I grew up my whole life thinking you need some side hustle, some way of getting passive income, to do something against the system, in order to reach (financial) freedom.
I was wrong. You just need to become good at something that is valuable to society. Everything else is grift
American floating point numbers should only be used by AMERICANS! 🇺🇸 Give back our floating point numbers sleepy Dario!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
- DJT
Anthropic might be the most gay, possibly even gayer than the most gay, company that has ever done something so gay, in the history of all that is gay.
Awkward Taiwan:
In probably one of the more surreal commencement speeches of all time, graduates at Taiwan’s Shih Hsin University #世新大學 were told to “End yourselves quickly” if they couldn’t keep their lives in order after they entered the work place.
This rather drastic admonition was made by Shih Shin University president Chen Ching-ho 世新大學校長陳清河 during his commencement address to the school’s Master’s and PhD degree graduates.
He then went on to tell them that if they could not manage their lives they should exit from the world because the world wouldn’t need people like them.
The ensuing uproar has led to calls for Dr Chen to resign. Yesterday he apologized for “had not been sufficiently careful in my remarks” and announced he would take a two month unpaid leave.
#Taiwan #graduation #commencement
Today marks my last day at ByteDance Seed.
Over the past 3 years, I had the opportunity to work across two of the most exciting frontiers in AI: AI for Drug Discovery and building frontier LLMs. Few opportunities in a career allow one to work simultaneously on curing disease and building frontier intelligence. I was fortunate to do both.
Since joining ByteDance, I have led the AI for drug discovery effort. Together with an exceptional team and collaborators, we built SeedFold, the world's first biomolecule structure prediction model to outperform AlphaFold 3 across a broad range of benchmarks and capabilities; SeedProteo, a state-of-the-art protein binder design model surpassing AlphaProteo, RFdiffusion, Chai-2, BinderCraft, and BoltzGen ; and the DPLM series of protein language models, along with several other ambitious AI for Science projects.
In early 2025, I took on a new challenge. To tackle one of the hardest problems in modern AI, reliably training and scaling frontier-scale LLMs, I joined the LLM pretraining effort and founded the LLM optimization and scaling team. Together, we built a highly scalable pretraining stack that enabled the successful training of Seed 2.0 and the subsequent frontier-scale models, significantly advancing our ability to train and iterate on frontier AI systems at scale.
I'm deeply grateful to my teammates, collaborators, and leadership for an incredibly rewarding journey.
The best model is yet to come.
Scaling continues!
BREAKING: Google is planning to release 32 million mosquitoes across Florida and California.
The company has asked the EPA for permission to proceed, with the public given until June 5 to respond.
The mosquitoes are infected with Wolbachia bacteria, which stops them from reproducing and slowly collapses the wild population from within.
Google's previous Debug Project trial in California's Central Valley nearly eliminated mosquitoes from three test sites entirely. A separate trial in Singapore cut dengue cases by 70% within 12 months.
Google has now released over 1 billion mosquitoes across four continents. This new proposal is the largest deployment in US history.
Shrey spelling 32 words in 90 seconds to win the Spelling Bee is the new greatest athletic accomplishment of 2026. I don’t even know how he said the letters that fast. Got a “Holy Mackerel” out of
@minakimes
Iranian official source just told me: Nothing could be said as 'finalized' with a team that has no fixed professional or moral frame, is whimsical, changes its demands constantly.