Tokenization has been the final barrier to truly end-to-end language models. We developed the H-Net: a hierarchical network that replaces tokenization with a dynamic chunking process directly inside the model, automatically discovering and operating over meaningful units of data

i love this essay by leon bottou and bernhard scholkopf calling llms fiction machines not only do llms generate whatever you want (hallucination is a feature) but also they allow people to pitch whatever fiction they want about ai

how you know you’ve been listening to too much illenium

you are the niche

AI slop might be the best thing that’s ever happened for human creativity. We’re incentivized in every way to differentiate ourselves. There’s no better time than now to be yourself. Why be someone else when a machine can do it better?

the kind of causality people study is different than the kind of causality we need for intelligence your dog just needs to associate “beg” with “neck scratches” to get what it wants, it doesn’t need to model the universe

56 years ago today, America landed on the moon. Everyone forgets most of America opposed the Apollo Program: newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/most-america…

any problem that can be solved by money is not a problem but it remains to be seen whether an entire organization and culture can be solved by money

there are super successful quant shops who have codebases open to the entire company and don’t care if any individual gets poached they understand the real secret is the infrastructure, the culture, the process, that cant be taken away we’ll soon see if this is true for ai too

people who always say "let's gooo", where are we going?

new third space unlocked???

that explains the polycules, it’s like diversification

agi is the ultimate kingmaker and everyone wants to be a different kind of king

the most interesting thing about gpt-oss is that they tried to decouple reasoning with memorization from just changing the training data, but did it work?

For people who have been using 4o instead of o1/o3 for the last year, gpt5 is gonna seem crazy

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and he’s back

convinced that adults have totally forgotten how to have fun in conversation. every conversation is either "checklist catch up on life events" or "grave discussion of public events we must feel sad about". we've totally lost the sense of play. hold your beliefs loosely, laugh.

let’s just keep collecting enough data until everything is in distribution