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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 11h

the LLM is gonna decode it repeatedly forever, guaranteed.

Blog: liujch1998.github.io/2025/10/07/f...

Defying Transformers: Searching for “Fixed Points” of Pretrained LLMs

Transformers are transformative to AI. Are there things that cannot be transformed by Transformers?

liujch1998.github.io

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braintelligence.bsky.social @braintelligence.bsky.social · 9h

That’s a really cool analysis. Love to see things exploring the mathematical basis for LLMs capabilities

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luokai @luok.ai · 10h

Figure’s third‑gen humanoid, Figure 03, flips the script on home + factory robots. 🚀

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braintelligence.bsky.social @braintelligence.bsky.social · 10h

It’s crazy how prescient the sanctuary city episode of Deep Space 9 is

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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 1d

Whoa, I found another floppy from original Macintosh team member Joanna Hoffman! 😳

It contains the earliest version of ResEdit I’ve seen, v1.0 D4 - from 1985! 💾

#AppleHistory #Macintosh

The disk catalog showing Joanna’s system disk.

The Get Info window showing the ResEdit application version 1.0 D4 and a date of December 1985.

The application about window showing the ResEdit application version 1.0 D4 and a date of December 6, 1985.

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 1d

Python 3.15 is introducing explicit lazy imports

"Lazy imports defer the loading and execution of a module until the first time the imported name is used, in contrast to ‘normal’ imports, which eagerly load and execute a module at the point of the import statement."

peps.python.org/pep-0810/

PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports | peps.python.org

This PEP introduces syntax for lazy imports as an explicit language feature:

peps.python.org

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braintelligence.bsky.social @braintelligence.bsky.social · 17h

Still have my firstname_lastinitial iCloud email migrated from .mac

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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 1d

Apple website in October 2002 in Netscape Communicator 4.7

#WebDesignHistory

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braintelligence.bsky.social @braintelligence.bsky.social · 17h

Allegedly the women are DACA recipients too

braintelligence.bsky.social @braintelligence.bsky.social · 17h

The one that makes me nervous is nvidia giving vc to companies that buy their products

For publicly traded companies that makes a lot of good looking news, for what is essentially just an expenditure

Would be good to see them invest more in companies not buying their products — spread the wealth

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 18h

New scientific method just dropped!

1) Eat raw bear meat to acquire worm. Wait a few weeks for worm to migrate to your brain.

2) Listen to brain worm for science ideas! If worm is not active, try drinking a solution of 10 parts water and 1 part glucose, then shake head vigorously.

3) Make proof!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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braintelligence.bsky.social @braintelligence.bsky.social · 20h

Pretty solid release by figure

It’s interesting they show different walking gaits in the video though— so I expect there’s a lot of smoke and mirrors here

www.figure.ai/news/introdu...

Introducing Figure 03

www.figure.ai

braintelligence.bsky.social @braintelligence.bsky.social · 21h

Fun fact truth social is a Mastodon instance with federation turned off, and I’d bet a few versions behind the latest security updates

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

braintelligence.bsky.social @braintelligence.bsky.social · 21h

Good example of how deep sora’s world knowledge is

www.instagram.com/reel/DPk5is9...

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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braintelligence.bsky.social @braintelligence.bsky.social · 1d

Really interesting work. They compare themselves to the HRM from a few weeks ago and claim to be more generalized

Love seeing new algorithmic approaches especially when they’re so efficient

austin @aparker.io · 2d

huh. 7M parameters that gets 45% on ARC-AGI-1 sounds too good to be true

arxiv.org/abs/2510.04871

Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks

Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) is a novel approach using two small neural networks recursing at different frequencies. This biologically inspired method beats Large Language models (LLMs) on hard ...

arxiv.org

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Thomas Carpentier @thocarp.bsky.social · 1d

Last night, the JWST observed Uranus for calibration. Even like that the result is awesome, so here you go with my processed image of that observation! 🔭

HD: flic.kr/p/2ry78y3

Observation of Uranus by the JWST. The planet itself appears mostly blue, but the pole, a big patch, is white. Some storms can also be spotted near the pole. The rings of the planet can be spotted in infrared light, so they appear in that image (in orange color).

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1d

Apple has removed Eyes Up, an app that aggregates videos people have published on social media documenting abuses by ICE, from the App Store,

Apple’s ongoing crackdown on anti-ICE apps continues.

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

New York City sues Meta, Alphabet, Snap, and ByteDance, accusing them of fueling a mental health crisis among children by addicting them to social media (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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braintelligence.bsky.social @braintelligence.bsky.social · 1d

What the trump admin is trying to do to solar and wind, in favor of oil and gas and coal should be criminal- like literally

www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1bn – report

Trump promised to 20 executives at Mar-a-Lago dinner to increase oil drilling and reverse pollution rules among other pitches

www.theguardian.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in…

Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

www.canarymedia.com

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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 1d

In an interview, OpenAI's Head of ChatGPT discusses the company's push into developing an AI operating system full of third-party apps.

OpenAI's Nick Turley on transforming ChatGPT into an operating system | TechCrunch

In an interview, OpenAI's Head of ChatGPT discusses the company's push into developing an AI operating system full of third-party apps.

techcrunch.com

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 2d

i missed this — apparently Albania’s minister of public procurement that is an AI agent

apparently Albania has struggled with corruption, and this seems like a good answer

www.politico.eu/article/alba...

Albania appoints world’s first AI-made minister

Diella, who is powered by artificial intelligence, will handle public procurement.

www.politico.eu

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braintelligence.bsky.social @braintelligence.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think it’s that daunting

I perceive it as a minor evolution over Photoshop. People just need to extend their existing skepticism to video

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brennan @brennan.computer · 1d

blind copy-pasting the entire costco search results into gpt and getting a csv that I can organize

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