Arlington, VA
Joined October 2022
I asked #ChatGPT to write concurrent golang code to list squares of prime numbers. Here's the result:
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Language models can learn to detect when you read their activations. How? 🧵
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Introducing Indra, a 1M parameter OCR model: - 49 pages/s on CPU, 11x faster than PaddleOCR and 17x Tesseract - Beats them on OmniParseBench text (41.3 vs 35.8 and 19.3) - Full layout and line bounding boxes
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Kak Wong retweeted
Over 5.6 billion tokens (and 48 hours!) later, Opus 5.5 has generated an entire A380 full of animations 🤯 The craziest thing is this is a REAL svg with over 600 parts.. and it's still doing reviews/fixes as I type this 😂
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Kak Wong retweeted
I found the best place to witness the Blue Angels, hands-down.
what is the hands-down best place in the city of San Francisco to witness the Fleet Week air show this weekend? i need answers people
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Kak Wong retweeted
Google Deepmind (FNV3) CRUSHED the forecast for #Isaias up to 11 days in advance. It picked up some appreciable signal on September 23, locked in on the exact landfall location4 days before it happened, and nailed the peak intensity consistently 3 days before it happened. A new age of forecasting is upon us. First video: Track density using 1000 member ensemble Second Video: Individual tracks and mean using 50 member ensemble
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Tao is completely missing the mark - what he's describing is actually completely standard for drug discovery. There are tons of drugs that have saved millions of lives without any person on Earth understanding fully the mechanisms of action that enabled them to do this.
This is a slide from Terence Tao's 'Math 2.0' public lecture yesterday evening at Caltech. I am highly confident that, if the cure actually worked, almost any Stage 4 cancer patient would tell you that human comprehension of its mechanism is completely irrelevant to them.
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Kak Wong retweeted
This is absolutely wild when you think about it. AI data center in the center of downtown Chicago.
Office to data center conversion "The former headquarters of Cboe Global Markets Inc will soon house 33 megawatts of capacity and bring in rents much higher than the average downtown office building" bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-…
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Kak Wong retweeted
Honestly stunned by result 128 Shortest Common Superstring went from 3x optimal to 7/3 over 35 years of human work. OpenAI's model got it to exactly 2. And it didn't use greedy, the algorithm the 1988 conjecture was about. Lean-checked I animated the proof in 6 minutes:
We’re releasing a broad range of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model. We’ve been consulting with the independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence at the Institute for Advanced Study, and we have drawn on their advice and public recommendations to inform how we release these results. github.com/openai/math
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Kak Wong retweeted
Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5: the cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model we’ve ever released. On average, it costs around 75% less to run than Claude Haiku 4.5.
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London Heathrow on the left & Atlanta on the right: ATL handles double the movements with negligible holding while LHR's stacks are clearly visible in these 24h visuals! The difference? ATL has 5 parallel runways, LHR just 2. If only LHR could build more runways?!
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Not anymore
The convergence of the following series is still an open problem in Mathematics
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Kak Wong retweeted
This is pretty obvious if you live in the flyovers. Claude has almost no cultural salience. Everyone uses “Chat.”
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I'm possibly late to this, but this "melon jelly" thing is completely nuts and I don't know what world we're living in anymore claude.ai/artifact/RiTbBMEqg…
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Kak Wong retweeted
I gave Claude another 18 hours.. and I think this one is the best one yet Macrohard: Windows XP I'm blown away
Gave Claude another 12 hours to one up this.. Woke up to.. The Clodyssey
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Kak Wong retweeted
I'm convinced Anthropic made some kind of technical breakthrough for diversity and creativity with Opus 5.5. It's far ahead of the competition and previous Anthropic models. Left: Opus max, Right: Sol 6.1 max
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"international" internet bandwidth
What, what, that single Starship Starlink v3 deployment added over 1% capacity to the global international internet bandwidth. Crazy.
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New side project: Samuel, a model I trained to mimic speech using Pink Trombone, a (pre-existing) silly vocal tract simulator. 🧵
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Kak Wong retweeted
Sonnet 5.5 plays twenty cool calls: It tries to guess the correct emoji under twenty yes-or-no questions.
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If you take a Waymo to public transit in the Bay Area, and then take a rride on the BART with the same credit card, Waymo will return you back $2.85 in credit. Creates an incentive for Waymos to be present for people when getting off of transit. avmarketstrategist.substack.…
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