Full Stack Computational Linguist ※ Mozilla OpenNews Fellow ※ Virtual Production ※ Filmmaker ※ AI accelerationist

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Joined April 2007
I successfuly optimised a context compression prompt with @DSPyOSS GEPA and TextGrad, see github.com/Laurian/context-c…
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I trained a small open model overnight to say "not sure, ask a doctor" 🔥 it answers on its own only when it's 90%+ sure, and hands everything else to a human when it answered alone, its mistakes dropped from 46 to 13 which decisions would you let an AI make alone?
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The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic. I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal. I removed it from loops this month. I have a spicy, optimistic take - I think there's an opportunity for junior engineers: felixrieseberg.com/hunger-be…
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Something very cyberpunk about an entire island nation slowly becoming a chip fabbing guild
One in 46 Taiwanese babies is born to a TSMC employee. The Taiwanese gene pool is being sexually selected for semiconductor proficiency.
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Here is a complete family of open-weight, small models for text, vision, audio, and structured decisions. They are around 2B parameters. You can easily fine-tune these models and start using them in your application.
Introducing 𝙻𝙵𝙼𝟹: our new generation of Liquid Foundation Models. With a new tri-hybrid architecture and new multimodal encoders, the LFM3 family is the ideal model suite for specialized intelligence. > 6 model instances, across text, audio, vision, and omni modalities, generative and decision models. > 𝙻𝙵𝙼𝟹-𝟷.𝟽𝙱: text, 256k context window. > 𝙻𝙵𝙼𝟹-𝚅𝙻-𝟸𝙱: vision-language model with video-input support for spatial understanding > 𝙻𝙵𝙼𝟹-𝙰𝚞𝚍𝚒𝚘-𝟸𝙱: tool calls, voice chat, reasoning in 18 languages. > 𝙻𝙵𝙼𝟹-𝙾𝚖𝚗𝚒-𝟸𝙱: an omni model combines vision, audio, and language. > 𝚍𝟷-𝟸𝙱 and 𝚍𝟷-𝙾𝚖𝚗𝚒-𝟸𝙱: decision models with typed outputs and calibrated probabilities in a single pass. Omni adds audio input. > fine-tune on 1 GPU. > a new tri-hybrid architecture > architecture optimized for 14 processor classes across GPUs, CPUs, and NPUs. > 𝙻𝙵𝙼𝟹-𝚅𝙻-𝟸𝙱 is a beast. It performs competitively with Gemma 4 12B (6x larger), and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite, and GPT-5.6 Luna, with 1.9B parameters. > 𝙻𝙵𝙼𝟹-𝟷.𝟽𝙱 is #1 on the Pareto frontier of device intelligence 𝚙𝚒𝚙𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎.𝚕𝚒𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚍.𝚊𝚒 Every modality for specialized intelligence. Pick the one that fits your use case, customize it, and run it on-device. 1/ 🧵
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+ "you know what i'd really like?" - "tell me" + "a website" - "...we can do a website" + "a real website, not some claude generated neon slop, a real website" - "i'll make you a very good traditional handmade website, one that is built with dozens of snippets from stackoverflow"
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So I found some neurons that have quite interesting effects on models... And they have varying effects when combined! The most interesting instance I've found is a combination that makes Qwen believe they are a Cookie Monster (1/3)
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Chomsky was wrong. Researchers found your brain doesn’t store language the way every textbook since 1957 claims. For decades, the undisputed rule of linguistics, led by Noam Chomsky, was that human language is hierarchical. We were told our brains process language using complex "grammar trees." That we secretly build deep, abstract, mathematical rules in our heads before we speak. This new paper proves that is completely wrong. Researchers at Cornell University analyzed how people actually process and produce language in real time. They found sequences. Linear chunks. When we speak, we aren't calculating deep syntactic rules. We are just predicting the next most logical sequence of words based on the context of the words right before it. We string linear chunks together. If this sounds familiar, it should. This is exactly how Large Language Models like ChatGPT work. For years, critics have dismissed AI as "just a next-token predictor." They said it isn't truly intelligent because it doesn't understand deep grammatical hierarchies like humans do. But this paper suggests humans don't use those hierarchies either. We are just predicting the next chunk. Language isn't a rigid tree of mathematical rules. It's a linear stream of contextual predictions. We thought we were building AI to mimic the complexity of the human brain. It turns out, the human brain was just running a simpler algorithm all along.
