arrived at the gate early for my flight home so i get to side eye the chumps boarding the previous flight. imagine going to san francisco when you could be going to san jose
if you look closely at the current stock market implosion we’ve basically reverted to late-august levels in semis across the board. this has striking parallels to the “endless eight” arc of the 2009 second season of the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya and to reach a new ath all we have to do is figure out how to do our summer homework
telling a sota superintelligence that disproved the exponential time hypothesis that it can fix the “cannot import torch.version” error by simply running tests from the outside the repo directory
worth noting with the recent "persona neurons" trend: just because a steering intervention induces a persona change, doesn't mean the vector or neuron being steered is persona-specific. models seem to do something like "persona solving" under steering
in 2022 the median pytorch github issue was something like “help i cannot into python packaging”
in 2026 the median pytorch github issue is someone reporting a numerical correctness issue complete with the sass dump of an offending cudnn kernel to verify their hypothesis on the root cause
it’s a good thing model alignment and safety researchers never have to worry about something or someone poking the brain of their carefully trained and painstakingly aligned model because hardware engineers have solved that problem