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@NaveenGRao @unconvAI @databricks How dod you do it? Will look into this today.

This absolutely correct. It’s why we at @unconvAI don’t consume models directly but through an intermediary from @databricks . Yes, my team built that infra, but I also know that the information can’t leak. The last thing we want is our competitors seeing patterns of our designs expressed by a model they are using.

@unusual_whales Foreign policy used to require at least a think tank. Now you just need a stonemason and a golf course pitch deck.

BREAKING: A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts, per NYT. In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention. Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, and the Trump family’s deals are expanding.

@elonmusk It also beats both of them at running out of range while towing. 130 miles with a full load and you’re a $100k stainless steel paperweight on the side of I-10.

Cybertruck is quicker than a Porsche 911, more powerful than a Ford Raptor

@malinvested What conclusion @grok

Of course that's your contention. You're a first-time SaaS bear. You just got finished listening to some podcast, Dario on Dwarkesh, probably. Now you think it’s the end of white collar work and seat-based pricing is screwed. You're gonna be convinced of that til tomorrow when you get to “Something Big is Happening”. Then you’ll install ClawdBot on a Mac Mini, vibe code a dashboard on top of a postgres database and say we’re all just a couple ralph loops away from building a Salesforce competitor. That’s gonna last until next week when you discover context graphs, and then you're gonna be talking about how the systems of record will be disintermediated by an agentic layer and reposting OAI marketing graphics. “Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because ultimately the application layer is just ….” The application layer is just business logic on top a CRUD database. You got that from Satya’s appearance on the BG2 pod, December 2024, right? Yeah, I saw that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or...is that your thing? You get into the replies of anyone posting a SaaS ticker. You watch some podcast and then pawn it off as your own idea just to impress some VCs and embarrass some anon who’s long SaaS? See the sad thing about a guy like you is in a couple years you're gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One: don't do that. And two: you dropped thirty grand on Mac Minis and LLM API calls to come to the same conclusion you could’ve got for free by following a handful of VC accounts.

We built Jikipedia, a new wiki that compiles Jmail data into exhaustive reports on key figures in the Epstein scandal. It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates, each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated. Here is Epstein's executive assistant, who sent >100k emails to him and was shielded from prison via a 2007 non-prosecution deal.

This weekend the world's leaders will gather together for the Munich Security Conference. I am calling on them to hold the Epstein Class accountable, including those in their own governments.

@ianmiles There is much more to these files than has not been released

Dear @ncert, this is nothing more than the usual Marathi rhetoric of equating tribute (tax) collection with political sovereignty. They falsely boast about ruling entire India even though levying tribute is not the same as actually ruling or administering a state. Although I’ve discussed this multiple times in the past, allow me to summarise some of the key points 📌 : 🔸 The tax levied from kingdoms in the form of 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙝 was more or less protection money or military extortion, compelling the local rulers (Mughal governors, Nawabs, Rajputs Rajas, etc) to pay it in order to prevent plundering raids by Marathas, the main victims of which were always innocent civilians. 🔸 This is not some random assumption but an academically attested view. To quote the words of reputed historians like Jadunath Sarkar : “ 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙝 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙖 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙗𝙪𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛𝙛 𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙖 𝙨𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙡𝙪𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚, 𝙡𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙖 𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙫𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙜𝙚. ” 🔸 There are many instances throughout Maratha history when their own chiefs, acting independently of any central authority (neither 𝙋𝙚𝙨𝙝𝙬𝙖 nor 𝘾𝙝𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙞), were compelled to pay tribute to the Mughal Emperor, the Nizam of Hyderabad & even the East India Company. So Marathas were ruled by Mughals, Nizam & British too? 🔸 Speaking of central authority, who exactly was the Emperor of this so-called ‘Maratha Empire’ ? Was it the Brahmin Peshwa of Poona or the titular Maratha Chhatrapati of Satara? Even the chiefs working under them — Holkar, Sindhia, Gaekwad, Panwar, Bhonsle — fought against each other like bitter enemies throughout their history. 🔸 Even the 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙝 demanded from Rajputana during the regency of Mahadji Sindhia (𝙑𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙡-𝙞-𝙈𝙪𝙩𝙡𝙖𝙦 of Mughal Empire) was legitimised in the name of the Mughal Emperor only. Rajput states had been holding back tribute to the Mughal government for years, while Marathas came demanding for it on behalf of their masters. 🔸 How many North Indian rulers in general (or Rajput Rajas in particular) formally attended any Maratha 𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙗𝙖𝙖𝙧 (court) even once, let alone on a frequent or regular basis like subjects are ought to? Did any of them ever render military service under Marathas or assigned an official rank in the Maratha bureaucracy (assuming it was one)? 🔸 No, not at all! It was the exact other way around with Maratha leaders often visiting the Mughal court (or sending their direct representatives) to appeal for 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙖𝙗𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙞 or 𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙚𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙞, addressing themselves as loyal slaves of the Mughal Emperor in their royal seals & even going as far as minting coins in his name. 🔸 Marathas did not even care if any other power attacked & looted their so-called vassals as long as they were getting their own share of ‘𝙝𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙖-𝙫𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙞’. If we are to go by their logic, then underworld criminals & political goons — like Dawood Ibrahim or The Thackerays — are also ruling sovereigns of Maharashtra.

These are 10,000-year-old voices from our past, slowly fading in the open. Bhimbetka deserves world-class preservation, not quiet decay. Heritage once lost is lost forever. @PMOIndia @MinOfCultureGoI @BJP4MP

Companies have started to price out consumers from building their workstations running open source language models. SSDs, RAMs, GPUs should be bought as much as you can while they are still available. #AI

Just give us back Twitter man, this shit’s unbearable.

Stephen Miller is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. His great-grandparents escaped Russian pogroms and the Holocaust. He is from a family of immigrants! I, being Jewish as he is, cannot comprehend how he can be so hateful and anti-immigrant.

Good for him. Glad to see a conservative with guts stand up to all the anonymous race-obsessed troll accounts.

It’s a time for choosing in the conservative movement. If you believe boys should compete with girls in girls’ sports, you have no place in this movement. If you believe in racial quotas, you have no place in this movement. If you believe in normalizing hate towards whites, blacks, Indians, or Jews, you have no place in this movement. If you believe Hitler was cool, you have no place in this movement. If you believe Stalin should be admired, you have no place in this movement. If you call Usha Vance a “jeet,” you have no place in this movement. And if you don’t have the guts to say these things without stuttering, then you have no place as a leader in this movement.

@virsanghvi Which minister has 100 IQ? Or you were pointing to combined IQ of Delhi BJP govt?

As the poison in the Delhi air reaches deadly levels & the AQI is five times the IQ of the average minister I look at the deterioration in the quality of life for Indians India wasn’t always like this. Things have never been as bad as they are today theprint.in/opinion/sharp-…

You can just do things

Real work is stateful and full of hidden constraints. It shifts constantly. It’s non-i.i.d. Benchmarks aren’t.

Multi-head attention isn’t parallel computation. It’s parallel nonlinear decision boundaries. #attention

Hot take: most explanations of multi-head attention overcomplicate it. You can replace almost all of them with one fact: QKᵀ (full) = Σᵢ(QᵢKᵢᵀ), but softmax(QKᵀ) ≠ Σ softmax(QᵢKᵢᵀ). That “≠” is why multi-heads exist. Each head normalizes its own similarity matrix in private. Neural networks do NOT like shared custody.

Would still prefer the wired ones