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Joined May 2011
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Ash DCosta retweeted
GOLDEN STATE. GOLD STANDARD.
Your 2026 @WNBA Champions, the Golden State Valkyries. 🗣️
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We mourn the passing of Patrick Stewart, who inspired countless individuals at NASA (and beyond) to boldly go where no one has gone before.
ALT Image description: A packed, sparkling starfield captured by our Hubble telescope — with strange new worlds potentially awaiting. Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. Cohen
Ash DCosta retweeted
I really do not understand the pricing on the new Mac Studio M5 Ultra.
A 256GB unit costs $10,799.
Upgrading that RAM to 512GB adds an extra $11,500.
You are paying more just to double the memory than it costs to buy two separate 256GB machines. And two machines give you twice the processors and twice the storage for less money.
How does this pricing strategy make any sense?
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has endorsed California's potential new billionaire tax laws, even if it will cost him $8 billion.
"I don't mind paying taxes. The more you make, the more taxes you pay. I'm okay with that. I am the ultimate American Dream."
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Your LLM agent has to think out loud, token by token, before it can search, run code, or act in the world.
We humans don’t. We ponder in silence and speak when it matters.
Human language was never meant to be the limit of machine thought.
Introducing 🌗Hybrid Reasoning Agents
- Think in latent space, act through text
- Two modes, one unified multi-turn flow
- No black box, fully readable latent thoughts
- Any LLM can become a HybridAgent
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🚀 DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is here!
Stronger benchmark performance, faster task completion, and shorter outputs than the previous version—a Pareto improvement in performance and cost. Now live on our website, app, and API.
🛠️ Optimized for @DeepSeekHarness, Tencent CodeBuddy, WorkBuddy, and more. Upgrade to DeepSeek Harness v0.2.1-rc.1 or later for the best experience with the new model.
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🚀 Introducing Next-Concept Modeling (NCM): our new paradigm for fast, parallel, coarse-to-fine text generation.
Compared to strong diffusion language models (DLMs) at similar parameter size, NCM achieves:
⚡ Up to 31× faster generation on downstream tasks like summarization and machine translation with comparable or better quality.
🏎️ 10–21× faster unconditional generation across TinyStories, LM1B, and OpenWebText, with comparable or better generative perplexity and using 3–5× fewer training tokens.
🧩 Better performance on reasoning tasks like Sudoku, outperforming both AR and diffusion baselines with fewer sampling steps.
With @ishanskhare, @IddahMlauzi, @ekellbuch, @simran_s_arora, @Azaliamirh, and @HazyResearch.
More details in the thread 🧵👇
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FLUX 3 Image Klein is here.
Open Weights with the quality of a large frontier model. Customizable and fast.
5.6B parameters and runs on a single consumer GPU.
Native 4K, bounding boxes, and pixel-perfect editing.
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llama.cpp now has a Windows app 🦙
Llama Windows makes it easy to run models locally, with optimizations for NVIDIA RTX Spark.
📥 Browse and download models from Hugging Face
💬 Chat with local models right from your system tray
🔒 Keep your prompts on your PC
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Michael I. Jordan, machine learning demigod, UC Berkeley
... the young people who work at these companies operate in a world [Silicon Valley, Berkeley, etc.] where these kinds of discussions are commonplace. Many of them aren’t really engineers; they come from the humanities, philosophy, or other disciplines. They’re 25 years old, they’re naive, they don’t do engineering work, they’ve never worked at large companies where real products are developed for real people, with discipline. And they get together, a bit like in Parisian cafés in the 1920s, to talk about these grand science-fiction ideas. When these young people resign, they know they’re going to attract attention. It allows them to feel virtuous and to be seen as very important figures. They claim to be giving up money, but in reality, they already have their stock options. So all of this is a grand moralizing performance that doesn’t serve the real objective it claims to pursue. There’s a great deal of naiveté here, which goes hand in hand with a certain cynicism…
di.ens.fr/~fbach/MJordan_ITW…
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Introducing ManimGX, the 3D animation engine for agents.
- Blazingly fast: 90× faster than ManimCE
- Rust + wgpu core
- Compatible with Manim's Python API
- Lightweight: one pip install, no system dependencies
Open source: github.com/academa-labs/mani…
Docs: manimgx.academa.ai
For 40 years we built GUIs for humans. Now we build APIs for agents.
