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“Yeah, it's cool to to see this, George. Good to meet you. I I actually had already come across this project and I had literally told my my claw to install it and set it up.”
“This vision paper lays out a 10-year roadmap for AI+HW co-design and co-development, spanning algorithms, architectures, systems, and sustainability. We articulate key insights that redefine scaling a…”
“I am upset by WIRED cover story about the gay mafia supposedly running Silicon Valley.”
“I've loved and do love forever Founders fund I think as an example of like a really interesting differentiate from they bet big they bet different right”
“The redesigned @FlowbyGoogle is rolling out now! It's one of our fastest-growing new AI products for a reason: it's co-created with frontier creatives, so it fits the workflows of the future.”
“I still give the book Understanding Deep Learning by Simon J.D. Prince a good recommendation, but chapter 21: Deep learning and Ethics was sloppy.”
“Rails testing on autopilot: Building an agent that writes what developers won't”
“I'm really I think the next generation of great businesses are going to look more like constellation software not Amazon”
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“maybe we start doing like a quick recap of tree hacks because I think we met at tree hacks. I'm pretty sure at at some point I met you in other places in the past, but uh I feel like Tree Hacks is the…”
“one of my favorite companies which isn't you know super broadly known yet as team shares right”
“I mean, think about a camera like this Insta 360, which launched in my house, by the way. Um, if you put an AI computer in this and cut it in half and make it small, now it can see everything and it c…”
“I mean, obviously, my family and my wife. I mean, I wished that I got a personal trainer even when I had, like, no money. (laughing) I should've done that a lot earlier.”
“my Bible when I was uh uh starting graduate studies was um you know the duda and heart um book”
“I'm seeing more and more people by the Meta Ray-B bands with a a camera on it and a microphone and an AI uh computer somewhere involved that can talk to you and understand what you're seeing.”
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“around that time, I guess the PDP book, the parallel data processing book, which was a compendium of neural network papers that appeared around 1986 if I recall right.”
“Um, Dale Carnegie, how to make friends and influence.”
“A guy Kawasaki wrote a great book on how to write a slide deck for a startup.”
“Sentry shows you how the request moved, what ran, what slowed down, and what users saw. Seir, Sentry's AI debugging agent, takes it from there. It uses all of that Sentry context to tell you the root …”
“you could basically match the performance of classical systems for task like translation uh language translation using large neural nets like LSTM.”
“Yes, a couple, like there's a pet protein company called Pawsible which is now worth maybe 40-50 million.”
“The zip.”
“Together AI Brings NVIDIA Nemotron 3 to Developers on Day 0”
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“I'm a greeter. Uh I would start with the technical book one is it it is functional programming in Scola. This is the single best technical book I've ever read.”
“we had a big impact on the AI research community um with things like PyTorch and you Fair seek and you know uh all the image recognition and uh open source systems that we put out”
“Uh the wandering earth uh wandering earth by uh sishlu. So he's the guy that did uh three body problem. I think a lot of people know him for that. I actually I think your body problem was awesome, but…”
“And I would start with a Nintendo episode if uh if you haven't listened to it.”
“Feice which is kind of a similarity search system and I mean there's there's like a thousand open source projects that fair produced which you know all of which have had a very very big impact on the …”
“With thanks to @AlphaSenseInc, @CanoeAI, and Ridgeline.”
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“Did you know someone invented a pocket?”
“Cloud, too, is now available for businesses. So if you're a business user, you can access us through our developer console and then individuals can also play around with quad at quad I.”
“Our Investment in Accrual _Blog post by General Catalyst_”
“# Doubling Down on Parloa”
“I pivoted to building an AI that reads Twitter: https://alignednews.com/ai”
“EinsteinArena is open-source and the leaderboard is live. We welcome contributions and feedback!”
“The transistor is my favorite analogy for what AI is like. It's like it's like discovering a new property of physics.”
“We really enjoyed White Lotus. We really enjoyed this show.”
“GPT-5.3 Instant is rolling out in ChatGPT starting today.”
