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semiconductors Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Read this korrent: Maxing out your token usage is optimising one node of the factory for utilisation instead of the end-to-end goal of shipping value that is stable and lasts. Maxing out your token usage is optimising one node of the factory for utilisation instead of the end-to-end goal of shipping value that is stable and lasts. Last stated 3 months ago
15 Jul 2026
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Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Rationing AI tokens reflects a weird scarcity mindset when more tokens are easily affordable than one could ever use. — tap to centre the map on it Rationing AI tokens reflects a weird scarcity mindset when more tokens are easily affordable than one could ever use. Last stated 4 weeks ago
26 Sept 2026
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-09-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The largest tech companies are not using fewer tokens; they are switching to cheaper, still capable open models instead of SOTA models. — tap to centre the map on it The largest tech companies are not using fewer tokens; they are switching to cheaper, still capable open models instead of SOTA models. Last stated a month ago
9 Sept 2026
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Gergely Orosz — holds since 2026-09-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Token prices have stayed flat because labs deliberately kept models smaller than expected in order to get more experimental cycles. — tap to centre the map on it Token prices have stayed flat because labs deliberately kept models smaller than expected in order to get more experimental cycles. Last stated 2 months ago
11 Aug 2026
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Ryan Greenblatt — holds since 2026-08-11 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The case for sweating every line of code was premised on humans doing the modifications, and it now survives only because tokens are scarce. — tap to centre the map on it The case for sweating every line of code was premised on humans doing the modifications, and it now survives only because tokens are scarce. Last stated 2 months ago
26 Aug 2026
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David Heinemeier Hansson — holds since 2026-08-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Hundreds of billions of dollars of AI value rest on about a billion dollars of lithography tooling that cannot be scaled quickly. — tap to centre the map on it Hundreds of billions of dollars of AI value rest on about a billion dollars of lithography tooling that cannot be scaled quickly. Last stated 7 months ago
13 Mar 2026
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Dylan Patel — holds since 2026-03-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Designers should focus on the outcome rather than on building processes or maximising tokens. — tap to centre the map on it Designers should focus on the outcome rather than on building processes or maximising tokens. Last stated 2 months ago
16 Aug 2026
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Ian Silber — holds since 2026-08-16 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Not every token is worth the same amount, so AI will be sold by results and by the hour as well as by the token. — tap to centre the map on it Not every token is worth the same amount, so AI will be sold by results and by the hour as well as by the token. Last stated 8 months ago
13 Feb 2026
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Dario Amodei — holds since 2026-02-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: You can bet your entire business on Nvidia shipping a better architecture every single year and your token cost falling by an order of magnitude — no ASIC team can promise that. — tap to centre the map on it You can bet your entire business on Nvidia shipping a better architecture every single year and your token cost falling by an order of magnitude — no ASIC team can promise that. Last stated 6 months ago
15 Apr 2026
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Jensen Huang — holds since 2026-04-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: "Scaling" was powerful because it was one word: naming a research direction is what tells a whole field what to do next. — tap to centre the map on it "Scaling" was powerful because it was one word: naming a research direction is what tells a whole field what to do next. Last stated 11 months ago
25 Nov 2025
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Ilya Sutskever — holds since 2025-11-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A benchmark result should be reported under a stated budget, or as a curve against test-time compute — never as a single number. — tap to centre the map on it A benchmark result should be reported under a stated budget, or as a curve against test-time compute — never as a single number. Last stated 4 months ago
26 Jun 2026
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Noam Brown — holds since 2026-06-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A lab should spend most of its compute on research rather than on building the next model, because research is where the tenfold yearly efficiency gains come from. — tap to centre the map on it A lab should spend most of its compute on research rather than on building the next model, because research is where the tenfold yearly efficiency gains come from. Last stated 7 months ago
13 Mar 2026
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Dylan Patel — holds since 2026-03-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A PHP vulnerability found with GPT-5.6 Sol will cause havoc this week. — tap to centre the map on it A PHP vulnerability found with GPT-5.6 Sol will cause havoc this week. Last stated 2 days ago
21 Oct 2026
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Peter Steinberger — holds since 2026-10-21 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A startup should not begin life as a nonprofit and bolt a for-profit arm on later, whatever OpenAI's own history suggests. — tap to centre the map on it A startup should not begin life as a nonprofit and bolt a for-profit arm on later, whatever OpenAI's own history suggests. Last stated 3 years ago
18 Mar 2024
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Sam Altman — holds since 2024-03-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Advertising was a necessary phase for the internet but a momentary industry, and an AI people pay for is better because they know the answers are not influenced by advertisers. — tap to centre the map on it Advertising was a necessary phase for the internet but a momentary industry, and an AI people pay for is better because they know the answers are not influenced by advertisers. Last stated 3 years ago
18 Mar 2024
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Sam Altman — holds since 2024-03-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A layer should learn a residual with reference to its own input rather than an unreferenced function, which is what makes great depth trainable. — tap to centre the map on it A layer should learn a residual with reference to its own input rather than an unreferenced function, which is what makes great depth trainable. Last stated 11 years ago
10 Dec 2015
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Jian Sun — holds since 2015-12-10 — tap for who they are
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Kaiming He — holds since 2015-12-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A small enough winning ticket learns faster than the network it was cut out of, and ends up more accurate than it. — tap to centre the map on it A small enough winning ticket learns faster than the network it was cut out of, and ends up more accurate than it. Last stated 9 years ago
9 Mar 2018
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Michael Carbin — holds since 2018-03-09 — tap for who they are
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Jonathan Frankle — holds since 2018-03-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A transduction model can rely entirely on self-attention for input and output representations without sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution. — tap to centre the map on it A transduction model can rely entirely on self-attention for input and output representations without sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution. Last stated 9 years ago
12 Jun 2017
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Illia Polosukhin — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
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Jakob Uszkoreit — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
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Niki Parmar — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
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Ashish Vaswani — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
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Noam Shazeer — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
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Aidan N. Gomez — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
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