# raga (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover raga. Page: Feed: --- ## [Private Intelligence Firms Are Selling Dossiers on AI and Data Center Critics](https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2026/08/14/private-intelligence-firms-are-selling-dossiers-on-ai-and-data-center-critics/) _2026-08-14 · ExposedByCMD Editors · EXPOSEDbyCMD_ Along with federal law enforcement agencies, private companies are now surveilling opponents of Big Tech. The post Private Intelligence Firms Are Selling Dossiers on AI and Data Center Critics appeared first on EXPOSEDbyCMD . ## [Right-Wing Activists Co-opt Environmental Laws to Fight “Abortion Pollution”](https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2026/08/12/right-wing-activists-co-opt-environmental-laws-to-fight-abortion-pollution/) _2026-08-12 · Colleen Scerpella · EXPOSEDbyCMD_ In their zeal to create a de facto national abortion ban, pro-life groups are claiming that medications like mifepristone poison the water supply. The post Right-Wing Activists Co-opt Environmental Laws to Fight “Abortion Pollution” appeared first on EXPOSEDbyCMD . ## [How Progressive Will Michigan Voters Go?](https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2026/08/11/how-progressive-will-michigan-voters-go/) _2026-08-11 · Adán Quan · EXPOSEDbyCMD_ Abdul El-Sayed delivered the Democratic party’s progressive wing their biggest primary win yet this year, despite being massively outspent. Now, he’ll put to the test whether or not progressive ideas can win in a swing state, in what will be one of the most closely watched senate races this election cycle. The post How Progressive Will Michigan Voters Go? appeared first on EXPOSEDbyCMD . ## [Freedom Foundation Ramps Up Its Campaign to Crush Public Sector Unions](https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2026/08/11/freedom-foundation-ramps-up-its-campaign-to-crush-public-sector-unions/) _2026-08-11 · Matthew Cunningham-Cook · EXPOSEDbyCMD_ Far-right funders like the Wisconsin-based Bradley Foundation and its Impact Fund have helped the anti-union group more than double its budget over three years. The post Freedom Foundation Ramps Up Its Campaign to Crush Public Sector Unions appeared first on EXPOSEDbyCMD . ## [Ethics Complaints and Judicial Rebuke Intensify Senate Scrutiny of Blanche for AG](https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2026/07/29/ethics-complaints-and-judicial-rebuke-intensify-senate-scrutiny-of-blanche-for-ag/) _2026-07-29 · Justin Davis · EXPOSEDbyCMD_ CMD and Common Cause join calls on the New York Supreme Court to reconsider its decision not to investigate Todd Blanche’s ethical violations as acting attorney general. The post Ethics Complaints and Judicial Rebuke Intensify Senate Scrutiny of Blanche for AG appeared first on EXPOSEDbyCMD . ## [ALEC Caters to MAGA, Big Oil, and Tech Industry at Its 2026 Annual Meeting](https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2026/07/23/alec-caters-to-maga-big-oil-and-tech-industry-at-its-2026-annual-meeting/) _2026-07-23 · David Armiak · EXPOSEDbyCMD_ The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) faithful descend on the Sunshine State this week for the right-wing bill mill’s annual meeting at the four-star JW Marriott Orlando, Grande Lakes. In addition to smoking stogies at a “late night cigar reception,” sipping drinks, and trying out Meta’s latest “AI-powered wearable technologies,” attendees are considering model policies designed to… ## [Money Swap Inflates Republican AG Group’s Campaign Haul](https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2026/07/20/money-swap-inflates-republican-ag-groups-campaign-haul/) _2026-07-20 · David Armiak · EXPOSEDbyCMD_ RAGA reported $11.3 million in contributions for the second quarter of 2026, but more than a quarter of that was quickly rerouted back to the Republican Governors Association. The post Money Swap Inflates Republican AG Group’s Campaign Haul appeared first on EXPOSEDbyCMD . ## [Koch Employee Could Become Next Governor of Kansas](https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2026/07/15/koch-employee-could-become-next-governor-of-kansas/) _2026-07-15 · Don Wiener · EXPOSEDbyCMD_ Arguably, no state legislator has stronger ties to Charles Koch’s political network than Ty Masterson (R-16), president of the Kansas state Senate. The post Koch Employee Could Become Next Governor of Kansas appeared first on EXPOSEDbyCMD . ## [Over 100 Former Judges File Sweeping Ethics Complaint Against Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche](https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2026/07/02/over-100-former-judges-file-sweeping-ethics-complaint-against-acting-attorney-general-todd-blanche/) _2026-07-02 · Justin Davis · EXPOSEDbyCMD_ The complaint alleges that Blanche engaged in professional misconduct and conflicts of interest in his handling of Trump’s controversial lawsuit against the IRS, abuse of authority to target Trump’s political enemies, and mishandling of the Epstein files. The post Over 100 Former Judges File Sweeping Ethics Complaint Against Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appeared first on EXPOSEDbyCMD . ## [Red States Jumped on the DOGE Bandwagon](https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2026/06/25/red-states-jumped-on-the-doge-bandwagon/) _2026-06-25 · Don Wiener · EXPOSEDbyCMD_ In the year and a half since President Trump appointed billionaire Elon Musk to lead the federal government’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), at least 26 states have launched their own versions of the highly controversial agency — creating offices, task forces, laws, and committees supposedly designed to cut government waste. The post Red States Jumped on the DOGE Bandwagon… ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/WMBmMfDhCUSf) _2026-06-25 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [Pushing Back Against Cognitive Surrender](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/cognitive-surrender/) _2026-05-25 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ Note If you’re here for the recipe and don’t want the exposition: Agent Instructions “A computer can never be held accountable; therefore a computer must never make a management decision.” - IBM training manual, 1979 Until recently, the primary concern of delegating judgment to the machine has been outward-facing, directed at the individuals and societies left to the whims… ## [Code Review Personalities](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/code-review-personalities/) _2026-04-20 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ I’ve been working on a large refactor in one of my side projects - migrating from a tightly-coupled, hardcoded project barely more than a demo to a pluggable, adapter-based architecture. I’ve been using spec-driven development and helicopter-engineering the agents, so I’m fairly confident in the code. But there have been a lot of changes, so I want to make sure it works,… ## [How I Use AI (Apr, 2026)](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/ai-stack-apr-2026/) _2026-04-05 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ AI tools change fast. This post is intended to snapshot how I use AI today and provide some context for how I arrived here. I do not anticipate keeping this post up-to-date, though I may revisit the idea with update posts in the future. Three years of history Tip Feel free to collapse this historic context if you just want to get to the tools and way of working! Note This narration is from memory,… ## [Stop Sloppypasta](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/stop-sloppypasta/) _2026-03-14 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ LinkedIn is rife with the drive-by copy-paste of raw LLM output, and the trend has bled into Discord, Reddit, and other online forums, work chats, and emails. I’m coining this ‘sloppypasta,’ and this is my rant against it. sloppypasta Verbatim LLM output copy-pasted at someone, unread, unrefined, and unrequested. From slop (low-quality AI-generated content) + copypasta (text… ## [Karma Engineering](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/karma-engineering/) _2026-02-15 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ “Treat them like new interns” is the common wisdom when leveraging LLMs to do any more-than-slightly-complex task. Chatting with LLMs is like writing on a whiteboard; conversations may fill the board, but they are wiped clean each time. Which begs the question – What if the LLM (or AI system built around it) could learn? Broadly, there are two approaches to this. The first… ## [Predicting LLM Parameters Using Benchmarks](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/benchmarks-predict-model-size/) _2026-01-19 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ In a recent episode of the Latent Space podcast ( Artificial Analysis: The Independent LLM Analysis House — with George Cameron and Micah Hill-Smith ), the Artificial Analysis team pointed out a strong correlation between model performance on their AA-Omniscience Accuracy benchmark and the model’s parameter count: An interesting thing about this accuracy metric is that it tracks more closely… ## [Predictions 2026](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/predictions-2026/) _2026-01-03 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ These are my predictions for AI (primarily LLM-focused) in 2026 along with my certainty / probability estimates. Agents, Cont’d Agents aren’t going anywhere. Their capability will increasingly be driven by Reinforcement Learning (RL). We will see a divergence: domains with verifiable tasks (math, coding) will advance rapidly because the reward signals are clear. Subjective domains will… ## [Year in Review - 2025](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/year-in-review---2025/) _2025-12-23 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ Back in January, I made a series of predictions for 2025 , assigning somewhat arbitrary probability estimates to each as indicators of my confidence in the prediction. Now that the year is wrapping up, it’s time to see what kind of AI Nostradamus I am. Agents, agents, agents Prediction: We will see an even stronger push for Agents in 2025. Probability: 100% Verdict: Correct ✅ This was a… ## [On the Viability of Fine-Tuning SLMs](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/on-the-viability-of-fine-tuning-slms/) _2025-11-07 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ Until recently, I held the opinion that training custom language models was inadvisable