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Joined December 2017
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BANGGGGGGG, new content gimmick working out
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Replying to @ClaudeDevs
We're giving Ultra and Team Premium users Fable resets based on how long you've subscribed: <6 mo: 1 6–12 mo: 2 >12 mo: 3 Use them anytime by March 8. Pro and Team Standard get a week to try Fable 5.2, up to half your weekly limit, plus one reset. support.claude.com/en/articl…
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Had Gpt 6.1 Sol and Claude 5.5 Opus play tower defense against each other, and Sol wiped the floor with Opus. Not really what I thought would happen. (1/n)
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Model size was directly correlated with wins, the bigger models in each family won. (Opus beat Sonnet, Sonnet beat Haiku, Sol bet Luna).
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You can watch all the game replays at siddubey.com/towers
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blackmail is the new side hustle wowza
just talked to my friend non technical + retarded but just went from 0->1m arr in 2 weeks i’m pretty sure this is illegal but this is what he did he got access to a deepseek 4.1v 1017 cyber loaded up $250 in credits and literally got database level access to over 19 companies with credits to spare fucking insane btw then he gave the companies an ultimatum either pay him $5k or he emails all their users they were hacked his offer has a 100% take rate he did this all while not knowing how to code + spending less than $250 and on top of that he got a few offers from companies to consult them on cyber security wtf is life
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Tried to get Opus 5.5 (and Astra) to hand-write changes to Qwen 3 8B's weights to get it to paint with code, but everything sucked! It managed to fix the issues related to syntax, that is, Qwen was writing lots of p5 code that never resulted in an image, but it couldn't impart its own ability of painting via code just by "hand-editing" the neurons.
We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math. It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training. We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵 Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weigh…
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LLM was given weights explicitly as text in prompt and used code/forward passes (per authors' logs) to ablate Qwen looping direction, a known thinking-mode issue per model card. Primarily fixed repetition in that mode, not general 'natively' improving weights/math. rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-sp… github.com/RikiyaT/lm_und… huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-0… huggingface.co/RikiyaT/Qwen3.…
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ITS CALLED TWITTER NOW
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Tried this out by asking Astra and Opus 5.5 to hand construct networks to play a custom game another agent cooked up. They can in fact make the networks, but is that just because the networks are small and these bigger models were post trained on these tasks? Opus did a better job than Astra. Also did an o.k. job at guessing what the network was for, when given just weights with no context. Proper write up/thread coming after I read through the Claude code session that produced this lol
We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math. It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training. We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵 Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weigh…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
LLM was given weights explicitly as text in prompt and used code/forward passes (per authors' logs) to ablate Qwen looping direction, a known thinking-mode issue per model card. Primarily fixed repetition in that mode, not general 'natively' improving weights/math. rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-sp… github.com/RikiyaT/lm_und… huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-0… huggingface.co/RikiyaT/Qwen3.…
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I will say, parsing through pages and pages of Claudish to figure out what the heck it did and what bits of it matter is quite annoying. Still crazy that you can ask it to do things like this now though.
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The ranking members of the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees have written a letter to President Trump asking whether he has been soliciting advice from Grok in order to help carry out his official duties as President of the United States. They also demanded that he preserve any prompts sent to Grok, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, as well as outputs in response to those prompts, that were 'submitted to AI chatbots in carrying out your constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties.' The letter was provided by Politico.
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“You know what I’d really like?” “Tell me.” “A Side Project” “We can do a Side Project” “A real Side Project, no slop write up, no agent spam.” “I’ll make you a very traditional Side Project. Hand-crafted, passion infused, joy-bringing.”
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I think basically any hobby project that would have demonstrated grit or care or attention to detail in the past is almost meaningless as a signal now. All that really matters is if you stick with something for more than the 1 prompt it takes to get Opus to do everything for you. Demonstrating that you care is going to be a lot harder in the future
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Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton has sustained a left hamstring strain and will miss time, sources tell ESPN. Pacers doctors and Haliburton are now gathering a clear timeline.
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Watch Qwen play chess against a chess engine built into its weights at siddubey.com/qwenchess.
1/4 Meet Qwenputer: Qwen3.5-4B with a full RISC-V CPU inside its weights, using the model's own Gated DeltaNet layers as RAM. It runs C and MicroPython in its forward passes, no external runtime. On DeepMind math: base 55–90%, base + Python tool 95–100%, Qwenputer 97.5–100%.
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Can it run doom? 🤔
1/4 Meet Qwenputer: Qwen3.5-4B with a full RISC-V CPU inside its weights, using the model's own Gated DeltaNet layers as RAM. It runs C and MicroPython in its forward passes, no external runtime. On DeepMind math: base 55–90%, base + Python tool 95–100%, Qwenputer 97.5–100%.
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Kinda crazy what’s always been possible with just code
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Took some of the ~spooky~ neurons in Qwen that @jfonsecarivera found and had Claude make a Ouija board with some fun personalities moving around!
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Try out some of the questions and answers yourself at siddubey.com/ouija. It's not serving the models live because I'm gpu-poor.
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