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“I'll be speaking at Imagine AI Live coming up next week, May 28th through 30th in Las Vegas.”
“Mike Hearn built one of the more sophisticated applications of Bitcoin I thought lighthouse I think it was called and it was sort of a crowdfunding app and it he told me it took him you know he's a su…”
“now it's now a counter-argument right would be that this is the sort of layer two idea that in Bitcoin you could build these applications at a higher level in the stack and these things like lightning…”
“For papers, prefer the arXiv link.”
“My project at OpenAI, for example, was within the scope of the Universe project, on an agent that was using keyboard and mouse to operate web pages.”
“The paper that blew my mind was InstructGPT, because it pointed out that you can take the pretrained model, which is autocomplete, and if you just fine-tune it on text that looks like conversations, t…”
“Um, from a consumer standpoint, I use ChadByt heavily.”
“I had this enjoyable conversation with Antonella Navarro, host of The Quantum Revolution podcast.”
“if you look at projects like swarm golem if he reaiiy mutation market yeah a true bit and in a few others they're all based off of this principle there's also more kind of complex stuff that has to do…”
“one example of this is that there was a few papers came out of Cornell over the last few months like one of them was they published this after good financial cryptography 2016 workshop that they were …”
“just looking at like you know the reddit forums or theoria man our Bitcoin that the our aetherium community seems I would describe it as much more of a computer science developer community whereas the…”
“I would say is very similar to let's say how the Linux community approaches things which is you need to build new features you need to rapidly fix things you need to make changes like you need to stay…”
“specifically what happened here is there was a decision to fork after the Dow which was a large decentralized application with a couple hundred million dollars in it was found to have a software bug a…”
“one example of this and who knows if this project will actually work or not is steam which is a decentralized news and social network and the model is instead of having a centralized company sort of c…”
“DeepSeek v3.2 just came out and I saw that they have sparse attention as an example, and this is one way to have very, very long context windows.”
“my inspiration was actually a book that inspired me when I was an undergraduate called being digital by Nicholas degante who was wrote in the 90s he was the head of media lab about where we were with …”
“I was one of those people, you know, who started after watching the Queen's Gambit.”
“# Directory Snapshots: Resumable project state for Sandboxes _Blog post by Modal Labs_ https://modal.com/blog/directory-snapshots-resumable-project-state-for-sandboxes”
“Runway Chooses Modal to Power Real-Time Inference for Runway Characters”
“Runway Chooses Modal to Power Real-Time Inference for Runway Characters”
“How Doppel eliminated ML infrastructure tax with Modal”
“His podcast is called be better off show and he basically interviews all kinds of highly successful people.”
“# Ask Me Anything (AMA) Sessions _Blog post by Shane Parrish_”
“Maybe an example from one of my repos that I think illustrates it well is called micrograd. I don't know if you're familiar with this.”
“Nanochat, which you briefly mentioned, is a capstone project of LLM101N, which is a class that I'm building.”
“very excited about the upgrade GaussGym provides for environments for training locomotion capabilities”
“A former Senate staff member recently told my friend Dexter Filkins, an incredible reporter at the New Yorker this, the last socialist systems in the world are Cuba and the Pentagon.”
“In this paper, we address this by introducing adaptive canonicalization, a general framework in which the canonicalization depends both on the input and the network. Specifically, we present the adapt…”
“The quantum virtual machine can be deployed in one minute from a colab notebook where you can program your quantum circuit colab notebooks are super user-friendly and packed with great features for qu…”
“You have to read the bestselling New York Times bestselling novel, The Art of the Deal. It's on sale on Amazon right now.”
“Dylan is the CEO of SemiAnalysis.”
“InferenceX, an open-source model that searches all the optimal points on inference for a variety of different chips and models.”
“my colleagues um you know Carl orich and Christian turt who literally wrote the book on innovation their graduate students and and another professor wrote had 200 of the MBA students uh in their class…”
“So things like Gemini, VO, imagine uh etc.”
“I hope you do pip install uh circ and if you do so you'll get the latest and greatest version and we look forward always to getting feedback from you about cirque”
“The code is available at https://github.com/H-EmbodVis/NUMINA.”
“Code and models will be released at https://xiaobenli00.github.io/ETCH-X/.”
“It's been exciting to use your model inside Slack with our new Slackbot.”
“Today we're discussing your book, Inventing the Renaissance.”
“This episode is brought to you by Visible. When your phone plans as good as visible, you've got to tell your people. It's the ultimate wireless hack to save money and still get great coverage and a re…”
“Leveraging recent advancements in multi-modal LLMs, we propose SLEDGE: Step-by-step LayEred Design GEnerator to model each update to a design as an atomic, layered change over its previous state, whil…”
“This paper introduces Physics-Informed Extreme Learning Machines (PIELMs) as fast alternative to PINNs for solving both forward and inverse problems in financial PDEs.”
“New course: Efficient Inference with SGLang: Text and Image Generation... Join and learn to make LLM inference faster and more cost-efficient at scale!”
“# JEPA as a Neural Tokenizer: Learning Robust Speech Representations with Density Adaptive Attention”
“We also updated tensorflow quantum with some new features adding for example matrix product state circuit simulation”
“If you go to 3b1b.co/talent what you'll find is a set of companies that have two things in common.”
“So if you haven't tried, uh, give the new Gemini Flash latest and Gemini Flashlight latest models, uh, a shot. They're pretty good.”
“Okay, this was a narration of an essay that I also released on my blog at dwarcash.com. You should sign up there for my newsletter for future essays like this.”
“Now with Netswuite by Oracle, you can put AI to work for your company safely and with confidence. Netswuite is the number one AI cloud enterprise resource planning software or ERP and it's already tru…”
“Alex Becker is another great example of this.”
