There is such a thing as a free lunch; it just isn't very tasty.
It’s impossible to not love Twitter
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I caught up on Friday with my friend and business partner Anatole @kaletsky for our weekly Gavekal zoominar. We were supposed to discuss how sustainable the AI capex spending boom would prove to be in the face of rapidly rising corporate bond yields? But given the headlines on France, on the Middle-East and on the growing likelihood of a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, we struggled to stay on track… I asked the @gavekal editors to remove the locks on the podcast… research.gavekal.com/content…
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Find a partner who loves you as much as the British love being poor
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This will surely calm things 🍿🍿🍿
🛑 The ECB can buy bonds of a euro zone country on the secondary market if their prices move in an unjustified way to protect the proper transmission ‌of monetary ⁠policy. BUT OFFICIALS SAID THIS DID NOT COVER WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN FRANCE.
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Could it be that markets in this case are rational and more forward looking than rating agencies?
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not turtles, but grenouilles all the way down
The FROGS (FRench Over German Spreads) are jumping h/t @C_Barraud
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Hey AI build me a 4k120hz remote desktop 4:4:4 to my linux box. 'Ok ill use the dual hw encoders on your nvidia gpu interleaved'. Aaaaand it works. Wow.
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Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix Core devs revert up to 10 features, push release to November, and blame better tooling rather than vibe coding theregister.com/databases/20…
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We made the first AI model you can have a realistic conversation with that was trained entirely on speech! Dessa is a full-duplex speech-to-speech model that you can run on consumer GPUs. This is a GPT3 moment for speech.
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Dessa no es otro modelo de voz. Es el primer intento serio de enseñar a hablar a una IA exactamente como aprendemos los humanos: solo escuchando. Jack Dorsey acaba de presentar Dessa, el modelo de habla de Block entrenado únicamente con audio de conversaciones humanas. Sin texto. Sin modelos preentrenados. Sin convertir nada a letras. Audio entra, audio sale. Eso cambia todo. Hasta ahora casi todas las IAs de voz hacen lo mismo: escuchan → transcriben a texto → piensan en texto → sintetizan voz. En el camino pierden la risa a medias, el suspiro de frustración, el “ajá” que dice “te sigo”, la pausa que carga de emoción, el tono que delata ironía. Dessa se salta ese paso. Es full-duplex: escucha y habla al mismo tiempo. Puede interrumpirte, puede dejar que la interrumpas, puede hacer backchanneling (“sí, claro”, “¡no jodas!”) mientras tú sigues hablando. Habla con cadencia, emoción y silencios. Como una persona. Y lo más loco: lo aprendió de la misma forma que un bebé. Solo escuchando. El equipo lo dice explícitamente: “Los bebés aprenden a hablar sin ver nunca una palabra escrita. Queríamos ver si un modelo también podía. Puede. Solo que es muy difícil”. Además, es brutalmente eficiente. Se entrenó en un solo rack NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 y corre localmente en un MacBook Pro M4 Max o superior, más rápido que tiempo real. Un laboratorio pequeño dentro de Block, que reporta directamente a Dorsey, acaba de demostrar que no hace falta un cluster de 100.000 GPUs para avanzar la frontera del habla. Todavía no está disponible para el público (solo acceso temprano para investigadores de seguridad y lista de espera), pero las demos que han soltado ya muestran algo que se siente distinto: más vivo, más torpe a veces, más humano. Si esto escala, la forma en que hablamos con las máquinas va a cambiar de “interfaz de voz” a conversación real. Y eso, si lo piensas, es un cambio bastante profundo.
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence. block.xyz/dessa
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Apple has overtaken Nvidia to become the most valuable company in the world by market capitalization.
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This is just sad.
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Every Mac on macOS 27 now has a free LLM built into the Terminal. No account. No API key. No internet. No token bill. Setup (1 minute): 1. sudo fm license (enter your Mac password, one time) 2. fm available (checks the model is downloaded) 3. fm respond “your question” Works on any Apple Silicon Mac, M1 included. - Pipe files: cat notes.txt | fm respond -i “summarize this” - Get JSON back: build a schema with fm schema object, pass it with --schema - Local API: fm serve gives you an OpenAI-compatible endpoint on localhost - Resume chats: sessions save to ~/.fm/sessions/ The limit is 4,096 tokens per session, and your prompt, instructions, and the answer all share it. So skip code and math. Use it for summarizing, extracting, classifying, and rewriting. Free, private, offline, and already on your Mac.
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We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence. block.xyz/dessa
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GIVE THIS GUY $1B IMMEDIATELY
The 8192 core CPU I'm building at @uscompco will, aside from being absurdly high performance, also have some very strong sandboxing and security features. For example, with a short pipeline and a few other small changes, branch prediction becomes unnecessary for high performance, eliminating entire classes of speculation-based security vulnerabilities. Furthermore, all those vulnerabilities from context switches creating shared resources between multiple programs? Gone too. With 8k cores, everything just has its own cores, no context switches, only packets. We can even achieve a lot of sandboxing and isolation with the majority of on-chip packets.
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I highly recommend cloudflare's security audit skill: github.com/cloudflare/securi… Run it on all your software. Run it with the free models. Use it even if you used a model to audit something - it will find much more things. Works in all agent harnesses and is model independent.
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Small South European economies are undergoing the largest and fastest public debt reduction episodes in recent history based on sound fiscal policies and strong growth, not financial repression or inflation. One for the history books. 🇬🇷🇵🇹🇨🇾🇭🇷
Govt debt-to-GDP ratios 2020 -> 2026 (% of GDP): 🇬🇷 213% -> 137% 🇮🇹 158% -> 138% 🇵🇹 137% -> 87% 🇫🇷 118% -> 120% 🇨🇾 118% -> 49% (among the lowest) 🇧🇪 115% -> 112% 🇸🇮 85% -> 65% 🇫🇮 73% -> 90% 🇸🇰 58% -> 65% 🇭🇷 88% -> 54% Same currency and fiscal rules. Very different outcomes.
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