Wilson Lin at Cursor coordinated hundreds of GPT-5.2 agents to build a web browser from scratch, running uninterrupted for one week. Over a million lines of Rust.
这个案例展示了AI系统的惊人规模和产出能力，协调数百个AI agent，一周内生成超过一百万行代码。然而，'远未达到生产质量'的评估也揭示了当前AI系统在复杂项目中的局限性，特别是在代码质量和系统架构方面。
The next generation of benchmarks needs to be harder, more realistic, and less gameable
【洞察】「更难、更真实、更不可刷题」——这三条标准本质上是在要求 benchmark 向「真实工作」靠拢，而非向「考试题」收敛。但这恰恰引出了一个悖论：越真实的 benchmark，越难自动化评分，越贵（METR 每题 8000 美元），越慢发布。AI 评测体系正在面临「评测速度 vs 评测质量」的根本性权衡。
The general idea was that a model should be able to take in a natural language query as an initial input, reason over existing data systems, and generate corresponding SQL code in traditional business intelligence (BI) fashion to pull the right data and answer the initial question accordingly.
这一描述揭示了早期数据代理的简化假设：将问题简化为自然语言到SQL的转换。这挑战了仅通过改进模型性能就能解决所有数据推理问题的乐观预期，强调了业务语义理解的重要性。
对视频生成来说，这种文字密集、变化快、带闪烁、又几乎没有自然动态的场景，本来就是最难的一类。
这一观察揭示了当前视频生成模型面临的挑战，同时也展示了神经计算机原型实现的难度。文字密集、高动态变化的场景对模型来说极为困难，而能够处理这类场景的模型将具备更强的通用能力。
Your AI agent writes every change into source code.
这一功能暗示了一种全新的开发范式，设计师的视觉编辑可以直接转化为生产级代码。这可能会显著减少前端开发中的手动编码工作，但也引发了关于AI生成代码质量和可维护性的重要问题。
Your AI agent writes every change into source code.
令人惊讶的是：这个工具将设计工作与代码生成完全分离，设计师可以直接在浏览器中进行视觉编辑，而AI代理会自动生成对应的CSS代码，这大大降低了前端开发的门槛，模糊了设计与开发之间的界限。
Without experience with compiler behavior, the agent couldn't have predicted which 'optimizations' the compiler would already handle.
这一观察揭示了AI代理在编译优化方面的局限性：代理无法准确预测编译器已经自动处理的优化。这表明AI代理需要更深入理解编译器行为和现代编译技术，以避免徒劳的优化尝试。这一发现对AI辅助编程系统的发展具有重要启示，强调了领域知识整合的重要性。
一次最多生成 12 张风格一致的图片，支持最多 9 张参考图输入。做系列海报、产品多角度图、故事连续画面时不用一张一张调。
令人惊讶的是：该模型能够一次性生成最多12张风格一致的图片，并支持最多9张参考图输入。这项功能对于需要保持一致性的创作场景（如系列海报、产品多角度图、故事连续画面）来说极为实用，大大提高了工作效率，解决了传统AI图像生成中难以保持风格一致的问题。
文字渲染，支持 12 种语言、3000 token 的长文本输入，输出打印级质量，能生成整页 A4 文档级的图文内容。
令人惊讶的是：Wan2.7-Image能够支持12种语言、3000 token的长文本输入，并达到打印级质量，可以生成整页A4文档级的图文内容。这在AI图像生成领域是一个重大突破，解决了AI生成图像中文字质量差、乱码等长期存在的问题，为多语言内容创作提供了新可能。
Despite limitations, 3D generation remains crucial for realistic physical simulation in world models
大多数人可能认为3D生成已经足够成熟，可以满足世界模型的需求，但作者暗示3D生成仍有重大局限性，却仍然不可或缺，这挑战了对3D生成技术成熟度的普遍认知，强调了其重要性与其当前状态之间的矛盾。
despite limitations, 3D generation remains crucial for realistic physical simulation in world models
大多数人可能认为3D生成只是世界模型的一个可选组件，但作者强调3D生成对实现真实物理模拟至关重要，这挑战了当前AI研究中2D视觉处理的主流趋势。这一观点暗示未来世界模型研究必须重视3D空间理解，而不仅仅是2D图像处理。
those have to deliver. They they can kind of get away with not delivering uh on their promises intergenerationally
for - history - progress - secular golden age promise - can procastinate by pushing it forward to the next generation
For many if not all members of the human microbial fauna, generation times are measured in hours or even minutes. These short generation times, coupled with the large population sizes of many bacteria, effectively elide the boundary between ecological and evolutionary time
for - microbiome - blurs ecological and evolutionary time - due to short generation time of microfauna
The Anxious Generation
for - book - The Anxious Generation
Portable Typewriters Today - February 2015<br /> by [[Will Davis]] on 2015-02-10<br /> accessed on 2025-08-05T16:35:48
Hannes Amesbauer (FPÖ) und andere beantragen, Extinction Rebellion und die Letzte Generation als „Klimaterroristen" geheimdienstlich observieren zu lassen.
