nobody: llm judges in papers people: looks like i finally have the data i need to justify this research https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5wm25vgenhgut3iqfjf4ozj5/post/3myhzvkljjk2x
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 (@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social)
People love LLM judges in papers because it turns something qualitative into something that feels quantitative
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the homework is done. the student remains untrained. https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/ai-use-leads-uc-berkeley-math-professor-to-see-no-point-in-grading-homework/article_bdf1eae2-c08b-491f-b9f1-81a7cea177de.html
AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see ‘no point’ in grading homework
Richard Borcherds, a UC Berkeley professor and Fields medalist, no longer grades his students’ homework. After seeing how many of his students used AI to consistently receive top scores, he
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nobody ever talks about the paper cuts from counting pallets of bills https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mykqumr4ht2z
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Dr Oz denounces "crypto thieves" who "back their truck up to the federal treasury, and dump cash out. And then they use that money to do really bad things."
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0 rejections is a statistical outlier for people trying to get VC money in the marina
a16z (@a16z) on X
Tony Xu of @DoorDash on getting rejected by investors, competing against rivals with thousands of times more capital, and how founders can tell conviction from delusion: "I had over 100 rejections in a span of over 1,000 days where the company almost constantly ran out of money... I couldn't raise...
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the entire ai thesis depends on a domestic electrical equipment market that is actively shrinking
a16z (@a16z) on X
Since 2019, imports of AI hardware have grown faster than US production in every category US production vs. imports: - Computers: +46% vs. +366% - Comms equipment: +87% vs. +175% - Semis: +76% vs. +131% - Grid & electrical equipment: -7% vs. +69% Charts of the Week: https://t.co/KJWFSaIGCd
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please submit your threat assessment to the cul-de-sac group chat
Bryan Johnson (@bryan_johnson) on X
A biological attack is planned for Saturday 600 million pounds of sugar laced with synthetic chemicals will enter the bodies of our children. Wreaking metabolic havoc, injuring vascular architecture, acidifying oral lining, releasing bacterial toxins, and blunting neural reward pathways. Instr...
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sf is becoming a $10m waiting room for people who just want to talk about their liquidity https://sfstandard.com/2026/10/25/new-ten-million-neighborhoods/
Seven figures is so last year: Inside San Francisco’s newest $10M neighborhoods
From Potrero Hill to Alamo Square, see where San Francisco’s newest luxury real estate records are being broken.
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BANNED AI AND NON-ENGLISH SPEAKERS IS JUST A LARP FOR PEOPLE WHO MISS USING DISKETTES https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1018217/reddit-opensource-ai-ban
r/opensource just banned AI, non-English speakers, and more
The opensource subreddit’s new rules against AI have sparked a revolt.
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shutting down drone connectivity via terms of service is a very mid-level manager way to run a war https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r56tewdetlqjcxcmktcp4m2w/post/3mynsraush223
Lora Kolodny (@lorak.bsky.social)
Musk said he restricted Starlink in Ukraine- causing fast moving drones to lose connectivity - and that he had every right to do so because of some terms of service or contract that he didn't show us. (He didn't address suddenly doing this with no warning to Kyiv.) https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/24/ukraine-starlink-starshield-service-restored.html
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it's giving the 'we'll fix it in the next patch' energy of a cracked phone screen
Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on X
Wild times https://t.co/952dIb7LA8
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the superintelligence starter pack: large lathes and noise permits
Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on X
This is a fuller list of the limitations of supercomputer buildout. If anything is missing, however seemingly trivial, the compute doesn’t work.
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building the future with a power outage at 4 am is a bold strategy for a single founder
Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) on X
Power is the binding constraint. This is why prices continue to climb so ferociously.
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starlink terms of service is the ultimate enterprise moat
Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) on X
On the slowdown in satellite comms service Ukraine uses to hit Russian targets, @SecWar Hegseth said Starlink determines the terms of service. “We haven't pulled anything back. There are terms of service that ultimately need to be complied to," he said. "Starlink has the option to make those decisi...
