Idk how many people I’ve tried to explain this to, but the whole reason we haven’t had a WW3 is because of the close economic ties the entire world now have. These ties make it mutually beneficial to not start another world war. Without these ties the chances of major wars grow much greater.

Feel like I’m playing Russian roulette with Aliexpress these days. Will my order cost me $10, $35, or $100 by the time it gets here? Who knows! Find out next week on “These Tariffs are going to slow consumer spending and ruin our economy.”

Mark my words, there will be an attempt to regulate open source AI out of existence in the next 4 years. They’ll push it as a national security risk. They’ll say open source is too dangerous to share with foreign companies. They may or may not be successful, but there will be an attempt.

Open Thoughts project They are building the best reasoning datasets out in the open. Building off their work with Stratos, today they are releasing OpenThoughts-114k and OpenThinker-7B. Repo: github.com/open-thought...

The federal government under the New Deal helped lift many into the middle class. And the republicans want to destroy those jobs & the middle class. We all benefit from a larger middle class. The only ones who don’t are the billionaires trying to privatize our gov.

In 2025, up is down and down is up lol

When your best argument against Deepseek is “They have to follow Chinese laws!” You just straight up don’t have an argument. Some people just really hate open source I guess.

She’s so tired of hearing about this stuff lol

I’m glad to see Deepseek hit #1 in the App Store. Wasn’t sure we’d ever see an open model get so much recognition. What sucks is they they now have message limits. I hope their eventual pro-tier is less than $20.

Found my old iPod Touch today. Man these things were amazing! I’d honestly buy another one if the launched it today. Do I need one? No, but I love the size.

huggingface is doing a fully open source replication of R1 github.com/huggingface/...

It’s funny how you’ll go months getting ghosted by recruiters and rarely any hits. Feeling like shit. Then a month later you’re getting 3 interviews a week. Feeling on top of the world. No changes to my resume. Guessing it’s because it’s January, but still interesting.

Introducing the smollest VLMs yet! 🤏 SmolVLM (256M & 500M) runs on <1GB GPU memory. Fine-tune it on your laptop and run it on your toaster. 🚀 Even the 256M model outperforms our Idefics 80B (Aug '23). How small can we go? 👀

I’m trying to keep politics to minimum, but when they continue to intersect with some of my hobbies, I find it hard to ignore. Sama is a weasel. Yeah, he’s doing it to appease, but the new admin wants to take away his rights and he’s cheering it along. www.aclu.org/trump-on-lgbtq-rights

Anyone else have a Skanner as a kid? Well, some awesome dev combined Gen AI and a barcode battle game. It’s honestly simple but very fun. apps.apple.com/us/app/warco...

Quick cheap vegan meal Mushrooms, tofu, potatoes, onions, mung bean sprouts, & broccoli. Slice them how you like and put them in a pan. Season with olive oil, saffron, salt, turmeric & whatever else (I like a dash of MSG). Bake 15m then broil 15m. Around $10-15 to make!

To be clear, the recipe to replicate o1 style models is not new techniques, but applying them in a new way. This shouldn't be surprising.

Went in threads for the first time in months. You can’t call someone a liar or coward. Even when the lie and act cowardly. What a terrible platform.

R1 is finally on Hugging Chat! 🎉 🙌

1/5 So, how did DeepSeek develop DeepSeek R1? They used both DeepSeek-V3-Base and a simple prompt: 1. They asked the same question multiple times to DeepSeek-V3-Base as a group. 2. They then graded the answers, assigning an accuracy score and a format score (e.g., <think></think>).

I love how Deepseek just came out and started dropping the best open models like it’s nothing. V3 & R1 are all I really need rn. OpenAI is probably a bit worried right about now. Even Altman is on Twitter trying to quell the hype he and his employees created the past couple weeks.

RedNote responds to Musk going mask off. I was surprised they allowed this topic at all. Interesting to see their reactions.

