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gog gmail for danwick@gmail.com.New art project. Train and inference GPT in 243 lines of pure, dependency-free Python. This is the *full* algorithmic content of what is needed. Everything else is just for efficiency. I cannot simplify this any further.
I spent more test time compute and realized that my micrograd can be dramatically simplified even further... Huge savings from 243 lines of code to just 200 (~18%). The code now fits beautifully to 3 columns: Dataset/Tokenizer/Autograd | GPT model | Training/Inference.
I found the perfect cross sell with a Claude Code Max subscription [QT: creatine increases cognitive processing speed by 24.5% within 3.5 hours]
Sorry to report Threads is trash. Don't go there maybe they should just merge with Bluesky and then unplug the server
Rest in Power James Van Der Beek. You will always be Dawson from Dawson's Creek to me. This one hits really hard. Passing at 48, beautiful young family, far too soon.
Seeing software systems recurse upon themselves is utterly amazing and terrifying. Gödel, Escher, Bach has never been more relevant. I have no idea how to reason about what happens next.
You can hide from a lot of things. But the most important metric of all is Net New Customers. Period. They are your future. Congrats to @HubSpot...
Four types of people at every company now — yes, people get 10x better when they go from bottom right to top right. But also, people get 10x worse when they go from bottom left to top left.
NEW ODD LOTS: It's @MichaelSelig on prediction markets. Talk to the new Chairman of the CFTC about the rise of Polymarket and Kalshi.
Meta's auditor Ernst & Young raised a red flag over the financial engineering Meta used to keep its $27B Hyperion data center project off its balance sheet.
Private equity and private credit groups' big bets on SaaS companies, the biggest area of PE activity in the past decade, risk being derailed by the rise of AI.
SoftBank Group reports Q3 net profit of $1.6B after its Vision Fund posted a $2.4B gain, as a jump in the value of its OpenAI investment helped offset losses.
Some of the biggest VC firms are backing both OpenAI and Anthropic, breaking a taboo by investing in competing startups, as the AI race reshapes venture capital.
I can't stress how much more fun the discourse becomes if you read the second letter in "AI" as lowercase "L"
DeepSeek has expanded the context window of its flagship AI model from 128K tokens to 1M+.
Grab agrees to acquire US fintech company Stash Financial in a deal initially valued at $425M. Forecasts FY 2026 revenue of $4.04B-$4.1B.
Are all features too expensive? Even one sprint is 5% of your year. Then bug fixes, documentation, training support, integration…
RT: "The Welfare Voting Paradox — We have created a system where 47% of Americans pay ZERO federal income tax, yet they vote on…"
CNBC · Lora Kolodny
Restructured into 4 divisions: Grok (chatbot/voice), Coding, Imagine, Macrohard (digital agents). Half of co-founders now gone. X Money beta in 1-2 months. Pitched moon AI satellite factory.
Z.ai (Zhipu)
744B params (40B active), 28.5T tokens pretraining. Best-in-class open-source for reasoning, coding, agentic tasks. Approaching Opus 4.5 benchmarks. $0.80/$2.56 per million tokens — 10x cheaper than Opus. Stock +30%.
New York Times
Compared Instagram to Netflix binge-watching. Landmark trial over youth mental health.
Artificial Ignorance · Charlie Guo
Slow Boring · Matthew Yglesias
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NYT · Annie Karni
Trump-backed measure requiring photo ID to vote. No path forward in Senate. Only 1 Democrat voted yes.
WSJ
6 Republicans joined Democrats. Trump threatened "consequences." Significant symbolic rebuke.
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HGTV pulled 'Rehab Addict' from all platforms after leaked footage of racial slur during filming.
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Norwegian biathlete Sturla Holm Lægreid admitted to cheating live on TV after winning bronze at 2026 Winter Olympics.
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