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- Weight-Space Programming from scratch on simple tasks3 savers
- MiniMax H3: Open Weights & Prompting Techniques Complete Guide. | Oxen.ai1 savers
- Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights18 savers
- Applied Compute hits $100M run rate and raises $350M | Applied Compute1 savers
- Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?1 savers
- Humans on AI #66 || October 30, 20262 savers
- The Office of the Frontier - Colossus6 savers
- Working with academic communities to build scientific understanding | OpenAI4 savers
- Genie 4: A new generation of world simulation — Google DeepMind1 savers
- Origin of Mann: The mystery of Anthropic’s 8th cofounder | The San Francisco Standard1 savers
- Library of Babel11 savers
- This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams | Poetry Foundation4 savers
- Elizabeth Holmes’s partner raises millions for new biotech startup : NPR1 savers
- AI Research Startup Flapping Airplanes Valued at $6 Billion in Round - Bloomberg1 savers
- Mirror: Self-Improving Video-to-Action Models2 savers
- Twenty Years from RSI to Takeoff: Slow Learning, Scaling Slowdown, Industrial Explosion — LessWrong3 savers
- The people holding up the internet | Data Drop3 savers
- facebook/zstd: Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm ·1 savers
- Neural Networks Are Already Clean55 savers
- Saudi national working at OpenAI arrested for bugging executive conference room - BNO News2 savers
- How I Do It: Eliciting Patient Values During Surgical Consultations - ScienceDirect1 savers
- Dhruv Sheth develops machine learning model to detect signs of elephant poaching and safeguard against extinction1 savers
- Victor’s Art and Poetry Blog – #savetheplanet #change1 savers
- Paper page - H3-World: Turning Language Understanding into World Control2 savers
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 · Hugging Face1 savers
- Pantheon — Building the Most Diverse UMI Dataset in Robotics2 savers
- Stranger Than History — LessWrong2 savers
- firstuserhere/argus: Argus is an open source dataset-and-format-agnostic harness for the densest annotation of robot learning data. ·1 savers
- Pantheon — Argus: An Open-Source SoTA Robotics Data Annotator2 savers
- OpenAI vs. Anthropic: Inside the Biggest Rivalry in Tech - The Atlantic2 savers
- Towards Universal Post-Training for Robotics — Perry Dong6 savers
- An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot · OpenAI Alignment4 savers
- Tim Cook1 savers
- Colossus | xAI2 savers
- We Looked At The Data — Pantheon8 savers
- Anthropic announces its molecular research group and laboratory \ Anthropic4 savers
- Empirical results fine-tuning π0.5 on a real manufacturing task - Dream Machines3 savers
- AI as orderly evacuation vs stampede - by Richard Ngo2 savers
- Shepard tone1 savers
- LessWrong40 savers
- Nathan Chen6 savers
- Many Benefits Of AGI Could Still Be Realized In A Pause1 savers
- Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic \ Anthropic16 savers
- An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents \ Anthropic7 savers
- Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI | OpenAI15 savers
- Robot-use agents6 savers
- OpenAI Just Claimed a Huge Math Discovery. Some Academics Are Crying Foul | WIRED1 savers
- On Navier–Stokes | OpenAI11 savers
- san francisco - musings11 savers
- Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board12 savers
- What will be scarce? - by Alex Imas - Ghosts of Electricity18 savers
- After Work — Asterisk Magazine15 savers
- Alfred Spector3 savers
- Potemkin village5 savers
- The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations19 savers
- Introducing Reinforced Planning (RP-1) — Pantheon3 savers
- Pretrained to Imagine, Fine-Tuned to Act: The Rise of World-Action Models | NVIDIA Technical Blog4 savers
- Generalist - GEN-1.5: Embodied Foundation Models are One-Shot Learners8 savers
- Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities | OpenAI3 savers
- [2603.16666] Fast-WAM: Do World Action Models Need Test-time Future Imagination?2 savers
- MiniMax H3: Open Weights & Prompting Techniques Complete Guide.1 savers
- H._C._Verma1 savers
- ACT-2 Preview: Generalizing Reliability | Sunday Robotics | The helpful robotics company5 savers
- Jacob Zietek3 savers
- LingBot-VLA 2.0 Foundation Model - Robbyant1 savers
- Antimatter Development Program – Casey Handmer's blog5 savers
- A Functional Taxonomy of World Models - Dr. Fei-Fei Li7 savers
- Map–territory relation4 savers
- [2312.10812] Learning to Act without Actions1 savers
- [2410.11758] Latent Action Pretraining from Videos1 savers
- [2206.11795] Video PreTraining (VPT): Learning to Act by Watching Unlabeled Online Videos1 savers
- Aleph1 savers
- [2602.12215] LDA-1B: Scaling Latent Dynamics Action Model via Universal Embodied Data Ingestion1 savers
- Dedications3 savers
- Generalist - Blog7 savers
- Stop Simulating, Start Experiencing - by Paolo Di Prodi1 savers
- [2603.14482] V-JEPA 2.1: Unlocking Dense Features in Video Self-Supervised Learning1 savers
- merlresearch/unic: UNIC: Learning Unified Multimodal Extrinsic Contact Estimation ·1 savers
- Thinking Machines Corporation6 savers
- Panthéon1 savers
- The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life — LessWrong1 savers
- 'AI is getting better at cheating — and it doesn't look like cheating': Meet the Indian genius who got into ICML 2026 – Firstpost1 savers
- Nyx Iskandar1 savers
- Cato the Younger1 savers
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- Uyghurs1 savers
- LDA-1B: Scaling Latent Dynamics Action Model via Universal Embodied Data Ingestion1 savers
- Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining | blog18 savers
- Alignment is not solved but it increasingly looks solvable17 savers
- The First Fully General Computer Action Model | blog37 savers
- The Intelligence Curse30 savers
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- Bookshelf · Patrick Collison21 savers
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In 2021, he was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, by the Government of India for his contribution to Physics Education
H._C._VermaACT-2 does not start from scratch with each new capability.
