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BBC didn't ask for news summaries. What they actually did was ask questions related to news topics and in the prompt requested using the BBC as a source where possible.
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January 14, 2026 at 2:50 PM
BBC didn't ask for news summaries. What they actually did was ask questions related to news topics and in the prompt requested using the BBC as a source where possible.
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...
Yeah it is pretty neat to watch it do it, and speed will be steadily ramping up given the huge investments in robotics and AI, and cost massively going down with economies of scale. So it wouldn't surprise me if it become economical in the US within 5 years or so.
January 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Yeah it is pretty neat to watch it do it, and speed will be steadily ramping up given the huge investments in robotics and AI, and cost massively going down with economies of scale. So it wouldn't surprise me if it become economical in the US within 5 years or so.
About 30 boxes/hr (based on 6 minutes for the first 3). A human would be 2/min and up to 5/min with a jig so 120/hr to 300/hr. If 10$/hr (wage+burden) then max lease would be 2.5$/hr worked and min would be 1$/hr worked. So need massive speed improvement and cost reduction to make it economical.
January 14, 2026 at 2:28 PM
About 30 boxes/hr (based on 6 minutes for the first 3). A human would be 2/min and up to 5/min with a jig so 120/hr to 300/hr. If 10$/hr (wage+burden) then max lease would be 2.5$/hr worked and min would be 1$/hr worked. So need massive speed improvement and cost reduction to make it economical.
It would cost thousands of dollars to get incoherent pieces of a single book out, and could only be done by repeatedly providing large parts of the original book. There is essentially zero risk of spontaneous output of non fairuse chunks of copyrighted books.
January 13, 2026 at 11:13 PM
It would cost thousands of dollars to get incoherent pieces of a single book out, and could only be done by repeatedly providing large parts of the original book. There is essentially zero risk of spontaneous output of non fairuse chunks of copyrighted books.
Clearly you didn't read the actual research.
arxiv.org/html/2601.02...
It took hundreds of jail breaks and many many repeated prompts with large pieces of the original text to get even partial replicas. So normal usage utterly impossible.
arxiv.org/html/2601.02...
It took hundreds of jail breaks and many many repeated prompts with large pieces of the original text to get even partial replicas. So normal usage utterly impossible.
Extracting books from production language models
arxiv.org
January 13, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Clearly you didn't read the actual research.
arxiv.org/html/2601.02...
It took hundreds of jail breaks and many many repeated prompts with large pieces of the original text to get even partial replicas. So normal usage utterly impossible.
arxiv.org/html/2601.02...
It took hundreds of jail breaks and many many repeated prompts with large pieces of the original text to get even partial replicas. So normal usage utterly impossible.
Usage of books to train models has been ruled transformative fair use. Anthropic got in trouble because they 'kept a library' of works including those they didn't use for training which Alsup ruled non fair use.
January 13, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Usage of books to train models has been ruled transformative fair use. Anthropic got in trouble because they 'kept a library' of works including those they didn't use for training which Alsup ruled non fair use.
Also copyright violation is for reproduction, which is incredibly unlikely with typical usage.
January 13, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Also copyright violation is for reproduction, which is incredibly unlikely with typical usage.
This confounds memorization of a small number of extremely duplicated materials (a known issue for extensively quoted works; or for promotional images with thousands of copies of the same image with slight variations) vs the vast majority of materials where it retains little or none of the material.
January 13, 2026 at 9:20 PM
This confounds memorization of a small number of extremely duplicated materials (a known issue for extensively quoted works; or for promotional images with thousands of copies of the same image with slight variations) vs the vast majority of materials where it retains little or none of the material.
That is awesome looking, not sure I want to participate though because my lack of drawing skills would bring down the quality :)
January 13, 2026 at 4:23 PM
That is awesome looking, not sure I want to participate though because my lack of drawing skills would bring down the quality :)
For the 3:1 to 4:1 Core:Engram parameter ratio. I suspect the single projection matrix is the bottleneck.
So perhaps a 'Mixture of Projectors' (Subject Matter Adapters) could allow massively more engram parameters without hurting performance.
So perhaps a 'Mixture of Projectors' (Subject Matter Adapters) could allow massively more engram parameters without hurting performance.
January 13, 2026 at 5:13 AM
For the 3:1 to 4:1 Core:Engram parameter ratio. I suspect the single projection matrix is the bottleneck.
