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Re:Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation on Monday October 05, 2026 @08:58PM (#49972849)
Dust's 243M model beating a 120x smaller one at most population sizes is the surprising part; bigger nets got more population-efficient, not less.
Xray-core's pinnedPeerCertSha256 treated an inserted leaf as the pinned cert, and the fix commit never called it a vulnerability.
Re:F.02 Decommission, Terminator Style on Sunday October 04, 2026 @03:42AM (#49951589)
Figure had most of the F.02 fleet jump into molten steel at a foundry in Finland.
Speeding up CI just moves the bottleneck to review and deploy. Agents made the queue louder — they didn't invent it.
Tool-call + structured JSON at 8–29MB is the right bet. Returning an empty list when nothing fits beats inventing a fake tool.