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We have a new paper on topic models! We introduce Mechanistic Topic Models (MTMs). MTMs model SAE feature counts rather than words or plain embeddings, combining the benefits of LLM-based and probabilistic topic models. Paper (published in TACL) : arxiv.org/abs/2507.23220
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In two weeks the eng team at Finch is transforming our office into a speakeasy with great drinks, wonderful company, and a little Gatsby-esque glamour. We are always looking to meet and talk to talented folks, so bring your engineering friends along! Help us find our next Daisy! (RSVP link in comments)
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If the Chinese Communist Party really hired McKinsey to destroy us we have legitimately never been safer
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RIP bozo
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Housing is a centuries-old technology and should be basically free by now, just like food/water/electricity. It's pure insanity that we've made it a scarce unproductive fake "investment" asset and allowed it to take up an insane amount of people's budgets
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The Mexican government has released pictures of what happens to a human after 2 years of playing a popular game “league of legends”. It's not looking good.
CONGRESS IN MEXICO HAVE SHOWN AN ALIEN BODY.
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“gang gang yes yes yes gang gang mmm ice cream so good gang gang”
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The last thing Paradigm backed before removing all mentions of web3 from their website
“The firm appears to have removed crypto/web3 mentions from the front page of its website earlier this month, suggesting a rebrand that comes after high-profile collapses in the sector and rising regulatory uncertainty in the U.S.”
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its just one of those years
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I went to MIT & studied CS, one year under SBF When he graduated in 2014, the place where all the top tier engineers went was Palantir If you couldn't pass that interview, then it was Dropbox/FB etc And the third-tier was quant/finance, ie Jane Street SBF was tier-3 bad eng
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Bringing up extremist politics at Thanksgiving to avoid crypto
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Its impossible to write comedies with this good of a script SBF pitches the sequoia partnership Vision? "Buy a banana with fake internet money" Blows the partnership away. Wow. During the partner meeting ? PLAY LEAGUE OF LEGENDS This is god-tier comedy
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It’s hard to write a joke right now because it’s impossible to write something funnier than what’s actually happening
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🏆 @DRXGLOBAL ARE THE 2022 WORLD CHAMPIONS #WORLDS2022 🏆
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It is hard to adequately describe how much of the financial system is implicitly designed to maximize the job security of pension fund allocators
Goldman ripping UK pension funds trying to offload their private assets with up to 30% discount to book values. I have said that for years, private assets give an illusion of price stability until you want to sell them.
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Likely next Italian PM, Giorgia Meloni of the nationalist FdI, is known for posting anime fan-art of herself
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Two brothers who faked 10+ separate devs identities accounted for ~70% of Solana's $10.5b TVL at its peak. “I devised a scheme to maximize Solana’s TVL: I would build protocols that stack on top of each other, such that a dollar could be counted several times"
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Zeitgeist season three. If you're building a new crypto-native product/protocol, get in touch by August 26 to participate. Details below.
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A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore 🧵
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