Ex-Quant Trader. Unapologetically miserable. Views are my own.
Shaolin
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I’m going to write shorter threads from now on to make them more manageable to write. They’ll all be listed below in no particular order!
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Everyone in the replies wants to make it about immigration, but it’s brainrot surface-level analysis.
The better question is:
Who influenced those policymakers? And what were those policymakers doing during their formative years that made Europe OK with this?
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Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks.
Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. wapo.st/4yt6dHY
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They really just got on stage and said this newly designed 4000+ pound car can do flips and go half the speed of sound (380+mph) and will ship in 2028. This is a prank, right?
Our design language has evolved since the last reveal: from S3XY to Cybertruck, Cybercab & Optimus
Roadster is inspired by the SR-71 & F-35
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Elon Musk
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this child faked a rabona into a croqueta to directly create an assist, WHAT AM I SEEING
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Being a dad is just telling yourself “it’s been an expensive month, we’ll get back on track next month” over and over again until you die
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Have found similar
Some observations on 'autoresearch', in our experience:
1) 'make this thing faster': work wells.
2) 'improve this frontier training run' deeply unimpressive.
3) 'i want to catch up to near frontier' works fine.
(2) is obviously the dream, basically = RSI. We don't have that yet, clearly.
(1) can at times be (2), although generally its not been for us, so it works (for code not at frontier already). Plus, 'code' easier than 'research', at least easier to posttrain for, so, I think it follows. I do hate drawing the distinction with sharpness though.
(3) is pretty useful - straight labor substitution, you could do it yourself since its basically running a playbook, but don't have to.
Agents can be helpful for (2) type work too of course, experiment manager on steriods.
I guess the quadrillion dollar question is when we cross the line for (2). I think soon enough, although one can make an argument that RLVR is not a great paradigm to get there (but I wouldn't make a big bet against it being enough).
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terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/…
“Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power.”
Based big T
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Got your laptop out at the airport bar have you? Sending a little email or two eh? I bet you must be very important back home. Colour me impressed buddy
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Genuine question: what good did David Reuben's buying and selling of property do for the rest of the country?
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Acyn
Looks familiar
Introducing Sudo - A delightful music player for the songs you love
Reserve yours today:
sudo.music
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JUST IN: Dozens of lawsuits allege obesity drugs Ozempic, Wegovy, & Zepbound can cause irreversible vision loss.
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The UK’s most powerful government-built AI supercomputer, Isambard-AI, cost £225m
The Botley Road bridge cost roughly the same
Apparently our frontier AI capacity and one bridge are comparable national investments
Cars and buses go from Oxford Station down Botley Road for the first time in three years!
The project took longer than the construction of The Titanic and saw costs balloon to £237m.
Looks good though.
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A short rail bridge over a two-lane road in Oxford took longer to build and cost more (inflation-adjusted) than some of the most famous construction projects in history
Cars and buses go from Oxford Station down Botley Road for the first time in three years!
The project took longer than the construction of The Titanic and saw costs balloon to £237m.
Looks good though.
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I feel sorry for Ed Sheeran
Yes, he’s a multimillionaire recording artist
But he’s also — at heart — a Hollister, gap-year normie
The sort of middle-class lad who can’t help but bust out the guitar at a house party and wants everyone to get along
He’s not built for this age
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