avlok retweeted
Yea. this is exactly as crazy as it seems.
We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math.
It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training.
We call this Weight-Space Programming: fronely read/write neural network weights! 🧵
Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-sp…Community noteLLM was given weights explicitly as text in prompt and used code/forward passes (per authors' logs) to ablate Qwen looping direction, a known thinking-mode issue per model card. Primarily fixed repetition in that mode, not general 'natively' improving weights/math.
rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-sp…
github.com/RikiyaT/lm_und…
huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-0…
huggingface.co/RikiyaT/Qwen3.…
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We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math.
It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training.
We call this Weight-Space Programming: fronely read/write neural network weights! 🧵
Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-sp…Community noteLLM was given weights explicitly as text in prompt and used code/forward passes (per authors' logs) to ablate Qwen looping direction, a known thinking-mode issue per model card. Primarily fixed repetition in that mode, not general 'natively' improving weights/math.
rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-sp…
github.com/RikiyaT/lm_und…
huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-0…
huggingface.co/RikiyaT/Qwen3.…
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We're excited to announce Pathfinder's $16M in funding with our Series A led by Portage with participation from Reach Capital, Gradient and Stand Together Ventures Lab
If this animates and excites you, we're hiring: pathfindercard.com/join
If this animates and excites you, we're hiring: pathfindercard.com/join
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The IRS now says "thank you" when paying your estimated taxes online
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While some managers are raising their minimums, we’re lowering ours. You can now start direct indexing on @frecfinance with as little as $5,000!
We’ve lowered the investment minimums across several of our strategies:
• $5,000 for the S&P 500®, Nasdaq-100®, S&P 500 Information Technology, and other popular indices (down from $20,000)
• $20,000 for indices with more symbols including the Russell 3000, Russell 2000, and Morningstar US Total Market (down from $50,000)
• $50,000 for the 140/40 S&P 500® versions of Long short direct indexing and Diversify (down from $100,000)
Since launching Frec, we’ve kept improving how we build and manage portfolios, including how we use risk models. Our latest upgrade gave us the confidence to lower these minimums and make our strategies available to more people.
There is a modest tradeoff: smaller portfolios generally have higher tracking error, meaning their returns can vary more from the index. In some of our S&P 500 studies, starting with $5,000 instead of $20,000 increased tracking error by about + or - 0.30% annually.
Our mission at Frec has always been to democratize access to sophisticated investment strategies. I’m excited that the work we’ve put into the platform is making it possible to get started with less.
We’ve lowered the investment minimums across several of our strategies:
• $5,000 for the S&P 500®, Nasdaq-100®, S&P 500 Information Technology, and other popular indices (down from $20,000)
• $20,000 for indices with more symbols including the Russell 3000, Russell 2000, and Morningstar US Total Market (down from $50,000)
• $50,000 for the 140/40 S&P 500® versions of Long short direct indexing and Diversify (down from $100,000)
Since launching Frec, we’ve kept improving how we build and manage portfolios, including how we use risk models. Our latest upgrade gave us the confidence to lower these minimums and make our strategies available to more people.
There is a modest tradeoff: smaller portfolios generally have higher tracking error, meaning their returns can vary more from the index. In some of our S&P 500 studies, starting with $5,000 instead of $20,000 increased tracking error by about + or - 0.30% annually.
Our mission at Frec has always been to democratize access to sophisticated investment strategies. I’m excited that the work we’ve put into the platform is making it possible to get started with less.
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AngelList’s public VC fund (USVC) is offering a 5% match for new investments.
Seems like a win-win way to spend marketing dollars.
Invest here:
Seems like a win-win way to spend marketing dollars.
Invest here:
I spent 5 years building @usvchq to give everyday investors tools once reserved for institutions
This year KKR, Invesco, BREIT and Brookfield added bonus shares to their toolkit
We're bringing it to venture
USVC Match rewards investors who join early
usvc.com/match
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@vargastartup and @burninganna were some of the earliest members of @founders_cafe.
Being a founder is often romanticized but it’s quite possibly the most unromantic thing you can do (literally in those case). Lots of great insights here for anyone going 0 > 1.
Being a founder is often romanticized but it’s quite possibly the most unromantic thing you can do (literally in those case). Lots of great insights here for anyone going 0 > 1.
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My biggest concern is that if there is a clean sweep by Democrats of the House, Senate and Presidency in 2028, they will:
1. Make DC and Puerto Rico states to gain a strong majority in the Senate.
2. Open the borders and legalize everyone living in America illegally to cement a permanent majority.
3. Increase the size of the Supreme Court to gain an immediate majority.
This would result in America becoming a permanent one-party state and the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word.
