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Completed a personal project this week. It is small and niche and probably only interesting to three or four people in the world, but it represents about six months of intentional AI skill building (agentic coffee wrangling) and I am quite pleased with the results.
I trained a lora for a the turbo z image model entirely locally on my Macbook pro.
The lora captures style of a single Jewish artist from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century when the world’s obsession with German culture was waxing.
The style is Jugendstil (lit. Young style) called Art Nouveau in English (franklish?)
I publish both the lora and the pipeline used to create it.
Links below.
Project update!
My 13yo has completed the whole integrations stack for his home brewed toys to life game
- sourced rfc readers and stickers
-soldered the pins to the readers
- wired then the rasberry pi (@StartWithPiper )
- built a boot loaded python routine to manage the hardware
- built a boot loaded python routine to manage wifi connection with his mac
- built the toys
- scanned them into blender
- reduced the poly count to make the models playable
- created a game that he can now play (you can replace the toys mid game)
I only provided the @grok build / bot subscription and occasional guidance (and supervision for the soldering iron)
Amazing world we are living in
My awesome 13 yo son has really unleashed his creativity with the @grok sub I got for him
This is 3 rfc readers wired together with a rasberry pi
The stickers on the bottom of his cardboard creations, which he scanned into blender, reduced the poly count, and made into a game
His own custom skylander style game
It was really interesting to watch how he solved various problems
The soldering and the pin wiring was a challenge that took significant focus and dedication through several test and debug cycles
The 3D scanning is buggy and took several iterations, he manually fixed the models in blender
Then he hand typed the python routines into the rasberry pi, because it was easier than flashing them to the sd card (I’m glad he did this, so he got some real debug experience on the coding side)
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In my mental model of the world The Jensen Huang Nvidia scandal can best be characterized as a battle for control over the company
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Most people will simply complain about a thing
Some people will do something about it if they can
I am the second type of person, which I find sets me apart from most
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I don’t understand how this is possibly legal
If we had a functioning government, it would likely be disallowed
Anthropic is about to sell the public a trillion-dollar company controlled by 2 shares worth less than a penny.
And the people buying it will have almost no way to change anything that happens next.
I read the voting section of Anthropic's IPO filing, and I think it's the most one-sided deal ever offered to regular investors at this size:
There is exactly ONE Class F share. It belongs to an LLC owned by 7 of Anthropic's co-founders, and it carries 50.1% of all the votes.
There is exactly ONE Class T share. It belongs to Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust, and it elects a majority of the board.
If Anthropic were ever liquidated, each of those 2 shares would get its par value of $0.00001.
The public gets Class A shares instead. And Anthropic's own filing says this structure may effectively eliminate their ability to influence important decisions, including a sale of the company.
So here's what that means for anyone who buys:
- They can't replace the board if the company stumbles, because the trust picks the majority and the founders hold half the vote.
- They can't push for a sale, even if someone offers a huge premium.
- They can't stop the board from putting the mission ahead of their money. Anthropic is a public benefit corporation, so the board has to weigh shareholders against the long-term benefit of humanity.
- And they can't easily sue over it. Delaware law requires at least 2% of the shares or $2 million worth of stock to bring that kind of claim.
This isn't some far-off hypothetical either.
The filing warns that slowing AI development for safety may not maximize stockholder value. It also says Anthropic recently paused training a next-generation model for more than a month over safety and security concerns.
A public shareholder would've had zero say in that pause.
And here's the part I can't get past:
Each co-founder has pledged to give 80% of their Anthropic equity to charity. The Class F vote stays at 50.1% no matter how much stock they still own.
So the founders can give away most of their money and keep all of their control.
Dario Amodei told 60 Minutes last year that he's deeply uncomfortable with AI decisions being made by a few companies and a few people. When he was asked who elected him, he said no one.
Now his company's IPO hands 50.1% of the votes to 7 people, and he's one of them.
And guess who's being lined up to buy it?
Anthropic has weighed reserving 15% to 20% of the IPO for individual investors, according to Bloomberg. JPMorgan is leading the US retail push, and Citigroup is handling retail buyers in places like Japan, Britain and Canada.
The same filing warns that AI could pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity.
So regular people are being asked to buy a company that says its product could threaten humanity, with no real vote on how it's run.
Anthropic's answer is that this is the whole point. The structure is built to keep Wall Street from pressuring it into cutting corners on safety. The trustees have no financial stake in the company. Google and Meta gave their founders control and still made shareholders rich. And every buyer gets all of this in writing before they buy.
