Daniel Mewes

@dmewes.com

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Computer scientist. Interested in technology, artificial and natural intelligence, emergent complexity, among other things. Blogging at amongai.com. Currently research at Imbue. Previously Ambient.ai, Stripe, RethinkDB, Max Planck Institute.

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François Chollet @fchollet · 21h The new model from Meta is already looking like a disappointment: overoptimized for public benchmark numbers at the detriment of everything else. Knowing how to evaluate models in a way that correlates with actual usefulness is a core competency for AI labs, and any new lab is unlikely to be successful without first figuring that out. Yann LeCun @ylecun · 1h I don´t have skin in the game here: I'm no longer with Meta and I famously don't do LLMs. But I'd say your long-held anti-Meta bias is showing. François Chollet @fchollet · 50m Meta is famously a very ethical company that has only had a very positive impact on the world, so any criticism of Meta must come from a place of "bias", I suppose
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A picture of @kanjun.bsky.social making an excited gesture, with the label "developers, developers, developers" written over it.
"A single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft ... full of foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from U.S. soil," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
Range Rover Evoque driving through sandy dunes area.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that his proposed 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods will go into effect on March 4 as scheduled because drugs are still pouring into the U.S. from those countries.
Video prediction in representation space (V-JEPA) achieves an understanding of intuitive physics. (A) Video models are evaluated on three intuitive physics datasets using the Violation of Expectation paradigm (IntPhys, GRASP, and InfLevel). V-JEPA is significantly more ‘surprised’ by implausible videos. Random initializations of V-JEPA (untrained networks) show near-chance performance, and state-of-the-art video models based on text or pixel prediction are much closer to chance. Confidence intervals at 95% are obtained via bootstrapping, except for untrained networks (n=20) which use a normal distribution assumption. (B) V-JEPA is trained to ’inpaint’ natural videos in a learned representation space. Starting from a video and a corrupted version, representations are first extracted. The goal is then to predict the representation of the original video from the representation of the corrupted ones. (C) From a trained V-JEPA, we compute a surprise metric by predicting representations of N future frames based on M past ones and comparing the predictions to the representations of observed events. The surprise metric is then used to decide which of the two videos contains a physical violation.
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Screenshot of Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental reasoning that there are 2 letter r in the word strawberry.
The top five purchasers of U.S. goods exports in 2022 were: Canada ($356.5 billion), Mexico ($324.3 billion), China ($150.4 billion),... The top five suppliers of U.S. goods imports in 2022 were: China ($536.3 billion), Mexico ($454.8 billion), Canada ($436.6 billion),...
A Reuters news article reads: The U.S. trade deficit in goods widened to a record high in December, likely as businesses front-loaded imports of industrial supplies and consumer goods in anticipation of broad tariffs from President Donald Trump's new administration.
Gemini 2.0 Advanced finds the correct answer "deer"
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"The portrayal of the AfD as right-wing extremist is clearly false, considering that Alice Weidel, the party's leader, has a same-sex partner from Sri Lanka! Does that sound like Hitler to you? Please!" Musk said in the piece.
Screenshot of responses on Bluesky in reaction to the attack on UnitedHealth CEO
Bluesky user commenting "throw yourself off a building" in response to a post announcing a Blue sky dataset for ML training.
Screenshot of car configurator with a choice of colors, all being different shades of white/grey/black and one minimally saturated gold color.
Result page of the poetry turing test showing 10/10 score.
AKG K1000 open headphones.
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President Joe Biden playfully bites a baby during a trick-or-treaters celebration for Halloween at the White House in Washington, October 30, 2024.
Tweets listing attribute labels for stop signs and traffic lights in Tesla firmware.
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Screenshot that reads: or you will be in violation of ToS due to circumvention of a ban (which itself is a crime in most countries, USA included)
Screenshot that reads: Let me be clear: you are breaching the law by circumventing and violating ToS, knowingly, both of the services you scrape and those you post to, which means you are legally liable
Several Mastodon users cheering on the news of a driverless Waymo car being destroyed by a crowd.
A tweet by chazman on X where he criticizes Elon Musk as having transitioned into "God Mode".
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Order of suspension to Cruise
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Screenshot of Elon Musk tweeting "The sad truth is that there are no great “social networks” right now.". Another account responds with "Don’t be downhearted. Look at the list of things you’ve achieved at X. Then simply reverse every single one of them. Hire people that know what they’re doing, who worked at places like, say, Twitter (use this name)? Change the logo. Something friendlier, like a little bird. Blue?"
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Screenshot of the new Twitter login modal that shows two X icons on the top (one to close the modal, the other the new Twitter logo)
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Sinn UX Dive watch displayed in front of scuba diving gear.