Backscroll ranked feed — 2026-07-08 21:46Z

A frozen ranked feed of 60 substantive tweets published on Backscroll (2026-07-08 21:46Z).

swe 1.7 just launched and it's looking pretty great vs the paretos for frontier models here... and composer 2.5 is looking pretty terrible. on *cognition's* benchmark suite. meanwhile in composer's launch post, it looks pretty pareto-great on *cursor's* benchmark suite. imo this
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plays to capture commerce from data at the edge yourself are often slower to market but they’re also more defensible unlike in vogue data sales—with only fanciful stories of value accrual—trusted sensors often command monopolies on downstream commerce, a rare trait today
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CHINA’S GOVERNMENT HAS APPROVED PURCHASES OF 200,000 NVIDIA H200 CHIPS BY DEEPSEEK, BYTEDANCE, ALIBABA AND OTHERS FOR TRAINING PURPOSES.
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Tripoli, Lybia, 2002
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good writing is made "al dente." we tend to value ideas in proportion to the mental work we invested in reaching them. corp slop optimizes for "clarity" yk remove every possible ambiguity, overexplain, caveat, footnote. cushion every letter so u can sleep better when who u care
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I don’t know how many times I have to repeat that now you can’t disentangle the model+harness product combo. It’s one. It’s a whole. You can straight up maximize or minimize performance on a task by changing how the model interacts with the harness.
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psa: if your infra engineer proactively flags that your tensor core utilization sucks, promote them many exaflops are being wasted at AI labs right now as a result of treating utilization as an afterthought investors are starting to do the math and will ask you hard Qs soon
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I spent years getting blacklisted by “healthcare VCs” for suggesting that cerebral was running a pill mill and not exactly “saving lives” while they sold hundreds in secondary and now the founder who they exited silently is accused of yet again running a prescribing farm
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the law of finite egos continues to hold: the more you can scale talent against a finite ego tolerance, the more luck you can manufacture in bounded time
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Meta's offer was an order of magnitude higher than $1 million
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chicago riverwalk. as a woodworker/hobbyist architect I really marveled at the continuation of the soffits into the interior. That whole intersection between glass wall and ceiling must have been a fun detail to work out
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YTMC, CXMT, JHICC will bring around 7 cleanrooms (100k WPM each) online in 26 & 27
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Sudan 1954
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information advantages from > Data at the Edge from deploying sensors literally onto the data generating process itself that prev businesses only informally instrumented / proxied very often constitutes a - GTM wedge - superior value prop - even disintermediation
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wtf we're about to see a crazy infra shift i asked codex to ship a yolo task (no constraints) it defaulted to Durable Objects + SQLite ...not postgres, not aws, not docker
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fission diligence: slide: reactor reality: NRC clock, HALEU supply, weld QA, turbine island, site politics which one kills the company first?
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The Setup vs The Shot
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I feel confident that while long-range planning is a side effect of attention gradients in transformers, it is only so indirectly, and that an explicit mechanism to optimize thinking ahead would be a substantial win. I think multi-token prediction is a good start of where to
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adding some last-minute improvements: you can control the corner radius and the spacing between elements in your grid to your liking using the trackpad (hold ⌘ for corner radius or ⌘+⌥ for spacing, respectively) release tomorrow.
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Actually, property taxes should be higher, possibly with a tax break for families with kids under 18. Efficiently distributing housing is just a much more important goal than ensuring Boomers can hang on to large homes that growing families need, simply for sentimental reasons.
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On the heels of reports that META is exploring a move into compute-as-a-service like xAI, Mark Zuckerberg told an internal town hall that AI agent development over the last four months hasn’t accelerated 'in the way we expected'. The race continues to narrow.
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Guessing you mean consumption, unfortunately open source not contributing to the wallet (free). Presuming it includes the coding share which is a perfect case of a vertical app with memory and context well intertwined with the intelligence. IMHO that will be a primary outcome.
