The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It Large language models sometimes behave in ways resembling human emotional responses, and recent work has identified internal representations that may explain this. We ask whether LLMs represent pain distinctly from fear, sadness, and generic negative valence, and whether this representation functions as pain […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-09-20
Home – IDOVIR The research project IDOVIR strives for making results in the field of digital architectural reconstruction available in a comprehensible, permanent, and open-access form and to facilitate scientific discussion of the research results. Source: Home – IDOVIR Humanist AI Code of Conduct | Microsoft AI This document outlines the intended behavior and values […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-09-13
Remote Laboratories Source: Remote Laboratories How I Vibed a Proof of Conway’s Conjecture — overreacted You can just prove things, apparently. Source: How I Vibed a Proof of Conway’s Conjecture — overreacted Artificial Intelligence in Multimodal Microscopy Workflows for Failure Analysis | ZEISS Advancements in Image Processing: The integration of AI, machine learning (ML), and […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-09-06
🔬 The Lab of the Future Should Feel Like a Data Center — Andy Beam & Rafa Gómez-Bombarelli, Lila Sciences Their goal is a scientific superintelligence wired directly into the wet lab. They are all in on the bitter lesson, and the thesis follows from it: a lab is an infinite token generator. Produce data […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-08-30
How Claude is accelerating protein design and analytical chemistry Anthropic We ran Opus 4.8 and Mythos Preview in multi-target mode with 48 hours of wall time and up to 12,500 NVIDIA H100 hours of compute for running specialized protein design and folding models. We also ran Mythos Preview in single-target mode with 24 hours of […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-08-23
Voicebox – Open Source Voice Cloning Desktop App Clone voices, generate speech across seven TTS engines, dictate into any app, and talk to agents in voices you own. A free and local alternative to ElevenLabs and WisprFlow, running entirely on your machine. Source: Voicebox – Open Source Voice Cloning Desktop App […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-08-16
Transcription Pearl A Python-based GUI application for transcribing and processing images containing historical handwritten text using Large Language Models (LLMs) via API services (OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic APIs). Designed for academic and research purposes. Source: mhumphries2323/Transcription_Pearl: The repository provides access to the source code for Transcription Pearl, an Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) tool, that uses […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-08-09
A Swarm of Blood Robots — by Craig Mod I dumped into Claude my huge document containing all I knew about my adoption. I added stories and notes I had about family members on both maternal and paternal sides. And then I said: OK, you have access to my Ancestry account (via the Chrome plugin), […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-07-26
Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick – Krebs on Security “An operator can drag blocks together in their Blockly editor, to define each fraud routine, given a task type,” reads Bitsight’s report. “Once the routine is saved, it gets exported as JavaScript and uploaded to the S3 buckets. An operator doesn’t need […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-07-19
The Rise of Anti-Flock Influencers Who Make Things Up for Clout In that video, he said he’s starting a “bail fund” in case he’s arrested and goes to jail. Collectively, these posts and videos have hundreds of thousands of likes and millions of views. But the cease-and-desist is not real; it is a wholesale fabrication […]