All that is needed to ensure this doesn’t happen is 51 Republican senators in 2029. That is why you should vote for Republican senators this election. Other reasons are irrelevant compared to this one.
1. Make DC and Puerto Rico states to gain a strong majority in the Senate.
2. Open the borders and legalize everyone living in America illegally to cement a permanent majority.
3. Increase the size of the Supreme Court to gain an immediate majority.
This would result in America becoming a permanent one-party state and the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word.
All that is needed to ensure this doesn’t happen is 51 Republican senators in 2029. That is why you should vote for Republican senators this election. Other reasons are irrelevant compared to this one.
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Everything wrong with this country in a single post.
Elon makes things that benefit humanity while members of Congress do nothing but obstruct innovation and leech off the American people.
They make $174,000 per year yet more than half are millionaires. They can’t even pass voter ID, which has an 84% bipartisan approval rating, because they are so beholden to special interests.
If anyone is to be investigated it should be Senator Padilla and his colleagues who have enriched themselves on the backs of hardworking Americans, not the dude who employs thousands and saves lives with his inventions.
Elon makes things that benefit humanity while members of Congress do nothing but obstruct innovation and leech off the American people.
They make $174,000 per year yet more than half are millionaires. They can’t even pass voter ID, which has an 84% bipartisan approval rating, because they are so beholden to special interests.
If anyone is to be investigated it should be Senator Padilla and his colleagues who have enriched themselves on the backs of hardworking Americans, not the dude who employs thousands and saves lives with his inventions.
INVESTIGATE ELON MUSK.
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My daughter will be ecstatic. She keeps trying to press the Macbook screen like it's an iPad.
We brought Touch to the Mac!
From the all-new iPad mini to the 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac... and now MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch, creators have new tools to do their best work yet.
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Thanks to everyone who came out to our fireside chat & meetup in San Francisco with @marketplacevc last week!
We had a great group of 100+ marketplace founders & leaders join us at @AngelList
Here are a few pictures:
We had a great group of 100+ marketplace founders & leaders join us at @AngelList
Here are a few pictures:
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Great to talk about public venture funds at the RAISE fund manager conference last week.
Public venture funds like USVC (by AngelList), VCX, RVI/RVII are growing, being invited by companies into rounds and giving unaccredited investors access to private, technology companies.
Public venture funds like USVC (by AngelList), VCX, RVI/RVII are growing, being invited by companies into rounds and giving unaccredited investors access to private, technology companies.
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Startups should staff themselves with Warriors, and root out Guardians or Caretakers.
Bad performance is easy to spot. Mediocre performance and complacency is harder to spot. Mediocre performers will never achieve greatness. They will always be Guardians at best.
Warriors become complacent when high performance shifts to autopilot. Metrics may still look strong, but the commitment is no longer the same, and the changes in behavior are subtle. Meeting goals doesn’t mean someone isn’t complacent. Complacent Warriors lose the will to fight and become Guardians themselves.
Startups operate in a highly competitive environment. You are battling both incumbents and other startups, so you need to recruit, retain, and reward Warriors. Send the Guardians and Caretakers to your competitors.
Bad performance is easy to spot. Mediocre performance and complacency is harder to spot. Mediocre performers will never achieve greatness. They will always be Guardians at best.
Warriors become complacent when high performance shifts to autopilot. Metrics may still look strong, but the commitment is no longer the same, and the changes in behavior are subtle. Meeting goals doesn’t mean someone isn’t complacent. Complacent Warriors lose the will to fight and become Guardians themselves.
Startups operate in a highly competitive environment. You are battling both incumbents and other startups, so you need to recruit, retain, and reward Warriors. Send the Guardians and Caretakers to your competitors.
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I'd like to share a little about what I've been working on at my new company @ultrametricai with my cofounder @tylerlastovich. We have been exploring how we could automate the startup itself, leaving founders with more time to focus on their exact mission.
Enter our first rtup Repo: github.com/ultrametricai/…
A common foundation for transparent automation of the startup.
After close to 20 years in silicon valley, backing hundreds of amazing founders & startups, being in the trenches of founding Heyzap (YC08), then solo founding @golden, going through 2 acquisitions and working behind the scenes with some of the iconic companies today, I'm witnessing the largest change to how we work I could have imagined - a truly monumental era of creative abundance.
