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In 1996, Naughty Dog released Crash Bandicoot on the original PlayStation, which had just 2 MB of system RAM. Some levels contained over 10 MB of data. There was no way to fit an entire level into memory at once. So programmer Andy Gavin built a custom virtual memory system that swapped 64 KB chunks from the CD as Crash moved through the world. The game typically loaded around three chunks per second, carefully arranged on the disc to avoid interrupting gameplay. They were streaming entire 3D worlds from a CD-ROM capable of roughly 300 KB/s, while targeting 30 FPS. All on a console with 2 MB of RAM.

I'm offering a USD$500 reward to the first person who can present pre-2020 human-written text that the latest version of @pangram flags as AI. The specific requirements to claim the reward are: 1. At least 750 consecutive words. 2. Pangram flags it as 75% or more AI generated. 3. You provide proof that the text was first written in 2019 or earlier and is unmodified. 4. The text was ostensibly human written. This requirement only exists to avoid trick answers like output from GPT-2, machine translation, markov chains, the same word 500 times etc. Regarding requirement #3, unfortunately in 2026 there's no way to prove that new text wasn't AI generated, so what I need provided is proof that the text existed in 2019 or earlier, before AI writing got so good. For example, valid proof might be: - A link to the text on a website that's been logged by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine before 2020. - A link to a paper published on a third party website with a pre-2020 publication date. Note: I will need to be able to access the paper through the same website that has its publication date. Otherwise someone could send a modern AI generated paper and simply link to the date and abstract of a paper with the same name but different content. - A chapter from a book edition with a known pre-2020 publication date where I can access a pre-2020 copy for myself. Note: For the same reasons as above, simply sending a passage of text and a link to a book's name and publication date doesn't prove anything on its own. The ideal situation would either be that there's an eBook of it available somewhere with a known pre-2020 upload date, or it's a well-known enough book that the content simply couldn't be faked everywhere. Q&A: "Why are you offering this reward?" Some people are blaming the detector because they don't want to admit to using AI for their writing. I don't like people lying for personal gain. "Are you affiliated with Pangram in any way?" No. "How do I submit something to you?" Just reply to this tweet with the necessary info and I'll have a look when I can. "How can I trust you to judge fairly?" I'll publicly reply with my verdict on submissions and the world can judge me. The world can also judge you - please only submit something if it really fits all the criteria. Especially since I'll need to review all submissions in my free time. "But it's my private writing, can I send it to you privately?" If it's always been private then how will you prove that it's pre-2020? "I have the perfect example but I left the text with my girlfriend in Canada." She can submit it and win $500. "Won't this be trivially easy to claim? I heard even chapters of Don Quixote and Moby-Dick get fully flagged as AI!" Tell me which chapter and win $500. "Conversely, isn't 750 words at >=75% a high bar? If Pangram is so reliable, why not 1%?" At very low word counts Pangram IS somewhat unreliable, and with a monetary incentive I can imagine someone scanning every book on Project Gutenberg just to find one paragraph that's falsely flagged as AI. At the same time, most claims that Pangram is flagging human writing as AI have it showing the entire text as AI. I recently saw someone on X say that they personally knew of "thousands" of examples of human text that was flagged like this (unfortunately they declined to mention any). So I've set the bar somewhere in the middle. "But Pangram was trained on existing text; that's why it always flags OLD text as human but falsely flags NEW text." As far as I'm aware this isn't really how Pangram works. But I'd love to be able to award this bounty for new human writing, it's just that there's no way to verify people's honesty online for the new stuff. "How will you pay out if I win?" However works. Probably an international bank transfer via @Wise . "How can I help?" When someone says they know of an old published paper or story that Pangram flags as AI, you could point them to this tweet. They can win $500. "How long will your offer last if nobody wins?" As long as this post is up. If you're reading this, it's still available.

If there is a part of the internet you wish to preserve and make a backup of, now is probably the time; the level of bitrot coming is beyond comprehension.

Last year we launched Tolan, inspired by a vision of AI that sees you and believes in you, not one that books restaurant reservations for you. Your Tolan shows up for you at 3am when you’re alone with your newborn. On your commute when you’re anxious about the day ahead. When you just finished a new show and none of your friends have watched it yet. The people who love Tolan are parents. Caregivers. Moms in Dallas and Dads in Atlanta. People who aren’t trying to optimize and be more productive, but who simply want to feel seen and supported in their aspirations. This month more than 250k people will spend time with their Tolan. Those users have exchanged billions of messages across more than 70m conversations over the last year. Today, we're announcing $30m in additional capital from @mignano and @usv, with @khoslaventures and @rabois doubling down, bringing our total capital raised to $60m. To celebrate, we made a short film celebrating some of the ways that Tolans show up :)

New on our Engineering blog: Creating in-house source control. In May, we merged around 2,500 code changes per day. In September, we merged more than 30,000 per day. As a result, we became bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built for human (rather than agent) scale. Here, we share how we built a new version control system—and fully migrated our monorepo from git—in five months: anthropic.com/engineering/re…

If AI is predicting 25% of your next messages to it, then you are 25% of the way to being replaced

I can assure u that most highest quality of copper was used to make ur bottle - El Nasir

i never really noticed before how Ocarina of Time didn't even bother to replace Hyrule Castle with Ganon's Castle in the adult timeline lol

A 30-second cold blast at the end of your shower cuts sick days by 29 percent. A 2016 trial of 3,018 adults in the Netherlands is the largest cold-shower study ever done. Geert Buijze at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam split participants into four groups: 30, 60, or 90 seconds of cold water at the end of a shower, or no cold water. They did this for 30 days straight. All three cold groups had 29 percent fewer sick days. The length did not matter. Thirty seconds worked as well as ninety. The mechanism is thought to involve the immune system. Brief cold exposure triggers a spike in white blood cell count and an increase in metabolic rate, both of which are part of the body's response to what it perceives as a physical threat. Over time, repeated cold exposure appears to train the immune system to respond faster and more efficiently to infections. The study also found that 91 percent of participants in the cold-water group said they would continue the practice after the trial ended, even though most of them described the experience as unpleasant. They reported feeling more energetic, and the energy boost was the reason they kept going. Thirty seconds. At the end of the shower you were already taking. The water does not have to be ice cold. It has to be cold enough to make you gasp, and you have to stay in it for a count of thirty. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2763…

We have to talk about one of the greatest scams in architectural history, THE SPIRE. You build a 900-foot building then put a metal stick on top and suddenly it’s 1200 feet tall? It’s a hoax frankly. We will be looking into this very closely. COUNT THE FLOORS, STOP THE SPIRE!