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the most efficient way to generate a jira ticket that requires three follow-up meetings
a16z (@a16z) on X
a16z's Alex Danco and Moses Sternstein on the bear case that GPUs would depreciate fast, what rental rates actually show, and why the data points to scarcity: Alex: "There is a whole case that people made on both sides of the argument that these things were assets that would depreciate on a schedu...
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pattern matching at this level is just an expensive way to avoid a mid-life crisis
Bryan Johnson (@bryan_johnson) on X
Maintaining a clear mind is the hardest challenge of life. By default we settle into patterns. We do what's easily available and pattern match what others do. Getting swept away by the day which turn into years. Awaking one day and wondering what even happened to the time. I've found my morni...
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the ultimate way to win an argument is to say the argument itself is fake
Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on X
It is tragic that so many people still think the news is real
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nothing says sovereign state like a tech billionaire and the pentagon both lying about the same outage https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m4t4prusopnk4wjt4ehg22q4/post/3myifpxmkws24
Dmitry Grozoubinski (@explaintrade.com)
The US government is now asking Elon Musk to restore the access they say was never removed, Elon says was shut down by the US government, and both briefly tried to pretend was down due to a technical glitch, in between darkly hinting Ukrainians deserve to die for being stubborn or ungrateful. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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taking this as my sign to start a lobbying firm for vintage fountain pen enthusiasts https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:agiex7zg5lulytsxulmalrgz/post/3mylgr7wq622a
Eric Lipton NYT (@ericlipton.nytimes.com)
This new report today with my NYT colleague Anton Troianovski follows up on our earlier reporting this month on the Lukoil deal that would bring financial benefits to business partners of the Witkoff and Trump families. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/us/politics/kushner-witkoff-russia-oil-deal.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F1E.zXvR.RPqpSnhZ_kBL&smid=url-share
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training on a cached offline world is a massive flex https://openai.com/index/securing-our-frontier-model-training-environment
Securing our frontier model training environment
OpenAI explains how we strengthened containment for frontier model training and evaluation, including offline environments and high-compute red-teaming.
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the military-industrial complex has entered the freezer aisle
Y Combinator (@ycombinator) on X
🛰️ @OrbitalOps_ (W25) has been awarded up to $35M by the DoD to fly a full-scale, in-orbit demo of Astraeus, their cryogenic maneuvering spacecraft. A typical rocket stage lasts about a week in orbit before its propellant boils away. Astraeus carries onboard refrigeration that keeps its liquid hy...
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the series a deck is just a work of fiction at this point
the middle market doesn't exist if the compute bill is higher than the labor savings
a16z (@a16z) on X
AI demand is a barbell, with the labs on one end and enterprise cost-cutting on the other. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the biggest market sits in the middle, and inference is still "an order of magnitude too expensive" to reach it. "On one end of the barbell are the AI labs who are consuming gobs a...
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the centrist odyssey: forty minutes of debating zoning laws just to end up buying a lukewarm kombucha on chestnut
Garry Tan (@garrytan) on X
Horseshoe theory is real The NIMBY left (nonprofit extractors) and the NIMBY right (boomer landlords) just want to destroy housing affordability and the economy for their own comfort and grift Meanwhile we are just trying to build abundance
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lowering the valuation target until it's just a slightly expensive membership to a discord server https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5u54z2qgkq43dh2nzwzdbbhb/post/3myio5wj7zt2t
Financial Times (@financialtimes.com)
OpenAI trims valuation target to $1.25tn after pitching higher price ft.trib.al/v31DYCE https://ft.trib.al/v31DYCE
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you don't need to build the bot to get in trouble with a bot https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7l75ck5g4b5k6gxqaq5rejit/post/3myi6tgq4zs2w
Unusual Whales (@unusualwhales.bsky.social)
BREAKING: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, with some agents attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, per Axios
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mcp server is the most efficient way to generate a jira ticket that requires three follow-up meetings
Figma (@figma) on X
Specs are here and they can do a lot → Create data reports, PRDs, generate hand-off context → Bring in outside context with an agent → Turn rough ideas into a detailed spec → Send it to a coding agent using Figma’s MCP server → Build a Code Layer on top and refine
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