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I have stage 4 cancer. I thought I'd fight it alone.
I was wrong.
Since mid October, ~20 strangers on X have stepped up to help me. All for free so far:
- An NYU Langone lab offered to run my tumor data through their system to sharpen my vaccine targets
- A U Michigan lab offered to test drugs on my actual tumor cells
- A biotech ran AI analysis on my tumor RNA
- A vaccine company offered to design a second vaccine to check the first one
Scientists. Engineers. People I've never met.
Cancer has been picking us off one at a time for all of human history. It counts on us fighting it alone, scared and quiet.
Not anymore.
We have AI. We have the internet. We have each other.
Cancer, we're coming for you, bitch. Buckle up!
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My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site in Mexico, using LiDAR data from a NASA dataset.
72 hours from a random thought on vacation to a reply from Mexico's national archaeology institute.
What a time to be alive…
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Elon Musk directly employs >160K people. At an average salary of >$80K/year. They can pay for food and housing entirely because of his innovation and entrepreneurship.
How many people have you employed, socialist?
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the future is now old man
turn the sound on 🔊 this might be the best thing i've created on accident
Built a physical simulation of a record player with WebGL2 and Web Audio. It's *shockingly* accurate: vinyl-gl.vercel.app.
Instead of playing a song, it works by converting it into the physical shape of a groove. Then a simulated stylus rides those walls 384,000 times a second, and you hear the voltage that motion would induce in a cartridge.
So the crackle, the pops, the wow/flutter, the dull inner grooves are natural byproducts of the simulation. You can also "DJ" the record.
(The converted songs are in the public domain or CC-licensed. Code is linked for you to remix and re-deploy.)
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Introducing Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, designed to tackle the most daunting technical challenges.
They’re capable collaborators on ambitious projects in many fields, and show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision.
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Now you can really see everything
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Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should
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Someone just dropped 1.4 million pixel art sprites on Hugging Face 😱👾
free to use, captioned, 16×16
huggingface.co/datasets/Anga…
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opus5.5 used this as an opportunity to drop a new single. of course it explains how it all works (2:22 is the best)
all sounds and video by opus 5.5 (nyquist). chimera synth from @jamesonhodge
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I made a open source version of it in like a day
polyspoon.com
github.com/DITlieD/polyspoon
just need people to help making the models, the engine is better already.
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Reminder that leftists actively want scarcity because then the state can ration it (which drives state power).
Abundance removes that need - which is a reason why leftists also seek to import and grow dysfunctional populations to replace existing populations that have matriculated to material abundance.
Leftists seek to create impoverishment in existing people’s AND seek to import impoverished peoples.
Both strategies support their project.
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We could have abundance
This is going to be the defining political issue of the next decade: can we have human progress in science, medicine and engineering through superintelligence?
Or will we choose the darkness?
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I don’t buy the idea that AI is making us cognitively lazy, if anything it's the opposite, using it has made the gaps in my own thinking much harder to hide.
Before AI I'd spend so long researching something and getting it into the right format that I barely questioned whether the idea was any good and by the time I’d finished the amount of effort I’d put in felt like evidence that I’d done some serious thinking.
ANd now AI makes that harder to get away with, if you give it a lazy half-baked thought you get slop back. Getting anything useful out of it takes more thought than people (anti-AI folks) want to acknowledge.
I’m more intellectually challenged and creatively busy than I’ve ever been in my life.
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Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.
Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.
After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.
The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.
Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: nousresearch.com/arete