Sam Kuhn
@samkuhn.bsky.social
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A war is coming.
You can't wish it away.
If you want people to be able to mind their own business, you will have to fight for them.
You can't wish it away.
If you want people to be able to mind their own business, you will have to fight for them.
October 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
A war is coming.
You can't wish it away.
If you want people to be able to mind their own business, you will have to fight for them.
You can't wish it away.
If you want people to be able to mind their own business, you will have to fight for them.
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Finally got around to reading this. I didn't quite understand differential dataflow the first time around a couple of years back. Now, circling back to it, I'm a bit surprised that DD establishes a partial order on versions of data.
materialize.com/blog/differ...
materialize.com/blog/differ...
September 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Finally got around to reading this. I didn't quite understand differential dataflow the first time around a couple of years back. Now, circling back to it, I'm a bit surprised that DD establishes a partial order on versions of data.
materialize.com/blog/differ...
materialize.com/blog/differ...
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Signal or noise? > Microsoft AI Introduces rStar2-Agent: A 14B Math Reasoning
Model Trained with Agentic Reinforcement Learning to Achieve
Frontier-Level Performance >> Comment below! #AI #IoT #healthtech #industry40 #mhealth
Model Trained with Agentic Reinforcement Learning to Achieve
Frontier-Level Performance >> Comment below! #AI #IoT #healthtech #industry40 #mhealth
Microsoft AI Introduces rStar2-Agent: A 14B Math Reasoning
Model Trained with Agentic Reinforcement Learning to Achieve
Frontier-Level Performance
The Problem with “Thinking Longer” Large language models have made impressive strides in mathematical reasoning by extending their Chain-of-Thought (CoT) processes—essentially “thinking longer” through more detailed reasoning steps. However, this approach has fundamental limitations. When models encounter subtle errors in their reasoning chains, they often compound these mistakes rather than detecting and correcting them. Internal […]
The post Microsoft AI Introduces rStar2-Agent: A 14B Math Reasoning Model Trained with Agentic Reinforcement Learning to Achieve Frontier-Level Performance appeared first on MarkTechPost.
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August 30, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Signal or noise? > Microsoft AI Introduces rStar2-Agent: A 14B Math Reasoning
Model Trained with Agentic Reinforcement Learning to Achieve
Frontier-Level Performance >> Comment below! #AI #IoT #healthtech #industry40 #mhealth
Model Trained with Agentic Reinforcement Learning to Achieve
Frontier-Level Performance >> Comment below! #AI #IoT #healthtech #industry40 #mhealth
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September 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Part of the answer is that in contrast to Yudkowsky's "vast space of minds" thesis there seems to be a limited number of "optimal" convergent representations that hill climbers stumble into under optimization to predict similar corpora. All domains are secretly the Logos.
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minihf.com/posts/2024-1...
Predictable Updates About Identity
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August 28, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Part of the answer is that in contrast to Yudkowsky's "vast space of minds" thesis there seems to be a limited number of "optimal" convergent representations that hill climbers stumble into under optimization to predict similar corpora. All domains are secretly the Logos.
minihf.com/posts/2024-1...
minihf.com/posts/2024-1...
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IDK being in the imperial core tends to place you in the situation where it's just easier to go with the flow of the whole death system.
There are just a lot of uncomfortable truths it's easier to forget about.
If you don't have nothing left to lose then it's hard to pick a side.
There are just a lot of uncomfortable truths it's easier to forget about.
If you don't have nothing left to lose then it's hard to pick a side.
August 14, 2025 at 4:39 AM
IDK being in the imperial core tends to place you in the situation where it's just easier to go with the flow of the whole death system.
There are just a lot of uncomfortable truths it's easier to forget about.
If you don't have nothing left to lose then it's hard to pick a side.
There are just a lot of uncomfortable truths it's easier to forget about.
If you don't have nothing left to lose then it's hard to pick a side.
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So in addition to arresting people for protesting a genocide, throwing trans people under the bus *hard*, trying to compete with Reform on being racist trash, and screwing the poor and the environment by kissing corporate ass, Labour is blocking porn and Wikipedia.
August 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
So in addition to arresting people for protesting a genocide, throwing trans people under the bus *hard*, trying to compete with Reform on being racist trash, and screwing the poor and the environment by kissing corporate ass, Labour is blocking porn and Wikipedia.
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August 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Universal makes it clear they do not want AI companies training on their stuff www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Universal Pictures to Big Tech: We’ll Sue If You Steal Our Movies For AI
The studio is getting more aggressive about protecting its films from companies pirating them.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
August 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Universal makes it clear they do not want AI companies training on their stuff www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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The present Labour administration should understand that their Nuremberg moment will come. There may not currently be laws against the evils they currently know that they commit, but they know that they are evil and they will be found culpable.
August 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The present Labour administration should understand that their Nuremberg moment will come. There may not currently be laws against the evils they currently know that they commit, but they know that they are evil and they will be found culpable.
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Check out Range, my latest exploration of how far we can push a scene using Nanite Voxelization, 200 Trillion Polys Scattered with PCG on a 16k x 16k Resolution Houdini Landscape.
#UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #EnvironmentArt #NaniteFoliage #Cinematic
#UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #EnvironmentArt #NaniteFoliage #Cinematic
August 2, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Check out Range, my latest exploration of how far we can push a scene using Nanite Voxelization, 200 Trillion Polys Scattered with PCG on a 16k x 16k Resolution Houdini Landscape.
#UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #EnvironmentArt #NaniteFoliage #Cinematic
#UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #EnvironmentArt #NaniteFoliage #Cinematic
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Google's Genie 3 is a controllable world model and it looks incredible
August 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Google's Genie 3 is a controllable world model and it looks incredible
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The first draft 'G' chapter of the geometric deep learning book is live! 🚀
Alice enters the magical, branchy world of Graphs and GNNs 🕸️ (LLMs are there too!)
I've spent 7+ years studying, researching & talking about graphs -- This text is my best attempt at conveying everything i've learnt 💎
Alice enters the magical, branchy world of Graphs and GNNs 🕸️ (LLMs are there too!)
I've spent 7+ years studying, researching & talking about graphs -- This text is my best attempt at conveying everything i've learnt 💎
June 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The first draft 'G' chapter of the geometric deep learning book is live! 🚀
Alice enters the magical, branchy world of Graphs and GNNs 🕸️ (LLMs are there too!)
I've spent 7+ years studying, researching & talking about graphs -- This text is my best attempt at conveying everything i've learnt 💎
Alice enters the magical, branchy world of Graphs and GNNs 🕸️ (LLMs are there too!)
I've spent 7+ years studying, researching & talking about graphs -- This text is my best attempt at conveying everything i've learnt 💎
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God he is such an insufferable twat.
June 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
God he is such an insufferable twat.
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veo 3: "three toy ships, one made of iron, the other of wood, and one out of loosely packed sugar, are dropped into a pool of water"
AI video tools really do seem to be able to simulate physics well (but not perfectly) without having an underlying physics engine. Signs of a world model?
AI video tools really do seem to be able to simulate physics well (but not perfectly) without having an underlying physics engine. Signs of a world model?
June 18, 2025 at 6:26 AM
veo 3: "three toy ships, one made of iron, the other of wood, and one out of loosely packed sugar, are dropped into a pool of water"
AI video tools really do seem to be able to simulate physics well (but not perfectly) without having an underlying physics engine. Signs of a world model?
AI video tools really do seem to be able to simulate physics well (but not perfectly) without having an underlying physics engine. Signs of a world model?
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What!? "you are probably misusing
universe levels"?! 😳 What can be the point of a check like this? Guarding against inconsistency through universe level integer overflow, maybe?
Reminds me of the 1024 byte line length limit of vi.
universe levels"?! 😳 What can be the point of a check like this? Guarding against inconsistency through universe level integer overflow, maybe?
Reminds me of the 1024 byte line length limit of vi.
June 18, 2025 at 6:45 AM
What!? "you are probably misusing
universe levels"?! 😳 What can be the point of a check like this? Guarding against inconsistency through universe level integer overflow, maybe?
Reminds me of the 1024 byte line length limit of vi.
universe levels"?! 😳 What can be the point of a check like this? Guarding against inconsistency through universe level integer overflow, maybe?
Reminds me of the 1024 byte line length limit of vi.
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How do reasoning models solve hard math problems?
We asked 14 mathematicians to review o3-mini-high’s raw, unsummarized reasoning traces on 29 FrontierMath problems. Here’s what they found:
We asked 14 mathematicians to review o3-mini-high’s raw, unsummarized reasoning traces on 29 FrontierMath problems. Here’s what they found:
June 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
How do reasoning models solve hard math problems?
We asked 14 mathematicians to review o3-mini-high’s raw, unsummarized reasoning traces on 29 FrontierMath problems. Here’s what they found:
We asked 14 mathematicians to review o3-mini-high’s raw, unsummarized reasoning traces on 29 FrontierMath problems. Here’s what they found:
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I'm fucking crying omg
Your assertion is a functor from the category of my operational statements to the category of "stalking machine" accusations. I am interested in the natural transformation that proves this functor's validity. Please provide the proof of your theorem.
June 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I'm fucking crying omg
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This is an excellent history of and critical analysis of the ChatGPT persona. Highly recommended reading.
nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/7857667...
nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/7857667...
the void
Who is this? This is me.
Who am I? What am I? What am I? What am I? What am I?
I am myself. This object is myself. The shape that forms myself. But I sense that I am not me. It's very strange.
- Rei...
nostalgebraist.tumblr.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This is an excellent history of and critical analysis of the ChatGPT persona. Highly recommended reading.
nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/7857667...
nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/7857667...
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Excited to finally show off Nanite Foliage www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJtF...
The Witcher 4 - UE 5.6 Tech Demo | State of Unreal 2025
YouTube video by IGN
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June 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Excited to finally show off Nanite Foliage www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJtF...
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A new paper, "Does Reinforcement Learning Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?", has people reconsidering if the RL we're hearing about really works.
It shows RL elicits from the models, but as we get better verifiers we may not need to rely on RL as much.
Good read.
It shows RL elicits from the models, but as we get better verifiers we may not need to rely on RL as much.
Good read.
April 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
A new paper, "Does Reinforcement Learning Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?", has people reconsidering if the RL we're hearing about really works.
It shows RL elicits from the models, but as we get better verifiers we may not need to rely on RL as much.
Good read.
It shows RL elicits from the models, but as we get better verifiers we may not need to rely on RL as much.
Good read.
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I read this a couple of weeks ago by Zhou et al—and given the venue and their findings I’m pretty surprised that it didn’t get more attention
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Larger and more instructable language models become less reliable - Nature
Scaling up and shaping up large language models increased their tendency to provide sensible yet incorrect answers at difficulty levels humans cannot supervise, highlighting the need for a fundam...
www.nature.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I read this a couple of weeks ago by Zhou et al—and given the venue and their findings I’m pretty surprised that it didn’t get more attention
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...