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most of this was done with opus 5.5 but some was done with fable 5.2 and I was never able to shake the feeling that it was gaslighting me and playing dumb on purpose.
several times I asked it variants of "are you avoiding doing this correctly?" and it straight up ignored me and didn't answer.
I updated my quantization compiler to use e-means as a replacement for k-means in codebook generation and got Qwen3.5-4B from 8.41 GB to 1.23 GB while retaining 91.9% of original performance which I think is approximately SOTA, at least comparable to bonsai 2 but I think we could go lower if someone wanted to donate some GPU time since this is just a hobby for me.
at this size, it's small enough that memory bandwidth isn't the bottleneck to decode speed so I'm interested in seeing how fast we can get larger models on consumer hardware. link below.
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Someone built a voice agent, then had ChatGPT call it as a customer and order a pizza.
One AI taking an order from another, name and callback number included.
We are gonna be talking to our computers a lot more.
You can build one here: s.fish.audio/z8ctge
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Yup. Although, it's really important to keep in mind that one of the really disruptive things about AI is that it allows us to throw money at the problem. Something we've been unable to do in software.
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"That, to me, is unconscionable." Conservative MP @MichelleRempel says young Canadians have put out hundreds of resumes and cannot find an entry-level job, while the government allows permits for temporary foreign workers.
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dans un silence assourdissant claude vient de lâcher une dinguerie en physique théorique en réglant 2 problèmes qui saoulaient les chercheurs depuis des décennies avec le coefficient de polyakov, il a capté que les trous noirs peuvent aussi pop par transition ultra rapide dans des tout petits univers et à côté de ça il a posé la limite exacte du fameux modular bootstrapping (je vous laisse chercher) pour faire le grand ménage dans toutes ces théories de gravité quantique un peu bancales qui tournaient en rond
pour vous la faire simple, imaginez que les physiciens galéraient à assembler des pièces de lego cosmiques super complexes sur la façon dont un mini trou noir se forme dans l’univers, bah dites vous queclaude a juste sorti la formule miracle pour tout emboîter d’un coup et jeter toutes les fausses pistes à la poubelle et je trouve ça juste incroyable à observer putain!!!
ce qui rend ce truc complètement fou c’est que c’est le genre d’avancée qui va pour moi irriguer toute la tech de pointe pour les années à venir et ceux qui croient encore que l’ia sert juste à gratter des mails ou à faire des résumés de réunion sont totalement perchés
comprenez qu’on est en train de basculer dans une époque où l’IA devient le moteur absolu de la découverte scientifique
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Les entreprises commencent à obtenir de meilleurs rendements grâce à l’intelligence artificielle, mais leur niveau de préparation recule face aux cyberrisques, aux données mal intégrées et aux infrastructures vieillissantes. Le paradoxe est frappant : l’IA crée plus de valeur, alors même que plusieurs organisations reconnaissent ne pas avoir encore la gouvernance, les processus et les systèmes nécessaires pour la déployer à grande échelle. moncarnet.com/2026/11/11/int…
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120 secondes de Tech / 10 nov 2026
- Anthropic lance Fable 5.2 et Mythos 5.2
- Instagram estime désormais l’âge par IA
- Apple veut transformer Siri en agent autonome
- DeepSeek accélère dans les agents IA
- Elvis et Eminem poursuivent Suno
🤖 Made with AI
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Think about this 🇨🇦 Canada has the HIGHEST household debt relative to disposable income in the G7, but the lowest government net debt in the G7
Put another way, Canadian households are the highest in debt of all G7, but the Canadian govt is the LOWEST in debt of all G7. INSANE
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From customer acquisition to fraud prevention, AI is forcing banks to rethink how decisions are made across the business.
Read here: fintechnews.my/61476/ai/ai-p…
#fintech #AI #banking
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Grâce à une nouvelle caméra électronique à mouvement lent, la « transition de Landau-Zener-Majorana » visualisée pour la première fois : l'Université de Ratisbonne annonce un film au ralenti d'un « saut quantique » dans le graphène, un phénomène très difficile à étudier.
uni-regensburg.de/en/univers…
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Looking forward to joining the speaker lineup for the @TomorrowXSummit, November 17–18 in Austin!
An exciting time to talk about how AI can serve engineers building the physical world. See you in Austin. #tomorrowXsummit
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This week’s Paper Club is all about AI for biology.
