literal hardest role to hire for rn and every ai startup wants someone. - chronically online but can still make eye contact with ppl irl - knows current trends and can do frontier shitpoasting - abg or abg vibes spiritually - has good taste, high aura and high motion - technical and understands ai (can RL post-train 1T param models, rawdogs flash attention 4 in 15 minutes) - can shill for our company's product non stop in interesting ways - good with people and conducting events - available sf/nyc onsite

every few months, someone talks about taste. then a person who claims to have better understanding of taste call out the someone. then they will talk about their interpretation of taste. then someone will call out them for their interpretation and the cycle goes on.

this post had gotten some "meh" reactions from many people because they consider "trends" becoming uncool once they reach the marketing teams of hotshot startups and corpo companies. according to aura-nomics, the aura of a phenomena first increases and then rapidly decreases if there are excess reproductions over time. you can think of it as excess or overblown exposure. of course, there's a status element too and it's downstream of exposure. as more exposure happens, people you consider "less cooler" or "lower status" (for whatever reason) start to talk about the thing. the novelty also wears off and the phenomenon feels washed out (and timeline moves ahead to the next shiny thing by then). companies on X are usually late into this cycle compared to individuals followed by individuals and companies posting about it on linkedin (by that time it becomes cringe) here's a graph. there can be variations of course. i will probably post more aura-nomic lessons soon.

introducing dithered[.]dev 💜 crafted from scratch with delightful animation and motion a collection of 80+ icons and growing available in 3 different style (dithered, solid, outline) containing few unique categories like (dev / ml / learning) - install / copy / download svg - react support out of the box - shadcn compatible available on registry.

my friend is asking why so much demand for sandbox as service startup and we were able to explain because of rl rollouts but why labs may take their service instead of doing it themselves. how can they sustain in long term.

i am not a marathon bro yet but what i really like about them is they have marathons are held at different places so if you care about it enough, you travel too for marathon sake and meet more people leading to more human-maxxing and alive-maxxing

Reading a Pretraining Run ( In which we systematically summarize the metrics used for monitoring pretraining runs, containing definitions, default cadences, and alert priorities (P0/P1/P2) for the most critical signals 🏃🏃🏃

new blog on my explorations @ prime residency "Honey, I Looked at the Data of a Frontier Benchmark and Found some Issues: Porting Agents' Last Exam Linux CLI subset to Verifiers v1" is up now. got to work with florian (@xeophon) as my verifier on this.