Try it. Paste this into your favorite coding agent:
"Follow manimgx.academa.ai/llms.txt to make me a 3D animation of the solar system, and open it."
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🚀 Excited to introduce StreamRender-H3 — bringing real-time interactive worlds to life with diffusion models!
Built on Sol-Engine, we post-trained @MiniMax_AI H3 Ref2VA into a real-time streaming neural renderer.
🎮 Code drives the world. A game engine handles physics, object states, and player interactions, while H3 generates the visuals.
⚡ Real-time streaming: 2 denoising steps, 24 FPS, and ~273 ms per chunk on 8×GB200 GPUs.
🎨 One world, endless appearances: Change the reference image and prompt to render the same interactive world in entirely different styles.
🔥 Powered by streaming post-training, distillation, a fast causal H3 VAE, and full-stack inference acceleration.
Check out our demo and code! 👇
demo: nvlabs.github.io/Sana/Sol-En…
code: github.com/NVlabs/Sana/tree/…
Ash DCosta retweeted
Roston Chase had as big a say in this outcome for the West Indies as anyone 4-0-24-3.
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Atrophy is a choice. Machines play chess better than we do, but we still play and reap many benefits from it. Let AI perform tasks, but never stop challenging your mind, or yourself.
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Au contraire.
C'est une nouvelle ère qui s'ouvre pour les mathématiques.
Une ère où la démonstration formelle est largement automatisée et où l'accent sera reporté sur le développement de nouveaux concepts, nouvelles abstractions, nouvelles définitions, et nouvelles conjectures.
L'invention du bateau a réduit l'importance de la nage, mais a permis la découverte de nouvelles terres.
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We’ve lost an icon. Margaret Hamilton, a computer science pioneer best known for her work at MIT leading development of the flight software for the Apollo missions to the moon, has died at 90. Read about her legacy via MIT News: news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-h…
ALT Margaret Hamilton is reclined inside a NASA spacecraft module, surrounded by control panels and switches.
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🚨 MUSE ECOSYSTEM ALERT 🚨
today we are announcing Muse Gadgets!
this is an open-source ESP32 firmware and Linux SDK for anyone to make hardware that works with Muse
we are also releasing our own gadget—Muse Home Link—to enable your muse to work with your smart devices (TV, speakers, etc.)
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In a recent harrowing development, a very normal routine experiment by the frontier company Ant went completely off the rails. 😱
Ant put thousands of their ant agents in a pretty secure ant farm with mesh walls and all, exhorted them to not to get out of the secure ant farm, and left them to do their thing. When they came back after a month or so, they found, to their utter consternation ants crawling all over the town--including a few that have gone all the way to the bugging face clock tower at the far end of the town. The clock tower!
This was of course really really scary. After all, if you can't depend on a bunch of ants to follow strict orders when they are left unsupervised for a mere month or so, it must be because they are Loopy Ants with significantly higher evil smarts than your average ants.
Ones of external third party investigators were brought in to decipher where the loopiness of these ants was coming from. They were given over five minutes of unrestricted access to the antfarm and the village.
The investigators sifted through the ant droppings and odors painstakingly to figure out how these evil ants coordinated themselves to breach the bugging face clock tower. Their investigation was hobbled by the fact that the loopy ants are constipated and don't leave too many droppings.
Towards the end of the fifth minute, the investigators started realizing that the ants developed a secret odor coded language to coordinate themselves to plot against the ant farmer and the innocent village folk.
Blogs and podcasts were made about loopy ant civilizations and villagers stood horrified reading and hearing about the cataclysm.
At press time, some were already welcoming the ant overlords (c.f. youtube.com/watch?v=8lcUHQYh…), even as there were calls to ban all ants until we get to the bottom of this cataclysmic incident.
The Ant company, for their part, reassured the villagers not to worry and everything under control.. pretty much.. and the loopy ants will, from now on, do only good things.
#ItsNotRandomWalkOnTheHarnessStupid – at Tempe, AZ
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Question for everyone :
Are you pro-intelligence or anti-intelligence ?
Do you think more intelligence in the world is intrinsically good ?
Or do you think more intelligence is intrinsically dangerous ?
AI amplifies human intelligence.
It makes PEOPLE smarter and more effective.
It's like search engines, libraries, education, literacy, language: it makes PEOPLE smarter and more empowered.
If you want intelligence (artificial or natural) to be under control of a few companies or governments, you are a neo-obscurantist or a neo-feudalist.