Sora 2 is coming soon...

If you’re thinking about starting a new exercise routine to improve your body, invest in a good set of athleisure clothing. They’re designed to make you look good - and when you look good, you’re more likely to stick with your workouts.

Let's say you want to improve LLM on AIME exam. You can use a sort of cheat/cram sheet by asking the LLM to use reasoning traces for old exams to extract a list of useful behaviors. Providing this list in-context while solving AIME questions improves "reasoning" (less bloat, better accuracy).

So You Want to Be an Academic? A couple of years into your PhD, but wondering: "Am I doing this right?" Most of the advice is aimed at graduating students. But there's far less for junior folks who are still finding their academic path. My candid takes: anandbhattad.github.io/blogs/jr_gra...

Moondream 3 A 9B param, 2B active MoE vision hybrid reasoning vision language model that supports both reasoning and non-reasoning mode. It focus on visually grounded reasoning, where the model references objects and spatial positions in the image while doing said reasoning,

Google's Test-Time Diffusion Deep Researcher (TTD-DR) A framework that uses a Deep Research agent to draft and revise its own drafts using high-quality retrieved information. This approach achieves new SOTA results in writing long-form research reports and completing complex reasoning tasks.

The Stanford University researchers think the future of pre-training lies in the algorithms that will best leverage infinite compute. They find simple recipes that improve the asymptote of compute scaling laws to be 5x data efficient, offering better perf w/ sufficient compute.

@yannlecun and his collaborators (Hai Huang and Randall Balestriero) have released their first iteration of Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) for LLMs. "Learning by latent space prediction has revolutionized vision models, and it will revolutionize LLMs!, which they termed as

For those of you who are developing an AI-based finance research app: I’m not sure this is useful to evaluate your apps, but they have released the paper, the code, and the dataset. ByteDance in collab with Columbia Business School released the FinSearchComp

Meituan, China's largest food delivery company, is releasing more open-weight LLMs. LongCat-Flash-Thinking: Smarter reasoning and leaner costs! Performance: SOTA open-source models on Logic / Math / Coding / Agent tasks using 64.5% fewer tokens to hit top-tier accuracy on AIME25

xAI's Grok 4 Fast with a 2M context window. FREE on OpenRouter, Vercel, Cline, OpenCode, Orchids App, and more for a limited time. Grok 4 Fast is also generally available via the xAI API, with pricing starting at $0.20 / 1M input tokens and $0.50 / 1M output tokens. x.ai/news/grok-4-...

Today I’ve learned that the most successful Japanese live-action movie of 2025 not based on manga is Kokuho (『国宝』, National Treasure), which is adapted from a novel by Shuichi Yoshida. m.imdb.com/title/tt3523...

I always find Korean conglomerates hilarious. For example, Erewhon, a LA-based market, sells ice for $30. In Korea, there’s a comparable market called Gourmet 494, located inside the Galleria Department Store, where some of the prices are higher.

My clothing style is simple - I usually go for outfits with no logos or only minimal branding, except when it comes to outdoor gear (since those brands love to plaster their logos everywhere).

My continued thoughts on Trump’s new mandate imposing $100,000 fees on H-1B visas: • Big Tech: Many experienced software engineers are unemployed. • Startups: Many graduates from top-tier CS programs are unemployed.

Marathon in Kenya - A cutoff time: 2 hour 30 minutes.

I do love the so called liberal pundit and technologists criticizing Trump’s new mandate on charging $100,000 fees on H1-B visas. Why wasn’t this implemented earlier. Go to any companies’ IT departments - we have outsourced all tech jobs to employees from TCS, etc, because of H1-B visas.

I still use RedNote once in a while. It’s a good app for wasting time, as long as you don’t engage with Chinese netizens - they are the most annoying group of people.

I wonder if carrying a phone with a lanyard will catch on in safer parts of the world. In some places, it would just be an invitation for violent mugging.

The most popular sports in Korea right now in running. It is so popular, there is a literally Runner "Subway" Station in Seoul. english.visitseoul.net/area/RunnerS...

Supplementary information for this article as collected by Fleetwood: • How to Optimize a CUDA Matmul Kernel for cuBLAS-like Performance: siboehm.com/articles/22/... • Outperforming cuBLAS on H100: a Worklog: cudaforfun.substack.com/p/outperform...

Did you know there’s supplementary information for this peer-reviewed paper (a kind of unique concept these days)? static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10...

The biggest holiday in Korea, Chuseok, is coming up in October. Be sure to stock up on cases of SPAM as gifts for the occasion.

46% of this guy's hedge fund was INTC call options.

Thinking of flag-jacking (e.g., an American stiching a Canadian flag on the backpack) while traveling abroad? Do your homework first — you don't want to come across as a flag-jacking fraud. www.huffpost.com/entry/flag-j...

