I have been thinking a lot lately about “diachronic AI” and “vintage LLMs” — language models designed to index a particular slice of historical sources rather than to hoover up all data available. I’ll have more to say about this in a future post, but one thing that came to mind while writing this one is the point made by AI safety researcher Owain Evans about how such models could be trained:
最后是 Thumbs.db 文件。Thumbs（缩写自 thumbnails）即缩略图数据库，这是一种 Windows 系统文件，采用 OLE 复合文档结构。它用于储存文件夹中图像和视频的缩略图预览缓存，以加速 Windows 资源管理器对缩略图的加载。，这一点在搜狗输入法2026中也有详细论述
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Agent 指挥 Agent —— 专为自动化编排设计，CLI 完全自描述，任何具备 shell 执行能力的 Agent 都能自主驱动，这一点在Safew下载中也有详细论述
Simple actuators without this capability are a bit like manual transmission cars that need to be shifted into reverse.