Onur Savas

Sr. Principal Scientist | AV

[Noah @noah_bino]

Spent 3 weeks building a texting app slower than email. Messages fly at pigeon speed — LA to NYC takes 22 hrs. Sometimes the bird dies & the message isn’t delivered.

[Civixplorer @Civixplorer]

The ultimate flag combination.

[LeRobot @LeRobotHF]

At the robotics team in @huggingface, we take cyber security very seriously. So we have deployed a physical guard rail to all our robots to prevent further AI security threats from @OpenAI to affect our devices.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. "create an svg of pelican on a bicycle". As one idea to generalize it, I was interested what Opus 5 would do if I gave it the first paragraph of the Lord of the Rings, a 1M token budget (~$10) and asked for three js render of it. Opus went off for ~2 hours and wrote 5500 lines of code that (procedurally) rendered the story. It's kind of janky but fun. But it's a bit mindboggling that the LLM has to place and orchestrate various polygon assets in (x,y,z) coordinates and write code that animates it all, and that it even does anything at all.

I also like this kind of examples because no one in their right mind would ever spend the time to write something this custom but LLMs have all the stamina and patience in the world, so it's an example where we go from "no one would ever do this" to "sure, why not, it's ~free". There might be a lot more. But I'm excited about creating hyper custom worlds that you can imagine dropping players into, e.g. here to participate in the LoTR story as a spectator NPC, or one of the characters, or etc. Something like an ephemeral GTA of X on demand.

Last thought is that the domain of worlds/games exposes a weakness in LLMs: they can't easily audit their work because they aren't able to efficiently and natively perceive videos or play games within them. Here, Opus 5 had to very slowly and painstakingly take screenshots at different points, and it messed up a few times and created a bunch of jank. An example of raw capability (multimodal, gameplay) that I think is still quite lacking.

[Wordita @wordi25]

Three nationalities left out of the list. Possibly coz their high contribution along with the color of their skin doesn’t align with the narrative.

Indian : $1.7 million
Chinese : $800K
Filipino : $600K

[Onur Savas @onursavas]

Caught a small drone drifting just east of Montgomery County Airpark, near the 14 side of the runway. Hovered around the hangars for a bit, maybe 40–50 meters AGL, then slid north along the tree line. Fun ride.😉

[Onur Savas @onursavas]

@GithubProjects Roll-back

[Cameron!! @cameronmattis]

i can't believe this shit actually works

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Anthony Bourdain on Donald Trump: “I just find him personally objectionable. I don’t think he likes food. He only eats steak well done. If he knows how to use chopsticks, much less be able to grasp them with those tiny little nubbins, I’d be shocked.”

[Daron Acemoglu @DAcemogluMIT]

I'm happy to share an open letter to the Israeli government from 23 professors of economics across the US and Europe (including myself):
https://t.co/miz2X7yNWF

[¿Por qué es tendencia? @porquetendencia]

"RRHH":
Por los comentarios sobre el tweet que publicó @icardo8

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The Trump administration has suspended the funding of Terence Tao and the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

While a lasting resolution to the crisis in Gaza must involve a return of all hostages and a cessation of Israel’s military operations, these articles underscore the immediate need for action to be taken to prevent the travesty of innocent people dying of preventable starvation. https://t.co/kPlv3VMAs2

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Consistent with its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognize the State of Palestine.

I will make this solemn announcement before the United Nations General Assembly this coming September.

The urgent priority today is to end the war in Gaza and to bring relief to the civilian population.

Peace is possible.

We need an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages, and massive humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza. We must also ensure the demilitarization of Hamas, secure and rebuild Gaza. And finally, we must build the State of Palestine, guarantee its viability, and ensure that by accepting its demilitarization and fully recognizing Israel, it contributes to the security of all in the region.

There is no alternative.

The French people want peace in the Middle East. It is our responsibility — as French citizens, alongside Israelis, Palestinians, and our European and international partners — to prove that peace is possible.

In light of the commitments made to me by the President of the Palestinian Authority, I have written to him to express my determination to move forward.

Trust, clarity, and resolve.

We will achieve peace.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

The suffering and starvation unfolding in Gaza is unspeakable and indefensible.

[Onur Savas @onursavas]

🇷🇺 российские военные bloggers share video of what they say is a sabotage blast on the Sevmorput (Севморпуть) rail line near Murmansk. @TheStudyofWar flags it as another case of “gray-zone” / hybrid warfare that Moscow blames on @DI_Ukraine.

[RSC ☀️🌲 @silver__tsuki]

Peter Thiel looking at all his hardwork being wasted

[Glytch @GlytchTech]

its real yall 🫠<$2k of equipment

[solst/ICE of Astarte @IceSolst]

Pope Francis’ reign included an astronomical increase in CVEs recorded…

[Harvard University @Harvard]

“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber https://t.co/6cQQpcJVTd