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This is insane Three Trump judicial nominees refused, over and over, to say Joe Biden won the 2020 election. They either believe Trump’s lie that the election was stolen, or they’re too afraid of him
All the Doomers and hawks are lining up behind this distillation 'attack' farce because they want to see open source banned. It's really as simple as that. They want to take away your right to choose,
Bush destroyed Clinton's economy. Obama fixed Bush's mess. Trump destroyed Obama's economy. Biden fixed Trump’s mess and now Trump has destroyed what Biden fixed. The biggest lie that Republicans have
I think the expression is “pulling the ladder”! All labs trained their models by distilling (at the very least distilling the web) which allowed them to become the fastest growing businesses in the hi
We now know the Iran war price tag is more like $50 billion - hundreds of dollars per household - and counting. It's enough to cover all the health insurance premium credits that the Republicans got r
These folks are trying to ban open source. They're looking to take away your freedom to choose. They're also looking to take away the rights of businesses like Cursor to fine tune and make their produ
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Trump's war on science. The Trump administration has downsized US science by historic margins — but it's not just via grant or workforce cuts. Our new @nature analysis reveals the government has cut m
'A decade ago, AI was supposed to replace radiologists. Today, radiologists make more than $500,000 per year, and their employment continues to grow, see chart below. Reading scans is a task, not a jo
- Comey indicted for tweeting a number. - Trump FCC threatens ABC's broadcast license. - Trump defacing more govt institutions with his name and picture. - Trump's kids cashing in on huge govt contrac
Science is how we’ve cured diseases and how we just sent four humans around the Moon. It’s a big reason why we’re the greatest country on Earth, but firing the National Science Board shows just how mu
Trump’s FCC chair, Brendan Carr, says he plans to punish and potentially revoke broadcast licenses for TV networks critical of the Trump administration: “I’d be surprised if we don’t go down the path
@jon_barron 'World models' has a technical meaning - the transition model/dynamics model from Bellman/Kalman in the context of MDPs/ state space approach to control theory ~ 1960. I gave a talk on thi
The EPA's independent science arm did groundbreaking research to save lives. It studied fertility, asthma, wildfires, drinking water, climate change etc etc In just one year, it has been almost comple
What a week at @iclr_conf in Rio 🇧🇷 ! As my first conference, it would have been hard to ask for a better experience 😍. I had the chance to present two papers: - EB-JEPA https://github.com/facebookres
AI has had one safest technology roll-outs in history. Read that again, because it's a fact. It's used by billions with a tiny fraction of a percent of actual problems. And yet it's seen as dangerous
By canning the National Science Board with no stated justification, the administration continues the destruction of this country's scientific and technological base built up over 80 years. Supporters
Yann LeCun shared a compilation demonstrating that Donald Trump has frequently labeled his political opponents as fascists, countering claims that calling Trump a fascist incites violence by showing s
The 2020 US election was audited on a massive scale. Researchers examined audit results from 856 jurisdictions across 27 states, covering over 71 million votes. The audits found the net error rate in
Existential risk mongers are a small, very vocal cult with a lot of very clever online astroturfing skills. Politicians never waste a good fake crisis, which is why they're perfect for Bernie to try t
Never let critical thinking get in the way of extremist fantasy stories. If you're on either side of this slider, congratulations, you may be a child in an adult costume body! Black and white thinking
Republicans have been making this argument my entire life. We had 8 years of Clinton, 8 years of Obama, 4 years of Biden— never became a socialism. But you know what we got? More jobs, lower unemploym
Shooting oneself in the foot? Nope. Shooting oneself in the prefrontal cortex. U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National S
👉 Sur l’#IA, mon optimisme est prudent. Je reconnais les dangers de cette technologie, mais si on en freinait le développement en Europe, au nom du principe de précaution, son essor aurait lieu ailleu
Trump has spent the better years of his second term treating allied governments like freeloading tenants who should be grateful he hasn’t changed the locks. The result, predictably, is that they’ve st
Trump just fired all 24 members of the National Science Board. Every single one. By email. No warning. No reason given. The board has existed since 1950. The National Science Board is the independent
What if I told you there was a technology where 1.5 million people would die every year and injure 50 million would you sign up for that tech? Hell no, right? But the answer is actually 'hell yes' bec
This is an opinion post from Yann LeCun criticizing Trump's handling of policy matters, alleging that his management approach has led to loss of life, physical damage, fiscal waste, and diminished int
When MTV News shut down, it felt like decades of culture vanished overnight 🕳️ But over 470,000 pages were already preserved. That history didn’t disappear. It was archived. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE t
