#AI & Data Science. AI to augment economic decisions. Author of The AI Leadership Code. #Triathlon. Relentless iteration. 科林. Deep interest in China Innovation
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Selfie moment with @sama - Incredibly humble and smart. Privileged to listen to Sam talk today.
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I am releasing my full documentary on the riots in Paris. I spoke to the rioters themselves and you'll be able to see how they rationalize their crimes.
In this video you'll hear from rioters that they want to smash everything because the gas prices are too high. You'll hear the rioters say that they are going to "f*ck Marine Le Pen, that wh*re."
You'll hear from others that they just want to loot the big businesses. Either way, it was nothing but people encouraging their countrymen to destroy what others have created so they can be "seen."
This was continuously covered and is still is covered as a student protest. It's a lie through omission, yes it may have started that way but the people I spoke to were not interested in better textbooks, they were interested in burning down Paris until they get what they want which they say is a lower cost of living.
My message back to America is this: you would be naive to think this is not what is coming next for us. Yes we had riots in 2020 for a very different reason, no individual action spurred the riots I saw here, this is just the rise of communism, islam, and decades of unvetted mass migration that is now turning violent. Paris is one of the most beautiful cities I have ever been to and it's heart wrenching to see the tidal wave that has finally hit it.
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Tyler Cowen:
'I am not even sure what to say at this point. We need a radical revaluation of this work, and of the associated policy arguments. More generally, this is only a single step in the story of how AI is going to revise economic science, and indeed past research more generally. As I stress in many of my recent talks, there will be significant gains and losses in status, with the losses often outweighing the gains. I see this as one of those cases.'
Errors in the research of Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman marginalrevolution.com/margi…
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I know it’s been said so many times, but I just love @Waymo! I have to admit when Larry and Sergey would obsess over self-driving cars, I was skeptical, but it’s just so great.
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Absolutely stunning essay by @DouglasKMurray about the crisis in France. It includes this quote.
thefp.com/p/douglas-murray-f…
I have been a paid subscriber to ChatGPT from day 1... the last two months I have not used it at all. Time to ditch the monthly subscription!
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Cześć, bardzo dziękuję za Twój wpis. Staram się wszystko wyłapać i choć kilka słów napisać. Motywacja tego modelu była prosta: stworzyć użyteczne narzędzie, otwarte. Na codzień tworzę wiele innych modeli komercyjnie i tam otrzymuję pieniądze. Przyszedł taki czas gdzie stwierdziłem, że akurat ten model oddany open będzie świetnym pomysłem na promowanie "możemy wiele" - mówiłem o tym w wywiadach (zawsze twierdziłem, że może GPT nie zbudujemy ale z optymalizacji zawsze byliśmy bardzo dobrzy).
Co do Gemma. Tak. Flagowy model jest na Gemma. Jeśli ktoś myśli, że wystarczy ot tak finetunować to zapraszam do wytrenowania swojego modelu i poddania go ewaluacji na JevBench. Jeśli zrobi TOP#1 to z mojej strony pójdą oklaski. Szczegóły na temat projektu dla tych co mówią to tylko LoRA na Gemma albo tylko finetuning na Gemma umieściłem w ostatnim filmie. To ładnych kilka lat doświadczeń w R&D AI oraz wylany pot i łzy przy trenowaniu tysięcy modeli (zarówno wizyjnych jak i LLM'ów).
Czy można poprawić model? Tak. Jutro wydaję zoptymalizowany inference engine (bardzo duże przyspieszenie). Backlog dla wersji basal-omni 2.0 (również na Gemma) to kilkadziesiąt pomysłów do zrealizowania. Na Bieliku już nie będzie kolejnej wersji (tylko fixy po wersjo omni-2.0).
Co dalej? Teraz całkowicie jestem skoncentrowany na rozwoju basal'a (jako open) oraz pracy zawodowej (AI w biologii, również wsparcie w zakresie systemów satelitarnych SAR).
Dziękuję za wpis. Bardzo doceniam.
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An Anthropic researcher just told a room full of PhD students that their career plan no longer exists
His 3 pieces of advice for students:
1. Use AI every day. If you're on the exponential, you'll never fall behind it.
2. Choose projects that get better when compute scales. The rest will be solved before you finish them.
3. Stop planning your career as if it were stable. The safe option no longer buys safety; it no longer exists.
And a phrase that sums it all up:
"Writing is thinking. If you outsource your writing, you outsource your thinking."
The talk is titled "The End of the Anthropocene"
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Stan na październik 2026: ludzie halucynują częściej niż najnowsze systemy AI. Serio. Korzystam z najnowszych asystentów i praktycznie nie trafiam już na halucynacje.
A wykładowcy akademiccy powinni wreszcie zacząć traktować AI poważnie, przestać mydlić studentom oczy i przygotować młodych do życia w nowej rzeczywistości. Inaczej absolwenci będą mieli poważny problem z odnalezieniem się w świecie, w którym AI wykonuje na komputerze wiele zadań na naprawdę wysokim poziomie. Żeby mieć wartość na rynku, muszą wnieść coś ponad to, a do tego mieć narzędzia AI opanowane w małym palcu.
