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The napkin math is public now

Moonshot put a three-trillion-parameter model on Hugging Face, and the most interesting number in the release is not a benchmark. When dozens of providers race to serve the same public artifact, th...

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ESSAY2 weeks ago7 min

Seeing like a model

Anthropic cut Claude Code's system prompt by 80 percent for the Claude 5 models and told everyone to simplify. So I audited the 66,792 bytes my own agents auto-load, atom by atom. The doctrine's cu...

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RESEARCH2 weeks ago

Ninety-Seven Percent Off

A gray market resells frontier AI access to Chinese users at up to 97.8% off official pricing, and the discount is not a discount. It is a measure of the fraud: the share of the bill that stolen cards, charged-back spend, and abused free trials force someone else to pay.

Invisible InfrastructureClassification
RESEARCH2 weeks ago

AlphaFold

AlphaFold made the whole protein universe legible, and it ships a per-residue confidence that tells you exactly where to trust it. Rotate a real prediction of p53 and watch its certain core give way to tails the model honestly cannot place.

AlphaFoldProtein Structure
RESEARCH3 weeks ago

ICE Claims

A methodology inventory for claims about U.S. immigration enforcement. Not an argument: thirteen talking points from both directions mapped to the sources that would settle them, the four counting decisions that flip verdicts, and a status board for the official series that have gone dark. The best current data on ICE is adversarial (litigation-driven FOIA, independent clearinghouses), not official.

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