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My top 3 traits as an engineer: Laziness: I automate/script all repetitive tasks. Forgetfulness: I document meticulously to avoid getting lost in the future. Sloppiness: I test rigorously to catch careless mistakes.

@lukalotl @Kellblog Yeah the other stuff on Amazon like VEEKTOMX and Ntaanoo and Gxorul is way better

@Kellblog I wish they had a better logo its so ugly that I hesitate to buy even tho i like them

Anyone want to talk about how Anker has built a great brand seemingly without doing any marketing?

@mirandrom @cloneofsimo so much of MLE in my experience is implementing options A, B, and C in a way that they are all a special case of D, do that you have combinatorially fewer knobs to tune.

@cloneofsimo the challenge with ML is high dimensionality and imo what can make theory useful boils down to dimensionality reduction, ie finding the right abstractions that are both meaningful enough to explain a system and useful enough to give you new ways to control/influence it

99% people in ML is either full-eng or full-theory. I do think you really need good mix from both end of the spectrum otherwise you get really skewed perspective engineer people thinks math behind training dynamics / optimizer / diffusion / RL is useless theory people is obsessed low-mfu linear attention, over-abstraction, and toy problems that disappear at larger scale

@MingyuanZhou @sedielem Very interesting. Definitely adding your paper to my reading list!

@stratejake @sedielem That blog was great. We ignored how flow models were motivated and instead asked: what’s the training loss, and what’s its optimal solution? This unifies flow matching variants and lets Score identity Distillation (SiD) apply whenever a pretrained teacher provides score/velocity.

Two recent papers (arxiv.org/abs/2510.11690, arxiv.org/abs/2511.13720) suggest that predicting x (clean) works much better than predicting eps or v (noisy) in high dimensions. Natural signals like images live on a low-dimensional manifold. Noise takes you off the manifold! (1/3)

@MingyuanZhou @sedielem Thank you for the link! Is this something exclusive to distilled models? I recall this blog post suggesting something to that effect more generally diffusionflow.github.io

@sedielem @stratejake Great discussion! In diffusion distillation, it doesn’t matter if the teacher predicts ε, x, velocity, or score — their optimal solutions are linearly related. Our paper echoes many of your points: arxiv.org/abs/2509.25127

@jaygala223 @SakanaAILabs @thisismyhat @YesThisIsLion You're not going to believe what kind of neural architecture modern diffusion models use.

Sakana AI’s CTO says he’s ‘absolutely sick’ of transformers, the tech that powers every major AI model “You should only do the research that wouldn’t happen if you weren’t doing it.” (@thisismyhat) 🧠 @YesThisIsLion venturebeat.com/ai/sakana-ais-…

@teflontraphouse @yacineMTB Rocking the Roger Klotz

@yacineMTB homie needs a new haircut but he chill

this guy is launching 12 startups in 6 months and basically you're poor and retarded 🫵😂😭

@RobinRene81 @lock_dok @Rothmus Because each qr code points to a different url so they know what table you're ordering from.

@lock_dok @Rothmus And the dumbest part is the qr code is just a link to their website. Why don't they just tell us the link?

💯

@xlr8harder @beffjezos @hamandcheese Yeah it's almost like a temperature increase is part of it too.

@beffjezos @hamandcheese i don't think that fully captures it either. it tends to increase the firing rate overall, adding noise and randomness.

I did 4 cups of ayahuasca once and tunneled through my consciousness in a state of euphoria having one epiphany after another. At some point, the sense of epiphany continued without any meaningful referent, as if I was leaning on the epiphany key in my brain. That then triggered a meta-epiphany that psychedelics only make you feel like you're learning something new or deep, sorta like how déjà vu is probably just your brain's familiarity circuit misfiring in a context that isn't actually familiar. If psychedelics have given me any durable insight, it's that our consciousness is extremely fallible and often misleading, particularly with respect to valence.

@tracewoodgrains Just read the "money speech" from Atlas Shrugged. That's all you really need to understand her philosophy.

thinking I should probably read an Ayn Rand book at some point to figure out what all the fuss is about will I become (more) insufferable upon doing so

bro just invented vr

@SolarTronGaming @Bob366466 @Hispeedlowdrug metric for theory, imperial for applications

The nuts n bolts section of any good hardware store is a profound testament to the honesty and decency of America's blue collar and diy types. Really makes me happy to go spend 30 mins rummaging around in one of these. A humble little corner of life that remains high trust.

@GremlinIndustry @travis4nh land cruise

@travis4nh The occasional party car rail trip vacation would be cool. The catch is it must be cheaper than a plane. Imagine if you rented a train car with beds and bath to travel, and it parked in a lot at your destinations. No separate hotel. Then punch in the next leg of the trip.

wow imagine if you could get from Boston to LA in only 24 hours of constant travel (48 hours at actual speeds once the press release nonsense was finally admitted as rose-colored) people would surely abandon current modes of transportation

@yacineMTB Start sleep training early. We did it around 4-5 months and it was an absolute game changer. First couple of months are really hard. 6-12 is when they start to gain mobility and develop a personality and it gets a lot more fun.

please leave your unsolicited tips for newborn babies under this post

@bilawalsidhu @KTmBoyle Some people can't handle being given even the smallest amount of authority over others.

@KTmBoyle Why are people like this?! Wild to me to take the time to send such a notice

My HOA has miscalculated. They don’t know how prepared I am for war.

Can I make this the default?

@OG_VR_Gamer @NathieVR HDR mp3 N64 7-eleven

@NathieVR Gt7 Re7 Nms Cotm Re8

So what’s currently the best VR game out there?

@GrantSlatton @Gok There's a spectrum of FAANG people, from the money/status chasers to the techie problem solvers. The latter are the ones you wanna hang with outside of work, but they are an endangered species.

@Gok speak for yourself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

surprising to me that technology brothers don't form more private clubs like on a sr dev faang salary, chipping in $10K/yr is affordable get 20 friends doing this, rent a commercial space, make a sick clubhouse, that's even enough to employ a full time attendant me and who?

@DanielleMorrill @awilkinson X spaces

Remember Clubhouse?

@finbarrtimbers That's wild

@stratejake not with np.testing.assert_array_almost_equal. I was surprised too!

I have parallel implementations of various llms in torch and jax, and I wrote tests to make them match they passed on the first try which was, uh, sus so I printed the tensors 🥲