there are two kinds of people
the ones who stop the microwave with 1 second left and psychos
Memory-safe. 13% faster on average. ⚡️ The TrueType hinting interpreter in macOS and iOS has been rewritten in Swift, replacing the original C implementation. Pixel-perfect accuracy was validated across 27 million glyphs. And the results: www.swift.org/blog/migrati...
To make it easier esp. for junior folks (students, postdocs, jr faculty) to talk to me, I'm trying a new thing: open office hours at conferences! Come find me at PLDI 2026, using the public calendar linked to the page below. Please feel free to reshare!
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I’ve seen the paper. It’s not a jailbreak. It was Defense Oriented Prompting (DOP) - a capability defenders need. My thoughts about the hasty Export Controls that made Anthropic halt access to Fable. If national defense is the goal, this is an own goal against us
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
All Fable 5 and Mythos 5 users have lost access after the Trump administration declared the models security risks.
Have not seen it — and now, am not going to, either. (-:
Given how Zug has become crypto central, it would have been genuinely funnier if they'd set the cap at 21 million.
Steve Suckington
1. My standard teaching outfit (shorts) do the job just as well.
2. I have ankles like pencils, so not much to show off, either. (-:
The ridiculous bag restrictions "for security" for FanZones have been utterly defeated by the addition of a country with bagPIPES. Saw one yesterday, asked piper how he'd gotten his in. He said they were very confused by the pipes; instead inspected his sporran. 🙄 "VERY gently."
Imagine if the Medici had gotten a hold of Excel. Florence would be the capital of the world.
Providence definitely has the size of Hispanic community you need to make a soccer thing be populated well.
Plus I think the Scots have done a good job representing themselves so far — lots of reddit posts asking where to meet them.
I've chatted w/ several and they've been just what I expected!
