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What a week. Definitely making a couple pitchers of Beef Fizz tomorrow.

Impressive result: 99.9% on AIME 2025 with both open models and 85% fewer tokens!

The trick? Measuring confidence in the reasoning traces as they are being generated, then ending low confidence traces early.

jiaweizzhao.github.io/deepconf/

Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

screengrab of a portion of new yorker interview with former simpson's writer john swartzwelder: Mike Sacks: How much time and attention did you spend on these scripts? Another “Simpsons” writer once compared your scripts to finely tuned machines—if the wrong person mucked with them, the whole thing could blow up. Swartzwelder: All of my time and all of my attention. It’s the only way I know how to write, darn it. But I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue—“Homer, I don’t want you to do that.” “Then I won’t do it.” Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done. It’s like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I’ve taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it.

hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

If 25% of the population believed that a creature called ‘Glonzo’ caused high power prices by chewing through transmission lines, any competent politician would be negligent in not trying to find a way to exploit this. This doesn’t mean that these people wouldn’t be fucking morons.

Carol the brown fluffy cat on a red chair, looking down despondently (she is actually watching a loaf of bread rise)

She is too much for my heart

Green eyed bobtail cat laying on her side looking directly at the camera

Every single second with you is a magical gift. 🩷

Why do Al company logos look like buttholes? April 10th, 2025 If you pay attention to Al company branding, you'll notice a pattern:

omg lol

Not familiar with the specifics of Google scholar, but Google ads tracks your activity across every website implementing its api. So if you're reading articles on new topics, even on other websites, it can suggest similar things.

DOGE/Musk preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris in 2024.

Among cancellations with election data available, 92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts.

GitHub - hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam: real time face swap and one-click video deepfake with only a single image real time face swap and one-click video deepfake with only a single image - hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam

🔥 Hot Repo！ 🔥 (100+ new stars)

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real time face swap and one-click video deepfake with only a single image

Qiu, Gu, Li, Zuo, Shen, Zhang, Qiu, Yuan, Chen, Dong, Bo: LHM: Large Animatable Human Reconstruction Model from a Single Image in Seconds https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10625 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.10625 https://arxiv.org/html/2503.10625

Someone pointed out that influencers use serotonin/dopamine/cortisol/oxytocin like they’re the four humors and now I can’t stop seeing it

YouTube video by Summer School on AI and Games TV Marek Rosa (GoodAI): LLM-driven Game Characters - Summer School on AI and Games 2023

How to create AI People, leveraging #LLMs?

Marek Rosa (@blog.marekrosa.org.web.brid.gy ) the man behind Good AI and the Keen Software House shares insights on how they develop AI People

Watch his 2023 talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW1h...

More about us: school.gameaibook.org

Ukraine is Europe!
We stand by Ukraine.

We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor.

Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8 of the US Constitution begins: "No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States"

constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay...

America was created so we wouldn't have to live under a King.

Agree it's overused, but it's also overly applicable. MAGA has celebrated the pain their actions will cause their "enemies", and I will not deny anyone the schadenfreude of watching that backfire.

This review paper by @guillaume-garrigos.com on SGD-related algorithms is a fantastic resource, offering elegant, self-contained, and concise proofs in a single, accessible reference. arxiv.org/pdf/2301.11235

This goes so fucking hard dude

ELON DID A FUCKING NAZI SALUTE AND THAT IS NOT FUCKING OK

Stop acting like AI uses a lot of water Look, I get it. AI hype is extremely annoying, and increasingly inescapable. But that’s not a reason to take every anti-AI argument as…

New Medium post: Stop acting like AI uses a lot of water

medium.com/@notkavi/sto...

Free PC Games - The Best For The Broke

FREE GAMES! No, really, the PC has mountains of great games that don't cost a penny. Not even F2P (though I did include some), just FREE. I'm gradually updating a sortable little database of the best out there. Got 125+ so far

Share it around, and let me know if there's anything I should add to it!

Good point that the ftp model is perfectly designed for a world with wide wealth inequalities.