Speeding Up JumpReLU SAE Inference with Custom Triton Kernels (2–14× on Real SAEs)
Motivation Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have become a central tool in mechanistic interpretability research, providing a way to decompose a model's internal activations into sparse,…
Newsmax guest on Iran's military capability: "The credible assessments don't line up with the narrative from the White House"
I Bet Abliteration's Cost Was Sloppy Implementation. I Was Wrong
Models refuse. They can refuse on the basis of lack of knowledge, predetermined guardrails, etc. We can see both closed-weight and open-weight models refuse. But, open-weight…
A Montana Firm Run by a Trump Donor Receives Billions in Border Wall Contracts
Barnard Construction Company, Inc., has received $4.54 billion in awards from Customs and Border Protection alone.
Paying Kids To Do Schoolwork
I think that the standard schooling system could be a lot better. This is for two main reasons: It’s slow. [1] It limits agency. [2] This isn’t to blame the people who work in…
Anti-Austerity Protests Rock World Cup Kick-Off in Mexico
The mothers of disappeared people have also been protesting, trying to reach the stadium, says José Luis Granados Ceja.
Prominent podcasters and social media influencers speculate RFK Jr. will resign from HHS
Our Work is Low Skill Expression
crosspost from substack The amount of skill behind an outcome is often impossible to discern by scrutinizing the outcome itself, and our goal of making AI go well may be an…
TheBlaze's Allie Beth Stuckey on Pentagon editing religious codes after backlash: “I'm glad that there wasn't any kind of formal apology”
Impressions at the Extremity of Civilization
Content note: this is part of a challenge of writing a blogpost per day for a week. Epistemic status: this is a series of vignettes written as-though diary entries. While…
Somali Referee Denied US Entry for World Cup Gets Hero’s Welcome Back Home
The Trump administration baselessly accused the award-winning referee of having “terror” ties.
“We Will Be Taking Kharg Island” — Trump Threatens Invasion of Iran
Trump threatened to hit Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT,” then announced hours later he had “cancelled the scheduled strikes.”
Anthropic Is Taking AI Welfare Seriously. I’m Not Sure It Knows What It’s Measuring.
Claude is a Constitutional AI, this means, in theory, that it operates from a set of principles as opposed to hard rule sets. This is achieved in a somewhat convoluted fashion…
Pokemon Go Data Was Used To Help Train AI Systems Being Developed For Military Drones
Pokemon Go players' optional location scans reportedly helped train Niantic Spatial's visual positioning system, which uses camera imagery and 3D maps to navigate when GPS is…
An Algorithm Determines How Fast You Should Drive On California's I-15 Freeway
Riverside County has launched an 8-mile "smart freeway" pilot on northbound I-15 near Temecula, using roadway sensors and an algorithm to coordinate ramp meters and suggest speeds…
China's EV Price War Was Built On Cars Sold At a Loss
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Autoblog: For years, the Chinese auto industry has employed a hostile price war to kneecap global competitors. Armed with…