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“This paper explores a self-supervised approach that combines internet-scale video data with a small amount of interaction data (robot trajectories), to develop models capable of understanding, predict…”
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“you wrote the uh the first major online course on machine learning and AI which led then to Corsera... has helped over 10 million students.”
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“Absolutely worth going back and watching every Steve Jobs keynote this weekend.”
“That's what made people like lose hope with the operator... tried to keep a server side version of everything and try to do everything in a headless way and required you to... store the o tokens or ke…”
“My favorite one of all time is Civilization I have to say. That was the Civilization I and Civilization II my favorite games of all time.”
“after the network state book came out, you actually there's actually an old diagram I had and then you kind of moved one more box on that diagram.”
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“I'm kind of waiting for the Google version of Open Claw because I don't really want to share all my documents with some new service.”
“Genie 3 which is the reception has been super incredible... people are like this is you know I saw some very extreme comments being like we're in a simulation”
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“We recommend running these notebooks on Colab, which provides a hosted runtime with all the dependencies you will need.”
“So there's also L2s, Aztec and IntMax I think are both very impressive.”
“GPT-5.2-Codex is now out in the API! `codex -m gpt-5.2.codex`”
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“Use the uv-tdd skill to build a hello world uvicorn app with no other dependencies”
“I can add a file here called agents.md. Yeah. And this file is actually a file that a bunch of coding agents support.”
“Make sure the Vercel project is connected to a Vercel Postgres (Neon) database.”
“Here's an example of the new Box Agent filling out an RFP response from an existing knowledge base.”
“# Cobordism, spin structures, and profinite completions”
“# Aragog: Just-in-Time Model Routing for Scalable Serving of Agentic Workflows”
“Encouraging news. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/science/trump-science-budget-cuts-congress.html”
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“Um h the best science. Um well uh I mean when I was in school I was by far the most interested in physics and applied maths. Does applied maths still exist? >> Yeah. >> Okay, good. Um, so physically i…”
“I was completely wrong about biology um it's it's so interesting um and it's kind of the original nanotechnology um and if you just look up um you know these little organels or you know these these ki…”
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“We gotta do better as a field in 2026 and stop treating reproducibility and scientific discipline as second-class citizens.”
“I have been reading a lot of science fiction recently. And I'm sure this has been recommended before, but The Culture, I think it's Ian Banks is the name of the author.”
“We launched it at dev day. It's actually been a huge hit. I've been very very surprised.”
“Open AI and Open AI of course has been at the leading front of the development of generative AI tools and uh most notably Chatg GPT and Dolly and uh many others and and so it's just a thrill to have h…”
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“I mean, have you ever read Robert Heinland's novel, uh, the the the moon is a harsh mistress?”
“Uses in education for example. So there's a school in the US, I think it's called the alpha school. It's expensive because AI is still expensive but it'll get much cheaper soon where the students inst…”
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“There's a paper that's not too old by David Silver, Rich Sutton is a co-author um Donap and a bunch of other people whose title is um reward is enough.”
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“one of the most remarkable things about what XAI did is they stood up the biggest data center at the time in you know like a quarter of the time that anyone else had done the same thing”
“I am a YouTube premium subscriber and have been for a long time. Okay, flex. >> And whenever I like, you know, talk to a friend who doesn't pay for YouTube or whenever I like see YouTube running on th…”
“somebody wrote an adjacent service from Moltbook called rent a human.com [laughter] um uh which is a labor marketplace for the AI agents on Moltbook to be able to hire human beings to go out and there”
“https://theconversation.com/us-experiencing-largest-measles-outbreak-since-2000-5-essential-reads-on-the-risks-what-to-do-and-whats-coming-next-275164”
“We found that GPT-5.2 models are much better at extended autonomous work: following instructions, keeping focus, avoiding drift, and implementing things precisely and completely.”
“Introducing Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they’ve built”
“If you have an EA like I do from Athena, I will tell them, hey, take this, put it onto my Twitter, put it onto my uh, you know, put it in the drafts, maybe put it on to LinkedIn, put it in all these d…”
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“In fact, yesterday at Jensen's uh keynote, we announced open sourcing of the Groot N1 model, uh which is the world's first open humanoid robot foundation model.”
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“Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12946”