Elon Musk Are we really worried about $9.5 billion? Have we already solved the TRILLIONS in wasted domestic spending? Geopolitics, and basic human compassion, are why we spend this. By all means, make sure it’s spent effectively, but let’s not just cut things for the sake of cutting.

lol apparently bytedance is suing the author of the best neurips paper for $1 mil because he (allegedly) "sabotaged" other training runs. var-integrity-report.github.io

DeepSeek Thoughts 1) It succeeded first as a product and only then as an economic force. People didn't look deeply at it until they discovered how fun the model was to use. 2) Sama fucked up by not displaying the o1 chain of thought in the app. DeepSeek still would have been a

Do you use non-smoked (or vaped, or dipped) nicotine? It’s an interesting stimulant b/c it also tends to relax people. It can be habit-forming & it does raise blood pressure. Not carcinogenic on its own. The oral health MDs & dermatologists tell me it’s bad for teeth & skin.

Can somebody tell me how non-smoked nicotine became political? Genuine question. Project in the works…

The key criteria for exercise selection, for consistent strength increases. “Variety is not necessary”. Pavel Tsatsouline on the Huberman Lab podcast out now here @x (pinned) and all other podcast platforms.

A thread on why Mercor is not what they seem to be. None of the news outlet or VCs are fact checking them. They just blindly broadcast the narrative they are paid for. VCs funding them might be in on it. It's not illegal. Just shady practice of misleading messaging. 1/7

FYI: "Balls to the wall" or "balls out" is not a vulgar phrase. It refers to the "balls" of a centrifugal governor on a steam engine, which, when the engine is really cranking, are flying straight out. I've also heard that it can refer to old aircraft throttles as well, which

The original architects of American global power did something very clever that no other empire had ever done before: they deliberately hid the instruments of their power. Specifically, they institutionalized the hard power of the post-WW2 American military into a "rules-based

deep research lets me offload judgement / tradeoff analysis. If you're doing research through 20 reddit threads/comments, you have to judge each one on probability of trustworthiness, accuracy etc. but deep research just lets you read it without doing all that work

Gemini Deep Research is more obedient (tell it to read 100 articles and it will) but OpenAI's just has better taste (cafe recs/clothing) etc

What pieces of text would have the highest entropy?

This is a pretty good thread. Likely true! Consider, however, reading it from a different angle. Stipulate for the moment that the power of mathematics and physics was so decisively proven at Los Alamos that it is obvious that The United States needs to run a secure

Got some good news to share: Anti-asexuality treatments have begun to work, I can now no longer call myself ace Got some bad news to share: I will now spend the rest of my life convincing people that the 12 years I spent not being attracted to anyone wasn't some sort of hoax

When I made this account I wanted to engineer good vibes…. NOT VIBE ENGINEER

The min cut max flow was motivated by the U.S. Air Force's desire to understand the Soviet Union's railway capacity for troop and supply movement

DINO-v3 has a single high-magnitude channel on its residual pathway, channel 416. Turning off this single channel affects DINO's entire output by 50-80%. For context, turning off a random channel has an effect of less than one percent. The model builds up channel 416 in its last

seeing-theory.brown.edu That shit is such a banger that i did a backflip before posting this