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CoRT rescores each response twice, with and without the rubric in context, and uses the counterfactual likelihood contrast as a proxy for which tokens actually depend on the rubric, giving token-level credit with no auxiliary scoring model to train. 4.4 percentage points over response-level GRPO. The trick generalizes past RL: anywhere you're running LLM-judge or rubric-scored evaluation, that delta tells you what the rubric is actually doing.
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CCP announced the migration covering code that has run on Stackless 2.7 since 2010. The approach is to run futurize across the codebase and then manually review roughly 20,000 places where Python 2 and 3 behavior diverges, including integer division (Simon Willison). No comple...
40. HBR — AI intensifies work 41. Import AI #441 42. Simon Willison — AI hit piece 43. Cameron Wolfe — GRPO++ 44. CISPA — Moltbook study 45. arXiv — SkillRL 46. Google DeepMind — Gemini 3 Deep Think 47. OpenAI — Codex-Spark 48. Zhipu — GLM-5 ---
Allen Bargi's August 15 post hit 302 points arguing that AI collaboration rewards context-sharing, examples, and feedback over precise instruction (Hacker News). The pushback holds that the piece conflates management with leadership. mikeocool calls it "the most low effort ver...
Satya Nadella said companies routing everything through a single proprietary lab may not survive. His argument: you hand that lab your most sensitive business context, and the lab can turn it against you as a competitor. His prescription is an orchestration layer — keep the ha...
Willison launched datasette-apps (0.1a2) on June 18, hosting self-contained HTML+JS apps in a sandboxed iframe that run SQL against your data, read-only by default. He frames it as "Claude Artifacts reimagined for Datasette," artifacts backed by a JSON API to a relational data...
His conclusion is DuckDB matches or beats SQLite's safety for untrusted queries, but only with enable_external_access=false, lock_configuration=true, and a watchdog thread, since DuckDB lacks SQLite's opcode-based query timeouts. He ships a safe_duckdb.py helper and a Datasett...
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