Jacob Lirio

Interested in all things that require global cooperation.

[University of Wyoming College of Law @uw_law]

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[Jacob Lirio @JacobLirio]

I don’t fight with destiny anymore

[Jacob Lirio @JacobLirio]

新春快乐！蛇年大吉！

[Jacob Lirio @JacobLirio]

The Short Case for Nvidia Stock https://t.co/OYAQCFRCEI

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

This report is long but very good.

“With R1, DeepSeek essentially cracked one of the holy grails of AI: getting models to reason step-by-step without relying on massive supervised datasets. Their DeepSeek-R1-Zero experiment showed something remarkable: using pure reinforcement learning with carefully crafted reward functions, they managed to get models to develop sophisticated reasoning capabilities completely autonomously. This wasn't just about solving problems— the model organically learned to generate long chains of thought, self-verify its work, and allocate more computation time to harder problems.

The technical breakthrough here was their novel approach to reward modeling. Rather than using complex neural reward models that can lead to "reward hacking" (where the model finds bogus ways to boost their rewards that don't actually lead to better real-world model performance), they developed a clever rule-based system that combines accuracy rewards (verifying final answers) with format rewards (encouraging structured thinking). This simpler approach turned out to be more robust and scalable than the process-based reward models that others have tried.”

https://t.co/XRqgMNRzg1

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

That a bunch of Chinese hobbyists could release an AI that is more competent than American models, more cost efficient, has 3% of the environmental impact, and can pretty much run on a Raspberry Pi and is... open source, should not be shocking to the West.

There's room to be skeptical of course, but one should also take this seriously. I've said time and time again that people grossly misunderstand that "the Chinese can't innovate because they lack freedoms."

Not only have they invested more in AI, they are also far more focused. Imagine what you can do when you don't have to worry about relitigating your history or canceling engineers because they put out internal memos accurately describing why evolutionary psychology explains varying outcomes between men and women?

The arrogance of the West is similar to China's hubris during the Ming Dynasty when the "Middle Kingdom Syndrome" gave it the illusion that Chinese civilization was superior to the rest of the world, and that it did not need to learn anything from it. China has since learned from that. It takes the best from the West and adapts it for its own purposes.

DeepSeek's R1 is a Sputnik moment, guys. Time to wake the hell up.

[Jacob Lirio @JacobLirio]

How The Opium Trade Destroyed China’s Greatest Empire | Empires Of Silve... https://t.co/xOIfF08mIR via @YouTube

Brilliant video program about the Qing’s decline, the power of silver, and the role of opium in the matter.

[Jacob Lirio @JacobLirio]

There’s seemingly an increase in the usage of the word “containment”. Reading between the lines, isn’t that a form of “suppression”? Doesn’t it suggest that party X wants to prevent the further spread of party Y’s [fill in the blank] (influence, power, investment, export, etc)

[Jacob Lirio @JacobLirio]

Hatred embedded in man’s heart is most dangerous when it is weaponized for no missiles or bullets can ever stop its force.

[Jacob Lirio @JacobLirio]

Happy New Year 新年快乐 🥳

I wish everyone finds joy and felicity as we prepare to ring in the new year. #2024

[Jacob Lirio @JacobLirio]

Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone!

[Jacob Lirio @JacobLirio]

Either the smart or the strong believes in their own justification for self-rule, and subsequently the belief that they have the right to rule others.

[Jacob Lirio @JacobLirio]

Still cannot believe this is happening in front of our eyes

https://t.co/Z3lv9q8rr3

[Jacob Lirio @JacobLirio]

We are constantly bombarded by “Breaking News” 🙄

[Jacob Lirio @JacobLirio]

An illuminating read about the mechanisms that Washington applies to achieve its foreign policies, which I agree must be limited and addressed.

The American Way of Economic War:

https://t.co/w21OW4TViN

[Jacob Lirio @JacobLirio]

Never met anyone wise who never reads.

[Jacob Lirio @JacobLirio]

"Search for the seed of good in every adversity."
—Og Mandino

[Jacob Lirio @JacobLirio]

Hackers are actually selling copies of you.

[Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb]

NEW: 23andMe initially said its data breach hit 0.1% of customers (~14k).

23andMe now reveals that — actually — there were 6.9 million victims.

Number is so high because by hacking those ~14k accounts hackers then were able to get data from relatives.

https://t.co/bFuuiHv0Q0

[Jacob Lirio @JacobLirio]

The level of violence are absolutely reprehensible https://t.co/Z7s4PUGWxR

[Jacob Lirio @JacobLirio]

This would be a hit in the Polar Regions.

[South China Morning Post @SCMPNews]

The 'hottest' street food in China: grilled ice cubes.