Innovating multi-AI Consensus systems @verafyfoundtn 🇺🇸
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Rex St. John retweeted
Pretty much.
As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off access to money for any company that doesn’t have substantial revenue independent of AI data centers.
SpaceX closed $40B of debt for GPUs, but we’re investment grade and have Starlink & launch revenue.
That means the 200+ neoclouds are going to see guppy-level death and consolidation. Some will make it through, but not many.
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so i figured out why my samsung TV is so sluggish.
samsung uses your own hardware for post-processing of data including audio, screenshots, and your aid (your cross-device tracking ID) and more telemetry.
computer vision processing and models run on your TV.
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turns out it classifies what audio it hears, before reporting back to samsung.
sensor preferences, dog-barking and baby-crying event counters, and camera streaming duration are built into telemetry paths.
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WTF, $3000 Samsung TV has an always-on mic, automatic content recognition, geo tracking, network mapping, and ships your data to Samsung + 400 partners.
Bro Rooted a brand-new 2025 Samsung TV after noticing absurdly targeted ads.
Firmware was locked down, so zero-days it was.
Got a root shell.
then found: always-on voice service, ACR, geo, full telemetry pipeline, and four separate DRM systems.
This isn’t a bug, It’s the product bro.
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You ever build something and get told you made something no one wants, and then the United States government legally mandates the entire AI sector use it?
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A few readers have taken me to task for “missing the point of the film,” which is apparently that Elizabeth Holmes is unknowable and everything is ambiguous. Here’s my response: She went after Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung with everything she had. I was threatened with litigation on a daily basis for months on end. It was a ruthless cover-up of a breathtaking fraud, and she was at the controls. Just a little context for those who have forgotten or didn’t follow the original story. By the way, I loved the film. #BestPicture, IMO.
A ton of people have asked me for my thoughts about “You Can See Everything,” the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary. Here they are: nytimes.com/2026/10/17/busin… via @NYTimes
Rex St. John retweeted
What the hell is going on with Claude usage after the last reset, it used to be impossible to spend them.
I took a peek after two days and 90% usage is gone and I compact automatically every 300k too and don't use subagents or fable.
Rex St. John retweeted
Astra resolvió 49/50 problemas inéditos de física teórica
Pero lo mejor es que en varios casos los expertos pensaron que estaba mal y al revisar descubrieron que la solución humana era la equivocada
Physics is solved
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Según el artículo de arXiv, son problemas calculacionales específicos ("turn-the-crank") con respuestas verificables, no problemas abiertos revolucionarios. El paper aclara que esto no implica resolver la física teórica ni investigación autónoma.
arxiv.org/abs/2610.16733
Rex St. John retweeted
Introducing Robo Use: API to physical worlds for agents
One interface, 32 embodiments, 100+ scenarios, and 11 agents and models
We aggregated all academic simulator scenarios and ran 2500+ trials with initial results.
Preview them or try it yourself 🧵
Rex St. John retweeted
Just a couple of days ago, and now this???
98.2% success in simulation??
But most impressively...
10 different tasks in a row! receiving that reward only once! after all 10 are done!
First they showed that a smarter way of sampling experience lets robots learn precise assembly and hard locomotion purely in simulation, with zero real-world data and no demonstrations. Now the same team just released AlphaNIST, where one single policy trained from scratch with almost nothing solves all 20 NIST assembly tasks at once.
Did I mention 98.2% success in simulation...?
Sequences of ten different parts in a row, rewarded only at the very end. And the robot starts inventing its own techniques, different nut-turning motions in tight gaps, reorienting parts against the environment, deciding the order of work itself, none of which was programmed in.
It feels like the AlphaGo moment, but for contact-rich assembly: simple objective, massive scale, and strategies that surprise even the people who trained it.
Again, thanks to Octi Zhang (@octi_zhang) and the team!
📌 Website: alpha-nist.github.io/
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2610.13354
Follow along if you are interested in robotics and AI!
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Rex St. John retweeted
AMD CEO Lisa Su just went after Nvidia's $4,000 AI box using a $1,499 machine the size of a lunchbox.
Holding it up on stage with one hand, she ran a model with 235 billion parameters live, with no data center, cloud or rented GPU behind it.
The surprise is the chip. Inside is AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395, which became the first x86 processor whose CPU and GPU draw from one shared pool of 128GB of memory. That one design choice lets a desktop handle models that once needed a server rack.
On Linux, 110GB of that pool can go to the GPU. An RTX 5090 offers 32GB. A 4090 offers 24GB. So this box has more than three times either card, in a case about as thick as a paperback.
The number that stunned the room: on DeepSeek R1 inference, the chip ran more than 3x faster than an Nvidia RTX 5080. A $1,499 desktop beating a $1,000 graphics card on real AI work. For a decade, Nvidia told the world that serious AI meant Nvidia hardware. AMD just made it a desktop item at half the cost.
Now the math. A heavy AI user today might pay for Claude Code Max ($200), ChatGPT Pro ($200), Cursor ($20) and Gemini ($20). That adds up to $5,280 a year. At that rate, the box covers its cost within months, then keeps running at no extra charge.
The setup: install Ollama, pull Qwen3 235B, and aim Claude Code at localhost. The interface stays the same. But nothing leaves the machine, there is no per-request bill, and no provider slows you down at 3am when you finally sit down to build.
