1/ Good training data is the only thing that matters High-quality data is the #1 bottleneck. You can’t fine tune a good model without it and I’ve never had a client that could just send me data so I could focus on hyper parameter optimization, merging, distillation, etc. In

Actually, the US government has been involved with clothing in a few ways. The results have been glorious. Let me show you. 🧵

Fascinating, behind the scenes story of why the FBI has long had moderate confidence that COVID-19 came from a lab leak. By Katherine Eban vanityfair.com/news/story/ins…

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

"The defeat of Ukraine would be the defeat of Europe. The Baltic States, Georgia and Moldova are already on the list. Putin’s goal is to return to Yalta, where half the continent was ceded to Stalin." - French Senator Claude Malhuret made an excellent speech.

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).

"[AI agents] are threatening to break the blood-brain barrier between the application layer and the OS layer." Signal President Meredith Whittaker (Meredith Whittaker) warns of "real danger" in agentic AI hype. To be "magic genie bots" (concert booking etc.), they need root access to

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NEW 🧵: Is human intelligence starting to decline? Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s. What should we make of this?

amazing graph on open source access to research and its byproducts by Percy Liang

Now, looping back around, how does a dive bar tie into this? When our team visited the mill, we would stay in Memphis, about an hour away. At the end of the day, we would swing by the closest bar—Bar Dog—for a nightcap. And the bar was usually full of people speaking German.

Overall, many employers in their sample have a distinct Democratic tilt. Look at how few sectors are dominated by Republicans! {This could have something to do with what orgs are in their database, but their sample is quite large!}

Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum is an energy systems expert. She is positioning Mexico to lead in the global green economy —from EVs & batteries to Renewables,Critical minerals,HVAC manufacturing. Her Plan Mexico is at a critical juncture. Our report: netzeropolicylab.com/mexico-green-o…

You've heard of the studies where they give the same dataset/research question to a bunch of researchers and they tend to get different answers, right? Why is that? This new working paper shows that it has a lot to do with data cleaning. This is consistent with Gelman's

1/ This graph from Jon Bruner tells an important story: America's current dominance in science only began after the mid-1930s, when persecuted scientists began fleeing universities in Germany and then elsewhere in occupied Europe.

An international call for action just got louder: Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally lemonde.fr/en/opinion/art… 🧵

Will this be the last Keeling curve upate from NOAA for CO2 at Mauna Loa? June 2025: 429.61 ppm This may be a tragic moment: