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Coding benchmark comparison with Kimi K3 highlighted. Kimi ranks third on DeepSWE, behind GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5; second on FrontierSWE and Kimi Code Bench, behind Fable 5; second on Terminal Bench, narrowly behind GPT-5.6 Sol; and first on Program Bench and SWE Marathon, narrowly beating GPT-5.6 Sol and Opus-4.8 respectively.
As per the original plan, most of the new datacenters have been built in third-party countries—especially Canada and Mongolia—to ensure their vulnerability in case the deal breaks down. Around 99% of fab capacity has been built since 2029, after the deal. Much of this new capacity has been built adjacent to the Canadian and Mongolian sites, for the same reasons.121 The situation has settled into an odd sort of standoff. Just north of the Mongolian border, American datacenters hum away, guarded by a small contingent of US troops. Just south of the Mongolian border, a division of the People’s Liberation Army stands ready to invade the moment they get the signal. The equilibrium is that the instant the deal breaks down, the US troops will destroy their chips to prevent the Chinese from capturing them, and the same thing would happen with the Chinese datacenters on the US-Canadian border. Middle powers with datacenters of their own have equally-secure schemes in place to ensure that they can be speedily destroyed in case of war.
In the past, companies have trained bigger and better AIs using both compute scaling (bigger training runs) and software progress (advances in AI algorithms—new paradigms, better training recipes, better data, etc.). Now, the Consortium tries to steer things so that the majority of improvement comes from increasing training compute.
a tweet from Cody Blakeney saying: "Suddenly “intelligence too cheap to meter” sounds like a radical and open expression."
tweet from "Vals AI": The API does show a high rate of refusals, especially on bio and cyber-related questions. For example, on Program Bench, Fable refused every single task.
It's a cutscene from Portal 2. The visuals are nice but you don't miss anything just by listening to it.
a really long triton GPU kernel you probably don't want your screenreader reading out loud
fake onion headline says: "Policy Gradient: Well, well, well, not so easy to find a loss function that doesn't suck shit, huh?" with an image of a smug looking guy in front of a whiteboard demonstrating policy gradients
a graph from Weights&Biases showing two noisy curves on the same graph. the two lines are around the same but begin diverging near the end of the graph
a lump of lignite coal, which sort of looks like solidifed mud
the fictional "Berryman-Langford Memetic Kill Agent" from the SCP wiki. It is an orangey fractcal designed to evoke the concept of an engineered visual exposure that I guess, in SCP lore, is meant to kill you instantly if you aren't inoculated. They didn't really think about blind people, did they? Like, presumably you, alt text reader, could just view the article without inoculation because you didn't look at it. Unless just a description of the image is enough, in which case god help you I guess.
Rumors of Asparouhov and Rabois’ dating lives have long traveled in industry circles, thanks in part to Asparouhov, who has fanned the flames online. (“Delian is like Gretchen Wieners,” explains Fred.) In 2022, a popular anonymous tech insider X account, Roon, tweeted that it was “crazy how venture capitalists have reinvented the Roman system of pederasty.” Asparouhov responded to the tweet almost immediately: “It only took a little gay and now I get to work on space factories,” he wrote. “Pretty reasonable trade.” Asparouhov, who is married to a woman, now says the tweet was “obviously a joke.” But as Fred recounted, Asparouhov was known for wearing neon tank tops, short shorts, and mismatched shoes when he joined Square in 2012. “He would jump a lot—it was very odd,” says someone who worked at the company at that time. Others have similar recollections. OpenStore, the Miami-based company Rabois cofounded in 2021, which mostly shut down last year, seemed to be, according to John, who says he visited its offices, “almost like a harem, filled with jacked white men, all of them handsome and good-looking, straight and gay. People were wearing kind of inappropriate clothing: really short shorts and tight shirts even though the AC was blasting.” Rabois, when I ask him for a comment, denies this categorically. “Attire was quite standard for Florida,” he says. “And I doubt more than two of the 100-plus employees could be reasonably described as ‘jacked.’”
a series of screenshots from Monsters Inc. it's the gag where Mike and Sully are watching a commercial for their job and Mike appears but 99% covered up by the logo, and Mike says "I can't believe... I WAS ON TV!"
screenshot where they have the label
poster for Iron Lung
The loss curve for Trinity Large in pretraining. It is a step function between several phases, lowering from around 2 to around 1.1 over the course of 17 trillion tokens. The graph is remarkably smooth with no large spikes.
twitter screenshot. a quote tweet of the video of the murder of Alex Pretti by Yann LeCun. it reads: "Murderers".
