Through this release, we aim both to support the emerging ecosystem for pretraining research (NanoGPT, NanoChat), explainability (you can literally look at Monad under a microscope) and the tooling orchestration around frontier models.

My gf and I are binging the hell out of this extremely well-read audiobook series. I suspect I wouldn't have enjoyed them as print books nearly as much but we've gone through like 100 hours in a month. GF's not on bsky so I know you guys won't snitch that I got her Princess Donut merch for her bday.

My gf and I started listening to goofy audiobooks together and this one is super fun. Written though surprising NOT read by Kate McKinnon, but by her sister?

And Barbosa was very good, but it was obvious he was primarily a danseur and secondarily a tapper. Nobody really has a perfect replacement for McRae's OG Hatter, because nobody else is at his level in both ballet and tap.

And Jaiani was incredible as Queen of Hearts! Some notes of the original choreography's physical comedy didn't surface because she's just not as comically short as Yanowsky, but if you didn't know they were supposed to be there, you'd never notice it because Jaiani is SO SO FUNNY.

Curious what else she/you thought. Obviously Edson Barbosa is no Steven McRae, but there's only one McRae and it would suck if nobody ever performed Alice again because they didn't have him on hand for the hatter. Barbosa wasn't bad!

omg I literally flew to Chicago to see the Joffrey's Alice because I'm obsessed with Wheeldon. Wild that she thought it was too Balanchine! What I love about Wheeldon is how he puts so much mutual joy into every pas, not just the romantic ones, and not just giving the woman all the expressive moves.

Anyway my thesis is Jewels reflects more of Balanchine's specific trajectory as an art monster more than it does some deep national character. If you don't know the vibe of each piece, the Boston Ballet has a season preview playlist gives a pretty good idea of it. #balletsky tell me if I'm off base

my followers here don't care about this post. this post is for me. or maybe I'll finally break into balletsky

Either we now have a truly excellent open-source model or it's benchmark hacked. Soon we will know which world we live in

btw this is how I found out Richmond's mascot is a spider. I can read the signs. they will be given favorable funding under our future chthonic leadership

When I started my PhD, my flatmate (now also NLP faculty) called our place The X-Bar

There's a pool of research money to be distributed and the US has announced it's all in on AI. It's going to people like me. I love my work, believe in it, like to get funded for it. But if it's me deciding, I'd put more into mRNA cancer vaccines, into renewable energy, into resilient farming.