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Article URL: https://conversableeconomist.com/2026/09/28/i-would-like-the-value-of-my-home-to-rise-while-my-property-taxes-fall/

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Article URL: https://carette.xyz/posts/lobbying_and_corruption/

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Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/09/what-mathematicians-should-know-about-the-lean-theorem-proverquestions-of-reliability-and-ai/

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Article URL: https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/2108594998656807078

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There is plenty of coverage everywhere you look about how Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon have announced plans to livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the Army officer who shot up Fort Hood, killing 13 people and wounding dozens more. There is plenty of debate about the moral atrocity that is a firing […]

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Article URL: https://ratfactor.com/cards/git-commit-size

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Article URL: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1697900/full

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Article URL: https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/linux-phones-alternative/

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Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/what-should-we-tell-our-students/

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Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/mbe5IY2LF9

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Larry Ellison has succeeded in fusing Paramount and Warner Brothers in a $110 billion merger that will culminate in mass layoffs, higher prices, lower-quality product, and news outlets like CNN becoming even more friendly to corporate power and the U.S. right wing. This enshittification will arrive despite endless promises by the Ellisons that none of […]

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Meta’s agentic AI product Muse has had a rocky few weeks since launch. The product, which features an animated avatar named Jolly (one presumes to make mass hyper surveillance seem adorable) is supposed to help you offload busywork like making restaurant reservations, paying bills, or ordering groceries. Despite Meta having claimed repeatedly that Muse was […]

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Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/1wvin77/harvard_particle_physicist_matthew_schwartz_drops/

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We’ve moved past cops doing stuff because a dog gave them permission to do it. Now, we’re at the post-truth era of policing, where cops will do stuff because a machine told them to do it. We already know ALPRs (automated license plate readers) generate false positives. And we know that these false positives can […]

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Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/were-gonna-need-a-lot-more-mathematicians/

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Article URL: https://mihai.dinculescu.dev/posts/two-git-ignore-files-nobody-told-me-about/

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Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wm5c21/i_am_done_with_this_shit/

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Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/why-do-we-need-human-mathematicians-anymore/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49774521

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Hey HN, Henry from Cactus here.

We submitted Needle 2 here a few weeks ago, and the feedback in the discussion thread was incredibly valuable, thanks! Thanks to all that feedback, we’ve been able to move quickly to release Needle 3 and I'd love to hear what you think again.

The key features:

1) Automation (tool calls & structured JSON output): Needle still doesn't chat by design, its quite challenging to pack general capacity into such small models, so we focus on tool calls and structured JSON. If no tool you declared fits the request, you get an empty list back (note for when playing with the demo).

2) Intelligence Laddering: Every layer (2 to 20) is a deployable subnetwork, so one set of weights, 25 to 121 million parameters at 2-bit, shipping as 8-29MB binaries. On a Raspberry Pi 5 it decodes at up to 4k tokens/sec and prefills at up to 10k.

3) Monarch Hadamard MLP: replaces the dense FFN with three learnable Walsh-Hadamard-initialized Kronecker (Monarch) factor pairs interleaved with per-channel diagonal scales, fixed permutations, a SiLU nonlinearity, and a rank-8 input-conditioned gate, so each token gets a fully mixed nonlinear transform of its d_model channels at O(d√d) parameters and compute instead of the O(d²) a dense 4x-expansion MLP would cost.

4) Performance: On Mobile Actions (phone commands, scored on the exact call) the 20-layer model gets 86.0 through the shipped 2-bit binary; LFM2.5 1.2B is at 82.4, Qwen3.5 0.8B at 76.0, Apple's on-device model at 57.6, all at f16. More results on the link, we do not win everywhere ofc.

5) Multilingual: Needle 3 now supports English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Italian, Polish, with more languages coming.

6) Finetuning: You can achieve DeepSeek v4 Flash grade performance on a narrow task with just 4L, stress on "narrow task", we found that production users often prefer tuning before production.

7) Triggers: Grounding is a common challenge for tool call, at least for Needle 2, so we added support case-insensitive regular expressions matched against each request to gate false negatives.

8) Confidence: Every response also carries a calibrated confidence score, the minimum of a judgement on the finished call and its decode probability. Act above your threshold, show the call and ask below it, or escalate to a bigger model.

9) Supported Platforms: macOS, Linux on x86-64, ARM64, ARMv7, RISC-V and MIPS32, Windows x64 and ARM, Android, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, the browser as WebAssembly, and a WASI component.

Thanks for reading and as always, thoughts appreciated!

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Article URL: https://togameforlife.wordpress.com/2023/12/09/on-lucasarts-afterlife/

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