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OpenAI posted a chart for the internal model that solved Navier–Stokes (the model I call GPT-Aeon) with the NS announcement. There were no diminishing returns on test-time compute, it was still going up. I will quote from the blog:
'Since August 28 we have been training a new internal model that has exhibited unprecedented performance in our benchmarks, including mathematics. This model’s training is ongoing and its performance continues to improve.'
That was two months ago.
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GOOGLE $GOOGL WILL SPEND $17B ON A NEW DATA CENTER IN WYOMING
The site in Laramie County will be Google's first in the state, per Bloomberg. Google says it will pay for all the power the data center uses.
The data center will be air-cooled to limit water use.
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I know everybody already knows this, but if the GOP loses Texas, it will no longer be mathematically possible for a Republican to win the presidency.
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🚨BREAKING: The John Lewis Christmas Advert 2026 has become one of the worst reviewed in the stores history
The comments on YouTube have been TURNED OFF
There are currently 5 times the dislikes as there are likes
The Plot:
- Entitled children ignore their Grandmother, won't even hug her
- She tries to give them nice, simple, meaningful toys to play with, they ignore her
- She goes to John Lewis to buy expensive toys
- The kids now love her
It's an awful message featuring a diverse family as always
Second Law Evolution retweeted
Whoa whoa whoa, hold on a second.
Is...is Saturday Night Live becoming...funny again?
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Men are twice as likely to ace SAT math, yet women are twice as likely to get in to MIT.
Put differently, 1 in 3 men who worked their ass off to get into MIT lost their seat because they were born the wrong gender.
17,000 men apply to MIT
8900 women apply to MIT
600 men were accepted
612 women were accepted
If we assume male and female applicants to MIT are roughly the same, the probability this happens by chance, let alone every year for a while
The probability of a sex blind admission process creating this result is 1 in 4 × 10³¹
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Our investigators are observing never-seen-before laundering patterns with the stolen funds from the Binance exploit. Thousands of transactions in a short period suggest that the attackers are using automation to obscure the trail of funds. Rather than simply moving funds onward, they repeatedly circulate them among addresses, often sending funds back to addresses involved earlier in the sequence.
Read more: chainalysis.com/blog/binance…
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🚨 BREAKING: A UK bank chief executive has said of Healey's budget:
"Taxing the engines of growth to reduce VAT on gherkins is end-of-Rome level of stupidity"
ft.com/content/80acb561-34e2…
Second Law Evolution retweeted
a16z's Erin Price-Wright says factory technicians can now retool production lines with AI in 20 minutes, a job that used to take an outside integrator 3 months:
"Historically, if you're setting up a line with a lot of automation, you really need to be producing a lot of one single thing. That's how you get the cost down, and how you justify investing in a pretty bespoke manufacturing line."
"But what we're seeing across our portfolio is that manufacturing technicians themselves have the intuition, and now the software tools, to change the economics of producing low-volume, high-mix on the line."
"A manufacturing technician, not necessarily someone with a college degree or who's studied software engineering, can now use these tools to reprogram and reconfigure their lines on the fly, because they understand the manufacturing process."
"Instead of calling a systems integrator, which takes 3 months and hundreds of thousands of dollars to reconfigure a line, you can have a manufacturing engineer use Claude and do that in 20 minutes. That's been a real game changer."
@espricewright
The American Dynamism 50 is a16z's annual list of companies building for America's future.
This year's edition covers the industrial base end to end, from the inputs that come out of the ground to factories that make things and systems that deter conflict.
a16z's Erin Price-Wright and Connor Love join Elena Burger to break down this year's list and its theme, Production is Deterrence, built around a simple idea: "You don't have a defense industrial base without an industrial base."
0:50 From mines to factories and systems
3:05 How the internet and nuclear was built
5:05 Drones built DJI into a robotics giant
6:50 Defense dollars pay for new factories
8:30 SpaceX and Tesla lessons on scale
10:15 How Mariana runs a mine on software
12:20 "AI cannot turn a wrench yet"
14:10 Retooling in 20 mins, not 3 months
17:45 Startups build before Pentagon asks
20:35 Why hard tech can be more valuable
24:45 The race for the biggest American flag
28:25 How defense parts unlock US robotics
32:05 The rise of the "manufacturing middle"
37:25 Anduril and SpaceX founder mafias
41:05 Private capital: USA's edge over China
46:30 The buildout must hit Middle America
YouTube: youtu.be/cRJ7CfaK1Vc
@espricewright @ConnorLoveCA @VirtualElena
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🚨 JUST NOW: President Trump posts a video showing the SHOCKING downfall of France, comparing videos from 100 years ago to now
France was one of the best countries in the world until it got taken over by third world barbarians.
They were warned!
Second Law Evolution retweeted
A British government minister should be fired immediately for saying this
It means that most of us cannot trust the government any more
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SpaceX 6 weeks ago was mad maxxing 444 acres of newly acquired land near Starbase. Today they’ve begun officially hiring for the Starbase supercomputer. Neoclouds have never come up against this level of infrastructure execution. nitter.cf/rgvaerialphotos/status…
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How about the robot is looking down while assembling a Swiss watch with one hand and then, without looking up, catches an oblique 100mph baseball with the other hand?
I also like the idea of juggling chainsaws on fire while riding a unicycle.
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Just tried again to comment on a judge's sentencing
I am prevented from registering my comment
So I am being censored
I can hardly believe this is happening in Britain
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The newest painting in the Louvre. “The Girl with the Suicidal Empathy.” Oil on canvas. Go see it while the Louvre is still standing.
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In light of all the Black Monday $CRWV $NBIS FUD
This is the single highest value Twitter thread for me ever
Everyone should understand how much shittier these E&P zombies were in 2020 than anything in AI today
And why betting against survival is almost always wrong
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I hate qualifying arguments like this, but - everyone knows I am about as pro-Ukraine/anti-Russian as it gets. That regularly leads to friction between me and other Republicans, even ones who otherwise align 99%.
With that said, whining from Europeans and the American left about America buying $1B in diesel fuel from Russia is so out of touch with reality. The EU has spent over $200B on Russian fuel and is on-track to buy hundreds of billions more. Most of that was purchased by wealthy EU members who can absolutely afford alternatives.
nitter.cf/PalmerLuckey/status/20…
More than a "mistake". Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder killed nuclear, approved Nord Stream, then left to be chairman of Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft three weeks later.
The Ukraine war is effectively a proxy war with Germany, which has sent far more money to Russia than Ukraine.
