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AI, Psychedelics, and the New Illusion of Liberation: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/07/13/ai-psychedelics-and-the-new.html

The Illusion of Diminishing Returns: Measuring Long Horizon Execution in LLMs
Akshit Sinha, Arvindh Arun, Shashwat Goel, Steffen Staab, Jonas Geiping
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09677

The Illusion of Diminishing Returns: Measuring Long Horizon Execution in LLMs
Does continued scaling of large language models (LLMs) yield diminishing returns? Real-world value often stems from the length of task an agent can complete. We start this work by observing the simple but counterintuitive fact that marginal gains in single-step accuracy can compound into exponential improvements in the length of a task a model can successfully complete. Then, we argue that failures of LLMs when simple tasks are made longer arise from mistakes in execution, rather than an inabil…

IA, psychédéliques et la nouvelle illusion de la libération: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/07/13/ia-psychdliques-et-la-nouvelle.html

Trotz Apple-Milliarden: Trumps Traum vom US-iPhone bleibt wohl eine Illusion
US-Präsident Donald Trump und seine Beamten wollen unbedingt, dass das iPhone einen "Made in USA"-Aufkleber bekommt. Doch auch jetzt sieht wenig danach aus.

💥 Engineers overcome radiation challenge with custom silicon chips
#electronics

Engineers overcome radiation challenge with custom silicon chips
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is tough on electronics. Situated inside a 17-mile-long tunnel that runs in a circle under the border between Switzerland and France, this massive scientific instrument accelerates particles close to the speed of light before smashing them together. The collisions yield tiny maelstroms of particles and energy that hint at answers to fundamental questions about the building blocks of matter.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Ill Considered:
🎵 Satori
#IllConsidered
https://open.spotify.com/track/243Udu1OdrppShRCEoLZk8

READER: Retrieval-Assisted Drafter for Efficient LLM Inference
Maxim Divilkovskiy, Vitaly Malygin, Sergey Zlobin, Sultan Isali, Vasily Kalugin, Stanislav Ilyushin, Nuriza Aitassova, Yi Fei, Zeng Weidi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09072

READER: Retrieval-Assisted Drafter for Efficient LLM Inference
Large Language Models (LLMs) generate tokens autoregressively, with each token depending on the preceding context. This sequential nature makes the inference process inherently difficult to accelerate, posing a significant challenge for efficient deployment. In recent years, various methods have been proposed to address this issue, with the most effective approaches often involving the training of additional draft models. In this paper, we introduce READER (Retrieval-Assisted Drafter for Effici…

Es gibt sicherilch Hunderttausende, die bereit sind, sich selbst im Kampf gegen Israel zu opfern. Egal wie fit die Abwehr in #Israel ist. Die schiere Menge lässt statistisch erwarten, dass es massive Terroranschläge in Israel geben wird und international bei israelischen Einrichtungen. Sicherheit ist hier eine Illusion.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
A$AP Rocky:
🎵 LVL
#A$APRocky
https://benjachochang.bandcamp.com/album/a-ap-rocky-lvl-el-benji-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/787rCZF9i4L1cXGMkdyIk4

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
– Frank Zappa
#capitalism