ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
If the figures we're getting out of Iran are in the right league, this weekend was, I think, one of the bloodiest state crackdowns of all time. People are talking 12,000-20,000 dead; for comparison Hungary in 1956 was about 2,500, Tiananmen - across country, in multiple cities - probably 1000+
A lot of findings in this new paper, but one is the inevitable doom of traditional peer review:
1) AI creates a flood of papers, both good & bad
2) Paper complexity, a key screen and signal of quality for human work, is actually a signal of low quality for AI
There's no plan for what comes next.
`hf-mem` is all you need to estimate the required VRAM for inference of any model on @huggingface based on Safetensors metadata.
- Written in Python
- Lightweight, only depends on `httpx`
- Runs w/ `uvx` as `uvx hf-mem ...`
- Works with any Safetensors repository
- Output inspired by usgraphics.com
Andrej Karpathy @karpathy X.com l've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.
Andrej Karpathy is worried about keeping up with software engineering practices
play this
www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=...
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
This is an INSANE decision by the E.U.
“By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.”
This will kill people.
job openings for young software developers in the age of ai: cratering
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"In July, five months after her death, we discovered that Sophie Rottenberg, our only child, had confided for months in a ChatGPT A.I. therapist called Harry." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.
Si anche io, da Pescocostanzo (AQ), durata 2-3 secondi credo
Today we released SciArena, an open evaluation platform where researchers can compare and vote on foundation models for scientific literature tasks. 👇
marco rubio announces that usaid, which began under president kennedy in 1961, has officially ceased operations
foreign assistance now to be run by state dept
lancet medical journal projecting 14 million more deaths in next 5 years with aid restrictions (from world's most vulnerable populations)
It's pretty cool!
Why did Grok suddenly start talking about “white genocide in South Africa” even if asked about baseball or cute dogs?
Because someone at Musk’s xAi deliberately did this, and we only found out because they were clumsy.
My piece on the real dangers of AI.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...
Announcing AlphaEvolve, our new LLM coding agent that has
- made new scientific discoveries
- discovered algorithms that are now deployed at Google (in Gemini, Transformers, TPU hardware design & data centers)
Blog: deepmind.google/discover/blo...
White paper:
storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med...
Hey people who are EU citizens, please sign this petition to ban conversion therapy EU wide.
It's a practice that's very harmful towards LGBTQ+ people.
It's already banned in some countries but we need a EU wide ban!
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
#europe #lgbtq #germany
In September, 2024, physicians working with AI did better at the Healthbench doctor benchmark than either AI or physicians alone.
With the release of o3 and GPT-4.1, AI answers are no longer improved on by physicians
Error rates appear to be dropping for newer AI models. openai.com/index/health...
Things are bad enough xkcd has introduced politics and also red text
bsky.app/profile/paul...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/t... by @kevinroose.com
Fear has a way of being contagious.
But courage is also contagious.
bsky.app/profile/evie...
"It's time to hedge economic instability with gold, text 9898..." she says at the end of that video youtu.be/PuY1JqT3kS8?... . The comment section has plenty of comments that hint at financial scams too...
bsky.app/profile/cram...
@kevinroose.com @caseynewton.bsky.social listening to your podcast about government tech use. Efforts in that direction are being undermined too:
