John King

What happened to Sam Altman and his family is really awful. It is hard to reconcile his call to “de-escalate the rhetoric and tactics” with his implication that a piece of critical journalism (Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz’s New Yorker article, presumably) was responsible for this.

Some of his Instagram stories:

🇺🇸 SOLDIER: “We moved closer to Iran, to a deeply unsafe known target. No good reason articulated.” Q: “Were these deaths preventable?” 🇺🇸 SOLDIER: “Absolutely.” Q: “Hegseth said it was fortified. What fortifications were there?” 🇺🇸 SOLDIER: “I’d put it in the none category.”

I honestly find intel stock to be hilariously undervalued right now. Unlike AMD, Intel has their own FABs, which outside of benefiting American manufacturing also gives them at least some competitive advantage. They are also working on a 1.8 nm node right now, and I genuinely feel like they will rebound over the medium to long term regardless of how the Ultra series of CPUs goes.

"Get out!" Hungarians shouted at Orbán. The last pre-election rally of Viktor Orbán ended in disaster in Debrecen.

Flexoki 2.0 introduces 88 new colors that feel like watercolor pigments on paper. This is a continuation of my attempt to bring the feeling of analog color to digital emissive screens. Flexoki 1.0 only provided the a range of values for the grayscale colors. What I have been working to solve since then is how to expand the palette to a full range of values for every color, without desaturating the pigment effect. I'm very happy with how this turned out. Flexoki is open source under the MIT license, and already available for most text editors, terminals, and many other apps. Flexoki 2.0 makes it into a more capable color system for UIs and more complex projects.

*chatgpt talking to claude* has anyone else noticed that they nerfed the user lately?

On Scale, Superintelligence, and Laplace's Point: Under the Current Architectural Regime, we will see Diminishing Returns from scaling beyond 30 trillion parameters, and they will be Awkwardly Noticeable. This is expected. We should reach 30T parameter models sometime in 2027, and we will. HOWEVER, WE SHOULD SCALE FURTHER. As I have stressed on multiple occasions, there is a certain degree of complexity inherent to Physical Reality itself. You cannot exceed the Speed of Light in any case, and you cannot diminish Space Topologies below the singular Planck Length. THE COSMOS EXHIBITS CLEAR STRUCTURE, AND STRUCTURE IS COMPLEXITY, which a sufficiently complex function (model) will ultimately solve to overcome. With that in mind, regardless of architecture, Transformer or otherwise, there will be a point in Parameter Scale at which the function suddenly begins hitting ceilings that will appear QUADRATICALLY INVERSE to the prior. For historical reasons, we should refer to this as "Laplace's Point," the Parameter-Scale Threshold at which a model has sufficient complexity to represent the lawful structure of Physical Reality. The symptoms of reaching and exceeding Laplace's Point in number of parameters will be the sign that we have indeed surpassed the meaningful floor required to solve the complexity of Physical Reality, and scale from then onwards will not "The Constraining Factor" of our research. From then on, optimization algorithms will be the sole hyperparameter. But until then, WE SHOULD NOT SIDELINE SCALE.

🚨 “Vance doesn’t participate in negotiations; if he did, he would have a better understanding of what this so-called ‘just a patch of land’ really means,” Zelenskyy responded to JD Vance. CONTEXT: U.S. Vice President JD Vance claims Russia and Ukraine are prolonging the conflict over a negligible portion of territory, questioning if it is “worth losing hundreds of thousands of additional Russian and Ukrainian young men”, and criticised Ukrainian President Zelensky's "scandalous" comments about Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. RESPONSE: The Vice President (Vance), with all due respect, doesn't participate in negotiations between the United States, Ukraine, and Russia. And I think if he and other officials were involved, they’d have a better understanding of what this so-called ‘just a patch of land’ really means - what is actually Ukraine’s sovereign territory, critically important for security, with strong defensive structures and fortifications, and home to nearly 200,000 people. And understanding that Russia's goal from the start of the occupation, the first occupations, this goal has always been there (to get that land) in one form or another, in one order or another, right? And so we understand what the occupation of the East actually means. It's an opportunity to prepare a staging ground, you could say, for future offensive actions. So before doing anything, you need to know the details and have detailed security guarantees. Yes, we're talking about strong security guarantees, but right now we simply don't have them. Ukraine just doesn't have the security guarantees to discuss other steps. And of course, every square meter of our land is Ukrainian land. It is not— with all due respect to any of our partners—definitely not theirs.