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Element82 retweeted
Normies won't believe this, but you're actually more than 25 times more likely to be a millionaire than you are to be homeless in the United States.
Element82 retweeted
These are the most important words a White House Chief of Staff have ever spoken…
Listen. You know I am right.
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Weird these progressive pubs never use this photo
Macklemore Claims 9 U.S. Venues Turned Down His Free Palestine Benefit Tour: ‘I’ve Never Experienced Anything Like This’ people.com/macklemore-claims…
Pretty easy: if it took a while, is low quality and full of security issues, it’s free range organic artisanal code.
It it is good fast and safe, it’s evil evil clanker code
Element82 retweeted
>"post-trained to reinforce Western values"
qwen pov during fine tuning:
Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.
Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.
After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.
The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.
Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: nousresearch.com/arete
Element82 retweeted
Data centers are the closest thing to a municipal money printer for funding infrastructure and schools and the slopulist political opposition is evil.
Data centers in Loudoun County, Virginia: “We get $1.2 billion a year in local tax revenue, about 40% of all of our tax revenue...on 3% of our land”
Buddy Rizer, the county's economic development chief, explained how “data center alley” grew:
“We would have never looked at having 55 million square feet of data center, 230-some buildings. That was not the plan. The plan was to utilize the fiber loop, the internet exchange, to utilize a reclaimed water line, and buildings that were already built. That was the plan, right? And so that made a lot of sense.”
“But, you know, fast forward, today we are largely dependent on that. We get $1.2 billion a year in local tax revenue, about 40% of all of our tax revenue. And while that looks overwhelming, data centers take only about 3% of all of our land in the county. So it’s quite a return on investment. You know, 40%, $1.2 billion, on 3% of our land.”