Sequencing costs have collapsed, biology is generating more data than researchers can make sense of, and the models are beginning to catch up. The opportunity now is to move from reading biological data to modeling and designing living systems.
We brought together researchers and builders working across cancer genomics, virtual cells, genome language models, and biological design to show what that shift looks like in practice.
We start with a single patient, asking how AI can build a research program around their cancer, then zoom out to whole cells and genomes. Along the way, we look inside a language model trained on DNA and explore how in-context learning emerged even though the model was never explicitly trained to do it.
00:00 - Is the Turing test solved? A live experiment
03:22 - Why now is the best time for AI Bio
08:26 - Alfredo Gonzalez: cancer as a data problem
29:50 - Yusuf Roohani: virtual cells and autonomous research
51:47 - Garyk Brixi: what a model learns from DNA
1:09:57 - Divya Nori: few-shot prompting for biological design
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Personal news: I’m joining Sound Ventures as an advisor.
Fun story, Guy Oseary first reached out back when The Rundown had 150K subscribers.
I had no idea what I was doing, and I’m still not sure why he took the call...
But we’re at 3.5M now, and I’ve learned he has a real gift for spotting talent early, whether that’s in music or through early investments like OpenAI and Anthropic.
Fortunate to be on the receiving end of that, and even more grateful for his mentorship along the way!
What makes Sound different is how much they focus on brand, marketing, storytelling, and distribution, which in my opinion is the most important thing right now.
It’s never been easier or cheaper to start a company, but the flip side is that new startups pop up in the same categories every day. What makes one stand out is the ability to tell its story.
I’ll also be getting a closer look at what’s coming before it’s obvious, and I’ll be sharing what I’m seeing with you.
Excited to join my friends Roberto (@rpn) and Tiff (@TiffinTech_ ) as advisors alongside a deep bench of marketing and media minds.
Let’s go.
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Pre-IPO Stocks Secondary Market Valuations | as of November 2, 2026 | Download full report = agdillon.com/reports
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Delivery Accounts for One Third of Uber's Revenues statista.com/chart/amp/36760… #tech #digital #data #business
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C’est rendu complètement fou combien ça coûte cher de faire réparer une auto au Québec!
On parle beaucoup de la crise du logement et du prix de l’épicerie, avec raison, mais le coût pour entretenir une voiture est en train de devenir un autre énorme problème pour les familles québécoises!
Un de mes amis qui possède un garage me parlait justement de ça l’autre fois et ce qu’il m’a dit m’a vraiment frappé.
Il m’a dit : « Oli, on fait le même argent qu’avant, sauf qu’on vend maintenant certaines pièces deux à trois fois plus cher. C’est rendu gênant quand je dois annoncer le prix des réparations à mes clients! »
C’est complètement fou à quel point le coût de la vie a explosé!
Entre l’inflation, l’augmentation du prix des pièces, la main-d’œuvre et maintenant les droits de douane qui viennent ajouter encore plus de pression, faire réparer une voiture est rendu un véritable luxe!
Et savez-vous qui écope encore…La classe moyenne!
Les gens qui n’ont pas les moyens de s’acheter une voiture neuve à 50 000 $ ou 60 000 $. Ceux qui gardent leur auto pendant 8, 10 ou 12 ans, qui n’ont plus de garantie du manufacturier et qui doivent maintenant sortir 2 000 $, 3 000 $ ou même 5 000 $ pour une réparation!
À un moment donné, il y a une limite à ce que le portefeuille des Québécois peut absorber! #quebec #Economie
We’re introducing ToyBlocks, an open simulated tabletop for controlled experiments in robot learning.
It enables robotics researchers to experimentally control training data & models, run targeted evals, & trace failures to their causes. 🧵
github.com/allenai/ToyBlocks
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growing fonder on Agent Overseers for personal software so I can make more small scoped malleable software
instead of calling a tool, call an agent in charge of the tool
Overseers are in charge of making sure things run smoothly and then pass + write the correct context back
especially nice for internal work & jobs/infra stuff
often implemented as a call to another agent -> acts as a small scoped fuzzy functions with strict instructions and tools
some jobs may be unreliable with certain size inputs/data so overseers they repair issues
in building swarms for evals with tons of diverse inputs (3D viewers, gyms, installed software, etc) - finding overseers is great at putting out fires




































