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Benchmaxxing: When the Benchmark Becomes the Target

Exploring the Potential of the Metaverse: A New World Awaits
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…

The air conditioning paradox

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The world is now 1.1 degrees Celsius — 2 degrees Fahrenheit — warmer on average than it was at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. But baked into that seemingly…

How well can an AI mimic human ethics?

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When experts first started raising the alarm a couple decades ago about AI misalignment — the risk of powerful, transformative artificial intelligence systems that might not behave as humans hope…

Make “Work From Home” Work For You

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In my job at Google, I advise people on how to use their time as efficiently as possible. When working from home, my productivity strategies are even more important because…

10+ Best Wholesale Businesses in India 2020-21

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Wholesale Businesses India is on the verge of becoming the world’s most populated country with its population expanding-both in terms of size and income. This vast population provides an enormous…

Shadow Roots and Inheritance

Exploring the Potential of the Metaverse: A New World Awaits
I encountered a bit of a HTML/CSS oddity the other day, and was a little stumped as to what was happening so I thought I’d share what I learnt in…

Systems for z-index

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Say you have a z-index bug. Something is being covered up by something else. In my experience, a typical solution is to put position: relative on the thing so z-index…

Spicy Sections

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What if HTML had “tabs”? That would be cool, says I. Dave has been spending some of his time and energy, along with a group of “Tabvengers” from OpenUI, on…

My white whale: A use case for will-change

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 Nic Chan: […] the will-change property landed in major browsers in August 2015, and I’ve been on the lookout for when to use it ever since. It might seem self-evident to apply…