Noise Floor This week · updated Oct 2

Week of September 28, 2026

Things I've picked up from just above the noise floor of the AI conversation — collected, barely sorted, with a few lines on why each one is worth your time.

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  1. Human Baselines for Benchmarks: AI Now Outperforms Junior Accountants Post · mercor.com
  2. Introducing Clef: our open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform Post · blog.cloudflare.com
  3. Government as a PID controller Thread · bsky.app
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