Ian Sears

[Ian Sears @IanSears96]

Just published a novel called Jackpot. about two guys who invent putting a sombrero and maracas on a cactus and become millionaires https://t.co/6gKSXa4BLr

[Zyphra @ZyphraAI]

Today we're releasing ZAYA1-8B, a reasoning MoE trained on @AMD and optimized for intelligence density.

With <1B active params, it outperforms open-weight models many times its size on math and reasoning, closing in on DeepSeek-V3.2 and GPT-5-High with test-time compute. 🧵

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Nicolas Cage does David Lynch:

[Ian Sears @IanSears96]

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[Ian Sears @IanSears96]

The Wrong Chord is out now on Amazon! Dark comedy about a naive musician and his shady manager.

[Zyphra @ZyphraAI]

Today we’re releasing a highly requested feature in our Playground — Multi Voice. Powered by Zonos, it lets you assign different voices to different parts of text, generating one seamless audio clip.

Bring expressive Voice AI to all of your content or just have some fun.

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

Bernie should pick an heir apparent and try to anoint him or her as quickly as possible. He’s 83 years old and had a heart attack in ‘19.

[Ian Sears @IanSears96]

@DNC If you want to start winning again make Land Value Tax your #1 issue. Healthcare #2, Nuclear Energy #3

[Ian Sears @IanSears96]

@Mpegz696 @ethicsinfilm Great chatting with you guys

[Ian Sears @IanSears96]

I caught a raccoon eating fish from our pond last night. If only I’d gotten there sooner…

[Ian Sears @IanSears96]

Graffiti is at its best in industrial contexts; abandoned factories, the undersides of bridges, alongside train tracks. The individual artworks are rarely noteworthy but the overall vibe feels like the collective unconscious bubbling up through the slats of the order of society.

[Ian Sears @IanSears96]

@moonandmouth Psychopolitics by Byung Chul-han
The Unique and Its Property by Max Stirner
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey

all transcend that paradigm

[Alex Reibman 🖇️ @AlexReibman]

2/ Activation Ablation Augmentation

Research team that identified how to nullify activation layers in Llama3 responsible for censorship

@song_minjune @IanSears96 @Nottlespike

🥉 3rd place

[Ian Sears @IanSears96]

Working on something new https://t.co/0OW3TTWzc5

[Ian Sears @IanSears96]

@theneedledrop Brand New - Science Fiction

[Ian Sears @IanSears96]

Jackpot. just hit #4 on the Absurdist Fiction best seller’s list! Thanks to everyone who bought a copy and for those who haven’t: https://t.co/amCfQFwByp

[Ian Sears @IanSears96]

@KyleDMcCue Modern Socrates over here

[Ian Sears @IanSears96]

@meaning_enjoyer Makes sense since the west was built on book worship

[Ian Sears @IanSears96]

Feel like bad movies and books are more inspiring than great ones. Like great ones can be influential and aspirational but bad ones light a fire under me to write