Moonshot, the Chinese AI firm, has a new open weight model that is reportedly a match for Anthropic at a fraction of the cost.
At least on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Grok is behind the frontier.
At least on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Grok is behind the frontier.
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I am truly grateful to all the high quality issues and pull requests I am receiving…but I can’t keep up.
Software is fast improving but I need to develop better techniques to deal with the velocity.
Any ideas? What am I missing?
Software is fast improving but I need to develop better techniques to deal with the velocity.
Any ideas? What am I missing?
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The most important novel you should read this year is Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge. Written decades ago, it describes much of what is happening today.
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I had a look at the ArtCraft project by Brandon Thomas. They are free, open-source Rust reimplementations of the major Adobe and Microsoft apps. They have been making the rounds, but I only got to try them out today. The excel clone seems quite convincing.
WordCraft → /t.co/0K8eGzG413
GridCraft → Microsoft Excel
getartcraft.com/apps/gridcraft
DeckCraft → Microsoft PowerPoint
getartcraft.com/apps/deckcraft
PhotoCraft → Photoshop
getartcraft.com/apps/photocraft
VectorCraft → Illustrator
getartcraft.com/apps/vectorcra…
FilmCraft → Premiere Pro
getartcraft.com/apps/filmcraft
github.com/storytold/film…
LightCraft → Lightroom
getartcraft.com/apps/lightcraft
EffectCraft → After Effects
getartcraft.com/apps/effectcra…
DesignCraft → InDesign
getartcraft.com/apps/designcra…
PdfCraft → Acrobat
getartcraft.com/apps/pdfcraft
WordCraft → /t.co/0K8eGzG413
GridCraft → Microsoft Excel
getartcraft.com/apps/gridcraft
DeckCraft → Microsoft PowerPoint
getartcraft.com/apps/deckcraft
PhotoCraft → Photoshop
getartcraft.com/apps/photocraft
VectorCraft → Illustrator
getartcraft.com/apps/vectorcra…
FilmCraft → Premiere Pro
getartcraft.com/apps/filmcraft
github.com/storytold/film…
LightCraft → Lightroom
getartcraft.com/apps/lightcraft
EffectCraft → After Effects
getartcraft.com/apps/effectcra…
DesignCraft → InDesign
getartcraft.com/apps/designcra…
PdfCraft → Acrobat
getartcraft.com/apps/pdfcraft
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In case you have been wondering... Yeah, pretty much all science papers are written by AI (they were back in December 2025).
arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10715
arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10715
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AI is an apocalypse in the sense that it reveals all. Or it reveals much.
We have mathematicians arguing that solving the problems that they themselves identified as the goals (in their funding applications and talks) never mattered.
We have the finest literary people in France who were collectively fooled by a novel written by AI. None of them would ever accept AI authorship.
We have been told for decades that without copyright, there could be no progress... and all of a sudden, we have these machines producing copyright-free content, often breaking new ground.
We have entire institutions that were supposed to be focused on innovation... that cannot adapt meaningfully to a world with AI.
We are left wondering. What is actual progress and what is mere signalling. How people react to AI tells us much.
We have mathematicians arguing that solving the problems that they themselves identified as the goals (in their funding applications and talks) never mattered.
We have the finest literary people in France who were collectively fooled by a novel written by AI. None of them would ever accept AI authorship.
We have been told for decades that without copyright, there could be no progress... and all of a sudden, we have these machines producing copyright-free content, often breaking new ground.
We have entire institutions that were supposed to be focused on innovation... that cannot adapt meaningfully to a world with AI.
We are left wondering. What is actual progress and what is mere signalling. How people react to AI tells us much.
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The profzi scheme is a famous comic from Jorge Cham. It compares academia to a Ponzi scheme: many students work for a professor to produce more papers. The professor takes credit for all the paper, but few of the advisee will have a great academic career because... the whole he numbers don't add up.
The whole operation is largely sterile and only works due to the pretence that producing peer reviewed research papers is equivalent (synonymous) to producing new, valuable, knowledge.
What happens if AI can produce the papers?
The scheme is exposed.
We see it in mathematics right now. The AIs sidestep the entire peer-review process... and provide correct proofs to what was considered by the math establishment as the important problems.
These people are very angry.
It is the great AI debunking.
So what is the solution? Go back to what should always have been. The purpose of research should never have been to produce peer-reviewed papers. This was always a perversion. (For people who do not read me regularly, the peer-review model became dominant in the 1970, it is a recent addition.)
The purpose, of course, is to solve problems that people care about. That's much more difficult than producing papers... so it puts the bar much higher for scientists and researchers. But the bar should never have been lowered in the first place.
What happens to the 'profzi scheme'? I predict, I hope, that it will fall. Not all of a sudden, but once the system come to the realization that the production of papers is a solved problem, AI can do it better than us... then it won't be decades before students start worrying about where the train is headed.
(The comic attached is AI generated. Obviously.)
The whole operation is largely sterile and only works due to the pretence that producing peer reviewed research papers is equivalent (synonymous) to producing new, valuable, knowledge.
What happens if AI can produce the papers?
The scheme is exposed.
We see it in mathematics right now. The AIs sidestep the entire peer-review process... and provide correct proofs to what was considered by the math establishment as the important problems.