But Zuckerberg's control comes from shares he owns, so when Meta's stock falls, he loses money too. Anthropic's 2 control shares can't lose anything.
Anyone buying this IPO is paying full price to hand control to 7 founders and 5 trustees.
They're desperate for money and they don't care about your money.
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Chelm's Deep retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: Shareholders SUE Nvidia and Jensen Huang over alleged concealment of national security risks. Main allegations & my opinion:
"Defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that:
(1) Jensen Huang had an affair with a suspected Chinese spy, who also has a role at a company called Megaspeed, which is suspected of helping China evade export controls;
(2) as such, Nvidia’s statements about its relationship with Megaspeed were materially false and misleading at all relevant times;
(3) the foregoing raised concerns in the national security community about Nvidia and, if revealed, presented a material risk to the Company’s reputation and business prospects; and
(4) as a result, Defendants’ public statements were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times."
👉 My opinion: because of the personal nature of the affair and the legal implications it triggered (the investigation into the extent of the harm is still pending), Jensen will probably have to resign.
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Thankfully 😂
We have dumped JAX/SGLang and rewritten the entire RL and inference stack from scratch in C/C++, which took some extra time.
Training (aka pre-training) is done. Lot of cleanup was needed on the SFT data to get that mostly right. Now, 4.8 is in RL and the evals are starting to climb. We will do a soft rollout to Bot users later this week and see how it goes.
Grok 4.8 will bear no resemblance to 4.7 (thankfully). It is not yet incredible, but, this time, the foundations are built right, so I expect it to evolve to be something special.
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Chelm's Deep retweeted
Travis is calling the Nvidia thing an op
And he would know
Had a little time on my hands this morning to do some writing… send along to someone you know who may benefit
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“Practical principles to counter a modern-day coup/psyop/struggle session”
1) Own what you did but fiercely resist accommodating the mob, resist owning half-truths or actions/behaviors you didn’t do.
2) The op is not about your past actions, it’s about your enemies and this event as their opportunity
3) No matter how bad it gets, nothing is as bad as it seems.
4) Find the enemies at the very root of the op and find every creative problem-solving tool at your disposal to neutralize them.
5) People will throw their grandmother under the bus if they believe doing so will protect their reputation. They can become highly useful idiots in the op. Their power and access must be fiercely and quickly cut off.
6) Do not hesitate in cutting off anyone you suspect of disloyalty.
7) Build a team of close and loyal patriots and have one of them run a dedicated, well-resourced war room to put the rebellion to rest.
8) Use your patriots and regular meditation to buoy your psychological resistance to the op.
9) Your enemies aren’t as smart or hard working as you. Outsmart and outwork them as a way of life until the op is over.
10) Think about the op as if it were in the past. What are the difficult things you procrastinated on or avoided that would have stopped the op? Do them.
11) Never be ashamed of the op. Business as usual. Continue on with optimism and joy in your everyday work and its mission.
12) Download telegram and use it as your messaging application for all sensitive communications.
Tldr
Q: Why are the “excusing” cheating?
A: “There but for the grace of God go I”
I think the issue is that people are quick to judge on little information
Whatever happened was not an accident, it was a plan
I would suspect the people sympathetic are wondering if they would have succumb to bad decisions if they were targeted
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Chelm's Deep retweeted
Will someone PLEASE explain to me why so many famous Jews on this app and in American public life more generally are excusing Jensen Huang's infidelity?
What is the point of being public Jews if not to stand for Jewish values.
Unpopular take, no one knows the circumstances of their marriage except them
He was targeted by a foreign intelligence team, not a gold digging woman
There were probably multiple people involved in the operation and teams of psychologists profiling him and tracking his movements
There were likely people targeting his wife as well and may still be there giving her advice
Not going to judge her except to say that I hope their long marriage gives them some reserve to weather this
People mocking Jensen Huang’s wife for her looks are missing the point.
Lori met Jensen when he was a broke engineering student, married him before NVIDIA even existed, and stood by him for 40 years as he built his empire.
She was faithful and loyal. Even if the mistress was more attractive, Jensen was a scumbag for betraying his wife and kids.
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My awesome 13 yo son has really unleashed his creativity with the @grok sub I got for him
This is 3 rfc readers wired together with a rasberry pi
The stickers on the bottom of his cardboard creations, which he scanned into blender, reduced the poly count, and made into a game
His own custom skylander style game