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“benchmarks leaderboards like LMSIS right and there are a couple more as well like web dev arena or like the scale leaderboards and things like that those are important for us because they are still ca…”
“We put all these experiments on labs.google. We see what works.”
“this is from an article by Philip Ragaway a very famous one the moral character of cryptographic work. I would uh highly encourage people to read it.”
“the privy embedded wallet for example, it actually has the ability to export your key and put it into another wallet which is uh a really valuable and important feature. So like props for that.”
“I highly recommend you get one of these diaries before they all sell out once again.”
“Andre and Horowitz has a really I think a really good uh bar chart where they compare the companies of the uh early and mid to late 80s to uh today where I mean it just basically demonstrates through …”
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“I noticed Robin Hood now if you want to go trade something complex, puts, calls, you know, spreads, everything, it forces you to go through a little wizard to make sure you understand it and and to te…”
“there was one part of FTX that was didn't implode with the rest of it and that was their investment in uh swap's trading platform called Ledger X which was supervised by the CFTC and examined and they…”
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“the auto research project from Karpathy that came out this weekend... we now have a group of tinkerers who are setting up their open clause and now setting up large language models and now trying to t…”
“Models: https://huggingface.co/collections/SandyResearch/parcae”
“the Hoover Institution just published something this morning and it's a complete indictment of what the billionaire tax was trying to do... they ran 100,000 runs and in 71% of those runs, it comes out…”
“we have nearly 30 million kids in America who are eligible for at least $250 if they just go claim their account. These things are going to go live on July 4th.”
“I think the Stanford did a study on AI optimism. They simply asked the question, do you think AI is going to be more beneficial than harmful? Something like 80% of people in China said yes.”
“I saw an oped in the Wall Street Journal to that effect that we shouldn't try and find an offramp, we should just keep going with this.”
“I even took a test for childhood trauma and scored alarmingly high. You can do this yourself. It's called the adverse childhood experiences test or ACE for short.”
“I went to get help. I got a therapist and even an executive coach to help me understand what the heck was going on with me to shine a light on the stuff I hadn't dealt with.”
“I got a therapist and even an executive coach to help me understand what the heck was going on with me to shine a light on the stuff I hadn't dealt with.”
“llm.🔥 by @dorjeduck: a Mojo port of this project”
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“we started building the Android assistant. We put it out in January this year. It was super exciting and a lot of OEMs saw that and they were like, Damn, this is the coolest thing we've seen.”
“we actually released a very detailed paper on command a which describes exactly what we did but similar to others we do a large pre-training phase”
“North the the fast way to describe it is it's like an AI agent platform where you can build agents, plug those agents into all the software and data that the humans inside your organization have acces…”
“So I invite you to go to uh the website. Uh this is the QR code. You can it's free. You can just download it and play with it.”
“there's a company called Manos AI that has like this like on your phone you are controlling remote computers essentially.”
“Gemma Scope 2: helping the AI safety community deepen understanding of complex language model behavior”
“Visit agency.org and add your support. That's agncy.org.”
“I invite you to give command and control a try if you're interested.”
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“Yeah, I actually talked about this in my talk at 10 o'clock this morning, which I think was recorded if you missed it.”
“I've done some work on AlphaChip as one example, helping with placement and routing. Very great Nature paper, by the way.”
“I have a simple collab notebook for just extracting emails from the Gmail API... I can share that collab notebook if anybody wants to mess around with that.”
“Did you see the demo of the Gemini? ...Unbelievably fast. Yeah. I'm really excited... I'll get you on the list for access to that.”
“With the Veo 3, it's like kind of opens up a new dimension... it definitely opens up the space of possibilities for us”
“I know you know Daniel Cocatello I know you guys... you're familiar with his AI 2027 scenario”
“Then we developed a program based on reinforcement learning called NVCell. I think we're up to NVCell 2 or 3 now. It's overnight on one GPU. The results are actually better than the human designs...”
“there is parallel work from DeepMind called AI co-scientist which demonstrates this very clearly that if you propose ideas in natural language then you can get language models to provide meaningful cr…”
“his book, Destined for War, remains the definitive framework for understanding the USChina relationship.”
“If your reader or your listeners don't remember Mumby Dick, they should go look at it again.”
“I got my kid, my four-year-old, like a Nintendo uh Switch early on. We're playing together because I feel like for me, it helped me a lot with like strategy thinking, with reaction time.”
“The Avatar Ride is uh Flights of Freedom. Flights of Passage... It's the best ride I've ever been on in my life.”
“The Three Body Problem. That's great. That's the Netflix show... Oh, it's really good. Yeah, it's really good. Yeah, it's excellent show.”
“Sputnik is one of the best alien movies I've seen in a long time... It's really creepy. Really creepy.”
“Then we have this program called PrefixRL, which applies reinforcement learning to a really age-old problem... It comes up with totally bizarre designs that no human would ever come up with, but they'…”
“the Arrival was Oh yeah, Arrival was great too.”
“Have you seen the Forbidden Project?... The whole movie is on YouTube. It's awesome. And that was 1970.”
“I'm not sure if you used deep research. Deep research is this new trend in AI where Chad has it, Claude has it, Perplexi, they all have it.”
