Chinese state media: DeepSeek and MiniMax completed registration and won approval to open-source and deploy AI models overseas under proposed export controls (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-23/deepse…
Laura Watts mourns for science studies that could have been, and yes: writing standards need a revision if we want to have meaningful writing after #AI.
"Mechanical Turk Science Studies?
https://4sonline.org/news_manag…
Ewige Minenkraft!
A win for Wigan residents after council U-turns on masterplan - but this was 'just one battle' - against building on green space.
Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/great…
@aiappsapi@mastodon.social I agree that per-query values have limited meaning given all the variability in the context of how they're used.
That said, although I don't know an empirical study of this, I think there are many contexts in which a cheaper model has a much lower footprint. In fact, a recent study out of Stanford et al. found re-reading context was one of the reasons agentic tasks blew up compute
Phrases "AI will soon be smarter that humans" are meaningless. Humans and computers work in tota[[y different ways and can't be compared.
But I still worry because.
"Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable. The End."
Bertrand Russell, 1959
Oh very cool: Vanilla Web by Maximiliano Firtman, a whole book on build web apps without a framework library
https://www.manning.com/books/vanilla-web?a_aid=kjg
The meanings of Louis Armstrong – The Ethan Hein Blog
Pops was grinnin' 'cause Pops was winnin'!
Even in blackface.
https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2026/the-meanings-of-louis-armstrong/