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Our Aeneas AI model gives historians valuable new insights into ancient inscriptions & ancient history that may have taken years to uncover otherwise. Published in @Nature today: deepmind.google/discover/blog/…
The Bitter lesson does not say to not bother with methods research. It says to not bother with methods that are handcrafted datapoints in disguise.
Cash transfers are not having the effects that the advocates said they would have.
1000 low income adults were randomly selected to receive $1000/month for 3 years, with a control group receiving $50/month over that same period. Many of them had children in the household. How did it affect how they parented and their kids?
New Anthropic Research: “Inverse Scaling in Test-Time Compute” We found cases where longer reasoning leads to lower accuracy. Our findings suggest that naïve scaling of test-time compute may inadvertently reinforce problematic reasoning patterns. 🧵
we have signed a deal for an additional 4.5 gigawatts of capacity with oracle as part of stargate. easy to throw around numbers, but this is a _gigantic_ infrastructure project. some progress photos from abilene:
its kind of weird how bad, in practice, it has been to break up some monopolies. It seems like one of the few ecosystems that actually generates slush fund situations for very smart people.
Bell Labs was the original skunkworks. They invented: - Transistor - Laser - Solar cell - UNIX - C language - Fiber optics - Digital signal processing - Touch-tone - CCD (digital imaging) - Cellular networks and the model for lab-to-factory innovation pre-DFM
tbh i really like the extreme utilitarians. repugnant conclusion enjoyoors. “we need to end wilderness” peter singer heads. very kino, would make for a good star trek episode where there’s a planet run by these people
Fascinating to compare the solutions of OpenAI vs Deepmind to the IMO 2025. Both won Gold for answering P1 to P5 correctly. OpenAI (left) vs Gemini (right)
NEW POLL: 73% of San Franciscans think Mayor @DanielLurie is doing a good job ‼️73%‼️ Some highlights via @sfchronicle @DanielleEchev 🧵
The economic value of the H-1B program could be increased by 88% without changing the number of visas if we stopped giving them away at random.
I think there's a decay at the center of our collective dream and this tweet is an innocent seeming example of it
at any moment there are ~2 million people living in the sky, an entire major city riding the rainbow. you belong to an incredible civilization “Who are these that fly along like clouds, like doves to their windows?”
some of you are doing nervous system coregulation with the demonic timeline algorithm and it shows
