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The timing on this is ridiculous - my first ever larger size polymarket bet, and that just so happens to be seconds before someone comes in with almost $1M to shift that market 4% in the other direction, in an (unsuccessful) attempt to win a secondary market… https://x.com/jon_charb/status/1832112496968171679

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New LLM release. Inner monologue as intermediary output seems very promising - my feeling is that LLMs are effectively "system 1" thinking, but so far we have been training them mostly on "system 2" output (because that is more readily available). https://x.com/mattshumer_/status/1831767014341538166

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absurd - Microsoft makes it impossible to disable the "Email a code" login option. Someone keeps trying to guess this (6 digit) code for my account. At this rate they have a ~1% brute force chance per year...

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The ability for countries to make credible commitments to investors across changes in government is good, actually. https://x.com/slatestarcodex/status/1831405516326891549

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If you are a rationalist and not willing to "question" democracy, you are not a rationalist. https://x.com/samoburja/status/1830481350488637805

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Goodbye SF, I’ll be back!

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TIL about the term "neuro-symbolic AI". Always good to have a term to put to an interesting concept. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-symbolic_AI

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Always a bit alien to me to see so many laptops in a lecture setting. During my 4 undergrad years (maths, then econ) I didn't even own a laptop. Only bought one (a used MacBook) when switching over to CS for my master's, and even then mainly for homework after class. https://x.com/vikhyatk/status/1828653905968079225

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When Tesla first released the Model 3, I remember visiting California and being excited the few times during the trip I spotted one. Then on my next visit a year later, it felt like they were ubiquitous. I get the same feeling about Waymo in SF now. Last year, it was exciting to spot one. Now they are everywhere!

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Even pretty censored local LLM models are mostly following instructions if one manually writes the first 1-2 words of the response and only lets them complete from there. Would be interesting to use a small (uncensored) model to automate that process.

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PODs are the future. iykyk

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Had a very SF moment just now: I was in a self driving car and passed by a Party for Socialism and Liberation demonstration with people holding a big "the people voted, Maduro won" banner. The two sides of SF…

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Seen in New York

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Exciting to see this collaboration between Perplexity and Polymarket. This year (and obviously the US election cycle) really seems to be the year of prediction markets reaching critical mass! https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/1823029449534615705

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I’ve seen a few people on here with their own personal channels. So I’ll give it a try as well. Created /ansgar, and will set my casts there to "channel followers only". That way it’s truly opt-in and I won’t have to worry about spamming people’s feeds. See you over there (maybe)!

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Agree with Barnabé. Braid looks interesting, but I have seen it referred to as multi-proposer, which seems misleading (there it seems to be very similar in spirit to FOCIL). To me its main contribution is in exploring a deterministic ordering mechanism for L1. https://x.com/barnabemonnot/status/1820912429418811594

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I see that "channel muting" ended up happening the other way, with the "channel followers only" cast option. This effectively gives control to the poster instead of the reader - interesting choice!

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Reasonable point by Anatoly, but of course that's what Ethereum's L2-centric approach is about: Any user should be able to frequently and trustlessly (!) use L2s. Trustless means it must be affordable to run an L1 full node and L2 lightclients. https://x.com/aeyakovenko/status/1820288161769202141

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