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A stock candlestick chart for Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ) showing intraday price action. The top reads: “Meta Platforms, Inc. · 10 · NASDAQ,” with values: open 752.85, high 755.01, low 689.04, close 689.80, down 62.15 points (−8.27%). The chart background is black, with red and green candles indicating minute-by-minute trading activity. Prices move mostly sideways through the day, then spike briefly upward near 15:45 before a massive red candlestick plunges sharply at 16:00, representing a steep sell-off. The y-axis ranges from 685 to 760 USD, and the x-axis shows times from 10:00 to 16:00. The final candle closes at 689.80 USD.

Meta stock drops 10% after Q3 earnings call due to a $15.9B expense for hiring 4 AI researchers

Excited for OpenAI to IPO just so we can see what investor reactions are to spending $50B - $75B a quarter on data centers and AI researchers while losing tens of billions a quarter.

I can't overstate how eyeopening this model comparison is.

If you have just little, basic knowledge about how transformer based LLMs work (GPT-2 level), this will give you an overview of missing pieces, techniques and tricks how modern LLM implementations work.

Highly recommended.

MIKE JOHNSON MEETS OLIVER TWIST

Cover of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon

On 29 Oct 1983, Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon marked its 491st week on the Billboard album chart in the US, surpassing the previous record holder, 'Johnny's Greatest Hits' by Johnny Mathis. When it finally stopped charting in 1988, 'Dark Side' had set a new record of 741 weeks. #PinkFloyd

‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ linocut print.

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#BLOCTOBER2

FELON GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS. 💯🎯

Cartoon credit ~ @slyngstad.bsky.social

Screenshot from study linked in our first reply.

📒 NEW STUDY: “Permanent Daylight Saving Time hinders the stability of circadian rhythms, posing public health risks, especially for adolescents and evening chronotypes.” 👉 Permanent Standard Time is needed instead!

Buckingham Palace has announced that it is removing all remaining styles, titles and honours of Prince Andrew:

"Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor."

He is also being evicted from his accommodation at Royal Lodge.

Correct action, but it should never have taken this long.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Top 10 Dog Halloween Costumes!

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Guide to Electronic Components A list of parts each with a photo of a SOT-23 package Bipolar Transistor MOSFET JFET Voltage Regulator Diode Supervisor Thyristor Voltage Monitor Temperature Sensor Voltage Reference Varactor Magnetic Field Sensor EEPROM Resistor Divider LED (but with a red SOT-23 package that is glowing!)

Here's a handy guide to some electronic components.

MiniMax M2 & Agent: Ingenious in Simplicity MiniMax M2 was released on Monday 27th October by MiniMax, a Chinese AI lab founded in December 2021. It's a very promising model. Their self-reported benchmark scores show it as …

MiniMax M2 is the new "most intelligent" open weights model (according to Artificial Analysis) - the MIT licensed weights are just 230GB and it appears comparable to Sonnet 4, while priced closer to Gemini 2.5 Flash. Notes here, including a new LLM plugin:
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/29/...

Talk And Draw: Heather Cox Richardson and Liza Donnelly In which we visit an historical event that relates to today

Talk And Draw: Heather Cox Richardson and Liza Donnelly

History with a cartoon.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

1930s Britain The 1930s are hugely underrated as a decade, says the historian. She tells us about the social and design revolutions that made the thirties much more than just a prelude to war

"Nobody in the thirties, apart from politicians, really knew, or wanted to know, until 1938, that there was going to be war."
fivebooks.com/best-books/j...

Emergent introspective awareness in large language models Research from Anthropic on the ability of large language models to introspect

Language models can correctly answer questions about their previous intentions.
www.anthropic.com/research/int...

This is Stephan. He just wants to help. 13/10 such a good boy

A gorgeous gibbous Moon rests above a ridge line near Cerro Pachón, the home of four NOIRLab-operated telescopes including NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE/SC); Gemini South, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, supported in part by NSF; and the SOAR Telescope of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, a Program of NSF NOIRLab. The particular beauty of the Moon and its features are visible in this delightful image. The dark splotches of ancient, basaltic flats known as maria splatter across our satellite. These features formed when basalt moved from the lunar interior to fill basins on the surface during a time of active volcanism on the Moon. On the left side of the Moon, as seen from this perspective, are the two famous maria: Mare Tranquillitatis (immediately above center left) and Mare Serenitatis (center left). These maria, respectively, were the landing sites for the first and last human visits to the Moon. On the upper left-hand edge of the Moon, the slopes and edges of the Moon’s other distinct feature, craters, appear starkly against the dark blue sky. One of the most distinct lunar craters, the massive Tycho crater, is in the upper right quadrant of the Moon in this image, flipped almost 180 degrees compared to the view from the northern hemisphere. Craters on the Moon are younger than the maria, and Tycho crater is particularly young, as evident by its sharp appearance.

NOIRLab image of the week

A Lunar Delight Deep in the Desert

Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)

noirlab.edu/public/image... 🧪🔭

Your gluten sensitivity might be something else entirely, new study shows A new study shows gluten itself is rarely the cause of gut problems, whatever people think. But symptoms are real. So what’s really going on?

#Gluten sensitivity may actually be FODMAP sensitivity

theconversation.com/your-gluten-...

#glutenfree risks:

> 139% more expensive
> lower in fiber & key nutrients
> reduces diversity in diet
> alters gut microbes
> reinforces anxiety about eating

🧪 #health #science #diet

This is figure 2. Scat of the Asian Common Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) found on a fallen log (a) and ripened berries of Robusta coffee from a coffee estate (b). Photographed by Ramit Mitra.

Coffee beans harvested from the faeces of the Asian palm civet may have higher levels of fats and other key flavour-enhancing compounds than traditionally harvested beans, according to a paper in Scientific Reports. go.nature.com/4nuNrL2 #plantscience 🧪

Zohran Mamdani is so scary because he is planting the idea that you can tax billionaires and use the money to help people instead of debating what services to cut to pay for tax cuts. Which is literally why the US government is currently shut down.

He is destroying decades of political messaging.

My dad, explaining AI to my mom: “It doesn’t think. It copies stuff wrong.”

I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this

YouTube video by Roman Styran Bertrand Russell on his meeting with Vladimir Lenin in 1920

Bertrand Russell wasn't impressed with him: youtu.be/6TK9c-caEcw?...

This is what they voted for. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...