This sculpture? Terrifying. I understand it’s meant to be a celebration of famed basketball coach John Wooden, but what I see is a man driven to the ground in confusion as the upper bodies of the people around him are vaporized, possibly by aliens, possibly by inimical laser-wielding robots. It’s just deeply confusing and concerning, if you ask me, Indianapolis. And you just put it out in public like that.

Questionable sculpture aside, Indianapolis and GenCon have been lovely so far. Tomorrow is the big day for me, programming-wise, so this evening I will probably take it easy. I hope your first weekend of August will be delightful.

— JS

I’m obsessed with watching my cat do basically anything.

Even the most advanced AI models can easily be confounded by cats.

Reasoning language models are large language models that are trained to break problems down into smaller chunks. They solve problems in steps and revisit and revise previous steps. This iterative process allows reasoning models to solve more complex problems. — Read the rest

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