PY Baccou

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[PY Baccou @pybaccou]

@mitchellh Oppo research?

[Pengu @Penguxn]

if you think uncomfortable conversations are hard wait until you see the results of not having them

[Adam Wren @aswren]

The UK isn’t ungovernable, France is ungovernable, we’re remarkably constrained and compliant if anything

[Demon Realms @Demon_Realms]

Honestly don't understand how there are so many americans talking about being broke. You guys have absurdly high wages and low cost of living compared to the rest of the world. You're playing on easy mode and still losing

[Noah @NoahKingJr]

"We used to review every line of code before it went into production"

[PY Baccou @pybaccou]

@stephsmithio @vortex_ape

[Bruno Tertrais @BrunoTertrais]

[Aparté] Je ne comprends toujours pas pourquoi l'affaire du périscolaire parisien n'est pas un scandale d'ampleur nationale avec la couverture médiatique qu'il mériterait.

[altra @catboosted]

Few understand that this is what every sales job actually is

Sales isn’t about duping people to buy your shitty product. If they don’t have the problem nothing you say will convince them otherwise

It’s about finding barrels of fish to shoot

[PY Baccou @pybaccou]

@RhysSullivan Not seeing this yet

[David @dayonefoundry]

Over the next week, Da Nang will become the densest community of Indie Hackers in the world

Builders are flying in from all over the globe for the Hacker Residency and the popup community that forms around it

This is the Burning Man for Indie Hackers

It doesn't matter if you're not one of the residents living in the villa. Coworking session will pop up all over the city and the energy with be palpable. The doors of the Hacker Villa will open for invite-only socials throughout the month.

If you're in town, plug in!

[goodalexander @goodalexander]

Ukraine is basically Anduril but in prod

[Artur Chakhvadze @norpadon]

Can people please stop calling arbitrary multidimensional arrays “tensors”?

[Ben Eisenhart @BEisenhart]

Being in your early 40s is weird, man. People around your age are in every stage of life. You have people who are grandparents. You have people who have newborns. You have people dating 25-year-olds. You have people celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary. Some of them look 60, and some of them look 30. All the bases are covered when you are in your early 40s.

[Shane Gu @shaneguML]

10 years ago today, we lost Sir David MacKay FRS. Physicist. Mathematician. Polymath. Gone at 48. I was working on my PhD at Cambridge, and attended some of his last lectures and symposium. He was a reason that attracted me to Cambridge over MIT in 2014.

His textbook, Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms, was the first ML book I ever read — recommended to me by none other than Geoff Hinton.

He used that same information theory to build Dasher — a text entry system where users steer through a continuous stream of letters flowing toward them, with a probabilistic language model making likely next letters larger and easier to reach, so that any tiny movement — a finger, a gaze — becomes efficient writing. It was the first ML application that truly blew my mind, and sent me deep into a rabbit hole: arithmetic coding, PAQ8 compression, nonparametric models. A journey I partly owe to his PhD student Christian Steinruecken, who also happened to share my love of Japan.

As Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK's Department of Energy & Climate Change, he brought a physicist's clarity to policy. In Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air, he ran the numbers on our entire energy diet — and made me confront an uncomfortable truth. One of the biggest single factors? Beef — roughly 1,000 days of cow-time per steak. Hard to argue with the data. Hard to act on it when you were born and raised in Japan. I'm still working on that one, David.

At his final symposium in Cambridge — just a few weeks before his passing — the room told the full story. Geoff Hinton and his Caltech PhD advisor John Hopfield — both Nobel Prize winners in Physics 2024 — gave tributes. Environment policy advisers spoke. Dasher users sent video messages of thanks from around the world — people who found their voice because of him. It was extraordinary to witness, in one room, just how many minds and lives a single person had touched.

The story of how Hinton first noticed him: at a conference workshop poster session, among everyone who stopped by, it was the young MacKay who asked the sharpest, most penetrating question. Hinton remembered it. That's how it begins.

I've always liked physicists who cross into ML — they bring a groundedness, a refusal to hide behind formalism without meaning. David MacKay and Max Welling are the role models I point to. Not just for the mathematics they built, but for how they carried it: with humility, curiosity, and a stubborn insistence on reaching beyond academia.

He seemed to know his time was limited, and gave everything anyway. His legacy stays.

[The Sales Bull 🎯 Follow if you sell B2C or B2B @TheSalesBull1]

The UK is blatantly corrupt

£179,000,000 is an insane amount of money

There’s no possible way planning can cost this much

Wonder how many MP’s kids work in ‘planning’

In Africa at least they’d bother to build some crappy road whilst pocketing 90% of it

[Veles ↙↙↙ @Menkvi]

In the UK we're protected from this by the housing crisis. Every town is full of frustrated arty types.

[Zaphod Beeblebrox @Zaphod2042]

Them: "What radicalised you..."

Me:

[Flowers ☾ @flowersslop]

Every LLM from any lab today traces back to this guy, who was the only person at OpenAI pushing for pretraining transformer language models.
He built GPT-1. After that did others see the potential.
He invented it, and almost none of the so called AI experts even know his name.

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

European countries should not rush into social media bans for children, human rights adviser Michael O’Flaherty told POLITICO.

“A child has a right to receive information,” he said.

🔗 https://t.co/D8YXMDy8JF

[Lain on the Blockchain @CryptoCyberia]

wow, systemd is adding an age variable for future digital ID laws.
Linux users are not going to like this.