Ambsheets: Spreadsheets for exploring scenarios

o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation I wanted to refresh my knowledge of how the Datasette permissions system works today. I already have extensive hand-written documentation for that, but I thought it would be interesting to see if I could derive any insights from running an LLM against the codebase. o3-mini has an input...

AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library US libraries that use the Hoopla system to offer ebooks to their patrons sign agreements where they pay a license fee for anything selected by one of their members that's in the Hoopla catalog. The Hoopla catalog is increasingly filling up with junk AI slop ebooks like "Fatty Liver Diet...

Animating Rick and Morty One Pixel at a Time Daniel Hooper says he spent 8 months working on the post, the culmination of which is an animation of Rick from Rick and Morty, implemented in 240 lines of GLSL - the OpenGL Shading Language which apparently has been directly supported by browsers for many years. The result is a comprehensive GLSL...

Build a link blog Xuanwo started a link blog inspired by my article My approach to running a link blog, and in a delightful piece of recursion his first post is a link blog entry about my post about link blogging, following my tips on quoting liberally and including extra commentary. I decided to follow simon's approach to creating a link blog,...

Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks Interesting new research from Anthropic, resulting in the paper Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against Universal Jailbreaks across Thousands of Hours of Red Teaming. From the paper: In particular, we introduce Constitutional Classifiers, a framework that trains classifier...