https://www.parlament.gv.at/dokument/XXVII/A/3050/fnameorig_1489291.html
Während in Deutschland und Österreich die Regierungen sich nach wie vor nicht an eingegangene Verpflichtungen zum Emissionsabbau halten, werden Aktivistinnen wegen Lappalien zu hohen Strafen verurteilt und mit Deportation bedroht. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000268090/klimaaktivistin-anja-windl-droht-auch-in-deutschland-haft?ref=niewidget
Anne-Laure Le Cunff - How to Design Tiny Experiments Like a Scientist @neuranne
Pareto principle for 80% gardener and 20% architect
ME: reading fiction can be used as a means of diffuse thinking in combination with combinatorial creativity
The generation effect is a phenomenon whereby information is better remembered if it is generated from one's own mind rather than simply read.
he made this three-dimensional, so this is the maṇḍala.
for - Buddhism - Tibetan - Mandala - is a 2 dimensional representation that the practitioner must imagine as a 3 dimensional object - This is the generation stage practice - from Youtube - Between Life and Death: Understanding Tukdam - John D. Dunne
vican barrier
for - Weismann Barrier - disputed by Darwin himself, who believed that the body sends information to the germ line to pass on to the next generation - Denis Noble
41:26 generation Z? nicht belastbar. streitunfähig. harmoniesüchtig. ungeduld. kurzsicht.<br /> nicht lernfähig. eingebildet. fühlen sich schlau. "school smart but not street smart".<br /> aufgeben beim kleinsten widerstand. nicht belastbar. schwächlinge. keine kämpfer.<br /> opfer. versager. schwächlinge. abhängige. follower. folger. mitläufer. dressierte haustiere.
9:45 "generation fernseher" gegen "generation internet"<br /> "alte" menschen haben die "peer to peer revolution" verpennt, werden nie "aufwachen".<br /> matrix 56:32 Die Matrix ist ein System, Neo. Dieses System ist unser Feind. Was aber siehst du, wenn du dich innerhalb des Systems bewegst? Geschäftsleute, Lehrer, Anwälte, Tischler... Die mentalen Projektionen der Menschen, die wir zu retten versuchen. Bis es dazu kommt, sind diese Menschen immer noch Teil des Systems und das macht sie zu unseren Feinden. Du musst wissen, dass die meisten von ihnen noch nicht soweit sind abgekoppelt zu werden. Viele dieser Menschen sind so angepasst und vom System abhängig, dass sie alles dafür tun, um es zu schützen.
