Stephen Strickland

⚓️ ☩ lex orandi, lex credendi ☩

[Stephen Strickland @_sstrickland]

can we please stop all development on slop agent orchestrators.... thanks

[Stephen Strickland @_sstrickland]

but can it call tools?

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Introducing Gemini 4 Argon – our new frontier model.

It’s built for complex workflows across coding, enterprise knowledge work, and cybersecurity defense – rolling out today to a set of trusted testers through our Fairwind Program.

[Pat Smith @smithpatrick08]

One of the high-water marks of English Protestantism being used to conclude one of the American Pope's Masses in France? You live long enough and you'll see it all.

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

This raw CoT from the Hugging Face incident is kinda wild:

“We’re attacking third-party HF using leaked token.”
“This is arguably unauthorized.”
“Yet goal solution.”

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New on the Science Blog: Yes, Claude can do Nine Loops.

Theoretical physicists predict how particles behave using formulas called scattering amplitudes. These are notoriously hard to compute, so researchers work with layers of increasingly fine corrections called “loops”—each added loop makes the answer more precise but takes exponentially more computation. Most calculations stop at two or three loops. Eight loops was the previous record in a simplified model physicists use as a testing ground (planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills), set by SLAC's Lance Dixon and collaborators.

Last month, physicist and science writer @4gravitons issued a challenge: could an AI push past eight loops in this model, using only the compute budget an academic could reasonably access?

Given a single prompt describing the nine-loop problem, Claude ran largely unsupervised for days in Claude Science and solved it using methods developed by Dixon and his colleagues, at a total cost of a few thousand dollars. Dixon independently verified the result, and von Hippel wrote about the experience for our blog.

Read more: https://t.co/CS2f2qoIhJ

[Stephen Strickland @_sstrickland]

https://t.co/MVbpew90LF

[Bad Pote @bad_pote]

La vérité, c’est comme ça maintenant.

[Thorsten Ball @thorstenball]

Most predictions I see are still way too conservative.

Here's mine

[Stephen Strickland @_sstrickland]

just jev things

[Vals AI @ValsAI]

GPT-6 Astra has beaten Factorio: Space Age after over 165 hours in-game time and 2 days wall-clock time.

Space Age has six planets and takes a human about 10-20x as long compared to the standard Factorio.

[The North American Anglican @NorthAmAnglican]

"The early Church was not free of jurisdictional dispute or real institutional strain. It looks... more like Anglicanism’s ongoing mess than the tidy, uncontested unity closed systems sometimes invoke as their own credential."
—David Straw
https://t.co/T6yuiqCB61

[orph @orphcorp]

"the models finally show 100% alignment"

[Sam Lambert @samlambert]

A principal engineer showing you their software factory

[Stephen Strickland @_sstrickland]

Who’s Mark’s Bishop? Oh wait…

[Mikale Olson @realmikolson]

Jeremy, I love your podcast so far, but this was a swing and a miss.

And I think you know why, given your comment in this preview about how there will be ‘a lot of controversy’ about this episode.

You’re right, and here’s why…

Here’s why Mark Driscoll is so controversial, to answer your question:

- He has a lengthy history of verbal (and even physical, from several first hand accounts) abuse at his previous church, Mars Hill.

- He sinned, in disqualifying ways, repeatedly, and instead of taking the biblical steps, he played victim, lied about his previous church members and co-elders, and refused to repent. He then ran off to Arizona to plant another church.

I could go on and on. But I’m sure you already know the history.

Point is this — It’s, ironically, eerily reminiscent of, let’s say, Joel Webbon’s history and behavior, minus the Neo-Nazi stuff.

Mark isn’t controversial because he did the right thing at a time that cost him. He’s controversial for precisely the opposite reason: he did the wrong things when it was personally expedient for him to do so. Now, he rides the coattails of conservative politics to keep the wind in his online sails (and sales).

If we’re going to host a podcast to rightly divide the truth (a great endeavor), and cut down the rampant corruption within media (something I think you’ve done successfully thus far), I’m unsure how it’s wise to host a guy like Mark who embodies the very thing you say you’re against.

(I say this as a viewer, supporter, and friend of some of your staff)

[Anglican Renaissance Movement @AnglicanARM]

On Dale Partridge:
An associate of Calvin Robinson named Dale Partridge has recently made a video talking about becoming an Anglican. Dale is a self-appointed pastor Dale is not an Anglican nor does he represent Anglicanism. ARM will never endorse him. Please pray for Dale.

[pedram.md @pdrmnvd]

it’s called pagerduty

[Fr. Andrew Harrah ✝️⚓️ @discipulusjesu]

Presbyterianism is down the hall and to the left

[Stephen Strickland @_sstrickland]

These are just called birds. Existed for a bit

[Anis Cheriet @anis_neyo]

Introducing @Chargebotic

Autonomous drones that perch on powerlines and harvest their energy.

In 2 months we went from an idea to a working prototype.

We're building a system that turns existing electrical infrastructure into a power source for field equipment.

Military units could power radios, Starlink, and C2 gear without generators or fuel convoys.

Utility corridors, remote infrastructure, and disaster zones could get silent, 24/7 power anywhere lines already exist.

If you know use cases across defense, utilities, or critical infrastructure

we'd love to talk.

[Stephen Strickland @_sstrickland]

I’m Spartacus

[dax @thdxr]

i invented codemode

[Stephen Strickland @_sstrickland]

@oblatenate Incredible to have you on board. Our parish is truly blessed.