These people are very angry.
It is the great AI debunking.
So what is the solution? Go back to what should always have been. The purpose of research should never have been to produce peer-reviewed papers. This was always a perversion. (For people who do not read me regularly, the peer-review model became dominant in the 1970, it is a recent addition.)
The purpose, of course, is to solve problems that people care about. That's much more difficult than producing papers... so it puts the bar much higher for scientists and researchers. But the bar should never have been lowered in the first place.
What happens to the 'profzi scheme'? I predict, I hope, that it will fall. Not all of a sudden, but once the system come to the realization that the production of papers is a solved problem, AI can do it better than us... then it won't be decades before students start worrying about where the train is headed.
(The comic attached is AI generated. Obviously.)
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Most people who do machine learning with Python use PyTorch.
Amazon has its own hardware for machine learning: trainium. On AWS, trainium instances are roughly half the price of Nvidia instances... although you get somewhat less compute. Overall, AWS claims that trainium is .
Amazon just made it much easier to run PyTorch on its own chips. TorchNeuron is a native PyTorch backend. Existing PyTorch code can move to Trainium by changing the device string:
model = MyModel().to('neuron')
Trainium chips are available on AWS EC2.
This is still in beta.
Code at github.com/aws-neuron/tor…
Amazon has its own hardware for machine learning: trainium. On AWS, trainium instances are roughly half the price of Nvidia instances... although you get somewhat less compute. Overall, AWS claims that trainium is .
Amazon just made it much easier to run PyTorch on its own chips. TorchNeuron is a native PyTorch backend. Existing PyTorch code can move to Trainium by changing the device string:
model = MyModel().to('neuron')
Trainium chips are available on AWS EC2.
This is still in beta.
Code at github.com/aws-neuron/tor…
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Intel is making AI accelerator cards.
Intel’s GPU D270 (Crescent Island) is a PCIe 5.0 card built for inference. It is more or less a variant of a graphics card, engineered for AI.
It uses 32 Xe cores. Each one mixes ordinary vector engines with specialized matrix engines LPDDR5X. Intel’s card has about 160 GB. It can go up to 480 GB.
I am curious about the price tag.
Intel’s GPU D270 (Crescent Island) is a PCIe 5.0 card built for inference. It is more or less a variant of a graphics card, engineered for AI.
It uses 32 Xe cores. Each one mixes ordinary vector engines with specialized matrix engines LPDDR5X. Intel’s card has about 160 GB. It can go up to 480 GB.
I am curious about the price tag.
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The Financial Times reports maybe only a third of all large AI infrastructure projects are realistic.
Issues include grid connections, transformer shortages, liquid-cooling bottlenecks, and local opposition.
If so, this would make Space Data Centres even more attractive.
The interesting.
Issues include grid connections, transformer shortages, liquid-cooling bottlenecks, and local opposition.
If so, this would make Space Data Centres even more attractive.
The interesting.
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What do you do if someone offends you?
Adult human beings tend to be pretty good at the right answer: do not react. At least at first.
For a tribe or a civilization, this non-reaction is obviously useful. Fighting is expensive for the group and best be avoided.
But it is also often the best strategy for the individual.
For three main reasons:
1. We are frequently wrong about what happened. Sometimes people are just careless. Or there is a misunderstanding that can be resolved. It happens often enough.
2. Provocations often see to extract status. Someone who offends might want to establish their dominance. By ignoring them, we are fighting back. It takes power to be able to ignore someone. If you fight back, you signal that you might be backed into a corner. You have to fight back because the other people do have some power over you. Not reacting as expected is a sign of power, your own power.
3. Your attention and energy are finite and scarce. Spending them on an offense is a tax that you are paying.
The absence of reaction is not the same as passivity or weakness.
Because if you refuse to react, you still get to play. Yet you play your own game, on your own terms. To win.
youtube.com/watch?v=qX-KZf…
Adult human beings tend to be pretty good at the right answer: do not react. At least at first.
For a tribe or a civilization, this non-reaction is obviously useful. Fighting is expensive for the group and best be avoided.
But it is also often the best strategy for the individual.
For three main reasons:
1. We are frequently wrong about what happened. Sometimes people are just careless. Or there is a misunderstanding that can be resolved. It happens often enough.
2. Provocations often see to extract status. Someone who offends might want to establish their dominance. By ignoring them, we are fighting back. It takes power to be able to ignore someone. If you fight back, you signal that you might be backed into a corner. You have to fight back because the other people do have some power over you. Not reacting as expected is a sign of power, your own power.
3. Your attention and energy are finite and scarce. Spending them on an offense is a tax that you are paying.
The absence of reaction is not the same as passivity or weakness.
Because if you refuse to react, you still get to play. Yet you play your own game, on your own terms. To win.
youtube.com/watch?v=qX-KZf…
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The next Redis release should have native support for Roaring bitmaps. I ran some benchmarks. In some instances, this could drastically improve your performance.
This could similarly be added to Valkey soon if people want, there is an issue and code proposal.
Check my article as 'what are Roaring bitmaps?')
This could similarly be added to Valkey soon if people want, there is an issue and code proposal.
Check my article as 'what are Roaring bitmaps?')
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Daniel Lemire retweeted
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