I believe the next generation of companies will largely run themselves: from operations, code, product upgrades, growth, vendor control & selection, process execution, special situations, strategy etc etc. That leaves founder time for 'the art' at the very niche core: the (currently) unautomatable, the special leaps humans tend to make, and north star setting.
We want founders to go super deep into the main problem they are trying to solve and not get held up doing anything else, from searching for domain availability with trademark checks to setting their company up, to running their processes on autopilot.
So to help that broad foundational layer for starting and running a company, we have spent around a year exploring how to help founders focus on their mission across different verticals, geos, stages and initial starting conditions.
Our first few attempts at making something useful actually failed as the market and AI was moving so fast; it just got absorbed into the models or other product releases. We saw polsia happen, openclaw, then grokbot, muse, dots, etc era as the astras, fables, opuses, kimis and jevs rolled out. What seemed to have been missing along the way was a common repo to identify, unify, open and normalize all the lego bricks that startups have to interact with (vendors, processes, business logic, law, best practices, surface areas, art of the possible).
As the number of software vendors blew up, the interfaces to drive them multiplied, the international startup founder blew up as silicon valley moved from a specific location to a state of mind and global movement. Unlimited pre seed funding in unlimited vertical sub markets and permutations has brought us to the age of infinity but we have yet to achieve being able to type into an agent a very simple sentence with very complex implications 'just setup my company and make $1m/m'. We have ended up with a hybrid mismash of computer use, API calls, plugins, shifting surface areas (API/MCP/CLI/plugins/chats/musish futures), and changing model absorption to vendor balance making it an exciting and unstable time.
As our first step we started to rank all the vendors that startups interface to when going about their journey in terms of how agentically controllable they are via their APIs, MCPs, CLIs etc and computer use compatibility as we are largely switching from a UI driven world to the agentic control surfaces and onto full automation. We have 100 ranking areas you can check out with an overall open ranking here: ultrametric.ai/overall
Then we looked at the processes that startups do and how the vendors rank for the sub steps or process as a whole and how this changes across geos. Open processes: ultrametric.ai/processes
Then we started to hack on an open repo for startups that would contain all the components we are going to need for a common foundation for founders across the globe even if our gov processes vary so much from Bengaluru to SF or Lisbon to Shenzhen. The founder spirit is geo-invariant.
We have looked at special founder/startup situations, the business logic that will make open modules for the startup that we can hack on together, ranked law firms, government services and interfaces, stacks that go well together. We have mapped the law and lore that maps to startups and the schemas that make up the data objects and documents. But also the open documents and the missing gaps. MUCH TO DO.
All the BS processes and fluff work that founders waste their time on needs to goto zero. I want to see more supersonic planes, cancer drugs, seemingly impossible missions done and increase the bang for buck founders have with their funding.
This is a work in progress and we are keen for the community to come hack on the repo with us here: github.com/ultrametricai/…
Lets get into the structure of the general repo and the visualizations we made on ultrametric.ai site with example links:
- Open rankings: ultrametric.ai/overall
- Open rankings example (online payments): ultrametric.ai/arena/payments
- Open ranking example 2 (cap table): ultrametric.ai/arena/equity-m…
- Open processes: ultrametric.ai/processes
- Open process example (Incorporate C-Corp) ultrametric.ai/processes/inco…
- Open situations that founders face: ultrametric.ai/situations
- Open startup simulator (you can test our different initial starting conditions): ultrametric.ai/startup-sim
- Open modules (e.g. cap table, payroll logic etc - we'd love help improving these) ultrametric.ai/open-modules
- Open law (we are interested in how law changes the processes, situations and normalizing this over time) ultrametric.ai/open-law
- Open lore (we are interested in the historical lore of startups, the rules of thumb and heuristics that might guide your agent): ultrametric.ai/open-lore
- Open fields (we are interested in how the schema for the data connects to the open modules, business logic, open documents and artifacts of each process eg how is a EIN defined?) ultrametric.ai/fields
- Open documentation (eg SAFE notes and missing! docs) ultrametric.ai/open-documents
We have looked at YC companies as well in terms of which ones do well agentically: ultrametric.ai/yc
We are interested in stacks and how people are changing their work: ultrametric.ai/stacks
We are interested in what is automatable and where the agentic ceiling is currently and how to push that up in all areas: ultrametric.ai/rankings/proce…
There is more for you to explore and a lot more coming in terms of how you will be able to navigate business in an optimal way in your chosen surface area; whether you are hanging in grokbot, dots, muse, claude, terminal, chat, or whatever is coming up in this exciting time.
We have a lot of data to collect, clean up and help agents navigate the vast landscape emerging functionality the entire startup ecosystem has to offer.
Come join us getting your vendor in, ranked or that access pattern you have wanted or getting the data more accurate in terms of which vendor is best for a process or steps. Or open a module of something that currently cost money that could be free.
Also come play in our discord for founders and join the chaos (we can solve each others issues including fund raising tips from me personally): discord.com/invite/3aHky83…
It's time to lift all the boats in the harbor and I'm extremely excited as to what the community of hackers and painters will hack into the repo, what asks they will have and whether we can shift normalization of processes globally, gov agentic interfaces and have common repo for founders that grows over time. I expect a lot of experimentation along the way, bugs and upside...
I appreciate our backers having faith in us as well from @ycombinator with @garrytan to @immad doing a sizable check (congrats on $1bn rev homie) to @darbyw (congrats on Stripe buying @clerkyinc), @drewhouston form @Dropbox and also @pioneer_fund @tomerlondon cto @GustoHQ and hopefully this is 'boring' and complex enough for Charlie Songhurst :> @delingpole @Liquid2V @ivolo from @segment @ryanpowe @sonicaghi of @kong @DellyTamer+ other supporters (@michaelwfrank, Fundamental ventures and if I missed you sorry moving fast!).
[And don't worry, all vendor rankings are open scoring methods so no favors are being done if someone backed us and is a vendor they have to compete with how agentic and automatable they are just like anyone else.]
PS: we have bugs and many quality upgrades to make but thought better to go out early and fix as a community.
PPS: we have other stuff to launch we just thought this was a great place to start and have 200 PRs coming out pretty soon but I still want to know what is broken or doesnt make sense or inaccurate.
Special thanks to current and past team members for getting us here and all the experiments we did you know who you are.
Enter our first rtup Repo: github.com/ultrametricai/…
A common foundation for transparent automation of the startup.
After close to 20 years in silicon valley, backing hundreds of amazing founders & startups, being in the trenches of founding Heyzap (YC08), then solo founding @golden, going through 2 acquisitions and working behind the scenes with some of the iconic companies today, I'm witnessing the largest change to how we work I could have imagined - a truly monumental era of creative abundance.
I believe the next generation of companies will largely run themselves: from operations, code, product upgrades, growth, vendor control & selection, process execution, special situations, strategy etc etc. That leaves founder time for 'the art' at the very niche core: the (currently) unautomatable, the special leaps humans tend to make, and north star setting.
We want founders to go super deep into the main problem they are trying to solve and not get held up doing anything else, from searching for domain availability with trademark checks to setting their company up, to running their processes on autopilot.
So to help that broad foundational layer for starting and running a company, we have spent around a year exploring how to help founders focus on their mission across different verticals, geos, stages and initial starting conditions.
Our first few attempts at making something useful actually failed as the market and AI was moving so fast; it just got absorbed into the models or other product releases. We saw polsia happen, openclaw, then grokbot, muse, dots, etc era as the astras, fables, opuses, kimis and jevs rolled out. What seemed to have been missing along the way was a common repo to identify, unify, open and normalize all the lego bricks that startups have to interact with (vendors, processes, business logic, law, best practices, surface areas, art of the possible).
As the number of software vendors blew up, the interfaces to drive them multiplied, the international startup founder blew up as silicon valley moved from a specific location to a state of mind and global movement. Unlimited pre seed funding in unlimited vertical sub markets and permutations has brought us to the age of infinity but we have yet to achieve being able to type into an agent a very simple sentence with very complex implications 'just setup my company and make $1m/m'. We have ended up with a hybrid mismash of computer use, API calls, plugins, shifting surface areas (API/MCP/CLI/plugins/chats/musish futures), and changing model absorption to vendor balance making it an exciting and unstable time.
As our first step we started to rank all the vendors that startups interface to when going about their journey in terms of how agentically controllable they are via their APIs, MCPs, CLIs etc and computer use compatibility as we are largely switching from a UI driven world to the agentic control surfaces and onto full automation. We have 100 ranking areas you can check out with an overall open ranking here: ultrametric.ai/overall
Then we looked at the processes that startups do and how the vendors rank for the sub steps or process as a whole and how this changes across geos. Open processes: ultrametric.ai/processes
Then we started to hack on an open repo for startups that would contain all the components we are going to need for a common foundation for founders across the globe even if our gov processes vary so much from Bengaluru to SF or Lisbon to Shenzhen. The founder spirit is geo-invariant.