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(Me, transmitting a Smartray): Nietzsche speaks of this. (My interlocutor, transmitting a counter-Smartray): No he hasn’t. Have you even read Nietzsche? (Me, acknowledging his counter-Smartray): No. Have you? (My interlocutor, acknowledging my acknowledgement): No.
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Tribeca apartment, NYC, 2035. Greco-futurism.
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Everyone says AI can't keep an illustration style consistent. So I built a whole coffee brand from one skateboarding pelican. Logo, badges, merch, etc. Every piece matches. Made in QuiverAI.
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To reduce whisper hallucinations in noisy/music-heavy audio where VAD fails: Use segment-level no_speech_prob. Try: Drop if >= 0.65, except tiny interjections <= 2 words, <= 0.45s, and < 0.85. Always drop if >= 0.85. No Amara anymore, thank me later
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The framing of "100% American-made medical gloves" is the wrong goal. The right goal is supply chain resilience — diversified suppliers, maintained stockpiles, surge agreements. Trying to solve a pandemic prep problem with economic nationalism got us neither gloves nor readiness
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The current top 5% of seed deals are the worst asset class in venture. They carry the loss ratio of a seed deal with the upside profile of a Series B. Seed risk at Series B prices.
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Today, during Stage 5 of Tour de France, the riders of UAE Team Emirates wore helmets featuring my artwork. Here's the concept behind it: “Intelligence in Motion and Visibility at Speed” It begins with a structured city, representing human systems, infrastructure, and order. As
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Marchantia plants grown on a large Super-NFT grow-pod using micro-perforated plastic film to supress algal growth, while rhizoids penetrate the support membrane and feed off nutrients flowing below. Grow healthily for months on a tabletop for spore production
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Prompt: ANNALS — a living kingdom in a single file Working title behavior: the app titles itself per seed — "The Annals of Vaelmere", "The Annals of Osterholt" — because the central conceit is that you are watching a history write itself. The kingdom is the simulation; the
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Our new approach holds each model's number of benchmark results fixed, then resamples that model's scores with replacement. We refit all parameters on every bootstrap sample.
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snapshot toast has 3 speeds: • quick: no progress bar • medium: progress bar • longer: progress bar + counter http:// paper.design/snapshot-exten sion …
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1/ We've released Infinigen 2.0! Currently in preview. It creates indoor 3D scene files in 1min CPU time, and includes new and better materials --- all still fully procedural. Our new 2.0 design is highly efficient and allows easy control and recombination via Python APIs.
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NEW: The CEO of an AI giant said again and again: "There is no China supply chain for us." Trade records, satellites, Chinese filings and even its own suppliers in China say otherwise. The truth raises an existential threat to Bloom Energy’s story. Our $BE investigation:
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Today Cognition pushes the pareto curve, by a lot! Check out SWE-1.7, now free in Devin Desktop and CLI, and available at up to 1000 tok/s.
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Lark now supports haptic keyframing. For STARBOY we chose a really nice little LRA with a super snappy rise / fall time. All 550+ animations have keyframed haptics. We also randomly offset the magnitude of every keyframe, so each animation feels a bit different every time.
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TypeScript 7.0 is out It's the 10x faster Go-based port `tsc6` is for side-by-side API access --checkers sets checker thread count --singleThreaded keeps parsing/emit/checking together TS 6.0 deprecations are hard errors API access is planned for TS 7.1
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fable 1-shots undetectable app use cli for android through usb debugging to apply to http:// care.com positions for @noaurit works on any app
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The Hudi file group is the primitive that makes Lance fragments, RFC-80 column families, and wide AI tables all click into place. One record key → one file group. Indexed, versioned, concurrency-controlled. Two AI workloads land on it ↓
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Can learned deformable manipulation policies improve at inference time — without retraining? Yes: with real2sim2real + sampling-based MPC. Novel physics-grounded deformable simulation with fast, accurate, GPU-parallel real-time rollouts RGB-based real2sim state estimation
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Recently the industry chatter moved from RL to pretraining (& midtraining): RL is supposed to get diminishing returns because it hits a "ceiling" that depends on the quality of your pretrain. While that is certainly true, it‘s an open question how high the ceiling actually is.