ACT-2 Preview: Generalizing Reliability | Sunday Robotics | The helpful robotics companyWe also found a strong correlation between validation loss and success rate
ACT-2 Preview: Generalizing Reliability | Sunday Robotics | The helpful robotics companyI said "yeet" to an astronaut on the International Space Station for a dare
Jacob Zietekthe map is not the territory
Map–territory relationMistaking the map for the territory is a logical fallacy that occurs when someone confuses the semantics of a term with what it represents
Map–territory relationLAPO is the first method able to recover the structure of the true action space just from observed dynamics, even in challenging procedurally-generated environments. LAPO enables training latent-action policies that can be rapidly fine-tuned into expert-level policies, either offline using a small action-labeled dataset, or online with rewards
[2312.10812] Learning to Act without ActionsTraining only on human manipulation videos also shows positive transfer
[2410.11758] Latent Action Pretraining from VideosWe first train an action quantization model leveraging VQ-VAE-based objective to learn discrete latent actions between image frames
[2410.11758] Latent Action Pretraining from Videosto hard-exploration tasks that are impossible to learn from scratch via reinforcement learning.
[2206.11795] Video PreTraining (VPT): Learning to Act by Watching Unlabeled Online Videosfrom which we can then train a general behavioral prior.
[2206.11795] Video PreTraining (VPT): Learning to Act by Watching Unlabeled Online Videoswith a small amount of labeled data we can train an inverse dynamics model accurate enough to label a huge unlabeled source of online data
[2206.11795] Video PreTraining (VPT): Learning to Act by Watching Unlabeled Online Videosagents learn to act by watching online unlabeled videos
[2206.11795] Video PreTraining (VPT): Learning to Act by Watching Unlabeled Online VideosExperiments in simulation and the real world show LDA-1B outperforms prior methods (e.g., \pi_{0.5}) by up to 21\%, 48\%, and 23\% on contact-rich, dexterous, and long-horizon tasks, respectively. Notably, LDA-1B enables data-efficient fine-tuning, gaining 10\% by leveraging 30\% low-quality trajectories typically harmful and discarded.
[2602.12215] LDA-1B: Scaling Latent Dynamics Action Model via Universal Embodied Data Ingestiona pretrained video renderer can be used as the backbone for joint world-and-action prediction, suggesting a bridge between the renderer and the planner by letting one model imagine what will happen and what to do.
A Functional Taxonomy of World Models - Dr. Fei-Fei LiA model that masters only rendering, or only planning, cannot do either.
A Functional Taxonomy of World Models - Dr. Fei-Fei LiThis is, in many ways, the inverse of the renderer. Where a renderer takes actions as input and produces observations, a planner takes observations as input and produces actions, closing the perception-action loop. Vision-Language-Action models, model-based systems, and the new wave of World Action Models are all attempts at planners: systems that can decide what a robot should do in an unstructured world.
A Functional Taxonomy of World Models - Dr. Fei-Fei LiThe third kind is a planner. A planner outputs actions. Given an observation and a goal, a planner answers the question of what the agent should do next.
A Functional Taxonomy of World Models - Dr. Fei-Fei LiThe second kind is a simulator. A simulator outputs state: a geometrically, physically or dynamically faithful representation of the world that humans and computer programs can both compute on and interact with.
A Functional Taxonomy of World Models - Dr. Fei-Fei LiThe first kind of world model is a renderer. A renderer outputs observations in the form of pixels meant for human eyes, and the quality that matters most is visual fidelity.
A Functional Taxonomy of World Models - Dr. Fei-Fei LiObservations are an agent’s partial view of that reality. Actions are what the agent does in response.
A Functional Taxonomy of World Models - Dr. Fei-Fei LiState is the underlying reality of the world; complete in principle, but never directly visible to any agent inside it.
A Functional Taxonomy of World Models - Dr. Fei-Fei Liimitates expert actions but discards transferable dynamics knowledge embedded in heterogeneous embodied data.
[2602.12215] LDA-1B: Scaling Latent Dynamics Action Model via Universal Embodied Data Ingestioncarefully constructed data mixtures can lead to different pretrained model characteristics.
