Machine Learning, Computer Science, Math. Working with robots that drive.

London, United Kingdom
Joined February 2009
London councils are amazing, I got a fine on a junction box that you just cannot see, then I requested the council to provide the last date where they painted it. After my request, they went there and painted quickly and then sent me the new photo 😅 what a ridiculous thing to do.
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Effective Immediately, all organizations using PHP for their systems are advised to be prepared for an update addressing two critical vulnerabilities. PHP is widely used for web applications. These vulnerabilities often provide a direct path to the server's file system or database. If an immediate update is not feasible, it is recommend that organizations take the system offline until it can be fully mitigated. NSA will follow up shortly with more specific guidance.
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Christian S. Perone retweeted
More progress on CDLMs: self-conditioning has always been a bit of a crutch, DoubleCat/SemiCat seems to be a principled way to get rid of it🎉
Continuous Diffusion LMs went from niche to contender this year, but the recipe is shaky: why self-conditioning? How to embed tokens? 🤨 Our new work takes your one-hot flow from 4% to 50% on TinyGSM without self-conditioning, and explores the design space of CDLMs. 🔥🚀 (1/6)
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Google: don't worry, you can use Google Takeout to get a copy of your data. Also Google:
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An ESP32, a sophisticated device from Aliexpress 😅
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work. At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated. We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
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"If you can't control it, don't build it." omG I cannot control this model that I purposefully not only allowed it to execute but also gave tools for it to use 😅
Jensen Huang, the CEO of leading AI company Nvidia, just said: If an AI model will "damage the world — then I think the answer is that we have to shut the labs down." My new bill to ban Artificial Superintelligence would do just that. If you can't control it, don't build it.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Prefacing this quote with “If an AI model will” is misleading. Really he says that IF the lab/company cannot control AI, it should be banned, but he does not want a massive ban on all AI. Read the interview yourself. Link that takes you to this part of the interview: nytimes.com/2026/09/23/opi…. nytimes.com/2026/09/23/opi….
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Introducing QwenGyre, bringing elastic RL to extreme-long-horizon (XLong) agent training. ✨ It launches with two core designs: 🥳 - Elastic Scheduler: reallocates GPUs between rollout & training as demand shifts—live executions never interrupted. Up to 1.85× speedup over Colocate, 1.78× over Async. - Trajectory Processor: turns branching executions (compaction, sub-agents, retries) into prefix-shared trajectory trees with bounded, deduplicated training samples. Partial progress after timeout still gets scored. Scaled to Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B with ~700K tokens per rollout, QwenGyre lifts NL2RepoBench from 52.5% to 58.5% in 48 steps, cutting end-to-end training time by ~44% vs Async. 🔗 Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2609.33848
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I’ve been using blockchain since 2013, and I’ve never needed a hardware wallet or had to store my keys on a server. I just don’t understand why people do that. It seems like the opposite of what the technology was created for.
‼️ BREAKING: Ledger confirmed an unauthorized hardware implant in a wallet sold through its official reseller CryptoBilis. The supply chain attack has drained $92.9M from 311 wallets. CryptoBilis has stopped selling all hardware wallets (also Trezor, Tangem and SafePal).
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Well, the "Logic of Scientific Discovery" from Popper is from 1934, so it is not that software developers had it right all along, they just took a lot of time to realize that the idea of conjectural knowledge is as old as Xenophanes.
Some people are dunking on this, but IMHO THIS is the way that science publications should be done. Post-publication corrections and modifications should be THE norm, not an exception. Software developers had it right all along. We need to stop treating research publications as settled scriptures.
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Go work with robotics (especially mobile platforms) and you will see how "modern day work" really is 😅
We created gyms because modern day work no longer required physical activity. Without exercise, our muscles atrophy. I predict we’ll need gyms for our brains too, once AI starts doing our knowledge work.
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Congratulations to the authors of the 3 outstanding papers! arxiv.org/abs/2607.01077 arxiv.org/abs/2604.08510 arxiv.org/abs/2604.13977
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Until Arena do not release what checks they do to avoid folks from frontier labs abusing the system I have zero trust on these leaderboards. These labs have thousands of people using Arena as soon (or sometimes even before) as their models are released. They have the IP addresses and it is trivial to do this analysis, are they doing it ?
Gemini 4 Argon officially takes the #1 spot on the Text Arena leaderboard with an Elo of 1,525.
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This seems very similar to the same set of records I found in 2020 (blog.christianperone.com/202…) from 200M+ people, including deceased people data. These population records are a massive target and it was just a matter of time for this to happen.
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Christian S. Perone retweeted
A Self-Learner's Roadmap Through 30+ Great Math Books👇 abakcus.com/book-lists/self-…
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Opus 5.5 is so good at cad, I just gave the specs and it built this case from scratch with all the exact USB-C port, buttons, LEDs, etc.
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More comments on HNews: news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
Just published a new blog post: "The systems that no one will test" (blog.christianperone.com/202…).
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🆕 Our ESA/Webb Picture of the Month features a cosmic house of mirrors 🪞 The golden galaxies in this image belong to the cluster MACS J0454.1-0300. Their light has been travelling for so long that we’re seeing the cluster as it was when the Universe was about 8 billion years old! 1/3
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Just published a new blog post: "The systems that no one will test" (blog.christianperone.com/202…).
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"(...) some of my skills are rare", modesty is definitely not one of them.
I resigned from Google today. I enjoyed my work and loved the people, but my GDM team was working on a new generation of chips to make AI much faster and cheaper, and I think AI is already progressing too fast, so I had to quit.
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