, Max Planck Institute.
Currently at Imbue. Previously Ambient.ai, Stripe, RethinkDB, Max Planck Institute.
Today we're releasing Sculpture, an AI coding tool that combines async agents with the ability to collaborate with agents locally.
It also comes with built-in verifiers to automatically check the quality of AI written code. More to come! imbue.com/sculptor-ann...
It also comes with built-in verifiers to automatically check the quality of AI written code. More to come! imbue.com/sculptor-ann...
September 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Today we're releasing Sculpture, an AI coding tool that combines async agents with the ability to collaborate with agents locally.
It also comes with built-in verifiers to automatically check the quality of AI written code. More to come! imbue.com/sculptor-ann...
It also comes with built-in verifiers to automatically check the quality of AI written code. More to come! imbue.com/sculptor-ann...
We've reached a point of no return. The Trump admin officially proclaimed today that they do not need to follow the rulings of federal judges, at least as far as "foreign affairs" are concerned. Remarkably, they interpret "foreign affairs" to also include deportations and who knows what else.
March 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
We've reached a point of no return. The Trump admin officially proclaimed today that they do not need to follow the rulings of federal judges, at least as far as "foreign affairs" are concerned. Remarkably, they interpret "foreign affairs" to also include deportations and who knows what else.
When I took my Evoque there a couple years ago... youtu.be/p3sHgO4-aZk?...
March 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
When I took my Evoque there a couple years ago... youtu.be/p3sHgO4-aZk?...
Wait, really? All that tough negotiation last time under threat of trade war did not in fact achieve the promised outcome? (www.reuters.com/world/americ...)
February 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Wait, really? All that tough negotiation last time under threat of trade war did not in fact achieve the promised outcome? (www.reuters.com/world/americ...)
Interesting research by @quentin-garrido.bsky.social et al. that shows JEPA-style self-supervised video models can distinguish physically plausible from implausible sequences. arxiv.org/abs/2502.11831
February 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Interesting research by @quentin-garrido.bsky.social et al. that shows JEPA-style self-supervised video models can distinguish physically plausible from implausible sequences. arxiv.org/abs/2502.11831
Actually paying a little less this winter with the heat pump than last winter with gas furnace. We got the heat pump in July.
Electricity generation charges are slightly cheaper in San Mateo via Peninsula clean energy than with plain PG&E, but should be a small difference?
Electricity generation charges are slightly cheaper in San Mateo via Peninsula clean energy than with plain PG&E, but should be a small difference?
February 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Actually paying a little less this winter with the heat pump than last winter with gas furnace. We got the heat pump in July.
Electricity generation charges are slightly cheaper in San Mateo via Peninsula clean energy than with plain PG&E, but should be a small difference?
Electricity generation charges are slightly cheaper in San Mateo via Peninsula clean energy than with plain PG&E, but should be a small difference?
Seriously, Gemini 2.0 Thinking? I thought we had moved past the "how many letter r in strawberry" problem with the advent of reasoning models. I do find it really interesting though to see its reasoning trace and where exactly it went wrong (in spelling the word it turns out).
February 7, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Seriously, Gemini 2.0 Thinking? I thought we had moved past the "how many letter r in strawberry" problem with the advent of reasoning models. I do find it really interesting though to see its reasoning trace and where exactly it went wrong (in spelling the word it turns out).
Canada, Mexico, and China are the biggest purchasers of US goods. Together nearly 4% of US GDP (2022 numbers).
They're also the three biggest importers with almost equal share.
This trade war is going to be very bad for US inflation and economy.
(ustr.gov/countries-re...)
They're also the three biggest importers with almost equal share.
This trade war is going to be very bad for US inflation and economy.
(ustr.gov/countries-re...)
February 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Canada, Mexico, and China are the biggest purchasers of US goods. Together nearly 4% of US GDP (2022 numbers).
They're also the three biggest importers with almost equal share.
This trade war is going to be very bad for US inflation and economy.
(ustr.gov/countries-re...)
They're also the three biggest importers with almost equal share.
This trade war is going to be very bad for US inflation and economy.
(ustr.gov/countries-re...)
Anyone remember 'unixsex.com'? web.archive.org/web/20051217...
February 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Anyone remember 'unixsex.com'? web.archive.org/web/20051217...
