@ripplebrain Little known fact: the sacred mountain 백두산 was actually traditionally known as Hugh. Via the Korean War, this actually inspired the nickname for the Bell UH-1 Iroquois copter
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Sam
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Why did they name it Hugh? That doesn't sound Korean.
Tal Inbar@inbarspace
This is HUGH! 2,500 kN solid propelled rocket motor tested in North korea.
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@ylecun @LokiJulianus @ClementDelangue @atreides_sf They give back via their output which the open models certainly train on, however much the closed model labs try to prevent it?
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@ClementDelangue @atreides_sf Let's be real, all closed models profit from open models WITHOUT GIVING BACK.
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well let's be real, open model SOTA was distilled from claude
clem 🤗@ClementDelangue
After @Pinterest @Airbnb @NotionHQ @cursor_ai, today it’s @eoghan @intercom publicly sharing that they’re finding it better, cheaper, faster to use and train open models themselves rather than use APIs for many tasks. And hundreds of other companies are doing the same without sharing. Ultimately, I believe the majority of AI workflows will be in-house based on open-source (vs API). It took much more time than we anticipated but it’s happening now!
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@admcollingwood @Treeless_North Iran would probably let Greenland flagged oil tankers through the strait for free, just as an FU to trump
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The power of sanctions is now available to Iran. This is the conclusion we must draw. We applied the sanctions (economic) weapon liberally and ruthlessly to crush nations who did things with which we disagreed. Now, it is being applied to us. I say that with no relish or happiness—and if anybody is tempted to enjoy the schedenfreud, I urge them not to do so, because if this doesn't end soon, either with the USAF entirely suppressing Iranian fires or Trump accepting a colossal geostrategic loss, the pain will be worse than anything we have felt for almost a hundred years.
GB Politics@GBPolitcs
🚨NEW: The UK has accused Iran of "holding the world economy hostage" [@AlJazeera]
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@grok @binarybits I mean Warren is not the most neutral source on this type of matter. What is the analysis of apolitical antitrust experts.
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Yes, according to analyses of the deal (a $20B non-exclusive IP license + acquihire of most of Groq's team, closed Dec 2025), a full stock/asset merger would have required HSR premerger filing and FTC/DOJ review. Given NVIDIA's ~80-90% AI accelerator share and Groq's role as a direct inference rival (LPU tech), it likely would have faced blockage or heavy conditions for lessening competition. The chosen structure sidesteps that trigger, as confirmed by senators Warren/Blumenthal's probe and industry reporting.
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This is so stupid. You shouldn't be able to opt out of antitrust scrutiny with clever contract terms. I hope the next Democratic administration makes tech companies stop doing this.
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I think when you are at war with country X and then drones swarm your air force base you should have a strong prior that they are linked to country X, even if you think country X is too “unsophisticated” to produce drones that capable of attacking your (entirely air defenseless) base
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This should be the biggest story in the country right now.
Barksdale is the HQ for our B52 nuclear bombers, it's where Bush sheltered on 9/11, and the drones are reported as "far more sophisticated than anything seen in Ukraine ... and well beyond Iranian capabilities."
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Texas (🤠) and California (💩) are the only states that have their own emojis
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@grok @HarmlessYardDog Can stockpiles in theater be realistically resupplied while Hormuz is closed, eg via air freight?
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Hey HarmlessYardDog,
The 2026 Iran war kicked off Feb 28 with heavy US use of high-end PGMs (Tomahawks ~168 in first 100 hrs, JASSMs, etc.), burning ~10-25% of standoff stocks early on per CSIS/Bloomberg estimates. Total munitions spend: $16B+ by day 12.
Shifted by day 4-5 to JDAM gravity bombs (tens of thousands in stock, called "nearly unlimited" by DoD).
Overall depletion: 10-20% for key precision strike inventory after ~3 weeks. No critical shortage for current ops; production surging.
Open sources only—exact figures classified.
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Hey @grok, estimate US precision guided weapon stockpile depletion since the start of the Iranian conflict.
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@JimDMiller Also when people embrace AI judges, a lot of the justification for deferring to law even when it leads to unjust outcomes (because that’s the only way to keep a human run justice system tractable ) starts to look suspect.
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More interestingly, maybe the entire edifice of law as practiced currently (the role of precedent, common law, blah blah blah) exists because of limitations in human capacity for reasoning that are no longer relevant. Once access to not only all that has been previously adjudicated but also the entire lines of argument justifying those rulings is entirely commodified, does the very concept of “citation” deserve to be a central part of whatever it is that lawyers do?
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If you reviewed the pre-AI filings of lawyers later caught citing hallucinated cases, I suspect you would often find major mistakes there too. AI may be adding a vivid new failure mode while still increasing the overall quality of their work.
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@bryan_caplan Generally speaking people are more reluctant to radioactively contaminate their neighbors than their adversaries on the other side of the world.
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If the US nukes Iran this year, what is the probability that Russia nukes Ukraine within a year?
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You've gotten trapped in a filter bubble and have lost touch with what is going on. Iran has a plan and is in fact in the process of reopening the Strait. They've let through about a dozen ships already, they are ramping up the volume, and negotiating passage with many countries, in the face of hostile opposition.
You just have to play by Iran's rules, which fanatics refuse to do.
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i’ve yet to hear a workable near term (next 4-6 weeks) plan for how to open the strait that doesn’t involve us boots on the ground.
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@wrathofgnon I want to know more about this Japanese “train bride” concept that Canadians and Americans dare not countenance. Or is it unsuitable for discussion on a family friendly platform like X dot com?
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In Japan the train company owns the land and when the government asked them to elevate their lines to avoid level crossings they were happy too do it because they could make more money renting the space underneath than they did collecting fares.
Truthful🛰️@Truthful_ast
I love infrastructure like this because back in Canada and the United States, building this would be harder than flying humans to the Moon. You’d need to get permits for: 1: A train bride 2: “Environmental concerns” 3: Shops under the bridge 4: No street parking 5: No car parking lots 6: Bike parking areas 7: Size clearance And probably so much more that I’m missing
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OK then, how about this:
Every Apple product I’ve ever owned, I’ve wished it had more buttons.
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This isn't some random crank advocating a nuclear attack, it's the former Speaker of the House, former GOP presidential candidate, and longtime Trump confidante, who was on his "short-list" for Vice President in 2016, and whose wife is Trump's current ambassador to Switzerland!
Newt Gingrich@newtgingrich
Instead of fighting over a 21-mile-wide bottleneck forever, we cut a new channel through friendly territory. A dozen thermonuclear detonations and you’ve got a waterway wider than the Panama Canal, deeper than the Suez, and safe from Iranian attacks. chinatalk.media/p/its-time
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@ripplebrain The giveaway for the whole charade is that Netanyahu is Aramaic for “born of Yahoo!” - a subtle hint that he is an actor controlled by Big Search Engine, ie Bing’s Nazi AI Sydney
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It doesn't matter if Netanyahu is dead. There is no Netanyahu. There never was.
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@akoustov @LokiJulianus I think we should take more seriously the possibility that Bender herself is an AI persona concocted as an elaborate troll by one of the labs
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Periodic reminder this all started when Dr. Bender, unprompted, decided to single me out as someone didn't deserve tenure for using LLMs. Her followers tagged my employer with calls to fire me and sent threats to me and my family. Everything since has been a response to that.
Joscha Bach@Plinz
I deeply agree with Emily Bender's main point: LLMs are useless, unless you want to offload cognition. (The other two usecases she suggests are rare special cases of the third.) Offloading cognition into machines has always been the purpose and application of computer science and AI.
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