Uses lightning infused rocks to center divs all day. DMs are open • Design Engineer at @thirty_five_com • Industrial Design Graduate
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“In late spring 2020, a source I knew to be reliable called me with a story,” writes Matthew Cole. “The Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner’s phone and monitored him as he accessed a Dubai-based bank account. What was odd, the source said, was that the money in the account—hundreds of millions of dollars—had come from a bank in Azerbaijan. Most importantly, Kushner appeared to have transferred significant amounts of money from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man. The story sounded preposterous, I told my source. And yet.
Six months later, I found myself speaking with someone else about the UAE government and their use of mercenaries in conflicts around the Middle East and Africa when I asked, on a whim, whether they knew anything about Kushner and bank transfers from a UAE account. My acquaintance grew quiet. Then they replied, ‘Yes.’” Kushner’s lawyer denied the bank account existed.
Read an exclusive excerpt from Cole’s book, ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’: vanityfair.visitlink.me/Q5_W…
Mats Erdkamp retweeted
interpretability might be the most important scientific problem in the world right now, as I don't think we can solve alignment if we don't know what we're building. I think I have good news about it. I co-authored early work in mechanistic interpretability at OpenAI and came away pessimistic, because neural networks appeared to fold into arbitrary tangled knots. years later, I started openai's first large-scale automated interpretability project, finding about 2% of neurons legible with the primitive tools we had
with modern agentic tools and a much closer look, the picture looks totally different. the vast majority in models up to trillions of parameters are legible, and their circuits beautiful. many famous examples of tangled neurons turned out to be misunderstood. The roadblocks I expected mostly aren't there. I now think ambitious interpretability will be solved by the time we need it most, and possibly quite soon, as automated scientists keep improving. it may be a bitter lesson for interpretability: the simple thing, at absurd scale, works
already-clean.goodfire.com/
But will it be able to write good javascript abstractions
yo @mattzcarey @threepointone I had a crack at adding speculative programmatic tool calling, by the goat @a1zhang, in the codemode runtime. I think it's a really cool idea, and it seems to work nicely with CF agents and the RLM example.
Alex’s post: alexzhang13.github.io/blog/2…
Mats Erdkamp retweeted
Build something. Put it out into the world, then watch what others create with it. There’s nothing more satisfying than that.
Free idea for someone to iterate on:
turn @evilrabbit_'s excellent lifeline into a learning tool. I added MCP and asked it to give me a timeline on the history of compute. Needs refinement but potentially quite useful!
Could also work nicely with @mattpocockuk's /teach-me skill
Free idea for someone to iterate on:
turn @evilrabbit_'s excellent lifeline into a learning tool. I added MCP and asked it to give me a timeline on the history of compute. Needs refinement but potentially quite useful!
Could also work nicely with @mattpocockuk's /teach-me skill
Mats Erdkamp retweeted
. @KentonVarda was just ahead of his time again. There is still work to be done to make the technology easily by the rest of us. Capabilities security models are just not the mental model most people have for security.
Mats Erdkamp retweeted
hello there the jacobian conjecture is false thanx to my close friend akhil for asking about it and my other close friend fable for working during the world cup final
((1+xy)^3 z + y^2 (1+xy) (4+3xy), y + 3 x (1+xy)^2 z + 3 x y^2 (4+3xy), 2 x - 3 x^2 y - x^3 z): \C^3\to \C^3, has jacobian determinant -2, and sends (0, 0, -1/4), (1, -3/2, 13/2), and (-1, 3/2, 13/2) to (-1/4, 0, 0)
Odysseus learning of his evil ways not through divine punishment, but by 500 lil yellow dudes showing up
