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Hank Green found the AI problem that YouTube labels can’t catch
"Slop" isn't the only problem.
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Microsoft’s SkillOpt Shows Optimized Agent Skill Artifacts Transfer Across Model Scales and Between Codex and Claude Code Harnesses
Most coverage of Microsoft's SkillOpt centers on its 52/52 result. The more consequential finding is in Section 4.3: the exported best_skill.md keeps working in environments it was never trained on. A Codex-trained SpreadsheetBench skill lifted Claude Code from 22.1 to 81.8, slightly above the 80.4 that harness reached training its own skill. Retention varies sharply by task type — 102% on…
Aug 6, 2026
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Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months
xAI's Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia with AI-generated articles that Elon Musk once promised would be a "massive improvement" over Wikipedia, apparently hasn't been updated since April 24th, according to a report from Lawfare. "As far as we can tell, no entry has changed in more than three months," Lawfare said. Grokipedia launched in v0.1 in October 2025 with an initial batch of 885,000…
Aug 6, 2026
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End-to-End Bayesian Marketing Mix Modeling with Google Meridian: Media Measurement, ROI Analysis, and Budget Optimization
In this tutorial, we build a complete Bayesian marketing mix modeling workflow using Google Meridian. We begin by installing the required libraries, verifying GPU availability, and exploring a geo-level marketing dataset that includes media impressions, spend, controls, promotions, conversions, population, and revenue. We then map the raw columns to Meridian’s data schema, define interpretable…
Aug 5, 2026
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