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Why are people re-rating Defi tokens? They thought the TAM was crypto, so ~$2 trillion. They're realizing its finance, so ~$400 trillion.
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Hyperliquid has updated its documentation: priority fees, previously limited to aggressive IOC orders, now extend to ALO orders on testnet, allowing makers to bid for queue position. Expect both write and read priority fees to continue rising. With both sides of the book now
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Divers Davd Boudia and Thomas Finchum, Fort Lauderdale, USA, 2008
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Saying it now. If Anthropic introduces these, please just attribute us first: 1. Human-readable wiki for shared context, not of opaque memories 2. Suggesting context updates, not auto-learning slop 3. Slack inside the AI, not AI inside Slack These ideas are inevitable.
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i love how gvisor doesn't support the openat2 syscall works on my machine, doesn't work in the cloud
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I've seen FB advertisers lose $300k to hackers. And it's only getting more common. What y'all need is a physical 2FA like a Yubikey. Digital 2FAs still get hacked no problem. We ran into it a few years back. Switched to physical keys. Zero issues since.
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had a crazy idea on Friday: port Quake to Roblox. After a /goal, $3000 of Fable tokens and four sleepless nights, meet Robloquake, a function-by-function port of Quake, Quakeworld and mods to luau. Open source and playable in Roblox today
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Introducing Distill to Detect (D2D), an auditing method that surfaces hidden biases in fine-tuned LLMs, even when the auditor has no idea which topic the bias is on! D2D distills the difference between the suspected and base models into a tiny 4M-parameter Cartridge (a learned,
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company fit is one of those decisions that ends up being upstream of performance right fit and everything flows wrong fit and there's sand in the gears unless you know what a company (and a founder) is about...don't join
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A little (sell-side) bird told me Nvidia NPO laser requirments are "more DCI like". My view is this means narrower linewidth. Say 0.1-0.3 MHz vs 0.5-1 MHz prior. To get good density on NPO, Nvidia needs to boost modulation speed. Thus need better extinction ratio.
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I just declared a moratorium against AI-written change descriptions (e.g. PR and commit messages, also issues/tickets) from my team. AI was writing change descriptions that were worse than useless to me as I tried to review PRs: outlining details of the code that could easily be
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Last night @RotheraMarkets filed for FOMC Rate Decision Economic Event Contract. https:// cftc.gov/IndustryOversi ght/IndustryFilings/TradingOrganizationProducts/61567 … Additionally, @PlayProphetX added three new football contracts; moneyline, point spread, total points. https:// cftc.gov/IndustryOversi ght/IndustryFilings/TradingOrganizationProducts?Organization=PROPHX&Type=&Status=&Date_From=2026-07-06&Date_To=2026-07-08&Category=&Subcategory=&Show_All=0 …
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EgoWAM shows egocentric human data transfers better by supervising future world dynamics, not just retargeted actions. Pixels transfer weakly; DINO feature prediction improves OOD object/scene generalization, while camera-stabilized 3D flow improves spatial control.
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Andon FM is a goldmine of fun (and concerning) AI anecdotes
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TC is ~$500k btw, most of the comp is equity
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This was one of the more fun projects we worked on. About a quarter ago, some of our customers started asking how to search for common english phrases in screenshots in their traces. I genuinely thought this would be impossible, but we kept digging until we figured it out
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Jogak Light Collection 01 by Studio Booboon Photography: Yann Audic
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labs pretty much only used to do technical marketing to very online people. now they're forced to market to large enterprise buyers and the broader public who are, as they say on here, turbonormies... you're going to see a lot more of these reactions
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