Generalist - BlogMaybe if your engineers have some extra time they will apply system identification mechanisms to the motor joints, to better estimate how the joints behave under stress
Stop Simulating, Start Experiencing - by Paolo Di ProdiThis is important so the model is in distribution during inference because it wasn’t exposed to latency during training—the model has never seen lag before. We mitigate latency through a variety of methods: colocating the GPUs and VMs in the same cloud region, using cumulative sequence length packing, tuning a low-latency VNC configuration, and writing custom Rust bindings for device input. The combination of these optimizations lets us achieve a round trip screen capture to action latency of 11ms
The First Fully General Computer Action Model | blogTo reduce the state space and use tokens more uniformly, we exponentially bin (Figure 10) the mouse movements
The First Fully General Computer Action Model | blogTo train a non-causal, generative model, we adopted a masked diffusion architecture
The First Fully General Computer Action Model | blogThinking Machines made some of the most powerful supercomputers of the time, and by 1993 the four fastest computers in the world were Connection Machines.
Thinking Machines Corporationis a monument in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France.
PanthéonI assume this is 1 reason a lot of people got addicted to nicotine: despite the shorter half life you need a longer time off to reset the effectiveness. Caffiene after 2-7 days your body starts to undo its chemical adaptations and mostly washed out after a few weeks. For nicotine it's closer to a week to start 12 weeks to wash out an addiction.
The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life — LessWrongVery little circulating caffeine is directly excreted
The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life — LessWrongone of the biggest barriers to decarbonization is that, while we can find alternatives for power and heating, coal replacements in the steel-making process are difficult to come by
EVERY SUPPLY CHAIN IN THE WORLD - by vincent huangthis is why the usa does not have oil independence despite large reserves
EVERY SUPPLY CHAIN IN THE WORLD - by vincent huangDuring the civil war, he joined Pompey and tried to minimise the deaths of his fellow citizens. But after Pompey's defeat and his own cause's defeat by Caesar in Africa, he chose to take his own life rather than accept what he saw as Caesar's tyrannical pardon, turning himself into a martyr for and a symbol of the Republic.
Cato the YoungerA staunch advocate for liberty and the preservation of the Republic's principles, he dedicated himself to protecting the traditional Roman values he believed were in decline.
Cato the Youngerlet the die be cast".
Julius CaesarIn 60 BC, Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey formed the First Triumvirate, an informal political alliance that dominated Roman politics for several years.
Julius Caesarhigh-energy former CEO of Microsoft
Steve Ballmerif you’re cognition, factory, lovable, replit, you just watched the most successful version of your business model decide it could not run independently. that does two things to your strategic position.
cursor's warchest, xai's redemption - by Ethan Dingfirst, it lowers the bar for taking a sponsor. cognition does not need to wait until they’re bleeding 23 points of gross margin to entertain the conversation that cursor entertained. meta has llama, $50b a year of free cash flow, and zero credibility as an enterprise software company. amazon has bedrock and nothing on top of it that a developer would willingly use. microsoft has copilot and an openai exposure they’re trying to dilute. google has gemini and jules and nothing any enterprise has heard of. the call from at least one of these probably already came. it’s a question of timing.
cursor's warchest, xai's redemption - by Ethan DingAfghan Hindus and Sikhs descend from the members of the country's indigenous Khatri population who resisted the conversion from Buddhism to Islam between 9th and 13th centuries
KhatriAccording to Kiran Datar, they often married Tatar local women in Astrakhan and the children from these marriages were known as Agrijan.[75] As per Stephen Dale, the children born out of Indo-Turkic alliance were in sufficient number to form an Agrizhan suburb in the city.[
Khatri"Stephen Dale locates Khatris in Astrakhan, Russia during the late 17th century and, in the 1830s, Elphinstone, was informed that Khatris were still highly involved in northwest India's trade and that they maintained communities throughout Afghanistan and as far away as Astrakhan"
KhatriIn Bengal, Burdwan Raj (1657–1955) was a Khatri dynasty, which gained a high social position for Khatris in the region resulting in the increased migration of Khatris from Punjab to Bengal.[62] When Guru Tegh Bahadur visited Bengal in 1666, he was welcomed by the local Khatris, thereby supporting earlier waves of migration of Khatris to Bengal as well.[63]
KhatriAccording to a 17th-century legend, Khatris continued their military service until the time of Aurangzeb, when their mass death during the emperor's Deccan Campaign caused him to order their widows to be remarried.
Khatriafter the 10th century
UyghursAs a robot’s failure to reach a commanded goal is nonetheless a success for reaching the goal it actually reached, we can optimize the data distribution by replacing the originally commanded goals with the goals actually reached.
Reinforcement learning is supervised learning on optimized data – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research BlogWhat makes RL challenging is that, unless you’re doing imitation learning, actually acquiring that “good data” is quite challenging.
Reinforcement learning is supervised learning on optimized data – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research BlogThe main idea is to view RL as a joint optimization problem over the policy and experience: we simultaneously want to find both “good data” and a “good policy.” Intuitively, we expect that “good” data will (1) get high reward, (2) sufficiently explore the environment, and (3) be at least somewhat representative of our policy.
Reinforcement learning is supervised learning on optimized data – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog