Riddhiman Das

The Y-Combinator for LLMs An 8B model using λ-RLM beats 405B performance on long-context tasks. By replacing open-ended recursive code with typed λ-calculus combinators, it guarantees termination and reduces latency by up to 4.1x.

Be a paradox. Lift weights. Read books. Be ruthless in business. Be relaxed in life. Attract a strong partner. But stand complete on your own. Build empires while staying grounded in your roots. Surround yourself with winners. But never follow the crowd.

This video, which is 11 years old, provides the best explanation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

For competitive individuals who have been wronged, the best way to get out of a rut is not to plot revenge, but to win so hard that your very trajectory, brute-force tenacity, and sheer indomitable propulsion inspire all those who know you. Vengeance is a cage, for it narrows vision and thus limits your becoming. The best way to win is to keep showing up relentlessly for yourself and to set a standard that generates such invigorating momentum that you embody the energetic contrast that awakens the drive in others to rise beyond their current state.

Capitalism creates so there’s more for everyone. Socialism is the weaponization of greed and envy making everyone worse off.

You don't get to skip the hard part

A piece of advice a mentor told me that's stuck with me: “Decide what kind of life you actually want. And then say no to everything that isn't that.”

WaPo crushing it today: "America is lucky that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) wasn’t in office for the advent of the light bulb. We might all still be reading by candlelight." washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

Thirty-two seconds of my hero, Milton Friedman, at his very Miltonest. Lord. Was I lucky to have known that man.

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Birth of the AI book. 🤖🤝🧑‍🏫 tylercowen.com/marginal-revol…

Terence Tao is the greatest living mathematician. Fields Medal at 31. Solved problems that had been open for a century. Widely regarded as the sharpest analytical mind alive. And he just told you the thing your entire career is built on is now worthless. Tao: “AI has basically driven the cost of idea generation down to almost zero.” For five hundred years, the idea was the prize. The theory. The hypothesis. The flash of insight a physicist chased for twenty years in a lab before it landed. That was the bottleneck. That was what tenure rewarded. That was what Nobel committees were looking for. Gone. A model can generate a thousand candidate theories for a scientific problem in an afternoon. Not noise. Not garbage. Plausible, structured, publishable-grade hypotheses. A thousand of them. Before dinner. The idea used to be the scarcest resource in any room. Now it is the cheapest. But Tao went somewhere most people are not ready to follow. Tao: “Verification, validation, and assessing what ideas actually move the subject forward… that’s not something we know how to do at scale.” Sit with that. We automated creation. We did not automate truth. We can produce ten thousand explanations for a phenomenon. We cannot tell you which ones are real. That is not a gap. That is a chasm. And it is the most important unsolved problem on Earth right now. Tao: “Human reviewers… they’re already being overwhelmed actually.” The entire scientific apparatus was built for a world where a single paper took months to produce. Peer review. Journal boards. Consensus forged over years of replication and debate. That infrastructure was never designed for what just hit it. Journals are flooded. Reviewers are buried. The filters that separated signal from noise for decades were engineered for human-speed output. They are now absorbing machine-speed volume. And they are cracking under it. Tao compared it to the internet. The internet drove the cost of communication to zero. That did not produce clarity. It produced an ocean of noise with islands of signal buried somewhere inside. AI just did the same thing to knowledge itself. Infinite generation. Zero verification. The person who can produce ideas has never mattered less. The person who can prove which ideas are true has never mattered more. That is the inversion nobody is processing. Every company, every lab, every institution is racing to generate more. Faster models. Bigger outputs. More theories. More code. More content. Nobody is building the system that tells you which of those outputs are actually correct. And that is the only system that matters. Whoever solves verification at scale does not win a market. They become the filter that all of science, all of engineering, all of human discovery flows through. The bottleneck of the last five hundred years was producing the answer. The bottleneck of the next fifty is knowing whether the answer is real. And right now, according to the greatest mathematician alive, we do not know how to do that at the speed the machines demand. That is not a research problem. That is the race beneath the race. And almost nobody has entered it.

Technion researchers Dr. Gil Shamai, Prof. Ron Kimmel (Computer Science), and Prof. Dvir Aran (Biology) have developed an AI model that predicts who will benefit from chemotherapy—using routine pathology images, in minutes. A step toward faster, more accessible personalized cancer care. #Technion #AIinHealthcare #BreastCancer #PrecisionMedicine technion.ac.il/en/blog/articl… thelancet.com/journals/lanon…

The masculine urge to try to hack a new solution to ARC-AGI benchmarks

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everyone I know is working more than they’ve ever worked, or at least in many years, it’s so fun and the leverage is so high, can do more interesting research in an hour than in days 3yrs ago… per tab. my avg friend is working 7 days a week now. too much opportunity cost

“What sickens me about left-wing people, especially the intellectuals, is their utter ignorance of the way things actually happen.” —George Orwell

Never fuck over someone who is in founder mode. The chip on the shoulder will never fade, and their revenge arc will be on an order of magnitude you could have never imagined.

Incredible last few minutes of the Rick Rubin / Adam Neumann interview. I got chills listening to this. --- Adam: We'll connected to this week's portion. We all have something that we're slaves to. We all have an addiction to anger, to ego, to power, whatever it is, idol worship that we have. We all have an Egypt. We all need to leave that Egypt, come out of it. When we come out of that Egypt, we all face a Red Sea. When we see that Red Sea, we all need to have the courage to walk into it so far that we drown. Only when we're willing to drown will the Red Sea be split and we'll go to our next level. We then go to our next level. We see the Red Sea split. Suddenly we're like, oh, everything is okay. And we forget. The moment we forget, we step into the desert. We all have to walk through our version of desert. That desert is between us, us, and God. No one else. The only decision we get to have is how long we're going to journey through that desert. Are we going to journey for 14 days like the children of Israel were supposed to? Or are we going to journey for 40 years because we're not learning our lesson? Our choice is not, are we going to get into the desert or not? It's how long will we be in. And once we go out of that desert, we all have our version of the promised land. And if we have the courage to look inside, see our own correction, our own limitation, look at it clearly now and say, I see you, and I'm going to get over it. I'm going to learn. I'm going to grow. I'm going to understand that life is not about falling down. It's about how I'm going to get up. I'm going to fall 1,000 times so I can get up 1,001 times. And in that last time when I get up and I'm actually ready to go to my next level, I'm going to wish for you, for me, and for everybody who are listening — please, may we have the courage to go to our next level because we know that the promised land is waiting right after it. And may we not be afraid when the whole world is saying this or that about us. Who cares? It's about what you think, what your wife thinks, what your kids think, and what the universe thinks. Rick: Amen. Adam: Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Hashem. Thank you.

Hats off. @micsolana nailed it. what shook + activated me wasn’t the overt horror + terror of Oct 7th in Israel. I had no doubts Israel would win the kinetic war No it was the covert decade+ long-planned insidious infiltration info ops into news, politicians, .edu that became overt + evident to me Oct 8…