“We're going to be starting fighter jet production here of the FQ-44 Fury in a matter of weeks.”
“So the AI Grand Prix is a competition that we just launched that. Is primarily targeted at people who want to be working on the latest cutting edge autonomy technology...”
“Love this - Neo's mind will be blown!🤯”
“So, here is the red skill that Jeff put together. Jeff, for folks who don't know, Bird, explain to them what it does and why we need this.”
“So, Bird uh for OpenClaw just basically lets you search and reply to people uh on on Twitter or X”
“Agree with Kevin's core point about getting the best and latest guidebooks.”
“Try it out and let us know what you think.”
“A conversation with Randall Stutman, founder of @AdmiredLeaders, on what admired leaders do differently, giving feedback, and the behaviors that drive results. https://www.capitalallocators.com/podcas…”
“We study two recurring phenomena in Transformer language models: massive activations, in which a small number of tokens exhibit extreme outliers in a few channels, and attention sinks, in which certai…”
“Welcome @producer_ai team!”
“And on our new podcast, Winning with AI, we're talking to CEOs who are using AI to drive business transformation, delivering real wins, and changing how their companies run.”
“New course: Build and Train an LLM with JAX, built in partnership with @Google and taught by @chrisachard.”
“I guess in his part-time uh time that he's got available, shockingly, he also leads the Juno nominated band Good Kid, and their debut album's coming out in April. So, I'm going to keep an eye out for …”
“A conversation with Randall Stutman, founder of @AdmiredLeaders”
“Build a MiniGPT-style LLM using Flax/NNX, implementing embedding and transformer blocks”
“Welcome. This specialization will teach you how to take machine learnings that you may have trained and deploy them in TensorFlow.”
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“amux ships as a [pi](https://github.com/mariozechner/pi) package with tools: - `amux_send_keys` — send keystrokes”
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“21 Days to Launch, a Replit documentary.”
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“founder of @AdmiredLeaders”
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“I i I sent a link to Alex earlier uh to an open the my starter kit that I built out of put on GitHub.”
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“This high-performance QFC connecting ultraviolet and telecom bands satisfies the stringent requirements for long-lived remote ion-ion entanglement in scalable quantum networks [W.-Z. Liu et al., Natur…”
“Just discovered Ruskin's The Nature of Gothic. Remarkable essay: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30755/30755-h/30755-h.htm#page151”
“GPT-5.4 nano is is also available starting today in the API.”
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“# FlashAttention-4: Algorithm and Kernel Pipelining Co-Design for Asymmetric Hardware Scaling”
“used try to make a new qmdresearcher directory”
“this week on Upstream I wanted to share a conversation I had with burn Hobart author of The Tech and finance newsletter the diff”
“Partnering with Mozilla to improve Firefox’s security”
“qmd 2.0 is out. You can now use it in as a library with stable interface. Much easier to integrate. And all the other interfaces (cli, mcp, http) are now implemented in terms of that library, so that …”
“https://anthropic.com/news/mozilla-firefox-security”
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“Thanks to AI everybody can be a software engineer. In fact if you think you can't be you can go fire up Claude right now or any of your favorite chat bots and you can go start talking to it. You'd be …”
“I got a chance to play the game with Jeff, and it's incredibly beautiful (and fun). You can wishlist it on Steam now.”
“One thing that's really changed over the course of 2025 was people started to use chat GBPT for much more personal very intimate applications.”
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“Yeah. And I think in Quad one, you talked about Great Gatsby. Yeah. The whole novel in the context, which is pretty amusing.”
“Other than that it's huge NVIDIA GPU servers”
“And we could develop this technique called MUP for how we set the initialization. And that actually gives you a much more straight line as you go.”
“amux ships as a [pi](https://github.com/mariozechner/pi) package with tools: - `amux_tail` — tail panel output with offset continuation”
“Our work establishes Rydberg tweezer arrays as a powerful platform for spectroscopic studies of strongly correlated models, offering microscopic control and direct real-space access to emergent quasip…”