So perhaps a 'Mixture of Projectors' (Subject Matter Adapters) could allow massively more engram parameters without hurting performance.
So perhaps a 'Mixture of Projectors' (Subject Matter Adapters) could allow massively more engram parameters without hurting performance.
I liked it, fun for killing a few minutes.
January 2, 2026 at 3:19 AM
I liked it, fun for killing a few minutes.
Happy new year Ton, thank you for the amazing job you've done shepherding blender over the years.
December 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Happy new year Ton, thank you for the amazing job you've done shepherding blender over the years.
Payroll taxes are a terrible way to implement any sort of healthcare since it acts as a disincentive to employment and makes American employees less competitive internationally.
December 31, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Payroll taxes are a terrible way to implement any sort of healthcare since it acts as a disincentive to employment and makes American employees less competitive internationally.
Just curious if you received my proposal (id accidentally sent it to your old audionet but should be in your gmail (proposal for UHC))
December 31, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Just curious if you received my proposal (id accidentally sent it to your old audionet but should be in your gmail (proposal for UHC))
Those behaviors are specific to the 'fast' variants.
December 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Those behaviors are specific to the 'fast' variants.
Since others have given their suggestions for other great 'competence porn' - “Aliens in a Spaceship,” Season 2 Episode 9 of Bones.
December 30, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Since others have given their suggestions for other great 'competence porn' - “Aliens in a Spaceship,” Season 2 Episode 9 of Bones.
Not 29, but I've sent you a proposal (search for Pentad Plan in your inbox). Looking forward to your feedback. I address 5 aspects (hence the name) but have additional proposals for other aspects of UHC if you'd like it fleshed out more.
December 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Not 29, but I've sent you a proposal (search for Pentad Plan in your inbox). Looking forward to your feedback. I address 5 aspects (hence the name) but have additional proposals for other aspects of UHC if you'd like it fleshed out more.
I have a bunch of others but not at my computer right now.
December 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I have a bunch of others but not at my computer right now.
Here are some of my solutions -
One optional waive doctor liability insurance. It caps the liability of the doctors who do so, in exchange for much lower prices.
Two allow medical apprenticeships as alternative to residencies. Residencies are an enormous bottleneck.
One optional waive doctor liability insurance. It caps the liability of the doctors who do so, in exchange for much lower prices.
Two allow medical apprenticeships as alternative to residencies. Residencies are an enormous bottleneck.
December 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Here are some of my solutions -
One optional waive doctor liability insurance. It caps the liability of the doctors who do so, in exchange for much lower prices.
Two allow medical apprenticeships as alternative to residencies. Residencies are an enormous bottleneck.
One optional waive doctor liability insurance. It caps the liability of the doctors who do so, in exchange for much lower prices.
Two allow medical apprenticeships as alternative to residencies. Residencies are an enormous bottleneck.
See 'cryptomnesia' it is incredibly common among scientists and non-scientists.
www.ru.nl/en/services/...
www.ru.nl/en/services/...
Cryptomnesia: How ‘original’ ideas can be accidental plagiarism | Radboud University
Have you ever produced a brilliant idea, only to have someone point out it’s oddly similar to something that came out years ago? This phenomenon is called cryptomnesia.
www.ru.nl
December 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
See 'cryptomnesia' it is incredibly common among scientists and non-scientists.
www.ru.nl/en/services/...
www.ru.nl/en/services/...
Another consideration is the knock on effects to distillation. While you might not do 25 million queries to this model, your 'flash' distilled model might get a lot of usage.
December 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Another consideration is the knock on effects to distillation. While you might not do 25 million queries to this model, your 'flash' distilled model might get a lot of usage.
Lawyers are mostly fine, our legal system is atrocious and encourages bad results and bad acting.
December 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Lawyers are mostly fine, our legal system is atrocious and encourages bad results and bad acting.
Power plants is a many year timeline, doubling and tripling of electricity prices is now. Perhaps fixing prices at the previous rate for consumers and the data centers bearing the full cost of increased prices should be the short term fix.
December 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Power plants is a many year timeline, doubling and tripling of electricity prices is now. Perhaps fixing prices at the previous rate for consumers and the data centers bearing the full cost of increased prices should be the short term fix.