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Aneesh Sathe @aneeshsathe.com · 7d

Kris knife

A heartbreaking scene from history.

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Prose and Khans @temujin9.t9productions.com · 14d

Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 15d

And new paper out: Pleias 1.0: the First Family of Language Models Trained on Fully Open Data

How we train an open everything model on a new pretraining environment with releasable data (Common Corpus) with an open source framework (Nanotron from HuggingFace).

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · Sep 9

and it works!

they made a tiny 8B model that holds up well against many large MoE models

The image is a table labeled Table 1, showing a performance comparison of different models on LongBench (LB), HelloBench (HB), and WritingBench (WB). The note above the table states that DeepWriter-8B, an 8B model fine-tuned from scratch, shows competitive performance against leading proprietary models and significantly outperforms other open-source models in its class.

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Table Content:

Model Base Model LB HB-A HB-B WB-A WB-B WB-C WB-D WB-E WB-F
GPT-4o - 83.1 83.7 87.6 74.40 73.42 74.38 77.91 75.86 78.08
Claude 3.5 - 89.3 82.9 88.3 59.05 57.68 56.32 59.36 62.00 67.70
Claude 3.7 - 97.8 83.9 93.2 78.24 77.93 76.51 79.37 79.26 80.88
LongWriter-8B Llama3.1-8b 76.5 80.1 82.6 57.97 53.92 49.08 52.08 52.99 52.08
DeepWriter-8B Qwen3-8b 91.28 82.64 87.48 72.20 71.76 70.57 70.57 73.65 72.29

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Key Observations:
• Claude 3.7 leads in raw scores for LB (97.8) and HB-B (93.2).
• DeepWriter-8B consistently performs at a very strong level across all WritingBench (WB) categories, beating LongWriter-8B by a wide margin and coming close to proprietary models.
• GPT-4o is balanced across all tasks with solid performance.
• Claude 3.5 underperforms significantly on WB tasks compared to Claude 3.7.
• DeepWriter-8B shows clear gains over LongWriter-8B and holds its ground against GPT-4o and Claude family models, particularly excelling in WB-B through WB-F.

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Aneesh Sathe @aneeshsathe.com · 13d

Thank you! The open data training is an important milestone

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Aneesh Sathe @aneeshsathe.com · 14d

The Little Prince

No. 4

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Aneesh Sathe @aneeshsathe.com · 14d

this collage just generates happiness

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Aneesh Sathe @aneeshsathe.com · 14d

was away, what did i miss? (i'm aware of the politics). Give me tech, stats, AI, Bio...

My brain is so hungry

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Aneesh Sathe @aneeshsathe.com · 28d

Gondwana

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Boris @bmann.ca · Sep 10

Hey, wanna try something with me?

This is an editable document. Add to the story. Share the link so others can contribute

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Line?

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Aneesh Sathe @aneeshsathe.com · Sep 9

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Bio — it’s there to break your mind - The Clacks

One mom two species

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Aneesh Sathe @aneeshsathe.com · Sep 9

I mean if @gracekind.net says so, I must be

Grace @gracekind.net · Sep 8

shape rotator

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Aneesh Sathe @aneeshsathe.com · Sep 8

Farm me

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Aneesh Sathe @aneeshsathe.com · Sep 8

Baldur’s Gate

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Stein Makes Games ➡️ #GodotFest @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · Sep 6

Reddit opinions on Hollow Knight 10 years ago #indiedev

Reddit screenshot of Hollow Knight. Plenty of popular comments trashing the game as a forgettable 2d indie platformer.

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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · Sep 5

Johnson, Adayshia (2022). “Ibn Khaldun’s Views on Race: Influences by Early Life/Childhood, Climate, Geography, and Geographic Segmentation.” The Macksey Journal: Volume 3, Article
95. #HistSTM #HistSci #Sociology
mackseyjournal.scholasticahq.com/article/5565...

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Aneesh Sathe @aneeshsathe.com · Sep 5

To remedy this I have gone from simple quoting to drug hunting

Dread Pirate Ralin @davidralin.bsky.social · Sep 5

Bluesky is that place where you enthusiastically quote somebody about something you’re both pretty chuffed about then realize you have nothing else in common.

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Prof Andy Field @profandyfield.com · Sep 5

A shout out for @nrennie.bsky.social fab book on data viz! nrennie.rbind.io/art-of-viz/

The Art of Data Visualization with ggplot2

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Aneesh Sathe @aneeshsathe.com · Sep 5

I just wanna say I was playing Qud before all this award brouhaha.

Congrats to everyone!!

Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · Sep 5

icymi it's actually INCREDIBLE that Qud won a Hugo Award?

1) Hugos started 70+ yrs ago. this is serious.
2) we were up against fkn DRAGON AGE and 1000xRESIST !?!
3) only games that EVER won were Hades & Baldur's Gate 3

Kitfox always punches above our weight, but still reeling from this one

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Aneesh Sathe @aneeshsathe.com · Sep 5

Zen or RDF?

Aneesh Sathe @aneeshsathe.com · Sep 5

There is no center, there is no base, there is no I nor you. All we have each other.

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · Aug 12

Before COVID we didn’t even know a virus causes multiple sclerosis. They just figured out how it does it.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

EBV induces CNS homing of B cells attracting inflammatory T cells - Nature

Epstein–Barr virus infection generates a neuroinvasive B cell subset, which recruits activated T cells to the central nervous system, promoting multiple sclerosis.

www.nature.com

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Aneesh Sathe @aneeshsathe.com · Sep 4

Dunno why people trying @leaflet.pub gets me excited. But it does!

jack 🎃🍂 @j4ck.xyz · Sep 4

testing...

jack's blog

a blog i will likely rarely touch - experimenting with leaflet on atproto!

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Aneesh Sathe @aneeshsathe.com · Sep 4

The coolest bit (as much as I understand it) is that a nucleus-free ova is a niche big enough to be a stage for this genetic drama

Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · Sep 3

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD

Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!

This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother

Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

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Aneesh Sathe @aneeshsathe.com · Sep 4

h/t @scientificdiscovery.dev for pointing me to this book

Aneesh Sathe @aneeshsathe.com · Sep 4

Cell Biology by the Numbers

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Aneesh Sathe @aneeshsathe.com · Sep 4

Cell Biology by the Numbers

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