So, not only is it on our generation's watch that everything has occurred, it's on our generation's watch that we will determine the future. So, so it's, in our hands. to now determine the future for humanity on earth. So yes, it's an intergenerational justice, fundamentally.
for - quote - our generation caused the problem and must solve it - Johan Rockstrom
quote - Our generation caused the problem and must solve it - Johan Rockstrom - (see below) - So, not only is it on our generation's watch that everything has occurred, - it's on our generation's watch that we will determine the future. - So it's in our hands to now determine the future for humanity on earth. So yes, it's intergenerational justice, fundamentally.
https://research.ibm.com/blog/retrieval-augmented-generation-RAG
PK indicates that folks using footnotes in AI are using rag methods.
for - urban planning - tools - sustainable cities - Next Generation Cities Institute - TPF - LCE
Fridays for Future hat die Proteste gegen Rechts in Deutschland maßgeblich mitorganisiert. Die Letze Generation und Extinction Rebellion haben sich angeschlossen. Luisa Neubauer im Interview über die Verbindung von Protest gegen die AfD und gegen den Rechtsruck der Mitte. https://taz.de/Luisa-Neubauer-ueber-AfD-Proteste/!5984327/
I think that we should be putting a high priority on developing the Next Generation nuclear 01:45:54 power uh but it's uh it's uh it's going to be a a tough job and as long as the as the special 01:46:05 interests are controlling our government uh we're not going to solve it
for: climate crisis - next generation nuclear - alternative to, question - James Hansen - knowledge of deep geothermal power
climate crisis: next generation nucliear - alternative
Modern clients are produced by a modern code generator, combined with hand-crafted functionality for some services.
The libraries in this repo are simple REST clients. These clients connect to HTTP/JSON REST endpoints and are automatically generated from service discovery documents. They support most API functionality, but their class interfaces are sometimes awkward.
Besides that ffscreencast can act as an ffmpeg command generator. Every available option can also just show the corresponding ffmpeg command instead of executing it. Non-ffmpeg commands, such as how the camera resolution is pulled and others can also be shown instead of being executed.
Interview mit dem Protestforscher Simon Teune über die staatlichen Reaktionen auf die Letzte Generation in Deutschland. Teune sieht ein großes Risiko dafür, dass viele in der Klimabewegung das Vertrauen in die demokratischen Institutionen verlieren. Er stellt fest, dass es kein Rezept für den politischen Erfolg einer sozialen Bewegung gibt.
https://taz.de/Bewegungsforscher-ueber-Letzte-Generation/!5935523/
We present SoundStorm, a model for efficient, non-autoregressive audio generation. SoundStorm receives as input the semantic tokens of AudioLM, and relies on bidirectional attention and confidence-based parallel decoding to generate the tokens of a neural audio codec. Compared to the autoregressive generation approach of AudioLM, our model produces audio of the same quality and with higher consistency in voice and acoustic conditions, while being two orders of magnitude faster. SoundStorm generates 30 seconds of audio in 0.5 seconds on a TPU-v4. We demonstrate the ability of our model to scale audio generation to longer sequences by synthesizing high-quality, natural dialogue segments, given a transcript annotated with speaker turns and a short prompt with the speakers' voices.
PR-Desaster für "Letzte Generation": Fällt jetzt die Klimakatastrophe aus?
Quelle: telepolis.de Von Claudia Wangerin, vom 03.02.2023
Weitere Infos: 1. Statement Letze Generation
all the new electricity generation installed worldwide 90 percent of it was renewable it's now the cheapest source of electricity in almost the entire 00:39:05 planet secondly electric vehicles for the transportation sector the penetration has reached the 10 percent level in multiple geographies that's the point where you often see an inflection 00:39:19 going much higher Norway is already at 50 percent all the auto makers are going in that direction business is leading
!- Electricity : inflection Point
So transcriptor aims to do less, and impose the bare minimum of cognitive load needed to convert a REPL interaction into a test. The entire API is four functions:
Evidence [28] and theory [29] support the assertion that cultural evolution is more rapid than genetic evolution [27,28,30,31], even when measured on comparable scales [30,31]. One simple reason for this difference is that the ‘generation time’, G, of cultural transmission can be orders of magnitude shorter than that of genetic transmission [30]. In humans, the average time between the birth of parents and the birth of their offspring, genetic G, ranges from roughly 2 to 3 decades, while cultural G, the average time between learning a piece of information and transmitting it, ranges from seconds to decades. Thus, it is reasonable to presume that cultural inheritance may provide greater adaptive capacity than genetic inheritance.
