travelling and mathing, some AI

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Joined January 2008
My doctor has been telling me for years that Diet Coke is bad for you. Finally told him “bet.” Did blood panels, then 3 months of no diet soda, than a new set of blood panels. Can confirm Diet Coke is not good for you.
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Legend
A conversation that has happened many times in banking, with various flavor texts, from fintech to public banking to microfinance. A: We think there is an opportunity to write loans to an underserved population. B: At usuriously high rates? A: No, at usual rates. Maybe lower.
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The Israeli Foreign Ministry is lying. No coordination was required, and we were never told that it was. We were not in a restricted security area. We did not pass any checkpoints. Palestinian farmers do not — and should not — need permits to harvest their own olive fields. But they fear doing so, because the IDF doesn’t protect them from settler violence. We’re trying to model solidarity & co-existence between Jews and Palestinians, and to call attention to the horrors of the occupation. The Israeli government is trying to foment violence between Jews and Palestinians, and to make it impossible for Palestinians to harvest their olive groves, drive on their roads, or live in their homes.
This was not about harvesting olives. It was about harvesting headlines. Brad Lander’s latest stunt is nothing more than a calculated political provocation. Lander traveled to a foreign country, deliberately entered a restricted security area, and participated in an unauthorized activity without the required coordination. What makes this stunt even more outrageous is that his own team contacted Israeli representatives in the United States ahead of his visit and was explicitly informed that proper coordination with the relevant authorities was required. He chose to ignore those instructions. At a time of heightened security tensions, Israeli security forces have a responsibility to protect lives, prevent dangerous incidents, and maintain public order. Had anyone been injured as a result of his reckless political theater, Lander would undoubtedly have been among the first to demand that Israeli authorities intervene and provide protection. Brad Lander came looking for a confrontation. Now he is pretending to be its victim.
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she's a 10 but that was supposed to be a random 384-bit number
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This is really quite nuts
There is an (unpatchable?) supply-chain zero-day in PyTorch autograd that allows a regularization term to use the model's weights as RAM and SGD as its CPU clock to run any computation during training.
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Les émeutes gagnent même la Suisse.
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💢 "I don't know how a parent can raise such monsters," American photojournalist Heidi Levine said from her hospital bed in Ramallah after masked Israeli settlers beat her in the West Bank on Friday. "They are Jewish terrorists," the Washington Post freelancer said. She was attacked while covering the olive harvest in Abu Falah. Levine said the settlers pushed her to the ground and kicked her "probably 50 times" over about 10 minutes, tearing her cameras and phone off her. She said her flak jacket and helmet likely saved her life before Palestinian colleagues and medics evacuated her by ambulance. "Sadly, none of them will be prosecuted," she said. "I am sure of it."
Replying to @infinite_jaz
Heidi Levine is up and speaking from the hospital in Ramallah.
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Keiran retweeted
Replying to @hassanrahim
they're trying to cut open the bird to find the song
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Still thinking about this incredible tweet
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work. At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated. We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
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Hey, AI give me your best "Unless it is from X, its just sparkling Y" style joke": GPT-6 Pro: "Unless it comes from the Stockholm region of Sweden, it’s just sparkling employee engagement." Gemini 4 Argon High: "Unless it comes from the 3:00 AM region of staring at the ceiling, it’s not an existential crisis—it’s just sparkling anxiety." Opus 5.5 Max: "It’s only cognition if it comes from the Cognac region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling autocomplete."
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Oh you think it’s clever to ask a model what a smarter you would do? Have you tried asking it what the next generation of llm would do?
This is great A prompt to come up with a better prompt
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New SOTA on Spy Bench
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work. At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated. We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
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Silicon Valley was a documentary about the future
SITUATION DETECTED: Anthropic believes AI models may be only months away from being capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter by using commercial devices like Android smart TVs.
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Keiran retweeted
sf invented a condom that works as a contraceptive without having to open it
Bruh I am so done with SF
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You click on one AI slop video and suddenly your feed transforms from research papers to gothic horror. Try it..,
An Honest Day’s Work
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These AI short films are getting darker and wilder
An Honest Day’s Work
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Replying to @RoundtableSpace
Still think he should rename the project REAP Reverse Engineer Anything, Probably
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Keiran retweeted
You are all against alcohol and sugar now. But who was there when your life was falling apart? sure wasn’t salad
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Keiran retweeted
half of those friends went on to work at openai / ant and later built claude code etc. people think ai coding was born in the labs, but it actually all started as a movie prop in a hollywood studio
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