Kimi k1.5 --- an o1-level multi-modal model - SOTA short-CoT performance, outperforming GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 on 📐AIME, 📐MATH-500, 💻 LiveCodeBench by a large margin (up to +550%) - Long-CoT performance matches o1 across multiple modalities (👀MathVista, 📐AIME, 💻Codeforces, etc) Demo: kimi.ai

Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.

Anyone that thinks musks salute shouldn’t be posted because it’s triggering should go check out r/jewish They’re obviously disgusted and scared, but they aren’t trying to stick their heads in the sand. On here people want to cover it up. That’s a big mistake imo. No one believes until they see.

This shit is not okay. Seriously, how did we get here?

That’s a nice chart! Glad we have R1.

Isn’t it wonderful our next president made a meme coin where he controls 80%? What a time to be alive. Jimmy Carter sold his peanut farm.

Went to the Computer Museum of America today! Saw the world’s largest collection of Cray supercomputers. Incredible museum and totally free with a library card.

This whole RedNote thing is interesting. It’s cool Americans can now connect with Chinese people. I do think this was a strategic move from China. Get people connecting & maybe you can avoid conflict as the people of China are humanized to Americans. Either way cultural exchange is good imo

Feels like everyday I find out about a new Hugging Face library. Those people put in some serious work for the community.

Sam Altman getting mad people noticed he donated to Trump lol Probably trying to make sure OpenAI isn’t forced to give up tech to xAI. Regardless, it’s very lame behavior.

Would be great to have better documentation for Bitsandbytes.

Challenge: Go a day without dependency issues in Colab

Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B is crazy good. Without a doubt my favorite model for small programming projects. The fact it’s free makes it even better. Can’t wait to eventually run this locally.

Saving up for a one of those fancy Nvidia Digits. I’m curious how good they’re going to be for fine tuning small models. I’m hoping it’ll be capable enough to fine tune 1.5b-7b models.

32B Open model from UC Berkeley allegedly beats o1 in Math500 and other benchmarks. Can’t wait for OAI to release o3 and the next months we have open source o3 lol

I don’t understand why there aren’t more war movies that show humans vs robots. I’ve wanted to see a large scale robot vs human battle since I watched the first terminator. Seems like a missed opportunity, especially in 2025.

My snowman with a top hat 🎩

Beautiful way to start the day!

When I was still involved in crypto I met a “true believer” in Richard Heart. He convinced several friends to put in very large amounts of money into his scams. Now RH is wanted by Interpol. If you want to see the sunk cost fallacy in action, go check out the hexicans. They’re still holding on lol

Looking forward to the Microsoft rStar models. Awesome to think 1.5B and 3B models can beat larger models on math. Just a year ago people debated if SLMs could be useful.

Well, I think I’ll go rewatch Terminator now.

I’m not a crypto bro, but having to deal with a bank in person really show you why people are desperate for an alternative banking system.

I really hit the apartment gym trifecta tonight. Beer spilled everywhere from some asshole? ✅ Guy talking on the phone loudly while not touching a weight? ✅ Woman with a boyfriend recording her doing sensual dance moves in the middle of the gym? ✅ What a weird night

Went to the apartment gym cause main gym was overcrowded. I walked in to a grown man trying to out a kettlebell in his damn mouth. Left and waited 20 minutes. An found a damn beer can and beer all over the floor. Can January be over yet?

Just rewatched Severance. So many little details. Ben Stiller is an absolute genius, and I had no clue. I knew he was great with comedy, but Severance is such a different show. Hope it’s been worth the wait!

Started a project that’s over my head (typical). Now I’m starting another Datacamp course so I’m not swimming in circles. Idk why I always do things backwards lol

Deep Research and NotebokLM really are a killer combo. Wish I had this in college

Wanted to make my nephew something unique for Christmas. So I challenged myself to see how fast I could come up with a prototype game using various AI tools. Imagen3- Card artwork Gemini 2 (and others) - helped me come up with balanced cards and a rulebook Meshy- For quick 3D models