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Sycophancy in GPT-4o
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Openai
Sycophancy in GPT-4o: what happened and what we’re doing about it
We have rolled back last week’s GPT‑4o update in ChatGPT so people are now using an earlier version with more balanced behavior. The update we removed was overly flattering or agreeable—often described as sycophantic.
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Show HN: An MCP server for understanding AWS costs
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An illustrated guide to automatic sparse differentiation
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iclr-blogposts.github.io
An Illustrated Guide to Automatic Sparse Differentiation | ICLR Blogposts 2025
In numerous applications of machine learning, Hessians and Jacobians exhibit sparsity, a property that can be leveraged to vastly accelerate their computation. While the usage of automatic differentiation in machine learning is ubiquitous, automatic sparse…
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You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News
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Jasonthorsness
You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News
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WorldGen: Open-source 3D scene generator for Game/VR/XR
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worldgen.github.io
WorldGen - Generate Any 3D Scene in Seconds
Create stunning 3D worlds from text prompts and image inputs with WorldGen, a state-of-the-art 3D generation tool
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My sourdough starter has twins
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Brain Baking
My Sourdough Starter Has Twins
A couple of years ago, I participated in a study of the HealthFerm Citizen Science group in …
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Linux in Excel
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GitHub
GitHub - NSG650/LinuxInExcel
Contribute to NSG650/LinuxInExcel development by creating an account on GitHub.
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What It Takes to Defend a Cybersecurity Company from Today's Adversaries
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SentinelOne
Top Tier Target | What It Takes to Defend a Cybersecurity Company from Today's Adversaries
This report highlights a rarely-discussed but crucially important attack surface: security vendors themselves.
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Finding paths of least action with gradient descent (2023)
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greydanus.github.io
Finding Paths of Least Action with Gradient Descent
A blog by Sam Greydanus
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I Created Perfect Wiki and Reached $250K in Annual Revenue Without Investors
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Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools
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Finland bans smartphones in schools
Pupils will be able to use their phones in some circumstances, but they will need to get permission from teachers.
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Xiaomi unveils open-source AI reasoning model MiMo
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GitHub
GitHub - XiaomiMiMo/MiMo: MiMo: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of Language Model – From Pretraining to Posttraining
MiMo: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of Language Model – From Pretraining to Posttraining - XiaomiMiMo/MiMo
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Help ChatGPT discover your products
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Chatgpt
Instant Checkout for merchants in ChatGPT
Join ChatGPT’s Instant Checkout to sell directly in conversations—reach millions of shoppers, boost sales, and keep full control of your customer relationships.
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The True Size Of
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The True Size
Compare Countries With This Simple Tool
Drag, drop and rotate countries around the map to compare their relative size.
Is Greenland really as big as all of Africa?
You may be surprised at what you find!
A great tool for educators.
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Amazon Rules Out Displaying Tariff Impact After White House Attack
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WSJ
Amazon Rules Out Displaying Tariff Impact After White House Attack
The company said it had considered listing the charges on its ultracheap site Haul, but wouldn’t implement the idea.
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Can LLMs do randomness?
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Nikhil R
Are LLMs random?
This experiment is not rigorous (no control on hardware/seed) and doesnt have any significance.
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The Leaderboard Illusion
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arXiv.org
The Leaderboard Illusion
Measuring progress is fundamental to the advancement of any scientific field. As benchmarks play an increasingly central role, they also grow more susceptible to distortion. Chatbot Arena has...
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Secret Deals, Foreign Investments: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm
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NY Times
Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm
World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in ways without precedent in modern American history.
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U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter
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The Wall Street Journal
U.S. Economy Shrank in First Quarter as Imports Surged Ahead of Tariffs
The gross domestic product reading fell short of the 0.4% growth that economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal expected.
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Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left
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Fortune
Port of L.A. executive director says retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left amid U.S.-China trade…
“Nobody wins,” Gene Seroka said. “China is America’s factory.”
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Intel admits what we all knew: no one is buying AI PCs
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XDA
Intel admits what we all knew: no one is buying AI PCs
It turns out older Raptor Lake systems are flying off the shelves.
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