My understanding of the Nvidia and Intel deal: 1. Will Nvidia use Intel Foundry Services (IFS)? Yes, but only for packaging. Intel has years of experience packaging both its own CPUs and TSMC-fabbed GPUs. I believe this applies mainly to mobile CPU/GPU combos, not desktop products.

My take. My take: Nvidia doesn’t want to be entirely beholden to TSMC, especially with U.S. government intervention in the mix. To diversify, Nvidia may shift some lower-risk products, such as RTX GPUs, to Intel’s fabs. We will find out at 10AM PT.

I am so happy! 🥰🥰🥰

Is this AI? How is this move possible?

🚀 We released version 0.3 of the DuckLake specification and the DuckDB ducklake extension today. It includes interoperability with Iceberg, support for geometry types and more. Check the announcement blog for more details ducklake.select/2025/09/17/d...

How We Built the First AI-Generated Genomes Here they detail some of the technical innovations that enabled us to generate viable bacteriophage genomes with substantial evolutionary novelty. arcinstitute.org/news/hie-kin...

Ladies, when you visit Korea and wonder where all the K-Drama oppas are... Just head to a department store like Shinsegae or Hyundai. Go into a luxury boutique - you’ll find them working there: tall, slim, and dressed in sharp suits. You are welcome.

Visiting Busan, Korea. I went to the Busan International Film Festival 2025 (well, more like visited the site). It felt surreal because it’s the first film festival I’ve ever been to - even after living in Los Angeles most of my life and working at 3 film studios (Disney, Sony Pictures, and WB).

Introduction to Machine Learning Systems by Vijay Janapa Reddi It is a really long book - 2042 pages. www.mlsysbook.ai/assets/downl...

Anthropic doesn’t care if the U.S. loses its AI chip supremacy, as long as they’re making billions in stock options. Anthropic CEO criticizes administration’s chip policy, calls for stronger restrictions thehill.com/policy/techn...

I would have added a display to the Oakley Meta Vanguard, not the Meta Ray-Ban Display. The display is perfect for stat-obsessed people, who wears Garmin and uses Strava. www.meta.com/ai-glasses/o...

To those of you who are not using Docling for document conversion, processing, and parsing. Why aren't you?

Alibaba released a paper on their Tongyi DeepResearch. They incorporated Agentic Continual Pre-training (Agentic CPT) into the deep research agents training pipeline to build powerful agentic foundational models. Paper: Scaling Agents via Continual Pre-training arxiv.org/abs/2509.13310

Alibaba's subsidiary - Ant Group has released Ling-flash-2.0 as open-weight. 100B MoE LLM with 6.1B active params - 3x faster than 36B dense (200+ tokens/second on H20) - Beats ~40B dense LLM on complex reasoning - Powerful coding and frontend development

For those of you who are using IBM Docling (github.com/docling-proj...) for document conversion, processing, and parsing; IBM has released an open-weight VLM - Granite-Docling-258M, a 258M-parameter vision-language model (VLM) for converting documents to machine-readable formats

I am pretty sure I went a little overboard with the weight training. My jackets are fitting me very tight. I will have to shrink the muscles so I can keep wearing them.

DeepSeek published an article on Nature magazine. "DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Unitree, Chinese Robotics company, released the open-weights of UnifoLM-WMA-0 It is Unitree‘s first open-source world-model–action architecture spanning multiple types of robotic embodiments, designed specifically for general-purpose robot learning.

I am not sure about this, but some researchers may find this helpful. “My Boyfriend is AI”: A Computational Analysis of Human-AI Companionship in Reddit’s AI Community Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.11391

Per-step accuracy of models degrades as the number of steps increases. Is this due to long-context limitations? No, the models become more likely to make mistakes when their previous errors remain in the context. "The Illusion of Diminishing Returns: Measuring Long Horizon Execution in LLMs"

SGS-1: A foundation model for physical engineering design. SGS-1 enables the creation of manufacturable CAD geometry for real engineering workflows. This example shows SGS-1 in Fusion360 CAD software creating a bracket for a roller assembly.

I’ve noticed one thing in life: some people don’t like change, and persuading them to change is just painful. For example, AOL still has thousands of dial-up Internet customers. AOL is on sale for $1.5B. www.wsj.com/business/dea...

@unsloth.ai 's train Vision LLMs with Reinforcement Learning in free notebook! Unsloth VLM RL via GRPO: 1.5× faster, 90% less VRAM, 15× longer context & no accuracy loss. Guide: docs.unsloth.ai/new/vision-r... GitHub: github.com/unslothai/un... Colab: colab.research.google.com/github/unslo...

Designing NotebookLM by Jason Spielman He led design for NotebookLM, shaping the product’s core user experience, brand identity, and visual system from experiment to launch. jasonspielman.com/notebooklm

I upgraded to macOS 26. Now my iPhone apps are showing in the Apps view. Is there any way to hide them?