We have looked at special founder/startup situations, the business logic that will make open modules for the startup that we can hack on together, ranked law firms, government services and interfaces, stacks that go well together. We have mapped the law and lore that maps to startups and the schemas that make up the data objects and documents. But also the open documents and the missing gaps. MUCH TO DO.
All the BS processes and fluff work that founders waste their time on needs to goto zero. I want to see more supersonic planes, cancer drugs, seemingly impossible missions done and increase the bang for buck founders have with their funding.
This is a work in progress and we are keen for the community to come hack on the repo with us here: github.com/ultrametricai/…
Lets get into the structure of the general repo and the visualizations we made on ultrametric.ai site with example links:
- Open rankings: ultrametric.ai/overall
- Open rankings example (online payments): ultrametric.ai/arena/payments
- Open ranking example 2 (cap table): ultrametric.ai/arena/equity-m…
- Open processes: ultrametric.ai/processes
- Open process example (Incorporate C-Corp) ultrametric.ai/processes/inco…
- Open situations that founders face: ultrametric.ai/situations
- Open startup simulator (you can test our different initial starting conditions): ultrametric.ai/startup-sim
- Open modules (e.g. cap table, payroll logic etc - we'd love help improving these) ultrametric.ai/open-modules
- Open law (we are interested in how law changes the processes, situations and normalizing this over time) ultrametric.ai/open-law
- Open lore (we are interested in the historical lore of startups, the rules of thumb and heuristics that might guide your agent): ultrametric.ai/open-lore
- Open fields (we are interested in how the schema for the data connects to the open modules, business logic, open documents and artifacts of each process eg how is a EIN defined?) ultrametric.ai/fields
- Open documentation (eg SAFE notes and missing! docs) ultrametric.ai/open-documents
We have looked at YC companies as well in terms of which ones do well agentically: ultrametric.ai/yc
We are interested in stacks and how people are changing their work: ultrametric.ai/stacks
We are interested in what is automatable and where the agentic ceiling is currently and how to push that up in all areas: ultrametric.ai/rankings/proce…
There is more for you to explore and a lot more coming in terms of how you will be able to navigate business in an optimal way in your chosen surface area; whether you are hanging in grokbot, dots, muse, claude, terminal, chat, or whatever is coming up in this exciting time.
We have a lot of data to collect, clean up and help agents navigate the vast landscape emerging functionality the entire startup ecosystem has to offer.
Come join us getting your vendor in, ranked or that access pattern you have wanted or getting the data more accurate in terms of which vendor is best for a process or steps. Or open a module of something that currently cost money that could be free.
Also come play in our discord for founders and join the chaos (we can solve each others issues including fund raising tips from me personally): discord.com/invite/3aHky83…
It's time to lift all the boats in the harbor and I'm extremely excited as to what the community of hackers and painters will hack into the repo, what asks they will have and whether we can shift normalization of processes globally, gov agentic interfaces and have common repo for founders that grows over time. I expect a lot of experimentation along the way, bugs and upside...
I appreciate our backers having faith in us as well from @ycombinator with @garrytan to @immad doing a sizable check (congrats on $1bn rev homie) to @darbyw (congrats on Stripe buying @clerkyinc), @drewhouston form @Dropbox and also @pioneer_fund @tomerlondon cto @GustoHQ and hopefully this is 'boring' and complex enough for Charlie Songhurst :> @delingpole @Liquid2V @ivolo from @segment @ryanpowe @sonicaghi of @kong @DellyTamer+ other supporters (@michaelwfrank, Fundamental ventures and if I missed you sorry moving fast!).
[And don't worry, all vendor rankings are open scoring methods so no favors are being done if someone backed us and is a vendor they have to compete with how agentic and automatable they are just like anyone else.]
PS: we have bugs and many quality upgrades to make but thought better to go out early and fix as a community.
PPS: we have other stuff to launch we just thought this was a great place to start and have 200 PRs coming out pretty soon but I still want to know what is broken or doesnt make sense or inaccurate.
Special thanks to current and past team members for getting us here and all the experiments we did you know who you are.
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Jensen does NOT support Prop 40 or the wealth tax. I have discussed this with Jensen & the reporting is untrue. What he has said is that IF the tax were to pass - he would stay & pay it. He loves CA & will pay his taxes but he too is worried it could negatively impact CA. 🇺🇸
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In the age of super intelligence, the current standards of living will look medieval.
The problems that society worries about right now will be largely irrelevant. It’ll be the equivalent of current society worrying about the bubonic plague.
The problems that society worries about right now will be largely irrelevant. It’ll be the equivalent of current society worrying about the bubonic plague.
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