This is where every AI subscription starts to look optional. Lawyers worry less about leaks to OpenAI. Developers stop staring at the token counter. Founders stop renting H100s for prototypes they abandon because of the bill.
Whoever gets there among the first thousand will own private AI consulting for the next two years.
If you're new here, @GeniusGTX is a gallery for the greatest minds in economics, psychology, and history. Follow along for more similar content.
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The device Lisa Su demoed, AMD's Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform (Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128GB unified memory), sells for $3,999.99 via Micro Center, not $1,499. The $1,499 figure refers to unrelated third-party mini PCs. tweaktown.com/news/112183/am… linuxcompatible.org/story/amd-ryze…
Rex St. John retweeted
Agents don't query, they speculate. 20x more branches, 50x more rollbacks than humans. Databases have to be rebuilt agent-first, and that includes who's allowed to touch what. Great talk @shulynnliu @shagarw21 🐻 xitter.cf/frontiersynd/status/21…
Your next database user won't be a human. It'll be an agent firing off hundreds of queries a second.
@shulynnliu and @shagarw21 of @BerkeleySky made the case at FRC #26 at @pebble_bed: agents don't query, they speculate. Schemas, samples, partial plans, retries, all in parallel.
On BIRD, more attempts meant better answers. Across 50 parallel attempts, most of the work was redundant. Agents already create ~20x more branches and ~50x more rollbacks than humans.
So the database has to change. Probes instead of queries. Satisficers instead of optimizers. Branching storage built for agents.
Thanks to @constructive_io for sponsoring.
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Insane. Anthropic has replaced Git with its own version control system after Claude-driven coding pushed daily code merges from 2,500 to over 30,000 in just four months.
A team of seven built Scion, a new code review tool and several related systems in five months. Scion uses 200x less CPU and memory than Anthropic's previous Git mirroring infrastructure, while CI saves 25% of CPU capacity.
An early Claude Mythos Preview rewrote a hand-built pipeline to use 20x less memory and run 4x faster, with no further instructions.
All the engineers who built the system now rate Claude as better at writing code than themselves.
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Herald OS is moving FAST! 🔥
It's already crossed 400 GitHub stars, and now it has its own photo editor, Docs, Sheets, and Slides. You can even ask Hermes to work directly inside those apps.
And here's something worth knowing. You don't have to replace your current operating system to try it.
🍎 Apple Silicon Mac: Run it as a fullscreen app or try the full OS in a virtual machine.
🐧 Linux: Run it as an app or a separate desktop session.
💻 Windows PC: Install it alongside Windows and choose which OS to boot.
Free, open source, and still in alpha.
I built an operating system where the AI agent isn’t another app. It’s part of the OS.
Today, Herald OS is open source and you can install it yourself 🚀
It’s built around Hermes Agent by Nous Research.
Talk or type to Hermes and it can work across your entire computer:
• Open and use apps
• Find, organize and work with your files
• Remember what matters
• Run routines and automations
• Build software while you watch
• Understand what’s happening on your screen
• Work across the machine instead of being trapped inside a chat window
And when something is about to make a change, you approve it first.
🎙️ Talk to your computer
Say “Hey Hermes” and just talk.
Native OS commands don’t need to burn model tokens. When you actually ask the agent to think, build or perform a task, that’s when Hermes gets involved.
⚡ Everyday superpowers
• Select any part of your screen and ask Hermes about it
• Pick a colour from anywhere
• Read a QR code from your screen
• Copy text from anywhere on screen
• Emoji in any app you type in
• When an app crashes, Hermes explains what happened in plain English
• One-click installs for Claude Code, Codex, local models and more
🐧 And yes, Herald OS Linux is an actual operating system
• Fedora underneath, Herald on top
• OS and Herald update together as one system
• Roll back an update if something goes wrong
• Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, sound, display and battery controls
• Screen recording
• Night light
• Fingerprint and security-key sign-in
• Firewall closed by default
🎨 Make the entire OS yours
Themes don’t just change a wallpaper. They can restyle the whole system, including the terminal.
Drop in any photo and build a theme from it.
Or describe what you want and let Hermes design one.
You can also:
• Ask Hermes to create a widget, then choose exactly what that widget is allowed to access
• Drag the menu bar into the layout you want
• Create your own menu entries
• Put your own logo in About
💻 Run it almost anywhere
• Native Mac app for Apple Silicon
• PC installer from a USB stick
• Arch Linux package
• Omarchy integration where Herald follows your theme and adds itself to the menu and keybindings
• Or boot the full Herald OS inside a VM on your Mac with one command
It’s free, open source and MIT licensed.
It’s also still alpha, so expect rough edges. This is an independent project and is not affiliated with Nous Research.
I’ve been building toward this idea for a while:
Instead of opening an AI app on your computer, what if your computer itself understood what you wanted?
Now you can try it
⭐ github.com/iamlukethedev/Her…
Rex St. John retweeted
Finally our HP printer will accept 3rd party ink! Thanx @morluto
github.com/morluto/rea
Rex St. John retweeted
Introducing Anatomy
Describe a machine in one line. Claude brings it to life.
- Interactive isometric wireframes you can rotate, inspect and explore
- WebGL shaders for fire, water, plasma and more
- Real 3D motion, with individual parts that rotate and move
Install it as an agent skill. Fully open source.
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Todos los productos de Adobe reimplementados desde cero, gratuitos y de código abierto
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