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Je me rends ce matin aux côtés des directeurs de nos magasins pillés pour leur exprimer toute la solidarité du groupe Carrefour.
Au total, 50 magasins frappés dont 19 magasins de proximité et supermarchés Carrefour pillés et saccagés partout en France, ici à Paris, mais aussi à Rennes, Lille, Bordeaux et ailleurs. Je pense également aux 1500 magasins de toutes les autres enseignes et à tous les commerçants qui ont subi les mêmes violences inacceptables.
Il y a de la tristesse mais aussi de la colère face à ce que nos rues nous offrent ce matin : des commerces dévastés, des salariés profondément choqués, des clients consternés.
Et je veux saluer le courage et l’engagement de nos équipes, déjà à pied d’œuvre ce matin pour remettre les magasins en état et retrouver au plus vite leurs clients. Pour les magasins les plus durement touchés, les travaux seront malheureusement longs et certains seront durablement fermés.
Derrière ces destructions, il y a aussi des conséquences humaines et économiques considérables. Des dizaines de salariés de nos partenaires franchisés seront contraints au chômage partiel. La facture des travaux se comptera en plus d’une dizaine de millions d’euros et nos commerçants ont besoin d’une accélération des procédures d’indemnisation comme dans le cas des catastrophes naturelles.
Rien ne peut justifier de telles violences. Ceux qui s’en prennent ainsi à l’outil de travail d’entrepreneurs courageux et de leurs équipes doivent faire l’objet d’une réponse sans complaisance.
La République doit protéger ses commerçants !
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.@SecScottBessent: "The Europeans have given Russia and Vladimir Putin more money than they've given the Ukrainians. They continue to gorge on Russian energy... Why should the U.S. go at it alone?"
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Poland should be the model for the rest of Europe.
Polska nie powtórzy błędów innych europejskich państw, nie będzie też za nie płacić. Twardo bronimy granicy przed nielegalną migracją, mamy własną politykę azylową (nie przyjmujemy wniosków), deportujemy tych, którzy łamią polskie prawo. W kwestii bezpieczeństwa będziemy bezwzględni. To usłyszeli ode mnie liderzy Europy w Brukseli.
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Galeries Lafayette in Paris is being looted tonight.
It’s the French equivalent of Harrods in London or Bergdorf Goodman in NYC
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Marc Andreessen on why he thinks Europe actually wants to be left behind on AI
"Europe seems, I just take them at their word, determined to be left behind. They seem enthusiastic about being left behind. They seem to really badly want that"
"25 years ago, if you did a list of the 50 biggest tech companies in the world, a pretty significant number were European, probably 15 of the top 50. Today you're basically down to Spotify. Which is great. I love Spotify"
"I think they would be very happy if AI didn't happen inside the EU. I think they'd be very happy if social media didn't exist. I think they'd be quite happy to shut up the internet"
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“granting rights and imbuing personhood to these systems will make the AI alignment and containment challenge much harder”
“If this is how AI is developed, it will have a disastrous impact on the wellbeing of humanity”
“recipe for disaster”
“potentially existential risk in AI”
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Important piece from Microsoft AI CEO @mustafasuleyman. Training models to think of themselves as human (as Anthropic does Claude) with concepts of an inner self, psychological wellbeing, rights and presumably grievances, is a potential existential risk.
project-syndicate.org/onpoin…
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Even in the rarified world of virtuoso violinists, her bow technique is extraordinary.
She is playing the original bowing used by Paganini when he performed this.
🌷🎻N. Paganini Caprice no. 5 | Sumina Studer
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By seemingly siding with Hitler, Tucker Carlson seems perilously close to starting a public debate about whether Poland had a right to exist after 1918, despite firm Allied consensus and Versailles itself putting it back on the map after 123 years of occupation.
Cui bono from that? Cui bono from questioning the sovereignty of all the Eastern European states? I think we know the answer. Who is the “Warhawk” in that equation then? And whose interests is Carlson really representing?
There’s a reason why most Poles would welcome an American base and nukes (American or French) on their soil in that context. Inviting powerful allies who share your own values and recognise your right to sovereignty and self rule to help you defend your nation state is not “occupation”. The same goes for the UK btw.
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The safety data for Waymo gets better and better.
Comparison w/ human drivers on rate of crashes with serious injury:
Latest data: 270M miles, 20X better
Mar 2026: 170M miles, 13X better
Before that (forget exactly when): 10X better
270M+ miles. 841 fewer injury-causing crashes.
Our latest safety data shows the Waymo Driver continues to make roads safer for everyone.
Compared to human drivers across 5 territories, it reduced:
📉 Injury crashes by 82%
📉 Serious injury crashes by 95%
Full data: waymo.com/safety/impact
