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Matthew Brooks

@brooksoid

Sound, vision, gaming, VR, tech, occasional nonsense. Product Lead at BBC, former games dev (Silver, Wipeout Pure, Wipeout HD and more)

Manchester เข้าร่วม Şubat 2009
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@reaction105 No way! I still have this one. You’ve evoked the look perfectly. Strong colour palette.
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@Jonathan_Blow Genuine question - is widespread use of LLMs in coding going to impede new language development, or even kill it off? Any new language will not have a body of work available for training.
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Jonathan Blow@Jonathan_Blow·
Theory: We don't let LLMs control robots and operate freely in the physical world (yet?) because they'd fall all the time, break everything, and cause massive damage. But in software the falling and the massive damage are invisible, so it's fine. x.com/sama/status/20…
Sam Altman@sama

I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took. Thank you for getting us to this point.

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Are we in danger of optimising away the need for massive cloud based compute before we’ve even built it?
Nainsi Dwivedi@NainsiDwiv50980

Holy shit... Microsoft open sourced an inference framework that runs a 100B parameter LLM on a single CPU. It's called BitNet. And it does what was supposed to be impossible. No GPU. No cloud. No $10K hardware setup. Just your laptop running a 100-billion parameter model at human reading speed. Here's how it works: Every other LLM stores weights in 32-bit or 16-bit floats. BitNet uses 1.58 bits. Weights are ternary just -1, 0, or +1. That's it. No floats. No expensive matrix math. Pure integer operations your CPU was already built for. The result: - 100B model runs on a single CPU at 5-7 tokens/second - 2.37x to 6.17x faster than llama.cpp on x86 - 82% lower energy consumption on x86 CPUs - 1.37x to 5.07x speedup on ARM (your MacBook) - Memory drops by 16-32x vs full-precision models The wildest part: Accuracy barely moves. BitNet b1.58 2B4T their flagship model was trained on 4 trillion tokens and benchmarks competitively against full-precision models of the same size. The quantization isn't destroying quality. It's just removing the bloat. What this actually means: - Run AI completely offline. Your data never leaves your machine - Deploy LLMs on phones, IoT devices, edge hardware - No more cloud API bills for inference - AI in regions with no reliable internet The model supports ARM and x86. Works on your MacBook, your Linux box, your Windows machine. 27.4K GitHub stars. 2.2K forks. Built by Microsoft Research. 100% Open Source. MIT License

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@monstroso The first thing I thought there was “Is that Paul Whitehouse is on the cover?”
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charlie higson@monstroso·
Ok. Here’s the 2nd of my #CharlieCanRead posts to celebrate this year of reading, where I discuss the books I’m getting through in 2026. Today, Agatha Christie and Towards Zero goallin.org.uk 1 🧵
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Guillermo Rauch@rauchg·
Google has shipped a CLI for Google Workspace (Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, …) Huge! Written in Rust, distributed through npm & skills.sh $ npm i -g @⁠googleworkspace/cli $ npx skills add github:googleworkspace/cli 2026 is the year of Skills & CLIs github.com/googleworkspac…
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Dan Brickley
Dan Brickley@danbri·
@rohanpaul_ai It’s trained on tons of fiction which is full of dramatic inner dialogue
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Rohan Paul
Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai·
🤯 WHAT. it's happening. Claude's private thinking steps. Reacted exactly like a shocked human reading the morning news. Someone asked Claude a question about Iran. Claude’s extended thinking discovered the Iran strikes mid-response. The vibes shifted immediately It reads the first search result and thinks, "Whoa." that’s not a human reacting to the news, that is the actual, unedited internal thought process AI caught off guard. Then, it searches specifically for the airstrikes to confirm, and its internal monologue literally says, "Holy shit." --- reddit .com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ribnke/claudes_extended_thinking_found_out_about_iran_in/
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@ChefReactions Something tiny, unassuming, cheap and authentic: Roti King next to Euston Station. Amazing Malaysian.
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Tim Spottiswood@SpottiswoodTim·
@brooksoid Did you see the Harry Potter skit they did recently where Harry and Ron were gay and that was apparently hilarious? 'Merica!
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John “John’s Not Mad” Davidson is a legend and that SNL skit is a disgrace
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Peter Hague
Peter Hague@peterrhague·
This is really causing a cultural schism between the US and UK. To them, the Bad Word is just such an unforgivable sin. To us, a bunch of rich and famous people being a dick to a disabled man is actually far worse.
IG: olesoul57.2 ♉️ 5/12@olesoul57_2

Deon Cole: "If there are any white men in the room with Tourette's, I advise you to tell them to read the room, lord. It might not go the way they thinketh."

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Adam Neely
Adam Neely@its_adamneely·
AI eliminates shared culture. If you can generate what you want, why read somebody else's book or listen to somebody else's song? Technocapitalists are manufacturing alienation, and selling you back your own isolation.
Knowing Better@KnowingBetterYT

I can't believe this is even a thing people are discussing. Imagine being a musician who doesn't listen to music or a youtuber who doesn't watch youtube.

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Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith@stephencsmith·
A quick space invaders remake with destructible invaders. #godot #indiedev #gamedev
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Justin Salamon
Justin Salamon@justin_salamon·
This is big. SOTA audio reasoning. SOTA video reasoning. SOTA audio captioning. SOTA sound event detection. Better than Gemini. Better than Qwen. TAC: Timestamped Audio Captioning 📑 paper: lnkd.in/getEz5xU 🌐 website with more demos: lnkd.in/gdw5TTuS
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