Maybe the real research outcomes are the friends we make along the way

Title is a meta commentary on how bad Sam is at detecting bloviating wannabe gurus as long as they share his anti-woke views. We covered Jimmy on the show recently and he’s going for a budget Jordan Peterson thing.

1/ Apocalyptic scenes in Samara following Ukrainian drone strikes on the Novokuybyshevsk Oil Refinery show Donald Trump's powerlessness, say Russian warbloggers. They lament that the Ukrainians appear to be ignoring the man they once acclaimed as 'our Trumpushka'. ⬇️

The Kremlin has spent years courting Donald Trump. Now they're seeing the payoff. The United States of America is now helping Putin in his war against Ukraine. I find that tragic.

This isn't accurate. It told her for HOURS to work with her doctos and it eventually caved to her demands to have it determine her taper.

🧵on the AI audit of Saez and Zucman and by implication Piketty (or PSZ together): Since some are objecting to what the computer found, here's a list of biases in this trio's work that were found by humans over the last decade.

My favorite captain. RIP. ♥️ nytimes.com/2026/10/29/arts/…

Patrick Stewart, whose father beat his mother, once said: "violence is a choice a man makes." Which shouldn't be an astonishing statement, yet how often do we hear that truth stated in those terms? Here's to a man who added more to the world than most of us could dream of. R.I.P.

Another devastating Russian attack on civilians in Ukraine. A Russian drone struck a platform at Dnipro railway station where a local commuter train and a scheduled passenger train were standing. As of now, 13 people have been killed and 10 injured. My deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives. My thoughts are with the injured and everyone affected by this horrific attack. For Ukrainians, even an ordinary train journey is no longer safe. Russia continues to bring death and destruction to everyday places where people should be able to live, travel and feel safe. Ukraine needs stronger air defence and sustained international support to protect its people and save lives. Russia must be forced to stop this war.

Lots of debate this week on whether journals should ban AI in peer review. We actually tested this in our new preprint, and the results were pretty clear to me. For context, I've reviewed for most of the big journals and evaluated 1,000 human reviews as an editor. I love to read and evaluate science. TLDR: From now on I won't do any peer review without AI. For clinical trials, I'd even call human-only review dangerous 🧵

I think the problem here is the Fundamental Problem of Podcasts: Jon Stewart needs a guest every single week, and Ed Zitron is on the list of ‘people who go on left wing podcasts.’ One of the things that gets people on this list is being an overconfident blowhard

I've always believed that intelligence should come from simple, general building blocks that learn their own abstractions directly from raw data; in other words, the bitter lesson. I think we're finally seeing a real step towards AI that can learn from all data. Language modeling on raw bytes is a microcosm of this ideal, and to me it's a central problem in AI: if we can't build LLMs that learn end-to-end from bytes, how will we handle the rest of the world's data that we understand even less? Last year we introduced hierarchical networks (H-Nets) as a first step. Our new version finds up to 3-5x efficiency gains in controlled scaling law experiments, and at larger scale matches an open-source model trained on 11T tokens with ~10x less data and compute. The posts below walk through what we found and why we think it works.

من #پخشان_عزیزی، ۴۲ ساله، مددکار اجتماعی، محکوم به اعدام هستم. صدایم باشید!

Even the All-In guys seem to have given up on "super intelligence" @jdcapelouto

It’s unfortunate that Zelenskyy and Ukraine has to simultaneously fight a two-front war against Russian barbarians and the greedy gangsters running the US government.

We used to go to an acquaintance of my wife for haircuts at her home. Her husband had quit his job to do technical day trading. I would get detailed updates on his passion-project. He was surprisingly frank and kept careful records… He made ~ -$50k over the course of 3 years.

Reads like David Mitchell having a bad day