“are you familiar with the mind body prescription? No. John Sarno... a lot of back pain is psychosomatic... I read John Sarno and I realized that some of it might be also psychological”
“Mark repertoire he's um he wrote this book called Starting Strength and it became like the the main way most most guys at least my age like getting into uh powerlifting.”
“I started uh uh playing a video game. It's called Hades. Uh Hades 2. It's like an RPG uh video game. And uh and I was like, I'm trying to disconnect.”
“The reverse hyper is so good for people that have back problems. Everyone that has a back issue... This thing will actively strengthen and decompress your spine.”
“That's him. Y that's him. Forest Jones, shout out to Forest. He's great. He does like these really fast-paced videos... he does a lot of cars”
“Anthony Rispo. That's it. Really, really smart guy... fascism rises as the overcorrection response to communism... very interesting thing”
“We train models to Predict Ego-centric Video from human Actions (PEVA), given the past video and an action represented by the relative 3D body pose.”
“various things with AI programs like cling and luma and midjourney and um a whole bunch of run re runway and others”
“everybody watching or listening, please go on to X... search for Scobalizer or Robert Scobble and you'll find his feed. Uh definitely worthwhile if you haven't come across Robert.”
“In this report, we introduce the Gemini 2.X model family: Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, as well as our earlier Gemini 2.0 Flash and Flash-Lite models.”
“is there an issue? So I just ran this uh that is the heritage the heritage found. Yeah, Heritage Heritage Foundation, you know, they said that at their database between 1999 to 2023, they identified 7…”
“At a more holistic stage, for a number of years we've had a series of LLMs that we called Chip NeMo and Bug NeMo... Now you have this LLM that's actually very smart about GPU design.”
“At a more holistic stage, for a number of years we've had a series of LLMs that we called Chip NeMo and Bug NeMo... One of the biggest gains of this is when you have a junior designer.”
“I and a bunch of co-authors got together about a year ago and looked at a whole bunch of different areas. It's my only paper with its own website, shapingai.com.”
“Blog: https://www.together.ai/blog/parcae”
“there's a really great article from Tomasan goo at theory ventures uh that compared the original JPT interface with the command line interface of the 1980s”
“Here is the announcement from Google. Google Workspace is now integrated for agents and 40 agent skills were included today.”
“when Secretary Hicks talks about this kind of thing and what was happening with him when he was in Afghanistan, if you ever read his book in Iraq, he's like the rules of engagement were so punishing”
“The best introduction to the llm.c repo today is reproducing the GPT-2 (124M) model. Discussion #481 steps through this in detail.”
“We present the RELRaE framework, a framework that employs large language models in different stages to extract and accurately label the relationships implicitly present in the XML schema.”
“It's completely free. Everybody should try it. And you just go to ampfarm.cool. ... It's open source on GitHub. Check it out.”
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“Developer coordination happens in the Discussions and on Discord, either the #llmc channel on the Zero to Hero channel”
“or on #llmdotc on GPU MODE Discord.”
“You have to have cuDNN installed on your system. The cuDNN installation instructions with apt-get will grab the default set of cuDNN packages.”
“On top of this you need the cuDNN frontend, but this is just header files. Simply clone the repo to your disk.”
“Make sure you install MPI and NCCL... For NCCL follow the instructions from the official website”
“AMD support: llm.c by @anthonix: support for AMD devices, such as the 7900 XTX”
“llm.cs by @azret: a C# port of this project”
“Llm.cs by @nietras: a C# port of this project with focus on easy to get started on any platform. Clone and run ✅”
“llm.cpp by @gevtushenko: a port of this project using the CUDA C++ Core Libraries”
“gpu.cpp by @austinvhuang: a library for portable GPU compute in C++ using native WebGPU.”
“an article came out that I loved by the zed team the high performance text editor with AI native uh capabilities or code editor.”
“llm.go by @joshcarp: a Go port of this project”
“He was also using a tool called super whisper so that he could talk to the machine. So like imagine just like being in a sci-fi movie where like you sit down like this and you just start talking”
“llm.java by @harryjackson: a Java port of this project”
“for evals, we use a product called brain trust for example and we want to make sure that every product that we don't build but you still need in the AI world is in our marketplace.”
“llm.metal by @regrettable-username: LLM training in simple, raw C/Metal Shading Language”
“Install the Vercel plugin for your favorite coding agent”
“you can expect integrations like uh browser base and browser use. They're building browser infrastructure for agents.”
“llm.zig by @saimirbaci: a Zig port of this project”
“llm.tpc by @abhilash1910: a Habana Gaudi2 port of this project”
“llm.nim by @Vindaar: a Nim port of this project”
“I just signed up for Clover um on the weekend, but it didn't work on my mobile, so I haven't tried it properly on my desktop yet.”
“I wouldn't look at Robert Scoville. I'd look at Trisha code. She has created a series of videos with AI of a character that's based on her... If you go to her ex account and watch some of her videos”
“These are the even realities. There's a whole series of wearable computers coming out... These have just a little tiny green and black display right about right about here.”
“I got the Sony ZV E10 Mark II. And the reason I changed over to that one is because it allows me to live stream just with the USBC cable... I'm pretty happy with it.”
“should I teach her how to do video editing now with Cap Cut or do I go no learn AI, you know, learn like become good at AI.”