Brian Ready
@brianready.bsky.social
Graduate student at Penn with an interest in machine learning
Stanford researchers unveil a method for training language models using latent thoughts behind text, boosting data efficiency and performance in constrained settings. By applying synthetic reasoning, the model self-improves iteratively, enabling smarter AI learning. https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18866
Reasoning to Learn from Latent Thoughts
ArXiv link for Reasoning to Learn from Latent Thoughts
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America needs to take open models more seriously. Just this summer the early lead in open model adoption of Llama & co has been overtaken by Chinese models. With The American Truly Open Models (ATOM) Project we're looking to build support and express the urgency of this issue.
A letter of support for the NIH funding of biomedical research, and the damage wrought by imposing severe caps on indirect costs: docs.google.com/forms/d/1Agz...
Protect NIH Research: Advocate for Full Funding
As researchers representing universities across the country, the last few weeks have been filled with uncertainty. As you are aware, the Trump administration’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) prop...
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The American Mathematical Society has also started a page to coordinate support for professional mathematics, so far focusing on executive orders impacting the National Science Foundation: www.ams.org/government/g...
AMS :: Take Action
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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
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Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks: "We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."
What's happened to X proves the need for Bluesky. The future company is a possible adversary. We make decisions knowing that we won't always be here or won't always be able to control the company's decisions. It's why we've given you the freedom of exit to go elsewhere w your followers and data.
Emily Liu@emilyliu.me · 3y agoone of bluesky’s mottos is “the company is a future adversary,” so we have to design this service in a way that preserves user choice & freedom users should own their data, identity, and relationships on the social internet, and devs should never get locked out of the ecosystems that they build
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