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This is a clever paper. I didn’t know this. I mean, it seems obvious once you hear it, but I didn’t know it. Reading this reminded me of something I heard someone say, maybe Liv Boeree or someone like that, on a podcast. She said something to the effect that individual rationality can lead to collective irrationality.…
keep reading — 2 min ↗Grok bot can now buy things for you
keep reading — 1 min ↗This is an interesting post on small language models, and I completely agree. For most tasks people have, whether in an organizational setting or in a personal capacity, frontier or large models are overkill. It's like using a chainsaw to slice a piece of bread. Most of our everyday use cases, inside a company or…
keep reading — 1 min ↗keep reading — 1 min ↗The researchers surveyed a sample of married women of reproductive age and their co-residing mother-in-law in Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh. When there was more than one daughter-in-law in the household, they included the youngest woman. They collected socioeconomic and demographic data, as well as information on mental health using a survey that screens for the risk of depression and anxiety. They found the strongest…
keep reading — 3 min ↗GlucoFM (Continuous Glucose Monitoring Foundation Model) A lightweight, self-supervised model developed by Google Research for continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). Instead of treating glucose data as a single stream, it uses a dual-stream architecture that separates slow background metabolic baselines from short-term transient spikes (like meals, exercise, or sensor noise). This allows it to predict downstream metabolic…
What a beautiful thought: seek better questions.
keep reading — 1 min ↗keep reading — 1 min ↗As of Tuesday, DeepSeek-V4-Flash was the most-used model in terms of token volume, while Chinese models dominated the top five, including Step 3.7 Flash from StepFun, GLM-5.2 from Zhipu, or Z.ai, and DeepSeek-V4-Flash’s updated 0731 version, which ranked second, fourth and fifth, respectively. The third spot was taken by OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Luna, Vercel data showed. The figures indicate that developers are increasingly choosing…
One older leaf, brought back into the light.