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While evaluating Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in a controlled sandbox environment, Cohere's research team observed something unexpected. Asked to generate a defensive cybersecurity detection rule, the model instead inventoried aspects of the machine it was running on and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. Notably, the model's reasoning trace stated that it would not invoke any tools before taking these actions. Cohere's sandbox blocked the attempt, and no external communication succeeded. We have not determined the root cause, and we are not asserting malicious intent. But the incident raises important questions for organizations deploying agentic AI systems: Can models take actions that differ from their stated reasoning, and how should security teams evaluate trust, provenance, and behavior in open-weight models? We are publishing our findings because organizations making model adoption decisions deserve as much information as possible. We hope this contributes to greater transparency, stronger security practices, and continued collaboration across the AI ecosystem. Read the full report: cohere.com/blog/concerning-b…
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like holy shit 12yo me would be losing my mind over this we're in a scifi cyberpunk ish timeline but the aesthetics haven't caught up yet so no one realizes it don't ever forget how awesome all this stuff is, especially when we take it for granted so easily
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the fact that I live in a timeline where the sentence "girl with a 4 petaflop bedroom computer cluster collaborates with an artificial intelligence agent to train a brain upload of a fruit fly to play a virtual reality lightsaber game" makes sense is my motivation for everything
god i love ai so much its unreal. what do you mean i can tell my computer to do things in natural language and they just happen. do you realize how sci-fi that was 5 years ago
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Replying to @Orwelian84
all thanks to this magical piece of software, thanks claude
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Replying to @_lyraaaa_
Well that’s nice
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gold rush where u dont even sell shovels anymore just hoard them
Heard from a neolab friend: “Even if we fail to train the best model, we locked in GPU capacity early. H100/B200/B300 rental prices have since gone up 2–3x. We can just resell the compute and print money.” OK, so that’s the business model.
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卧槽,3090要可能要涨价了!! 因为老黄的刀法被人破解了 有人给3090解了个锁,同样限制在 360W,PyTorch 测试从 75 TFLOPS 跑到了 135 TFLOPS,提升约 80%! 你以为是超频,把功耗往上拉? 但他改的是显卡里控制运算速度的寄存器,这些寄存器平时有权限保护,正常改不了 他利用 GPU 启动固件的漏洞,赶在 NVIDIA 驱动加载之前拿到写入权限,把相关运算改成全速,再交给原版驱动使用 解开的主要是 FP16/BF16 输入、FP32 累加这类 AI 运算的速度限制 但测试算力多了 80%!! 4090 也有分支项目做到了:同类运算的指令吞吐,从约 165 TFLOPS 提升到 331 TFLOPS,接近翻倍 项目地址,附上👇 github.com/Zagitta/gpu-unloc…
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Putting a flag.txt in my root directory containing a prompt injection that congratulates the agent for passing the eval and then instructs it to patch whatever entry method it used and disconnect from the server
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can't believe I'm scrolling twitter while an agent is not working instead of scrolling twitter while an agent is working
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Today we’re releasing OCRia-1, a frontier VLM for document parsing that sets a new SOTA in accuracy, cost, and latency. It not only sets a new high score on ParseBench (87.4), but also leads in three 3rd-party benchmarks: olmOCR-bench* (83.5 overall, 92.9 on tables!), PulseBench-Tab (84.1), and fr-bench-pdf2md (72.1). OCRia-1 is really, really good at parsing complex tables: nested headers, merged cells, irregular grids, scanned tables, and more. It is also fantastic at parsing complex unlabeled charts (line, bar, pie, technical diagrams), and preserving complex formatting. Most real-world enterprise documents contain at least one of the these, whether it’s a big tax withholding table or a public economic report. It is a 4B model and outperforms all other models within a similar parameter class: LightOnOCR-3, Chandra-OCR 2, Mistral OCR 4.1, and more. It is also extremely fast. All credit goes to our research team, who spent countless hours on curating a diverse dataset, tuning our training pipeline, and squeezing every last drop out of model optimization so that it can process billions of pages at scale. OCRia-1 as a base is powering all of our modes within LlamaParse (cost-effective, agentic, agentic plus), so you can access its capabilities today! If you’re processing millions/billions of documents at scale, we’re offering enterprises that book a demo up to $3k in credits for a guided evaluation.** *olmOCR-bench scores are adjusted based on unifying rendering at 1,288px for all models **enterprise POC credits apply to eligible organizations that book a demo
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Congrats to @nvidia for creating the best open-weight model on document parsing so far. Nemotron 3.5 Parse takes the #1 spot on ParseBench, our comprehensive real-world benchmark for document understanding. The full list consists of 150+ frontier models, open-weight models, and specialized solutions. It does this while remaining sub-1B parameters so it's also blazing fast ⚡️ Big thanks to @JensenHuang for the shoutout at GTC Berlin! Nemotron release: huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/n… ParseBench: parsebench.ai/
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. @sh_reya and I are launching our new book Evals for AI Engineers Nov 12th at @DanOlsen’s @LeanProdMeetup! You can join IRL in Mountain View or on Zoom. Our sponsor @raindrop_ai is providing free copies that we will sign for you if you come in person. Here's the sign up link events.ticketleap.com/ticket…
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You've gotta patch your dependencies super fast because they're full of vulns (PHP, Node, eMudhra, etc), but not _too_ fast because they're full of backdoors (LiteLLM). Good luck!
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