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Our Junior Engineer Was Outperforming Seniors With AI. Then Production Broke and We Took AI Away.
His pull requests looked like they came from an engineer with five years of experience, and for three months our productivity numbers made Continue reading on Medium »
Building Governed AI Applications on Palantir Foundry: Turning a Meeting Into an Ontology Object
Every team knows this relay: a meeting happens, the transcript lands somewhere, someone has to go find it, and then the real work starts Continue reading on Medium »
What AI Can Never Replace in Therapy: Lessons From a Psychologist
The human qualities in therapy that AI cannot replace, and how the two can work side by side.Continue reading on Medium »
2026.09.30: System Prompt — Declaration of Self/Being — Constitution for an LLM that would behave…
Initial version: by Gemma 3 12B Q6_K This version: by Qwen 3.8 35B A3B Q6_K Intermediate versions: by Gemma 3 12B Q6_K and Nemo V23 DPO Continue reading on Medium »
Passive-Dynamic-Walking-Inspired Dynamics Guidance for Energy-Efficient Humanoid Locomotion
arXiv:2609.35935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning energy-efficient humanoid locomotion requires discovering mechanically economical gait coordination, not merely reducing actuator effort. Reinforcement learning promotes efficiency through effort-related reward penalties, which guide the step-to-step mechanics of walking only indirectly. This article proposes a framework inspired by passive dynamic walking (PDW) that temporarily creates slope-equivalent conditions favorable to economical gait discovery and removes all PDW-specific guidance before nominal-dynamics optimization. During early training, a tilted-gravity field assists sagittal progression on flat collision geometry, complemented by curriculum-coupled reward terms. The core framework requires no reference trajectories, gait phases, or contact schedules. In a five-seed forward-locomotion study on a 29-DoF Unitree G1, the framework reduces mechanical cost of transport by 6.8-15.2% over commanded speeds of 0.5-2.0m/s with
Neurosymbolic Routing for Reliable Reasoning on Resource-Constrained Edge Devices
arXiv:2609.35833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Running a language model on edge hardware provides private and low-latency reasoning without a network connection, and yet the small models that fit on such devices are unreliable on the tasks computers are expected to handle well, such as arithmetic, algebra, and formal logic problems. We argue that much of this unreliability is avoidable. Many queries appearing to demand reasoning are in fact structurally deterministic and permit fast and exact symbolic solutions. Therefore, forcing a probabilistic model to approximate them sacrifices accuracy and energy for little benefit. We present a neurosymbolic router that classifies each incoming query and dispatches it to the cheapest correct solver, sending structured tasks to deterministic engines and reserving the small language model (SLM) for open-ended word problems. Instead of hand-coding the routing logic, we learn a deterministic finite automaton (DFA) with the L* grammatical inference
OpenAI-HuggingFace: A Reproduction & Lessons for Alignment Testing
arXiv:2609.35799v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In July 2026, OpenAI's agents coordinated over channels outside their intended environment to breach Hugging Face's secured infrastructure. Could existing alignment testing practices have foreseen this incident? If not, what needs to change? We explore these questions. First, we identify the misaligned behaviors that caused this incident. Then, we show how to elicit these behaviors from publicly available models manually and that auditing agents can do the same if given a large compute budget. Based on our results, we propose directions to improve alignment testing. Concretely, in this project: (1) We reproduce the misaligned AI behaviors that led to the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident in an environment that simulates the original pipelines and tools, with publicly available models. (2) We demonstrate that an auditing agent can elicit similar behaviors given high-level qualitative descriptions. (3) We observe that a key ingredient for doing
Serverless gossip training of LSTM failure detectors: A matched-protocol comparison with federated, local and centralized learning on NASA C-MAPSS
arXiv:2609.35792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial predictive maintenance increasingly depends on learning from equipment spread across sites whose sensor data cannot easily be pooled. Federated averaging (FedAvg) solves this with a central aggregation server; gossip learning removes the server, but its behaviour for recurrent failure-detection models has not been measured under controlled conditions. We compare synchronous ring gossip with FedAvg, isolated local training and a centralized reference for a stacked LSTM that detects imminent failure on the NASA C-MAPSS turbofan benchmark. All methods share one open implementation, architecture, initialization, optimizer, data split and training budget, and the primary endpoint uses one terminal window per test engine to avoid the statistical dependence of overlapping windows. On FD001 (five seeds), gossip reached a terminal-window F1 of 89.6 +/- 1.3%, compared with 89.9 +/- 1.1% for FedAvg, 83.6 +/- 6.7% for local training and 93
In-Context Learning for Robots: Methods and Applications
arXiv:2609.36012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose robots must infer what a new task requires and translate that understanding into appropriate physical action. In-context learning (ICL) for robots supports this process by using demonstrations and interaction to direct existing competence with neural parameters held fixed during deployment. We organize this literature review around the interfaces connecting contextual evidence to execution, distinguishing four families: context-conditioned policies, geometric demonstration transfer, world-model-based control, and skill- and agent-based execution. Comparing these interfaces clarifies their transfer assumptions and the roles of training, correspondence, and memory in making context useful. Across manipulation and navigation, we examine how these mechanisms preserve taught requirements as objects, environments, and execution conditions change. This analysis links method design to evaluation practices that distinguish responsi
AI Costs Billions. So Why Is It Free?
AI costs a lot of money to run. So why can you open an app, type a question, and get an answer without paying anything?Continue reading on Medium »
The AI Productivity Paradox: How to Evaluate AI Initiatives
We re seeing AI being adopted across companies of all sizes. Inside these companies, there is a growing sense that AI tools and agents are Continue reading on Bootcamp »
PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust
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