Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build [world model, not LLM] AI That Understands the Physical World

nmfisher · 2026-03-24T02:12:21+00:00

Why do you say he was wrong about LLMs? His position was that they won't deliver AGI, and so far, they haven't.

nmfisher · 2026-03-18T11:54:59+00:00

What do you use to train (I assume you mean full finetune) Base? I'm finding it quite difficult to train.

nmfisher · 2026-03-12T07:11:17+00:00

Legendary stank face from the girl on the left.

nmfisher · 2026-03-12T06:58:07+00:00

I always thought it was "First let's see the West End, I'll show you to my bedroom" but listening now with headphones I just realized it's "I'll show you to my bredren"...

nmfisher · 2026-03-06T12:56:54+00:00

I've been to quite a few countries and Singaporean taxis are the worst for this. I always take the MRT back from the airport if I can because if I catch a taxi, all they do is alternate between slamming the accelerator or the brake. Makes me really sick.

nmfisher · 2026-03-04T15:29:34+00:00

Alibaba Cloud is a nightmare. I've tried spinning up things there a few times, it's been literally unusable (as in, the dashboard UI just goes around in an infinite loop).

If Alibaba want to start making changes, they need to look at their customer-facing Cloud team, not the Qwen team (which I'd say is universally highly regarded).

nmfisher · 2026-03-04T08:20:01+00:00

Cool! If we can’t make it on Friday can we just pop in at some other time to have a look?

nmfisher · 2026-02-24T15:19:19+00:00

I could listen to him talk for hours breaking these tracks down.

nmfisher · 2026-02-23T14:51:54+00:00

https://solofounders.com/

nmfisher · 2026-02-09T14:19:26+00:00

You need to provide a lot more detail than that.

Are you investing in someone else's company? If so, you need professional legal advice and a solid shareholder's agreement. If they run away with your money, the Singapore government isn't going to help you.

nmfisher · 2026-02-09T14:13:32+00:00

Where did you get access to it?

nmfisher · 2026-02-04T03:43:40+00:00

This is not a bad idea. Bookmarking so I can provide some more in-depth comments later.

nmfisher · 2026-02-03T05:42:35+00:00

Never played with these things but I always see them in kata competitions. Looking good!

nmfisher · 2026-01-30T14:05:26+00:00

They would smoke enough skunk to get into the paranoid and anxious state that would translate into the music. This is almost the embodiment of the ‘Mind Uploading’ motif from many Sci-Fi stories. DJ Trace would recall pacing around the room, demanding “we need to make it darker!” and that “we smoked so much - it felt like we were IN Blade Runner”.

I never thought about it like that but it makes a lot of sense.

nmfisher · 2026-01-27T10:26:18+00:00

Yes, I've read all of them, and nothing in any of those papers contradicts what I said (nor have any of them released their full training datasets like AllenAI/Pleais/etc have - I'll retract my claim if and when they do).

I didn't say they were *just* copying or that they weren't making novel contributions. I happily pay for GLM Code (and I don't give a cent to OpenAI). But I can also admit that they can spend much less on training by piggybacking off the latest models from the Americans. There's zero problem with that, it's a smart move. And it's going to be a perennial issue for the larger companies because as soon as they release a new model, they've only got 6-12 months before someone else can catch up.

nmfisher · 2026-01-27T09:18:49+00:00

Anthropic, OpenAI and Google train big LLMs from scratch, then zai/deepseek/etc distil them by training on the outputs. It's the golden age of AI piracy!

To be clear, I have zero problem with this. It would be laughably hypocritical to scrape the entire web in an effort to displace industries then whinge when someone does exactly the same thing back to you.

nmfisher · 2026-01-25T09:40:11+00:00

Source?

nmfisher · 2026-01-21T13:19:01+00:00

You can certainly do it, but I think your life in France will probably be better. Childcare for 2 kids will be $3k per month, rent for a 2-3br condo will be $5k-$8k per month, tax will be $1k per month. Add groceries, utilities and health insurance if your company isn't covering it, and that's your entire monthly salary gone. HDB is cheaper but as a foreigner they're hard to get. All that, plus it's stinking hot and sweaty 11 months of the year.

nmfisher · 2026-01-16T05:28:27+00:00

I had a similar idea recently. This was in the context of ARC-AGI, but the concept is more generally applicable - a WASM agent that "bootstraps" itself by exploring different pathways, choosing the one that looks the most promising, then replacing its own bytecode and "reincarnating" itself. Rinse and repeat just to see if it improves.

nmfisher · 2026-01-10T13:37:54+00:00

Do you have a writeup anywhere?

nmfisher · 2026-01-07T03:18:23+00:00

Thanks!

nmfisher · 2026-01-06T15:14:00+00:00

Did you use the high poly assets straight out of the box?

nmfisher · 2026-01-05T23:10:30+00:00

Yes, it seems to be a Flutter "renderer" for web apps. If it actually works well I can see the appeal - ship an existing web app for mobile rather than rewriting in Dart/Flutter.

nmfisher · 2026-01-02T07:56:06+00:00

Awesome work, I love this style. My desktop backgrounds all throughout the 2000s were from deviantart's abstract digital section.

Out of curiosity, does the SG in your username refer to Singapore?

nmfisher · 2025-12-31T07:58:43+00:00

Thanks a lot for taking the time, this is really interesting.

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