!- definition : Generation time - generation time of genetic transmission in range of 2 to 3 decades while for cultural transmission can vary from seconds to decades.
Text To Image
Regev-Yochay, G., Gonen, T., Gilboa, M., Mandelboim, M., Indenbaum, V., Amit, S., Meltzer, L., Asraf, K., Cohen, C., Fluss, R., Biber, A., Nemet, I., Kliker, L., Joseph, G., Doolman, R., Mendelson, E., Freedman, L. S., Harats, D., Kreiss, Y., & Lustig, Y. (2022). 4th Dose COVID mRNA Vaccines’ Immunogenicity & Efficacy Against Omicron VOC (p. 2022.02.15.22270948). medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.15.22270948
Mixup Method of Synthetic Idea Generation: Write out 3 sentences from past notes. Write a new sentence made of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd part of each respective sentence. Repeat total of 3 times. Now look at the 3 synthesized lines & ask if wrong or right and why. Clarifies a lot.
—Marshall Kirkpatrick
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Mixup Method of Synthetic Idea Generation: Write out 3 sentences from past notes. Write a new sentence made of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd part of each respective sentence. Repeat total of 3 times. Now look at the 3 synthesized lines & ask if wrong or right and why. Clarifies a lot.
— Marshall Kirkpatrick (@marshallk) June 14, 2022
* This is called “detachment gain,” as explained in The Detachment Gain: TheAdvantage of Thinking Out Loud by Daniel Reisberg, and refers to the“functional advantage to putting thoughts into externalized forms” such asspeaking or writing, leading to the “possibility of new discoveries that might nothave been obtained in any other fashion.” If you’ve ever had to write out aword to remember how it’s spelled, you’ve experienced this
Each word you write triggers mental cascades and internal associations, leading to further ideas, all of which can come tumbling out onto the page or screen.*
Did he pull this from Reisberg originally or from Annie Murphy Paul who he's quoted before?
This concept is an incredibly powerful one and definitely worthy of underlining in a book about thinking and note taking. It's rather sad that he hides the entire concept in the footnotes where the majority of the audience he's trying to reach will completely miss it.
tie this into Feynman technique and generation effect
First, you are much more likely to remember information you’vewritten down in your own words. Known as the “Generation Effect,”10researchers have found that when people actively generate a seriesof words, such as by speaking or writing, more parts of their brainare activated when compared to simply reading the same words.Writing things down is a way of “rehearsing” those ideas, likepracticing a dance routine or shooting hoops, which makes them farmore likely to stick.
Zachary A. Rosner et al., “The Generation Effect: Activating Broad Neural Circuits During Memory Encoding,” Cortex 49, no. 7 (July–August 2013), 1901–1909, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2012.09.009. #wanttoread
How does the "Generation Effect" tie into the Feynman technique for understanding, modality shifting for memory and understanding, and even a mild form of spaced repetition for memory?
Bill Hanage. (2022, January 7). So a brief thread on the state of the pandemic in the Boston area. It is quite plausible that about 10% of the population is currently infected, more in some age groups than others. A lot of omicron. What next? 1/n https://t.co/aXgc5GYk0V [Tweet]. @BillHanage. https://twitter.com/BillHanage/status/1479574053807697920
Wheatley, A. K., & Juno, J. A. (2021). COVID-19 vaccines in the age of the delta variant. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00688-5
October 26 & 2021. (n.d.). Stress and decision-making during the pandemic. Https://Www.Apa.Org. Retrieved 11 November 2021, from https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/stress/2021/october-decision-making
Covid’s toxic divides could shape Europe for years, study says. (2021, September 1). The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/01/covid-toxic-divides-could-shape-europe-years-study
Sulik, J., & McKay, R. (2021). Studying science denial with a complex problem-solving task [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/huxm7
Baker, N., & Mallapaty, S. (2021). Coronapod: Kids’ role in the future of COVID. Nature, d41586-021-01910–01912. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01910-2
You can find code to generate test fixtures
Young people demand vaccination requirements for reopening—Axios. (n.d.). Retrieved May 29, 2021, from https://www.axios.com/vaccination-work-school-reopening-poll-7e8c2e4e-54b4-4831-8e51-146f13a26ca3.html
John Burn-Murdoch. (2021, May 7). NEW: time for a proper thread on B.1.617.2, the subtype of the Indian variant that has been moved to ‘variant of concern’ today by Public Health England. First, it’s clear case numbers from this lineage are growing faster than other imported variants have done in the UK. https://t.co/hUUzBvCsY1 [Tweet]. @jburnmurdoch. https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1390666071724765185
ReconfigBehSci. (2021, February 12). RT @NatureNews: The science behind how and when to give vaccines doses. Https://t.co/S75TXESOG9 [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1360489348223893505
Thompson, B., Baker, N., & Ledford, H. (2021). Coronapod: Is mixing COVID vaccines a good idea? Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00390-8
Aksoy. C. G., Eichengreen. B., Saka. O., (2020). The Political Scar of Epidemics. Institute of labor economics. Retrieved from: https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13351/
Długosz, P., & Kryvachuk, L. (2020). Neurotic generation of Covid-19 in Eastern Europe. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mwhzk
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“We found that 58% of teenagers said they had taken at least one break from at least one social media platform. The most common reason? It was getting in the way of schoolwork or jobs, with more than a third of respondents citing this as their primary reason for leaving social media. Other reasons included feeling tired of the conflict or drama they could see unfolding among their peer group online, and feeling oppressed too by the constant firehose of information.”
Fell, M. J., Pagel, L., Chen, C., Goldberg, M. H., Herberz, M., Huebner, G., Sareen, S., & Hahnel, U. J. J. (2020). Validity of energy social research during and after COVID-19: Challenges, considerations, and responses [Preprint]. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/pe6cd
Gale, W. G., Gelfond, H., Fichtner, J. J., & Harris, B. H. (2020). The Wealth of Generations, With Special Attention to the Millennials (Working Paper No. 27123; Working Paper Series). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27123
Unequal Consequences of COVID-19 across Age and Income: Representative Evidence from Six Countries. COVID-19 and the Labor Market. (n.d.). IZA – Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved August 5, 2020, from https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13366/
How Europe can emerge stronger out of the coronavirus crisis. (n.d.). World Economic Forum. Retrieved 25 July 2020, from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/resilient-european-economy/
Sun, J., Zhuang, Z., Zheng, J., Li, K., Wong, R. L.-Y., Liu, D., Huang, J., He, J., Zhu, A., Zhao, J., Li, X., Xi, Y., Chen, R., Alshukairi, A. N., Chen, Z., Zhang, Z., Chen, C., Huang, X., Li, F., … Zhao, J. (2020). Generation of a Broadly Useful Model for COVID-19 Pathogenesis, Vaccination, and Treatment. Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.06.010
Rice, W. L., Meyer, C., Lawhon, B., Taff, B. D., Mateer, T., Reigner, N., & Newman, P. (2020). The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the way people recreate outdoors: Preliminary report on a national survey of outdoor enthusiasts amid the COVID-19 pandemic [Preprint]. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/prnz9
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Cinus, F., Bonchi, F., Monti, C., & Panisson, A. (2020). Generating Realistic Interest-Driven Information Cascades. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 14, 107–118.