Those importers must have missed the memo that the countries of origin will be paying for tariffs.
January 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Those importers must have missed the memo that the countries of origin will be paying for tariffs.
Gemini 2.0 Advanced solves it. But it could just have been in the training set? I also tried asking it for a five letter word. The Rumel tree that it mentions doesn't seem to exist?
January 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Gemini 2.0 Advanced solves it. But it could just have been in the training set? I also tried asking it for a five letter word. The Rumel tree that it mentions doesn't seem to exist?
Gotcha, yeah, it's similar on Android. But e.g. Google assistant ("hey Google") should really be always displaying this since it's listening for the wake word, but doesn't. So it feels like I can't trust it.
January 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Gotcha, yeah, it's similar on Android. But e.g. Google assistant ("hey Google") should really be always displaying this since it's listening for the wake word, but doesn't. So it feels like I can't trust it.
"The portrayal of the NSDAP as right-wing extremist is clearly false, considering that Adolf Hitler, the party's leader, supports animal welfare and is a migrant from Austria! Does that sound like Hitler to you? Please!" (Elon Musk, 1933)
December 29, 2024 at 1:22 PM
"The portrayal of the NSDAP as right-wing extremist is clearly false, considering that Adolf Hitler, the party's leader, supports animal welfare and is a migrant from Austria! Does that sound like Hitler to you? Please!" (Elon Musk, 1933)
This is disgusting. Folks asking for and praising literal terrorism against CEOs.
December 5, 2024 at 3:39 AM
This is disgusting. Folks asking for and praising literal terrorism against CEOs.
Wasn't this the exact phrase that led to the very first user ban in Bluesky history?
Some people really make their anti-AI tendencies a bit too personal.
Some people really make their anti-AI tendencies a bit too personal.
November 27, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Wasn't this the exact phrase that led to the very first user ban in Bluesky history?
Some people really make their anti-AI tendencies a bit too personal.
Some people really make their anti-AI tendencies a bit too personal.
Good question. Also... what happened to car colors? (This one is from Polestar - and yes, that's all the "colors" that are available)
November 27, 2024 at 1:56 AM
Good question. Also... what happened to car colors? (This one is from Polestar - and yes, that's all the "colors" that are available)
Oh man, I really wasn't confident, but actually got 10/10. I think there's something quite unimaginative about ChatGPT's rhyme structure.
November 21, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Oh man, I really wasn't confident, but actually got 10/10. I think there's something quite unimaginative about ChatGPT's rhyme structure.
Anybody remember these?
November 19, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Anybody remember these?
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei saying "People call them scaling laws. That’s a misnomer.” [1] is a bit ironic, given he is one of the people who coined that term [2]. Though his clarification makes sense.
[1] finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-...
[2] arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361
[1] finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-...
[2] arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361
November 15, 2024 at 4:01 AM
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei saying "People call them scaling laws. That’s a misnomer.” [1] is a bit ironic, given he is one of the people who coined that term [2]. Though his clarification makes sense.
[1] finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-...
[2] arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361
[1] finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-...
[2] arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361
Oh wow, the Democrats are actually eating babies. Roseanne Barr was right!
October 31, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Oh wow, the Democrats are actually eating babies. Roseanne Barr was right!
Good time to remember when Bluesky was a place where you'd discuss skeet vs post, and where you'd go to talk to ducks. On to 100M users!
September 18, 2024 at 6:52 AM
Good time to remember when Bluesky was a place where you'd discuss skeet vs post, and where you'd go to talk to ducks. On to 100M users!
Greentheonly dropping some interesting bits of Tesla FSD internals over on X. (I believe these are from extracting symbols from the Tesla firmware?)
March 28, 2024 at 4:00 AM
Greentheonly dropping some interesting bits of Tesla FSD internals over on X. (I believe these are from extracting symbols from the Tesla firmware?)
Found the photo I took. It was in Dominica indeed, not Belize.
February 22, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Found the photo I took. It was in Dominica indeed, not Belize.
Remember: when you post completely made up legal statements, always make sure to list the specific legislations (E.g. USA) for which you've made the point up.
February 14, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Remember: when you post completely made up legal statements, always make sure to list the specific legislations (E.g. USA) for which you've made the point up.