iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Open Athena @openathena.ai · 18/09/2026

We've only been observing the ocean directly for a few decades, and mostly at the surface. However, climate projections need to cover decades or centuries. Closing that gap is a machine learning problem, and it's the one Jesse Rusak @jder.bsky.social works on. Meet Jesse, MTS: bit.ly/oa-jesse

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Recurse Center @recurse.com · 17/07/2026

15 years + 3,000 alums later, what started as a 6-person experiment is now a community of curious, kind programmers: engineers, artists, scientists, hobbyists, all united by a love of programming. If 6 or 12 weeks to focus on what truly interests you sounds appealing, apply! www.recurse.com/apply

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Open Athena @openathena.ai · 04/06/2026

In our latest blog post, Marin team member Larry Dial describes the pretraining techniques we're using as we transition from dense models to more efficient Mixture of Experts (MoE) models. This demos the stability and predictability of MoEs, giving us a promising direction for our next training run

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Open Athena | Improving our LLM Pretraining Efficiency

Open Athena is a nonprofit that accelerates academia with capabilities from the AI frontier

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Playdate @play.date · 12/05/2026

① Will lovable rogue Beampunk manage to save humanity? Jump from system to system and charge your giant laser cannon to fight off a fleet of invading ships with some acrobatic crank-piloted combat! 👨‍🎤 play.date/games/beamp...

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Will Held @williamheld.com · 11/05/2026

To train better open models, we need predictable scaling. Delphi is Marin’s first step: we pretrained many small models with one recipe, then extrapolated 300× to predict a 25B-param / 600B-token run with just 0.2% error. Getting there took some work 🧵

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 19/12/2025

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

reddit post from a presumably young person who watched sex and the city and couldn’t get over how much people smoked indoors. “wouldn’t everything smell bad?” they asked

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💥Alex.W💪🏾💥 @jokeb0i.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

An excellent thread on the explosion

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SKELLYTON @pizzalawyer420.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Idk if this is the quintessential Onion headline but I've thought of this at least once a week for almost a decade

Man knows he must ride unexpected urge to clean as far as it will take him

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 06/07/2025

We ditched CGI in the late 1990s because of the overhead of starting, executing and stopping a process for every incoming request... turns out modern servers (plus languages like Go or Rust with a fast startup time) mean CGI isn't such a bad idea any more! simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/5/c...

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Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin

Jake Gold tests how well 90s-era CGI works today, using a Go + SQLIte CGI program running on a 16-thread AMD 3700X. Using CGI on modest hardware, it’s possible to …

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

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Stefan Baumgartner @deadparrot.dev · 13/05/2025

The movie buff in me and the Rust developer in me approve. #rustweek

Back to the future cover changed to "Box <impl Future>"

A fish named Wanda poster changed to A turbo fish called Wanda

Ferris Bueller's day off changed to Ferris' Day Off

Raiders of the lost Ark changed to Raiders of the lost Arc<_>

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Steve Paluch @brewcitychaser.com · 19/03/2025

Underrated joke of the year right here.

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Ben Ewen-Campen @benforward3.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

In one of the first Council meetings I ever chaired, we advocated for the creation of a single consolidated waitlist for people in need of affordable housing - instead of separately applying to every new opportunity. Thrilled to see it launching! Info sessions: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

This is the new way for low to middle income Somerville households to access affordable rental housing in the Inclusionary Housing Program. You will now have the chance to apply to one waitlist for units at various properties, and will even be able to consider up to three Inclusionary Housing rental properties to live in.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 23/01/2025

In the new Trump presidency, we have got to remain focused. We can’t panic. No matter how many executive orders he signs or statements he issues, our goal is the same: We must fight to create an America based on economic, social & environmental justice. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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What Trump didn’t say in his inauguration speech | Bernie Sanders

The simple truth is that Trump ignored almost every major issue facing this country’s working families in his first speech

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Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth.dev · 16/01/2025

Hitting the ↑ key 50 times to save myself from typing a 6 character command. After 5 taps, I can't back out. I'm committed until the very end of my command history or the very end of time. Whichever arrives first.

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Ben Ewen-Campen @benforward3.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

🏁Looking back at 2024 and ahead to next year - my latest newsletter is up! eepurl.com/i6wqOg

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Ben Ewen-Campen's Somerville Newsletter

Looking back on 2024, and ahead to the work in 2025

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