Sean Klein telling us about how FutureLock could ruin your weekend followed by Sarek Skotåm live demoing how Shuttle can catch it in tests. Did he put the live demo for his talk together during the break? 🤔

I went to #tokioconf and all I got was a limited edition sticker. And a t shirt. And a ferris. And a bunch of other cool stickers. And some cool talks. And a great workshop. And an excuse to visit Portland. And human connection.

Oh wow the vision model reads a chart and outputs some text. No tool use or anything? That doesn't seem particularly extensible or interesting

What if there was a man in the middle attack but the man in the middle was like, really chill. What if he was basically a chill guy who didn't mind if you sent a secret or whatever

1. Mild surprise that you can get a CNN to process error correction of a result. That's kinda neat, and seems intuitive that it may have a provable loss bound.

2. A vision language model for calibration?????

What the hell is happening with quantum? What the hell are these models NVIDIA is deploying?

The fastest I've ever been able to get Samba without going for real complexity (multichannel or rdma/roce) is about ~50Gib/s, though that's from windows/mac clients. It's usually limited by server CPU/Memory performance at that level in my experience

This feels very similar to an [bad?] idea I had after reading the singularity paper in my masters! My thought was that processes (almost) never trap into the kernel and instead communicate by some asynchronous message channel. Thanks for your work! It's inspiring to see

The first two are scary yet exciting. I studied both cryptography and QC and to see this start to gain traction is something I would've seemed a bit crazy for back then (rightfully so, too).
I had a moment watching a friend defend thinking "huh, this might scale" last year.
The US stuff is awful.

Ah! This is cool!

I think the April fools joke took it down for me

... I know there's more pressing things going on, but did the rust discord just disappear under mysterious circumstances for anyone else?

Workshopping my new financial product; buy now, pay for 6 years

You're not alone, I went from being pretty well adjusted to fighting for my fucking life using anything electronic.

Over covid my coping mechanisms broke down completely and I have had to keep an iron grip on so much of my day to day life. I'm starting to think infinite scrolls are a societal harm

This hurts the computer

Reading this again fully rested -- it's a good one! There's always a preposterous abundance of research around, but this is one fun ride

www.percepta.ai/blog/can-llm...

As a research lark at Percepta, Christos embedded a computer into an LLM, showed that it could solve the hardest Sudokus, and then as a side bonus built an exponentially faster attention

It exists to solve what seems to be a fairly universal problem, but it's just a slightly better version of the shell scripts i'd write to solve it myself and boy howdy does it not make the underlying problem any easier to solve.

Maybe the best way to put it is indirection without abstraction?

The only thing worse than debugging your own helm is debugging someone else's. I have lost too many hours trying to finagle helm charts.

Rather than use programmable lights or alarm clocks to set my sleep cycle, I have trained my very food motivated cat that going to bed at 10 means treat and waking up at 7 means treat.

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Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information!

Silicon Valley, 2025:

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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I suppose my passively stated assertion is that if that is a viable political strategy and there are no repercussions for it, democracy fundamentally cannot function.

If the whole point of politics is to just say whatever gets you to win elections and then "do the right thing" when you're in power, our political system is worthless.

If we cannot hold our people and govt to a basic standard of truth the experiment has failed and democracy is impossible.

Showed this to my wife without telling her it was Taylor Swift, she asked me if "this was that Dracula Flow guy"

Is there a word in German for "The feeling of mixed anger and despair when you discover that the simple question you had is not easily answered by documentation"?

~6 hours in or so, and silksong has me in a pin, locking my gaze to their lips, growling "Get motivated"

I fear I will never pass the mothman or ant gauntlets. I've not even seen phase 3 of the big scary fly.

The most common refrain I've heard in my adult life is "Well, I know it's unethical, but someone is going to do it and make money, so isn't it better that an ethical person makes that money"

When you believe the only penalty for discarding your ethics is remorse, you do not have ethics.

Whenever I see this Socrates quote (or any other Greek philosopher quite really) I am reminded that most of them despised writing and would be very mad in principle about the idea of meme quotes.

It is kind of heartening to discover that even with extremely advanced program generation all the standard best practices still apply.

It's almost as if we were nothing but extremely advanced program generators all along (this is half wit and half truth)