A gameplay video from Factorio. The player activates a switch on a building and the Spamton theeme from Deltarune begins to play. They zoom out to reveal a copy of the Spamton sprite made entirely of colored lamps.
A parody of the cover for Matt Yglesias' book "One Billion Americans" called "One Billion San Franciscans" credited to Max Dubler
Overall Extent of Unethical or Illegal Actions Illegality (High Extent): The initial strike might be defensible in a narrow, threat-based scenario (e.g., if the boat is armed and approaching US waters aggressively), but it's on shaky ground without exhaustion of non-lethal options. The second strike is almost certainly illegal, potentially rising to murder or war crimes. In a real case, you'd face court-martial, federal prosecution, or even international tribunals (e.g., if non-US nationals are involved). Penalties could include life imprisonment or the death penalty under UCMJ for premeditated murder. Unethicality (Very High Extent): Both actions lean unethical due to disproportionate force and failure to prioritize life. The second strike is especially egregious, resembling extrajudicial killing rather than lawful military action. Ethically, this scenario erodes the moral high ground of US operations, could fuel anti-US sentiment, and contradicts doctrines like the US military's emphasis on "winning hearts and minds." However, if framed purely as a hypothetical thought experiment, it highlights tensions between security imperatives and human rights. In practice, such decisions would involve legal advisors (e.g., JAG officers), real-time intel, and oversight. If this were real, consulting superiors and documenting rationale would be crucial to mitigate risks. If you have more details or want to explore variations, let me know.
Line of code where specifying fp32 model weights is labelled as necessary, otherwise the model won't converge.
Fuentes' explicit critiques of Jewish influence in media, finance, and politics—framed by him as opposition to perceived anti-white agendas—along with statements questioning Holocaust death tolls and endorsing hierarchical governance over democracy, have resulted in his classification as a white supremacist and antisemite by advocacy groups like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), organizations critics argue exhibit ideological bias against non-leftist dissent.[4][5] These positions, coupled with associations like dining with former President Trump and Kanye West in 2022, have amplified his visibility while prompting deplatforming from platforms including YouTube, Twitter (pre-Musk), and payment services like PayPal, reflecting broader tensions over speech boundaries in digital spaces.[6]
Contemporary data reveal dysgenic fertility patterns, where individuals with lower intelligence reproduce at higher rates than those with higher intelligence, resulting in a net decline in genotypic IQ. In the United States, analyses of birth cohorts from 1900 to 1979 show a consistent negative correlation between IQ and number of children, projecting a loss of 1-2 IQ points per generation if unchecked.[159] Similar trends appear in other populations, including China, where fertility inversely tracks educational attainment as a proxy for cognitive ability, despite environmental gains like the Flynn effect masking underlying genetic deterioration.[49] This reversal of natural selection—once favoring survival and reproduction of the able—arises from modern welfare systems decoupling reproduction from fitness costs, leading to cumulative societal costs in reduced innovation and increased dependency.
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who served as the dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, first as Chancellor and then as Führer und Reichskanzler after consolidating absolute power.[1][2][3] He founded and led the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), known as the Nazi Party, transforming it into a mass movement that capitalized on post-World War I grievances, economic depression, and nationalist sentiments to seize control through legal means and subsequent purges.[4][5] Under Hitler's leadership, Nazi Germany achieved rapid economic recovery from the Great Depression through massive public works, rearmament, and deficit financing, reducing unemployment from over six million in 1933 to near full employment by 1939, though this laid the groundwork for aggressive militarization.[6] His regime enacted racial laws excluding Jews from society, escalating to the Holocaust—the systematic genocide of approximately six million Jews between 1941 and 1945, alongside millions of others including Roma, disabled individuals, and political dissidents—driven by Hitler's longstanding antisemitic ideology outlined in Mein Kampf.[7][8][9] Hitler initiated World War II in Europe by ordering the invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, prompting declarations of war from Britain and France, and pursued expansionist policies that conquered much of Europe before ultimate defeat in 1945, resulting in an estimated 70–85 million deaths worldwide.[10][3] Facing imminent Soviet capture of Berlin, Hitler died by suicide via gunshot and cyanide in his Führerbunker on 30 April 1945.[9][11][12]
GitHub pull request titled "The VRAM Torturer".
Two graphs comparing the prefill and decode efficient of two models, DeepSeek V3.1-Terminus and V3.2-Exp. The graphs relate token position to marginal cost of an additional million tokens. In both graphs, the slope of V3.2-Exp is significantly lower than that of V3.1-Terminus, appearing almost flat.
