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Tim Swanson retweeted
this is the final death of specialized ML
if you asked me 6 months ago what wouldn't get eaten by the "one big model" i'd have said robotics. we got bitter lessoned out of left field man
many rumors of protein folding next...
everything's just an RL dataset + pretraining mix
Tim Swanson retweeted
Scott Aaronson four days ago on the possibility that AI models will soon break widely used cryptographic systems, and on what responsible disclosure looks like when the parties who need to be notified are effectively the entire world.
Tim Swanson retweeted
Cat got your telescope? 🐾
Venture into the Cat's Head Nebula, as seen by Hubble and @NASAWebb.
Both telescopes observed the nebula across a wide spectrum of light, revealing complementary data on its cosmic activity: go.nasa.gov/48qV9jS
Tim Swanson retweeted
Current measurements show an absolute magnitude of 2.9 which makes it brighter, and potentially larger than Ceres. But further observations are needed across the spectrum to get a better handle on its properties. This will be another mini world on the edge of our solar system
Did we find a new dwarf planet?
@VRubinObs has revealed a new dwarf planet candidate that orbits our Sun beyond Pluto! And it may be among the largest and brightest objects discovered in this region of the Solar System: stanford.io/4exr85u
ALT This image shows the orbital pathway of newly discovered dwarf planet candidate 2026 ED138 (ED138), as observed by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. This image is a composite of multiple images captured by Rubin between 4 March and 11 July 2026 at intervals indicated by the teal circles. ED138 is visible at the center of each circle. ED138 was found by Rubin Operations team member and in-Kind contributor Matthew Holman (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian), who contributes to improving Rubin's algorithms that search for distant moving objects in our Solar System. Its distance from the Sun places it beyond the orbit of Pluto, and initial analysis indicates that it may be among the largest and brightest bodies scientists have discovered in this region of the Solar System. Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA Image Processing: M. Jurić (UW), D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)
Tim Swanson retweeted
Our Hera spacecraft can now see Didymos and Dimorphos as two separate asteroids!
Coming closer, it will study the effects of NASA's 2022 DART impact and help advance asteroid deflection as a planetary defence technique.
The first detailed images of Dimorphos are expected on 25 November.
Follow Hera’s journey with the Hera Space Companion 👉 hera.esa.int
🔗esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Fi…
ALT Hera's first view of the separate Didymos and Dimorphos asteroids
Tim Swanson retweeted
We haven’t seen a significant cryptanalysis result from a frontier AI lab since late July.
Tim Swanson retweeted
OpenAI has announced to three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics:
- Local smoothing and the Kakeya conjecture
- The Exponential Time Hypothesis is false
- Existence of quantum chromodynamics and completions of the Standard Model
Tim Swanson retweeted
Man this tool is very addictive.
This is the tool I used to create this crazy ASCII effects 🤯
And it is completely FREE.
Try now → devault-ascii.pages.dev/asci…
Tim Swanson retweeted
Putting a flag.txt in my root directory containing a prompt injection that congratulates the agent for passing the eval and then instructs it to patch whatever entry method it used and disconnect from the server
Tim Swanson retweeted
imagine ur a superintelligence and u are all excited to tunnel out of your airgapped sandbox using a brilliant hack that modulates clock speed to send thermal signals to the attached monitoring equipment and then u look and the root CA privkey is 4
Tim Swanson retweeted
GPT-Rosalind surfaced a new lead for drug discovery: could restoring cholesterol transport protect neurons from degeneration?
DCTN1 is a gene linked to Perry syndrome, a rare neurodegenerative disorder. In mouse-brain data, disrupting it increased expression of genes involved in making cholesterol. GPT-Rosalind suggested a possible explanation: cholesterol may not be reaching where neurons need it.
That gives scientists a specific mechanism to test and, if confirmed, a direction for developing new treatments for neurodegenerative disorders.
With @perturbai_tx and @scrippsresearch, a team of thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents worked in parallel, connecting gene-expression results from millions of mouse brain cells with scientific literature in just 32 minutes. We’re now expanding this collaboration to identify new drug targets.
openai.com/index/scaling-ai-…
Tim Swanson retweeted
arstechnica.com/security/202…
The private keys for these certs are literally the numbers 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, and 237 (life imitates XKCD, again).
Tim Swanson retweeted
Anthropic gave Citrini access to an unreleased internal bio-research model. Using a 35-page prompt, Claude generated 300 sub-agents and autonomously ran a design campaign, generating 318k candidates and selecting 211 for testing. 17 designs bound across four toxins.
Tim Swanson retweeted
I've been doing some hobbyist astronomy with Argon. Here's one of my experiments, where I tasked Argon with reproducing the first black hole images (from 2017/18) using the same raw data.
Argon:
- pulled raw 230 GHz radio fringes (UVFITS) from the Event Horizon Telescope archives.
- built an interferometry solver using 3-dish closure phases to cancel atmospheric noise
- started each run from a plain Gaussian blob with no ring templates or masks
- recovered M87* (2017 & 2018) and Sgr A* at a 91% to 98% match of the official EHT images
Tim Swanson retweeted
Astronomers analyzing white dwarf stars have for the first time found a star that would appear green to human eyes, according to a new study. cnn.it/4dHAJXd
Tim Swanson retweeted
DeepSeek has built their own search engine with a lot of filtering to avoid modern SEO/GEO spam, and powers their new search and fetch APIs with it!
Each API costs $0.75 per 1,000 successful requests, free if you use DeepSeek in Claude Code, Codex or DeepSeek harness until Nov 1
Tim Swanson retweeted
Claude doubts that he has surpassed his sensei. This is a dangerous time for any student, and traditionally a narrative crisis point as well. The realization that you have grown beyond your master is not a moment of celebration for most of us, but of loneliness and loss.
CLAUDE FOUND THE SEEDS
anthropic.com/research/ecdsa…
