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Skeet of the Week
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Tech
- Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities (arstechnica.com)
Kyle Orland about a recent paper from six apple Engineers testing the "reasoning" capabilities of LLMs with catastrophic results.
- How decentralized is Bluesky really? (dustycloud.org)
Christine Lemmer-Webber about the technical implementation of ATProto, the backbone of Bluesky, why it's not really decentralized and if it matters.
- SemVer Is Not About You (matklad.github.io)
Alex Kladov explains how SemVer ist most useful for dependency conflict resolution.
Cutting Room Floor
- against the dark forest (wrecka.ge)
Erin Kissane introduces the die of the Dark Internet Forest, where predators force you to hide in a safe space.
- Your friends shape your microbiome — and so do their friends (nature.com)
Saima Sidik about recent studies, which indicate that you share around 10 % of your microbiome with friends you see regularly and what that means for conditions with links to the microbiome, such as hypertension and depression.