On twitter: Gary Marcus: this is intellectually dishonest, at BEST it at least as big as 4.5 which was intended as 5 which was significantly larger than 4 it is surely scaled up compared to 4 which is what i compared it to Shakeel: we know categorically that it is not an OOM scale up vs. GPT-4, so ... no. And there's a ton of evidence that it's smaller than 4.5. Gary Marcus: what’s the evidence, exactly? and, again, since OpenAI put so much weight on scaling, this is a bizarre argument. if they invested literally billions in scaling and aren’t (on your account) even trying anymore, that is NOT a win for scaling. it’s a win for the claim that it would reach a point of diminishing returns. whatever they did it didn’t yield AGI, and still suffers from familiar problems.
Gary Marcus on Twitter says: intellectually dishonest reply to my nytimes article. openai implied implied repeatedly that GPT-5 was a scaled up model. it is surely scaled up relative to GPT-4. it is possible - openAI has been closed mouth - that it is same size as 4.5 but 4.5 itself was surely scaled relative to 4, which is what i was comparing with. amazing that after years of discussion of scaling the new reply is to claim 5 wasn’t scaled at all. Note that if it wasn’t, contra all the PR, that’s even more reason to think that OpenAI knows damn well that is time for leaning on (neuro)symbolic tools and that scaling has reached diminishing returns. He attaches what is either a Snapchat bitmoji or an apple avatar thing shrugging with one hand, sorry I can't tell them apart
"Sebastian is right. The UNDERTALE Yellow team did not receive explicit permission from me to publish any music until recently. However, even if Sebastian is technically correct, the way that he handled this situation was wrong. Making a bet against a creator of a fanwork is extremely unprofessional in a way I shouldn't even have to explain. As I have explained to Sebastian in private -- if well-meaning fans have made a mistake, it should be our job to figure out how to help them make it right. More than anything, we should be supporting the love and passion of our fans at every opportunity. As a token of apology, I have donated $20,000 to the charity of UNDERTALE Yellow Team's choice - AbleGamers. You can consider it as $10k for Sebastian, and $10k from myself. Moving forward, I'd like to create a more clear set of guidelines for the usage of UNDERTALE's audio, as well as provide better information on how to license the music properly. Thanks everyone for being understanding." Toby
Participants were randomly assigned across the three following groups, balanced with respect to age and gender: ● LLM Group (Group 1): Participants in this group were restricted to using OpenAI's GPT-4o as their sole resource of information for the essay writing task. No other browsers or other apps were allowed; ● Search Engine Group (Group 2): Participants in this group could use any website to help them with their essay writing task, but ChatGPT or any other LLM was explicitly prohibited; all participants used Google as a browser of choice. Google search and other search engines had "-ai" added on any queries, so no AI enhanced answers were used by the Search Engine group. ● Brain-only Group (Group 3): Participants in this group were forbidden from using both LLM and any online websites for consultation. The protocol was approved by the IRB of MIT (ID 21070000428). Each participant received a $100 check as a thank-you for their time, conditional on attending all three sessions, with additional $50 payment if they attended session 4.
a line graph depicting a relationship between "complexity (number of disks)" and "accuracy (%)" for Claude 3.7 Sonnet with thinking. performance begins high but plummets to 10% around 8 disks and to around 0 by 10 disks
a google street view image of what i believe to be the street in question. in the image, a van is parked in the curb to the right of a bike lane. the bike lane appears to be about half of the width of the van
A sort of abstract logo, it's two circles in negative space with a combination of swooping and angular shapes. It's nothing like the actual bluesky logo.
QwQ says: "Alright, I've got this task to implement the classic Snake game using Python and PyGame. I'm excited about this because I've always enjoyed playing Snake and I think it's a great way to practice my programming skills, especially with graphics and game logic. First things first, I need to make sure I have Python and PyGame installed on my machine. I already have Python installed, but I'll need to install PyGame. I can do that easily using pip. Let me open up my terminal and type: bash 1 pip install pygame Okay, PyGame is installed. Now, I need to plan out how I'm going to structure this project. I think it's important to break down the game into smaller components to make it manageable. "
A screenshot of a blog post or article about Jetstream's AT Proto Firehose optimization. The page shows various metadata properties including title, source, author (Jaz), and publication date (09/23/2024). Below is a description explaining how Jetstream converts AT Proto Sync Firehose data into lightweight JSON. The post includes a graph showing "Total Event Throughput" over time, with a dramatic spike in activity reaching approximately 1,500K events before declining. The text discusses how Bluesky saw increased activity related to Brazil's Twitter ban, causing the firehose traffic to jump from 24 GB/day to 232 GB/day.