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> The world does not wait with bated breath for product launches. A marketing campaign will not change the world. Almost no one will remember all the work we do. It did at one time…

This release unifies those capabilities with a Mixture-of-Transformers (MoT) architecture built around two towers. Reasoner tower: A vision-language model (VLM) ... This serves as …

I dunno, I thought that too for a while too, but there are a lot of new ideas in terms of architecture that may warrant massive training runs. Mamba and state space models are pret…

There’s something off-putting about making a blog post about some splashy tech that’s is a fork of an open source project, and that tech not also being open source? It reads to me …

I guess what’s wrong with it? Let’s say it has read only access, new messages and calendar invites need approval. I’m not sure I understand the harm? I suppose data exfiltration, b…

I’ve never built something like ICEBlock that puts me personally in the crosshairs of not just normal hacking attempts, but also the political will of the federal government. I can…

no that's incorrect - llama.cpp has support for providing a context free grammar while sampling and only samples tokens that would conform to the grammar, rather than sampling toke…

My bringing up it's age was mainly about it not being used in a LONG time, so using it now would seem like a hail mary. I made no mention about current day laws, so I'm not sure wh…

Right. this whole episode is about foreign policy, why not use the act that is meant for it?

...sigh... i mean i guess it really is just about saying they _can_ do it instead of actually _trying to do it_....

I don't think it requires the courts to agree - just that there's a burden or disadvantage and that it's in the "public interest" which seems like a pretty low bar to make up a sto…

I'm not a lawyer or even close to it, but why wouldn't the trump admin use the tariff act of 1930? quote: "Whenever the President shall find as a fact that any foreign country plac…

a paper with a similar idea on scaling test time reasoning, this is sorta how all the thinking models work under the hood. https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19393

From the S1 paper: > Second, we develop budget forcing to control test-time compute by forcefully terminating the model's thinking process or lengthening it by appending "Wait" mul…

That would be missing the forest for the trees in my view. I could see it having an impact, but when 60% of people say that the country is headed in the wrong direction, putting up…

on 2) are you referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518 ? I don't know very much of the history, but the veracity of the claims is specifically called out i…

This is pretty neat! I’m on mobile right now, but you mentioned that it’s VR ready - does the landing page work with WebXR? I’d love to try it out on my meta quest 3

Update, this is extremely well written satire. I’m laughing at myself for believing it but it also sounds so real.