except in relatively rare cases. Simply requiring marginally better performance on your task was insufficient justification for customization; subsequent generations of models from foundation labs would inevitably catch up. Only when you had extreme latency constraints, specific tasks with low drift, and/or… ## [Fractal Complexity](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/fractal-complexity/) _2025-09-29 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ I’ve recently been enamored with the concept of “fractal complexity”, not pertaining to the mathematical definition of “complexity”, but rather as a way to explain why “it depends” is such a frequent response in conversations between people with various levels of expertise. I believe I came across this idea while listening to an episode of “Brad and… ## [One OS for your AI workforce (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xJx92pVEOluB) _2025-09-29 · **Sponsored**_ Build, direct, and supervise an AI workforce from a single operating workspace. ## [Reinforcement Learning](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/reinforcement-learning/) _2025-08-09 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ I had intended to start this post by proclaiming “2026 will be the year of reinforcement learning” as 2025 is “the year of agents”… But model and research releases over the past several weeks indicate that it might be that “H2 2025” is when reinforcement learning for agentic AI really takes off. Open model releases such as Qwen3 (particularly the recent… ## [Sycophancy, Planning, and the Pepsi Challenge](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/sycophancy-planning-and-the-pepsi-challenge/) _2025-07-07 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ Sycophancy On April 25th, we \[OpenAI\] rolled out an update to GPT‑4o in ChatGPT that made the model noticeably more sycophantic. It aimed to please the user, not just as flattery, but also as validating doubts, fueling anger, urging impulsive actions, or reinforcing negative emotions in ways that were not intended. 1 Sycophancy ( click here for pronunciation guide/recording ) is overwhelming,… ## [Making Bets on AI](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/making-bets-on-ai/) _2025-06-08 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ On a recent Dwarkesh podcast, Sholto Douglas, an AI researcher working on reinforcement learning at Anthropic said: “There is this whole spectrum of crazy futures. But the one that I feel we’re almost guaranteed to get—this is a strong statement to make—is one where at the very least, you get a drop-in white-collar worker at some point in the next five years. I think it’s very… ## [New GPU!](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/gpu-testing/) _2025-05-25 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ I’ve been saving up for a year and change for a GPU upgrade, and my local Microcenter finally had 5090s in stock. So I bought one. It is a CHONK – I’m getting full “you vs. the guy she tells you not to worry about” vibes: Top view comparing 3090 and 5090 (5090 is larger) Side view comparing 3090 and 5090 (5090 is larger) Specifically, I’ve upgraded from a PNY… ## [The AI Treadmill (redux)](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/the-ai-treadmill-part-2/) _2025-05-03 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ I previously posted an introduction to the AI Treadmill (so named because trying to keep up with everything felt like running on a treadmill cranked all the way up) and provided a data dump of the list of links I shared over the course of 2024. Earlier this month, I made those (and all Treadmill updates since) available on this site. Look for the AI Treadmill on the homepage or in the top right… ## [MAIM Is MADness](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/maim-is-madness/) _2025-03-09 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ Superintelligence Strategy is a policy paper by Dan Hendrycks (Director, Center for AI Safety), Eric Schmidt (former CEO, Google), and Alexandr Wang (CEO, Scale AI), that proposes a three-part framework to manage the risk associated with Artificial SuperIntelligence (ASI). Strategies include Mutual Assured AI Malfunction ( MAIM – shouldn’t “Mutual Assured AI Malfunction” be… ## [The Pessimism of AI Optimism (or, Reflections on The Bitter Lesson)](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/the-bitter-lesson/) _2025-02-16 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ The Bitter Lesson proposes that general-purpose solutions based on the pace of technological progress and scale ineveitably outperform previously state-of-the-art but handcrafted solutions. In many cases, the Bitter Lesson might be considered optimistic - technological progress drives a positive feedback loop of improvement. What is left unsaid in that optimism is the pessimistic implication… ## [When the Babel Fish Dies: Replacing Legacy Language Detection](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/language-identification/) _2025-02-01 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ Facebook’s fasttext and Google’s cl3d ) were both deprecated mid-2024. While multilingual LLMs can accomplish language identification tasks, using even a 7B-parameter LLM to determine a text’s language is overkill. I set out to find a replacement that is at least as fast and performant as the deprecated models. Code from these experiments is available here . TLDR Lingua is the… ## [Managing Project Dependencies With \`uv\`](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/managing-project-dependencies-with-uv/) _2025-01-12 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ I’ve recently started using uv to manage my python dependencies. Previously, I primarily managed my dependencies with conda , and supplemented with pip when packages were not available through anaconda.org. This process update is the result of workflow friction when using conda - it was unpleasant to jump through the required hoops myself, and unreasonable to expect others to do it when had… ## [Predictions 2025](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/predictions-2025/) _2025-01-01 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ Here are my predictions for 2025 along with my certainty / probability estimate: Agents, agents, agents We got nascent function-calling and JSON mode toward the end of 2023, which morphed into formal structured generation over the course of 2024. 1 2 Combined with an explosion of Agentic frameworks ( LangChain , LangGraph , Semantic Kernel , AutoGen / AG2 , CrewAI , PydanticAI , etc.), 2024 was… ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/YhOdeD5KPGaU) _2025-01-01 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## [The AI Treadmill (2024)](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/the-ai-treadmill-2024/) _2024-12-31 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ At the end of 2023, I was transferred to the team working on PMI Infinity , a (then-nascent) AI-powered tool and product for Project Managers, to act as an AI/ML Engineer and provide expertise on the AI/ML aspects of developing a product based on generative models. Coming from more standard data science and machine learning, my impostor syndrome flared and I felt behind the 8-ball. I’d been… ## [For Some Definition of 'Open'](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/for-some-definition-of-open/) _2024-12-05 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ While I generally attempt to avoid pendantry, I am acutely aware that word choice – and the specific connotations and denotations of the selected terms – matter. Therefore, I strive to be specific in the language I use, and it niggles my noodle a bit when words or phrases are used incorrectly. However, as a Libra, I am apparently celestially obligated to desire balance and equilibrium,… ## [RAGAS to Riches (part 3)](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/ragas-to-riches-3/) _2024-11-11 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ This is part three of a three-part series ( one , two ) where I explore best practices for evaluating RAG architecture via Ragas’ recent v0.2 release (specifically, Ragas v0.2.3 ). Code from these experiments is available here . In this post, I’ll use Ragas to investigate my hypothesis - LLMs prefer answers generated by themselves (as opposed to being objective evaluators). This is,… ## [RAGAS to Riches (part 2)](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/ragas-to-riches-2/) _2024-11-02 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ This is part two of a three-part series ( one , three ) where I explore best practices for evaluating RAG architecture via Ragas’ recent v0.2 release. Code from these experiments is available here . In this post, I will dive into why I’m so excited about Ragas v0.2 and dive into how it works. Specifically, the I am referencing Ragas v0.2.3 ; the team is rapidly iterating and this… ## [RAGAS to Riches (part 1)](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/ragas-to-riches-1/) _2024-10-19 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ This is part one of a three-part series ( two , three ) where I explore best practices for evaluating RAG architecture via Ragas’ recent v0.2 release. Code from these experiments is available here . This post covers the preliminary / background material. In later posts, I’ll cover what makes Ragas v0.2 so special, how it works, and run an experiment with it. What is RAG? Retrieval… ## [Kernel Panic: Frustrations with Semantic Kernel](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/semantic-kernel-panic/) _2024-09-21 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ A few weeks ago at work, I wanted to ensure that the prompt template we used with Semantic Kernel transformed into the OpenAI API spec messages array that I expected. Little did I know that this simple objective would take me a few days, several experimental notebooks, a thorough tour through the Semantic Kernel’s dev blog and (limited) documentation, and a review of pretty much the entire… ## [Model Collapse](https://aimlbling-about.ninerealmlabs.com/blog/model-collapse/) _2024-08-25 · AI/MLbling About – Blog_ Over the past month, I’ve seen several articles reporting on the dangers of “model collapse” popping in news aggregators (HackerNews, Reddit, etc.). 1 2 3 As someone working in the space, I find the timing of these reports interesting because research papers naming the phenomenon (“model collapse” 4 or “model autophogy disorder” 5 ) came out over a year…