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Overtraining as the path to human-like AI
Examines Gwern’s proposal that heavy overtraining on smaller datasets could produce more human-like AI models.
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Ten items on AI’s shifting engineering practice and infrastructure spend, plus a Denver charter school move and a wildcard from koala genomics.
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Examines Gwern’s proposal that heavy overtraining on smaller datasets could produce more human-like AI models.
Explains the emerging practice of designing automated loops that prompt AI coding agents instead of prompting directly.
This Week in Rails covers time-precision fixes, a new navigation helper, and schema migration dump support.
TSMC raised its Arizona investment to $265 billion after a record quarter, adding fabs to ease AI chip packaging bottlenecks.
Emergent raised a $130 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation, about a year after launching.
Latent Space outlines five trends from AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026, including harness engineering and agent-first system design.
Vint Cerf is helping build DNSid, an open identity standard letting AI agents verify themselves across the internet.
OpenAI laid out its safeguards and reasoning for giving teenagers access to ChatGPT rather than restricting use until adulthood.
A French immersion charter school is moving into a Denver Public Schools building closed last year amid declining enrollment.
A genomic study found koalas suffered a population collapse 100,000 years ago from climate shifts, long before humans arrived.