Suleman

They're taking the hobbits to isengard

[Suleman @7VoltCrayon]

A @Razer keyboard program which shows you your key-usage as you type!

#DataVisualization #Python #RGB

[Paul Graham @paulg]

I wonder if Google will have the advantage in preventing their models from being influenced by this kind of campaign from their decades of fighting black hat SEO.

[Suleman @7VoltCrayon]

Claude code just helped me successfully set up NVIDIA drivers on an Ubuntu dual-boot laptop without me crashing my UI even once!

For all intents and purposes, super-human intelligence is here.

[MO @Abu_Salah9]

في مثل هذا اليوم قبل عامين،

تم تصوير واحد من أكثر المقاطع سوداوية وحزن في العصر الحديث

مقطع تاريخي ستتذكره الأجيال وللأبد .

[Sky News @SkyNews]

A toddler returned to his mother with burns on each leg after being held by Israeli forces - with a doctor describing them as marks of "torture" likely caused by deliberate cigarette burn

https://t.co/cROc1imkkr

[مريم @bluepashminas]

i dreaded waking up to this news for weeks. just at the start of this war she reported on “israel” killing seven members of her own family live on air. this is unbearable.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Sobering, painful words from Palestinian journalist Tarek Abu Azzum on this Eid.

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Wild thing about this article was that it was concerning the mental health impact of such actions on soldiers.

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

We can’t find Leqaa Kordia in any hospital. This is abduction upon abduction.

Please help us get the word out and pray for her. She truly is a light being kept in dark dungeons.

https://t.co/tXyPaxqx9P

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Israeli snipers screaming of joy after murdering a child:

"YAAAS! Son of a b*tch"
"Wow. Hit him in the head"
"What a legendary video"
"He flew in the air & his leg was"

This was 7 YEARS ago, during protests against the siege, when Israeli snipers deliberately shot 940 children!

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The new plan is apparently to make as many people as possible as miserable as they can be made without blowing them up. And this will be pursued with the same relentless ingenuity as blowing them up was.

[Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya د.حسام أبو صفية @HussamAbuSafiya]

A year has passed since the detention of my father,
In this white coat, he walked alone amidst death, destruction, and in front of tanks—not because he was fearless, but because his oath and his humanity were greater than any fear. He refused to abandon the children and the wounded at Hospital , and for that, he was detained.
This image is a testament to the courage of the man who was the last line of defense for life, and it is the very same scene that ended with his unjust arrest.
A full year of injustice has passed. Today, we ask for nothing but his freedom. Please share his story to keep his voice alive.

[MSF International @MSF]

Today, a 29-day-old baby died at Nasser hospital, southern Gaza, Palestine, just two hours after arriving at the MSF- supported paediatric ward in the early hours of the morning. Despite treatment efforts, he could not be saved. According to the Ministry of Health, he died from hypothermia.

"Children are losing their lives because they lack the most basic items for survival. Babies are arriving to the hospital cold, with near-death vital signs: even our best efforts are not enough. They say the war has ended, but people are still having to fight for their lives," says Bilal Abu Saada-Nursing Team Supervisor at Nasser Hospital.

The harsh winter weather combined with the already dire living conditions is increasing health risks and MSF teams are consistently seeing high rates of respiratory infections - something which will only increase throughout winter and is particularly dangerous for children under five-years old

As Gaza is battered by heavy rains and storms, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians continue to struggle in flooded and broken makeshift tents. MSF calls on Israeli authorities to urgently allow a massive scale up of aid into the Strip.

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Insane community note. Evil hall of shame.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Nice, short post illustrating how simple text (discrete) diffusion can be.

Diffusion (i.e. parallel, iterated denoising, top) is the pervasive generative paradigm in image/video, but autoregression (i.e. go left to right bottom) is the dominant paradigm in text. For audio I've seen a bit of both.

A lot of diffusion papers look a bit dense but if you strip the mathematical formalism, you end up with simple baseline algorithms, e.g. something a lot closer to flow matching in continuous, or something like this in discrete. It's your vanilla transformer but with bi-directional attention, where you iteratively re-sample and re-mask all tokens in your "tokens canvas" based on a noise schedule until you get the final sample at the last step. (Bi-directional attention is a lot more powerful, and you get a lot stronger autoregressive language models if you train with it, unfortunately it makes training a lot more expensive because now you can't parallelize across sequence dim).

So autoregression is doing an `.append(token)` to the tokens canvas while only attending backwards, while diffusion is refreshing the entire token canvas with a `.setitem(idx, token)` while attending bidirectionally. Human thought naively feels a bit more like autoregression but it's hard to say that there aren't more diffusion-like components in some latent space of thought. It feels quite possible that you can further interpolate between them, or generalize them further. And it's a component of the LLM stack that still feels a bit fungible.

Now I must resist the urge to side quest into training nanochat with diffusion.

[laurence @functi0nZer0]

This is going to get me piled on a bit but a video referencing the moon landing and the fall of the Berlin Wall in a post about raising capital for a prediction market encapsulates everything I hate about the tech industry

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

A child dances joyfully with his little cat during the ceasefire, savoring a glimmer of hope, even though he doesn't know if he will have a home to return to in northern Gaza tomorrow.

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Happy to fund your migration.

For Core customers, send your Vercel/v0 cancellation screenshot to support@replit and we’ll give you $50 of credits.

If you have an annual enterprise contract with them, we’ll wave up to $20k of equivalent contract value. Email sales@replit

[Sara Mauskopf @sm]

I know nothing about this drama, but I like how Forbes 30 under 30 is used as an immediate insult

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

Why is Israel shooting kids in the back of the head?

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

On the roadside, three little girls couldn't wait until they reached their tents... hunger outweighed the fatigue of displacement, so they sat sharing pots of rice and whispers of innocence. When another child passed by, they opened their hearts before their bowls, letting her sit with them-sharing both a bite and a word. A scene that breaks the heart as much as it teaches the meaning of sharing in a time of cruelty.

على رصيف الطريق، ثلاث فتيات صغيرات لم ينتظرن حتى يصلن إلى خيامهن... جوعهن غلب تعب النزوح، فجلسن يتقاسمن قدور الأرز وحديث البراءة. وعندما مرت طفلة أخرى، فتحن لها قلوبهن قبل أوانيهن، لتجلس معهن شريكةً في اللقمة والكلمة... مشهد يوجع القلب بقدر ما يُعلّم معنى
المشاركة في زمن القسوة.