Joseph Turian retweeted
OpenAI just open sourced a new 1.5B (50m active) model on HuggingFace with Apache 2.0 license!
It's not a new LLM, this one is called Privacy Filter, and it's a PII detection model (checking if text has private information)
A few interesting tidbits from the release + links:
openreview.net/pdf?id=NALsdG…
research.google/blog/designi…
A new method for synthetic data generation that is able to conform to desired characteristics and distribution.
Should I use superterm.dev, superset.sh, or supacode.sh? Because we're competing with open-source openclaw by openai.
Last registrations open for AI Takes #0, happening tomorrow in SOMA SF. Saturday, 5pm-8pm
Open bar (beer + wine) and food: idea-salon-ai-takes-0.secret…
CONTRACT.md: The Naughty List for AI Coding Agents
My 2026 resolution: stop letting LLMs overcomplexify greenfield work.
AGENTS.md = ghost of christmas past
CONTRACT.md = caps complexity until a human says otherwise
discussdontcode.com/zettels/…
What have you unlearned recently?
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ” -Alvin Toffler
Learning asynchronous REST programming from chatgpt is like having a friend who's super enthusiastic to hang out but absent minded and stoned all the time.
Any sufficiently complicated Torch codebase contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of PyTorch Lightning @LightningAI
Can someone make a time-traveling debugger with GPT4 which watches the entire state of my program's execution, and allow me to retroactively debug it? @ilyasut
Joseph Turian retweeted
Prediction: AI will cause the price of work that can happen in front of a computer to decrease much faster than the price of work that happens in the physical world.
This is the opposite of what most people (including me) expected, and will have strange effects.
A Modified Turian–Yuan Model to Enhance Heterogeneous Resistance in Municipal Sludge Transportation Pipeline pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…
A complete misreading of the characterization, settling, and rheology of concentrated fine particulate mineral slurries! (Turian et al 1997)
#fml
Why do I have to wear pants? We are all trapped in this pants conspiracy. It's only because lizard people wear pants that we must we pants. #nopants