1. I never said LLMs were not useful. They are, particularly with all the bells and whistles that are being added to them. I use them. 2. A robot-rich future can't be built with AIs that don't underst
A mathematician who shared an office with Claude Shannon at Bell Labs gave one lecture in 1986 that explains why some people win Nobel Prizes and other equally smart people spend their whole lives doi
图灵奖获得者、 AI 三大教父之一的 LeCun在达沃斯的发言，算是把整个硅谷的遮羞布扯了。 他说现在整个行业都被LLM彻底洗脑了，所有人都在同一条赛道上互相挖人，谁敢偏离主流谁就被骂落后。 这也是他离开Meta的真正原因，连Meta都已经LLM-pilled，他不想再跟风了。 最扎心的一句话是：纯生成式架构，不管是LLM、VLM还是VLA，永远造不出哪怕猫级的智能体。 因为它们本质上只是下一个t
Feel like very few serious people make the argument Britain should develop its own LLM? Certainly not an argument you see made in Westminster often during the sovereignty debate. Also some other eyebr
New episode of The Information Bottleneck is out, this time with @liuzhuang1234 (Princeton). We talked about ConvNeXt and whether architecture still matters; dataset bias and what 'good data' actually
Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a
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The web is disappearing 🕳️ According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible. But that’s not the whole story. In a new study published in Internet Archive
🔴 Trump vient de publier sur Truth Social un monologue de 1 500 mots sur le droit du sol, l'ACLU, les Indiens, les Chinois et la 'Savage Nation'. Ce texte inhabituellement long, inhabituellement cohér
Actually, AI already saves lives. In several countries, mammograms are examined by AI and radiologists. Reliability is improved. In the EU, every car sold must be equipped with Automatic Emergency Bra
Do you want to know why LLMs feel sharp on surface semantics but hollow on the fine-grained stuff? “From Tokens to Thoughts: How LLMs and Humans Trade Compression for Meaning” Come by the poster tomor
I have mixed feelings about it. All this great group of researchers, who are now leading the field, 'own' their success and name recognition to the openness (in code and publication) of the last decad
This X post references Yann LeCun, a renowned AI researcher and Chief AI Scientist at Meta, likely discussing prominent researchers working in molecular dynamics (MD) or related computational fields.
In the past 55 days, the president of the US has averaged about 20 social media posts a day, ranging from Bruce Lee videos to AI content of him beating up Canadians. To highlight this man's increasing
More people will die from suppressing AI than from the imaginary AI apocalypse. They'll die from restricting safe self-driving cars that are 90% better drivers than people who kill 1.5 million people
In the 1960s, French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet used an IBM 7040 computer and punch cards to create the first simulated image of a black hole, which was then hand-plotted on paper. This ground
The most dangerous thing in Washington right now isn't just the corruption—it's the retaliation against the people who expose it. When government power is used in ways that appear designed to intimida
'The pessimistic professor...can predict anything he wants, for if his prophecies don't come true now, just wait: failure could be just around the corner, or else his voice of reason has prevented the
The Trump administration suppresses a study showing that Covid vaccines cut by half visits to emergency rooms and admissions to the hospital. That doesn't mesh with their anti-vaccine ideology. https:
This 2 hour lecture by Yann LeCun (Turing Award winner) will teach you why the next trillion dollar AI company won't be built on LLMs. He trashes the $100 Billion LLM race, attacks Musk and Amodei, de
This study is an important part of Vanishing Culture, the new book OUT TODAY from @internetarchive. 🕳️ Read for free or purchase in print ➡️ https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026 A @pewre
I can't verify this claim as it appears to be from a social media post, and there's no reliable reporting I can confirm about such an incident. The URL format and post characteristics suggest this may
Trump: “I took a lot of heat for saying drugs were going down 500%, 600%, 700%. But we also say sometimes 50%, 60%, it’s a different kind of calculation, and people understand it better.” The dumbest
Yann LeCun (@ylecun ): Sillion Valley is 'completely LLM-pilled' 'In the end, if you’re interested in building systems that have the intelligence of, let’s say, a cat, let alone humans, you need commo
“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.” -George Orwell, 1984. RFK Jr: 'President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If yo
🦤 LeWorldModel: Learning Physics from Pixels — Stable World Models with Just Two Losses World models: 1️⃣ DINO-WM: pretrained ViT encoder (from ImageNet) → features → predictor. But encoder is frozen,
Smarter People Are Less Violent 'The prevalence of violent behavior dropped steadily with increasing IQ: 16.3% of individuals with IQs in the 70-79 range reported violent behavior, compared with just
The American people want Donald Trump, the most corrupt president in history, impeached and removed from office. According to a new poll published this week, 55% of Americans support impeachment, whil
The Trump administration files concocted charges against the civil rights Southern Poverty Law Center, claiming it defrauded donors by supposedly supporting extremist groups when it was paying informa
Yann LeCun (AMI Labs Founder): 'The AI industry is completely LLM-pilled. Everybody is working on the same thing. They're all digging the same trench.' LeCun explains why no lab dares break from the p
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