“So I'm a big fan of Comfy UI and nodebased interfaces in general >> and that is complex and it's complex but it's also it's very robust and you can do a lot of things and so you know after we released…”
“Deepagents deploy helps you do that, easily”
“We discuss this, along with the other implications of this research, in our blog: https://www.anthropic.com/research/automated-alignment-researchers”
“Um I'm sure you've had it's it's been insane. And it's so funny like I now half of my X feed is these really heavy Nano Banana users in Japan who have created like Chrome extensions called there's one…”
“The terminal-to-html tool should include a checkbox for if the created Gist should be private, and it should default to checked”
“The book you recommend on your website, The Renaissance in Italy, I keep forgetting the name of the author. Italian names are tough. Guido Ruggiero. In some part, he has this question: Look, in Italy,…”
“LangSmith's new Insights Agent”
“Multi-turn Evals in LangSmith”
“There's a brilliant analysis in Anton Matytsin's book, The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment. He has a great description from the notes of a raid on a clandestine bookshop.”
“For the full study, see here: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/automated-w2s-researcher/”
“# How to prompt Veo 3.1”
“Read the full letter here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09520v1”
“Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds”
“Greenblatt's book, The Swerve, which credits a lot of change to the materialist science that this poem articulates. There's a much more complex story, which you know is told in my book, which refers t…”
“There's this book, The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick, which covers a lot of this era of history we're talking about.”
“Principia Mathematica was published in 1687.”
“The three options right now for you and it's different in Europe because I know there's limitations but that's Claude 3 Opus that gp4 which you can also get access to for free in a limited form throug…”
“weird thing to put in print https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/10/13/Forbes-ranks-Walton-as-richest-American-for-second-year/4151529560000/”
“I'll just say I am one of those 30 million users. I've used the Perplexity Voice Assistant and it's just such a great product.”
“One takeaway I had from reading and watching your stuff on the cosmic distance ladder… By the way, I highly recommend people watch your series with 3Blue1Brown on the cosmic distance ladder.”
“His full walkthrough is linked in the description.”
“There's still one up about backdoored LLMs that even Jane Street doesn't know how to solve. You can find it at janestreet.com/dwarkesh.”
“We address this challenge by unifying calibration with computation, granting the quantum error correction process a dual role: its error detection events are not only used to correct the logical quant…”
“the president signing the u stablecoin bill into law which was the the genius act. Um and I I think that I'll just tell you what we see is like the positive consequences of that law have been even big…”
“Labelbox can get you rubrics tailored to your domain, helping you systematically measure and shape how your models think. Learn more at labelbox.com/dwarkesh.”
“To address these issues, we introduce STARC-9 (STAnford coloRectal Cancer), a large-scale dataset for multi-class tissue classification.”
“The dataset was built using a novel framework, DeepCluster++, designed to ensure intra-class diversity and reduce manual curation.”
“Replicate is joining Cloudflare”
“We hope that the simplicity and theory-friendly ecosystem offered by LeJEPA will reestablish self-supervised pre-training as a core pillar of AI research”
“We hope that the simplicity and theory-friendly ecosystem offered by LeJEPA will reestablish self-supervised pre-training as a core pillar of AI research (GitHub repo)”
“Today on the show, we're joined by Aiden Gomez, co-founder and CEO of Coher. He is a Google Brain alum and the co-author of the famous paper, Attention Is All You Need. Coher is building an enterprise…”
“A few weeks ago, so early October as we're recording this, you launched a new course on deep learning called I think just a Asian AI and it's a phenomenal course by the way for the entire NearJ commun…”
“So my friend Kirsty Tan and I at AI Inspire, we chat with large businesses a lot and even though people see the potential for AI and believe in the potential, identifying the most strategically imp…”
“The annual @IQIM_Caltech retreat at Lake Arrowhead is an opportunity to spend the weekend with some of my favorite scientists. It is always an uplifting and illuminating experience.”
“Well, let's get to that. I mean, so, so yesterday, you know, and I'm glad to say this was the cover of Nature, Nature Journal yesterday.”
“For some context on this repository, GPT, and language modeling it might be helpful to watch my [Zero To Hero series](https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html).”
“Please watch: https://t.co/hgURPFQITX 👀”
“The model is available now on @GoogleAIStudio and the Gemini API. Find out more → https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-er-1-6/?utm_source=x&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=&utm_content=”
“The model is available now on @GoogleAIStudio and the Gemini API.”
“Counterpoint: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/do-links-hurt-news-publishers-on-twitter-our-analysis-suggests-yes/”
“Enterprise: Rolling out in preview on Vertex AI”
“I would buy Gro”
“The three options right now for you and it's different in Europe because I know there's limitations but that's Claude 3 Opus that gp4 which you can also get access to for free in a limited form throug…”
“And we can put those together in a hybrid simulation engine that we open source called Robocassa. And it is an engine that leverages LOM's diffusion models text to 3D to procedurally generate infinite…”
“There was an algorithm that was theorized by a guy named Peter Shor. I think I talked about this on a prior episode in 1994 called Shor's algorithm. Today, it's kind of the commonly well-known model f…”
“If you want to understand how to build LLM applications, I'd strongly recommend this course. It's a great course if you want to understand how to use LLMs, adapt them, fine tune them, really worth tak…”
“It is a rewrite of [minGPT](https://github.com/karpathy/minGPT) that prioritizes teeth over education.”
“- [numpy](https://numpy.org/install/) <3”
“- `datasets` for huggingface datasets <3 (if you want to download + preprocess OpenWebText)”
“- `tiktoken` for OpenAI's fast BPE code <3”