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@julianboolean_ Push more weight technically but yeah. 240kg DL and 280 hip thrusts

@DrellLabs you can lift more weight with hip thrusts than with deadlifts?

logically speaking, deadlifts have to be the best whole body exercise, because you can lift more weight deadlifting than any other way

@cremieuxrecueil How to do get on the list of approved researchers?

@shawn_k2539 @wil_da_beast630 Success rate at a specific score doesn't say anything about how many people reached a certain score, and also just sheer number of Indian applicants a year

@wil_da_beast630 I find the shocking. If you go on any campus, particularly any state university campus it feels like Indians dominate the scene.

Asians have a harder time getting into college than whites - which we knew - but Indians etc apparently have a harder time than East Asians.

@gnordlan @HazelAppleyard Id imagine you’d get used to it after the twentieth time

@HazelAppleyard 5 YEARS!? You skydive to death every day for FIVE YEARS!? No thanks.

NO.

@lossfunk Are these using thinking modes for all of the models that have them?

🚨 Shocking: Frontier LLMs score 85-95% on standard coding benchmarks. We gave them equivalent problems in languages they couldn't have memorized. They collapsed to 0-11%. Presenting EsoLang-Bench. Accepted to the Logical Reasoning and ICBINB workshops at ICLR 2026 🧵

@Utkarsh51557661 @TukiFromKL Tons of data of how people use coding tools...

@TukiFromKL curious how a small team pulled this off. what do they know that bigger labs don't?

🚨 Cursor just dropped Composer 2.. their own AI model.. not Claude.. not GPT.. their own.. and it beats Claude Opus on coding benchmarks.. at a fraction of the cost.. a code editor with 50 people just outperformed a $30 billion AI lab.. at coding.. which is supposed to be their whole thing.. the vibe coding era just got an upgrade..

@ladyloodeeloo @Alt_Azn Yes. They're just not the michael b jordan looking types.

@Alt_Azn Will black and Latino guys date sub mid shrill Asian women?

If you ever want to get a woke lefty Asian chick mad don’t point out they don’t date Asian guys, point out they don’t date black and Latino guys.

@cremieuxrecueil Is the efficacy still in question? Or is it just the potential side effects they are still trying to test for?

I think what we have to do is clear: Semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy) needs to be treated as the standard of care for weight loss and it needs to be an active comparator in trials going forward. Everyone knows these drugs work, so we can't do inert placebos anymore.

They really should work on leaving the permanent underclass and start working on vibe coding a B2B saas

@a16z Ah yes because AI would be the equivalent of a blonde European man answering your calls not like those poor accented south and southeast Asians

In the 1990s and 2000s, email “replaced” physical mail and changed the nature of correspondence. The same thing is happening right now with customer attention. If you think AI is just going to “replace” the call center agent, you’re stuck thinking about first-order effects. AI is going to create an entirely new category of customer relationship that was previously impossible, just like how email created an entirely new category of communication. a16z's Sarah Wang on how Decagon is using AI to give everyone concierge service: a16z.news/p/the-internet…

@theducksayshi He’s ngmi. Underclass speedrun right there. Jk that was me when I finished grad school tbf

my friend is 28 yo he just got a doctorate in music. he has: - 60k/yr income - 4k saved - no debt - 1 car he doesn't have any assets. how far behind is he?

@ClareEastCoast @MadelaineLucyH I’ve never seen a woman who by virtue of having a boyfriend gets more attention from men. It either makes no difference or it’s a turn off

@MadelaineLucyH For men, I think it's instinct to compete, especially with mating. Women can be competitive too, but I think it's more a false sense of safety (he's taken so won't be a sex pest). Once she is comfortable and confident men mistake any kindness/friendliness/bonding for interest.

Ok I can explain this, and it’s not because women are all evil and like hurting other women. It’s just as true in reverse, the minute you are serious with a guy 50 men will pop up like whackamoles claiming they thought you were the one. Roughly, you can split all people who like you(both men and women) into three groups; A- Romantically interested in you B- Up for something casual/sex C- Just wants an ego boost/roster Now if they are in C, they aren’t going to like you being “off the market”. If they are A, they will be upset you didn’t choose them. If they are B, they will just drop off because it is too much effort. You being in a relationship just reminds them you exist.

@OGTaylorB @MadelaineLucyH It’s less about “vetted” and more about clearly there’s something desirable there. The desire is mimetic

@MadelaineLucyH I always thought it was because ladies see a guy with a girlfriend and think, "he's vetted, probably safe to flirt with."

@anothercohen Maybe this is bait but I’m genuinely surprised by the number of people can’t recognize the adult versions of these kids if they’re in the tech space

Paul Graham's kids btw

@Folke Remember openclaw guy burned through like 20k a month to build it

I love the idea of opensource coding agents like Pi and OpenCode, and to an extent OpenClaw, but how do people actually use this with SOTA coding models without burning literally $1000 per month? Especially with multiple agents. I stick to Claude Code with my Max plan ($200) because of that. (And because it's awesome). What am I missing here?

@Pleiades6543 @razibkhan The average Indian American household income is higher than any other ethnicity in America.

this goes against stereotype. but perhaps it's cuz brownz are so lib?

@Yantrarora @paulg @pitdesi If you're a chen, zhang or wang you might as well just claim a legacy

@paulg @pitdesi Way more Chinese legacies but I don't know how much impact that has overall.

It is harder for Asians to get into top colleges than other races, but it is much harder for South Asians than East Asians.

There are a lot of other East Asians (technically southeast asians) that do get boosted by affirmative action due to the perception of their lower standing in society: lower household income, refugee families, first generation college student etc. Indian americans specifically have very high household incomes compared to Chinese, so I can imagine they may get "penalised" on the socioeconomic front.

@pitdesi It's harder for people of e.g. Indian descent than for people of Chinese descent? That's surprising. I thought admissions officers discriminated most against the latter.

@Yuchenj_UW It's one of those moves that only works when you're the dominant coding agent in the space (CC). As someone trying to gain market share, a "plus" would be not having it look like AI did the work for you

I noticed something interesting: Claude Code auto-adds itself as a co-author on every git commit. Codex doesn’t. That’s why you see Claude everywhere on GitHub, but not Codex. I wonder why OpenAI is not doing that. Feels like an obvious branding strategy OpenAI is skipping.