Benny Johnson claims MOU with Iran is "an excellent deal, although the text of the deal isn't out just yet. So, everything is just pure speculation."
The 1890 Census as a fun cluster
To better remember history, I try to find/create what I call "fun [1] clusters", i.e. sets of events with a tenuous but legitimate connection to a central hub. [2] This post…
The reported Iran MOU is driving a wedge between MAGA hacks and MAGA hawks
Agent Identity Standardisation Efforts
Quick post. I come from an Identity and security background, and still work closely with the Microsoft Identity team, who do a lot of work in standards working groups. There’s…
Greg Gutfeld expresses violent fantasies about children's YouTuber Ms. Rachel
Low-temperature bunk
For years I have been baffled by people I consider much more intelligent, knowledgeable and skilled at producing clear explanations than I am, who nonetheless enjoy conversations…
Fox host Lawrence Jones complains about comparisons between Obama's Iran deal and reported MOU
Wikipedia's national flavors - French
Epistemic status: Almost completely idiosyncratic Reading in different languages feels quite different, and Wikipedia makes this especially salient. [1] But I find it hard to…
Trump Calls Iran Deal “Complete” as Questions Linger Over Its Terms
The “deal” with Iran would actually be a 60-day ceasefire and is not yet a permanent agreement, critics point out.
Speeding Up JumpReLU SAE Inference with Custom Triton Kernels (2–14× on Real SAEs)
Motivation Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have become a central tool in mechanistic interpretability research, providing a way to decompose a model's internal activations into sparse,…
A Montana Firm Run by a Trump Donor Receives Billions in Border Wall Contracts
Barnard Construction Company, Inc., has received $4.54 billion in awards from Customs and Border Protection alone.
I Bet Abliteration's Cost Was Sloppy Implementation. I Was Wrong
Models refuse. They can refuse on the basis of lack of knowledge, predetermined guardrails, etc. We can see both closed-weight and open-weight models refuse. But, open-weight…
Newsmax guest on Iran's military capability: "The credible assessments don't line up with the narrative from the White House"
SpaceX IPO Makes Elon Musk World's First Trillionaire
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Few business leaders have been as deeply embedded in popular culture as Elon Musk, the ambitious entrepreneur who has become a…
Infineon to Open German Chip Fab as Part of EU Sovereignty Push
Infineon is set to open a $5.8 billion power-chip fab in Dresden on July 2, backed by about $1.1 billion in EU Chips Act subsidies. The plant will make power semiconductors for AI…
Pokemon Go Data Was Used To Help Train AI Systems Being Developed For Military Drones
Pokemon Go players' optional location scans reportedly helped train Niantic Spatial's visual positioning system, which uses camera imagery and 3D maps to navigate when GPS is…