tldr quote:
As demographers who study fertility, family behaviors and childbearing intentions, we can say with certainty that population decline is not imminent, inevitable or necessarily catastrophic.

Love it! Practical, optimistic, hinting at actual problems and solutions (!)

Grok, OpenAI, Anthropic — all the frontier labs are rushing to help the US government

well, except the Chinese labs

www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...

Kimi K2, the new best open model in the world. In a few days the non-tech part of US/world is going to have another mini DeepSeek style existential crisis because of this model.

I wrote about my expectations for how this release plays out and what it means for the future.

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Interesting to see supposed climate change activist Leonardo DiCaprio at Bezos' vulgar wedding.

Worth remembering stuff like that when we are expected to take celebrities and their causes seriously. It's only ever about optics.

This is pretty neat, GAN training in the browser. For toy domains like MNIST and CIFAR-10, but still

First a predictive model for identifying future criminals
Then this operational optimization of deportation machinery
I can imagine a microservice on AWS crunching numbers, deciding which neighborhood to send a truck to

A horrible vision of the future world that some ppl have. We need to fight it.

Some time ago, I realized that our existential plight is that we have to take a stand and commit to the values that make life worth living; that one chooses to stand with similar people, and even if this stand is desperate, it’s still the path that freedom has to take, if it wants to be free.

That Crypto is a parasitic entity dependent on a functioning global finance system rather than a revolutionary framework for replacing it is going to occur to a lot of people after it is too late to bail out

3️⃣ Research publications – like the "Unsolved Problems in ML Safety" paper – establish the boundaries of what issues AI safety prioritizes as a field, and are a core avenue through which the field’s ideas have begun to take hold outside the AI safety epistemic community.

Linguistics is everywhere! Who would have thought our field would turn out to be so popular? Law, biology, machine learning, they all want to know about linguistics now.

101 in Language and AI in 101s:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gccA...

Takeaways from the latest State of ML Competitions report mlcontests.com/state-of-mac...:
- Python & PyTorch still dominate
- 80%+ use NVIDIA GPUs, but no multi-node setups 🤔
- LoRA still popular for training efficiency, but full finetuning gains traction.
Surprisingly, CNNs still lead in CV comps

Let's see if all of those "free speech warriors" like Jordan Peterson, Weinstein, Joe Rogan et al make a comment on this. USA is really going full fascist.

Here’s the 2025 LLM roadmap 😊
1. Code and train your own LLM to really understand the fundamentals
2. Train models more conveniently using production-ready libraries
3. Learn about the big-picture considerations for real-world LLM/AI apps

After 6+ months in the making and over a year of GPU compute, we're excited to release the "Ultra-Scale Playbook": hf.co/spaces/nanot...

A book to learn all about 5D parallelism, ZeRO, CUDA kernels, how/why overlap compute & coms with theory, motivation, interactive plots and 4000+ experiments!

It's 2025, and I’ve finally updated my Python setup guide to use uv + venv instead of conda + pip!
Here's my go-to recommendation for uv + venv in Python projects for faster installs, better dependency management: github.com/rasbt/LLMs-f...
(Any additional suggestions?)

One of the most interesting new research in the LLM space: introducing Large Language Diffusion Models. arxiv.org/pdf/2502.09992

Review! mini kuš! #127: Swelling – Walker Tate’s Body Horror Short is Both Disconcerting and Bleakly Funny. From @kushkomikss.bsky.social. www.brokenfrontier.com/mini-kus-127/

Un liquore che brucia la gola, per scaldare l'anima, abbiamo un sangue molto caldo che spaventa i fantasmi xenofobi

I’ve put a limited run of this A2 print on my shop, 50% of all sales will go to @medicalaidpal.bsky.social . There won’t be a reprint of it so when they’re gone that’s all there is. Thanks all.

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