The argument to be a VC funded founder that remains - you really wanna be a billionaire (realistically hard to become a billionaire as an indie, although you can def get to $50M-100M if you at the top) - you need capital to do stuff that's expensive like training foundational

Great to see USyd students writing strong post-mortems. Big thanks to Rekt News for featuring and citing michael !

We’ve developed Gemini Diffusion: our state-of-the-art text diffusion model. Instead of predicting text directly, it learns to generate outputs by refining noise, step-by-step. This helps it excel at coding and math, where it can iterate over solutions quickly. #GoogleIO

Check out our Blockchain Research at Engineering Sydney Uni! usyd-desci.github.io/index.html We also launched the Decentralised Science (DeSci) Seminar Series, discussing cutting-edge research. We’re open to collaborations -- just drop me a message for a coffee chat -- virtual if needed.

🤯 We cracked RLVR with... Random Rewards?! Training Qwen2.5-Math-7B with our Spurious Rewards improved MATH-500 by: - Random rewards: +21% - Incorrect rewards: +25% - (FYI) Ground-truth rewards: + 28.8% How could this even work⁉️ Here's why: 🧵 Blogpost: tinyurl.com/spurious-rewar…

Really excited about our work on "Learning to Reason without External Rewards", proposing a new paradigm: Reinforcement Learning from Internal Feedback (RLIF)--- Without access to ground-truth answers, simply by optimizing their own internal sense of confidence, LLMs can learn

Gemini 2.5 Pro - our most intelligent model, is getting an update before general availability. ✨ It’s even better at: coding 🖥️, reasoning 💡, and creative writing ✍️ Learn more. 🧵

Since switching to Cursor, my GitHub commits have quantitatively doubled, from ~400 a year to 464 already, and it's only June... Also, I’ve become way more impatient with bugs. I’m never going back...

I haven’t checked it yet, but it looks very suspicious.

Not a toy :)

Join us at DeFi’25: Workshop on Decentralized Finance & Security, Co-located with ACM CCS 2025 on October 17, 2025. Submission deadline: July 21, 2025 (AoE) Thanks to our incredible program committee & chairs for making this happen: Aviv Yaish @christoftorres Alex Biryukov

During the weekend I finished building a little app I call "zkLabeler" (zklabeler.netlify.app). It's a zkTLS powered labeler for BlueSky. It's a cool application of zkTLS, and a fun learning experience of BlueSky's take on decentralization.

This paper goes from A to Z

I still appreciate paper acceptances, but what I (start to) value more now is 0→1 research, work that can shape ideas and inspire others to build further.

Thanks to The Register for covering our research on A1, the end‑to‑end AI exploit generator for DeFi. Excited to keep pushing defenses forward!