Ralph Waldo Emerson noted that “nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm” and it makes total sense when we consider the etymology of the word enthusiasm (Greek enthousiasmos): “having the God within oneself” “being a host to God” “being taken by a higher power”

How zero-knowledge cryptography can elevate critical infra resilience: mirror.xyz/lisaakselrod.e…

We reviewed the Friend pendant, and unsurprisingly hated it! "It is an incredibly antisocial device to wear," I wrote of my experience wearing it. "People were never excited to see it around my neck."

Saw an ad for plain t-shirts that “unlike the other guys” are “affordable.” And so out of curiosity I went to go see what they meant by that. $75. On sale. For a plain white tee. The bubble is laughing in our faces, and soon we will know its wrath.

Last week, we observed a sudden spike in bitchat downloads from Indonesia during nationwide protests. Today we're seeing an even bigger spike from Nepal during youth protests over government corruption and a social media ban. Freedom tech is for the people. Please share.

Looking like a cosmic double-bladed lightsaber, Webb captured enormous jets of gas 8 light-years across erupting from a massive baby star. This rare sighting is helping us better understand how massive stars form. science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/…

Sometimes you gotta go back to actually move forward. I don't mean going back to reminisce or chase ghosts. I mean going back to see where you came from, where you've been, how you got here; see where you're going. I know there are those who say you can't go back, but yes, you

Today Thinking Machines Lab is launching our research blog, Connectionism. Our first blog post is “Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference” We believe that science is better when shared. Connectionism will cover topics as varied as our research is: from kernel numerics to

Charlie Kirk just went around debating college kids who had likely never heard a viewpoint outside the narrow ones they had been taught. He used words, ideas, that’s it. And someone found this so threatening that they decided to kill him for it.

Ezra Klein on Charlie Kirk: “You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the era’s most

Tucker actually asks pretty good questions here. He touches on sentience at the beginning – which I have never found to be a compelling concern – but really gets to the heart of who essentially becomes the distributor of truth here and how moral decisions are made.

This was always the use-case. Always has been, always will be.

Southern lights. Nikon Z9 | 24mm | ISO 3200, f/1.4, 1/4s

Except for DC, they could never begin to act Parisian there. Sorry L’Enfant.

ZK-EdgeLoRA, a derivative work of bagel.com zkLoRA, was just published at IEEE conference! This paper by Southeast University and Singapore Management University builds upon the zkLoRA and makes it even more efficient and applicable to edge training of LLMs. Really exciting

I started dressing like this and I’ve never felt more ownership over my life. My Colorado boy, jeans and no shoes arc to this was worth it. I have no regrets.

if you spend your entire life reading current events you'll walk away with a terminal case of graph brain, not any real understanding, history isn’t moved by trends and nice little statistics. it’s moved by blood, faith, and people. go and talk to them.

Keep your nose in the wind and your eye along the skyline.