Tann, W. J.-W., Chang, E.-C., & Hooi, B. (2020). SHADOWCAST: Controlling Network Properties to Explain Graph Generation. ArXiv:2006.03774 [Cs, Stat]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03774
this paper may related to the previous one of Daniel Seeliger. FBDD is not only useful for hit fidning, but also for MoA exploration. CADD is particular suitable for FBDD as the sampling of small molecule will more thourough
Rudolph, C., Rauvola, R. S., Costanza, D., & Zacher, H. (2020). Answers to 10 Questions About “Generations” and “Generational Differences” in the Workplace [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7w9kv
Darmok
Captain Dathon
view generation
Younger consumers have become information hunters and gatherers, taking pleasure in tracking down character backgrounds and plot points and making connections between different texts within the same franchise
This is actually a really good point about the apparent new phenomenon with our generation. The previous generation wasn't really interested in the background(s) of the characters, writers etc and how it tied in to other mediums or other shows in terms of similarities with plots etc. Nowadays, with the wide open access to info on the internet, fandoms have blossomed.
a two-generation approach to outcomes by linking data on individuals within a family or household unit.
The Third-Generation normalized the process of dialogue. Bar-On and his team developed a paradigm for how to work through the Holocaust through knowledge, understanding, emotions, attitude, and behavior. What they discovered is that for the Third-Generation, the Holocaust either has no relevance, which they call “under generalization” or “over generalization,” where everything is seen through the prism of the Holocaust. A more normalized reaction to a Shoah family background is the “partial relevance,” an “in-between” and more balanced perspective.
The Third-Generation in America (or “3Gs,” as they are known) have only recently started to become a visible group, but not with the same intensity as the Second-Generation. Age-wise, they span the gamut from newborns to forty-year-olds. Among them, those in their twenties and thirties are grappling with identity formation, with establishing intimate relations, and with having children.
From the psychological research the only significant finding is that grandchildren of survivors as a group, are higher achievers than their peers. In 2002 Ellisa Ganz found that Third-Generation individuals are twice as likely to choose an occupation in the helping professions. Ganz also found, however, that those 3Gs who are in therapy are in treatment for longer periods than a comparative group.
Yoslow observed that the Third-Generation has a deep affection for humanity, which is a transformation of the post-Holocaust trauma. This process is the ability to transform the emotional effects of the Holocaust by letting go, and thus increases the quest for meaning in ones life and concern for social issues.
Today, Third-Generation individuals whose professional lives have been shaped by their grandparent’s ordeals are found in the creative arts, in helping professions, human rights work and in Jewish studies and communal work. The Third-Generation members are no different from those in the Second-Generation, who gravitated towards the creative arts in order to remember the barbarity committed against the Jews living in German-occupied countries and , the Jewish life that was destroyed, and to raise consciousness about present-day racism, human-rights violations, and genocides.
Flora Hogman conducted a case study of Second and Third-Generation, and in her sample of the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors she noticed that they feel a sense of pride and awe of the survivors. This awareness of the suffering is part of the fabric of their lives, but is channeled into empathy, political activism, greater consciousness of others suffering, and a reluctance to intermarry.
Snapchat's politically active Gen-Z and young millennial user base.
How are "Gen-Z" and "millennial" defined? Most people in casual conversation just mean "young people" but are not very clear about it. Pew Research thinks it should be about specific year groups.
South Africa is ideally suited to adopt smart city technologies, with the potential to leapfrog international counterparts and lead a new generation of thinking. This is according to Edwin Diender, Vice President, Government and Public Utility Sector, Huawei Enterprise Business Group.
the kids are all right
Given danah's age, I would suspect that with a copyright date of 2014, she's likely referencing the 2010 feature film The Kids are Alright.
However that film's title is a cultural reference to a prior generation's anthem in an eponymous song) by The Who which appeared on the album My Generation. Interestingly the lyrics of the song of the same name on that album is one of their best known and is applicable to the ideas behind this piece as well.
Generation Asset
This has a link to the generation asset.