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Benchmaxxing: When the Benchmark Becomes the Target

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Public benchmarks in AI provide important signals and allow for regression testing, directional validation of model updates, and public discussion of capabilities and limitations. But the more attention a benchmark…

Secure Agent Harness Execution: Preventing Escape

Exploring the Potential of the Metaverse: A New World Awaits
Layer 1: Infrastructure Isolation (Network) Harness environments sit on an isolated VLAN or segmented network with restrictive firewall policy. Egress is default-deny; only explicitly required destinations, such as the model…

Creative Japanese Packaging & Product Design

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Most Western packaging appeared limited, merely ‘contained’ on the canvas or package. Whereas Japanese design is more alive, spirited and energetic. Japanese packaging is created not to just contain the…

Custom Property Brain Twisters

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I am part of that 82% that got it wrong in Lea’s quiz (tweet version). Here’s the code: :root { --accent-color: skyblue; } div { --accent-color: revert; background: var(--accent-color, orange);…

Proposal for CSS @when

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CSS is on a tear lately. Again, I’ve heard of a brand new thing I’ve never seen before, and again it’s via Miriam: CSS Conditionals. There is already such a…

Checkout is the key to frictionless B2B e-commerce

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Andrew Steele Contributor Andrew Steele is an investor at Activant Capital. He focuses on fintech and e-commerce infrastructure and is based in New York. COVID-19 cemented e-commerce into everyone’s daily…