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Prostotržnik. Magister (x2) ekonomije, politologije in filozofije. Ljubiteljski šahist.

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Joined November 2011
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Civilna družba v Sloveniji je ugrabljena. Odgovorni pa ne dajejo občutka, da bodo naredili domačo nalogo in jo vrnili ljudem, zato sem jo naredil sam in spisal predlog reformega paketa. Podrezajte jih, da preberejo! 👇 roknovak.com/premisleki/psev…
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Selling $NVDA on discount because its CEO had some fun seems very silly. Pitty it wasn't sillier still, as it seems my buy order missed the daily low by 0.13$. 🙄
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OK, today it is. 🤝
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Replying to @buccocapital
Both make chips.
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Kakšnih 15 let je, kar sem nazadnje kakšno rabljeno reč prodal, a se to v SLO še vedno počne predvsem na Bolhi, ali je že kaj napredovalo? 😅 Odveč mi hodi 2x32 GB tegale RAMa. Doslej se mi ni ljubilo ukvarjat s prodajo, ampak počasi so cene takšne da mogoče je pa pravi čas.
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In Slovenia, I recall queues at bookshops and waitlists at the library as each part came out. And a generation of kids many of whom picked up the books in English, too, to avoid having to wait for the translation. It's odd to think back, just how massive of a phenomenon it was!
Somebody on here recently said something to me about “the myth that the Harry Potter books got children reading.” This is such bizarre revisionism. They absolutely did get children reading! Virtually all Millennials—plus their parents and teachers—can attest to this! 1/🧵
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Dnevni opomnik, da je rastoče gospodarstvo, v katerem se izplača truditi pri svojem delu, ker ti država ne pobere pol plače prek davkov, edini garant obstoja socialnih servisov. Tudi opomnik, da se izpišite iz sindikatov, ki vam privoščijo nižje plače na račun mamice države.
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Ok, ok, now we're talking. 🩸🩸
Barely any of my buy orders have triggered yet, so don't think this is it yet.😅
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We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math. It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training. We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵 Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weigh…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
LLM was given weights explicitly as text in prompt and used code/forward passes (per authors' logs) to ablate Qwen looping direction, a known thinking-mode issue per model card. Primarily fixed repetition in that mode, not general 'natively' improving weights/math. rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-sp… github.com/RikiyaT/lm_und… huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-0… huggingface.co/RikiyaT/Qwen3.…
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i've reproduced the results from the MIT blog post today on weight-space programming. but one additional result i have to add: this is a new, step-change emerging capability that's appeared in just the latest set of models.
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Now I see why Anthropic lifted the 5-hour cap. So academics could more easily blow their weekly token budget on screwing with each other. 😅
I asked Claude to do a similar analysis of the work of Phillip W. Magness, one of the most vocal critics of Saez/Zucman. You'll never guess the results. claude.ai/artifact/NZnsaHuRp…
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Cookie banners all over again.
JUST IN: SpaceXSI announces Grok will begin embedding invisible watermarks into AI-generated text starting November 7 comply with the EU AI Act.
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The sort of thing your agent writes tests for
The chances of being killed by a landmine delivered by a bear are low, but they are never zero.
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Current SPX drawdown for historical perspective. NB - You don’t want to see this chart going back to 1900. :-)
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Barely any of my buy orders have triggered yet, so don't think this is it yet.😅
If this is the stock market crash we’ve been worrying about, I’m fine with it.
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Google staying true to the tradition of naming their product lines in increasingly confusing ways, so everyone loses track as to what is what. 😆
Introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, it's a big jump over Argon which we released just 2 weeks ago. Gemini 4 Carbon is SOTA on cyber, long horizon tasks, ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis V5, significantly improves on usability in domains like coding, and is more aligned.
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Brazilske volitve se pa kar negativno poznajo v portfelju $MELI
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78 % vseh davčnih prihodkov v Sloveniji prinesejo samo TRIJE davki. DDV, dohodnina in DDPO. Trije. Mi pa smo okoli preostalih 22 % zgradili celo davčno civilizacijo. Predpise, obrazce, izjeme, evidence, uradnike, nadzornike in svetovalce. Koliko sploh stane vzdrževanje te džungle? In koliko produktivnega časa požre? Pred kratkim sem bil na kavi z nekom s FURS-a. Pogovarjala sva se prav o radikalni poenostavitvi davčnega sistema. Bil je njen velik zagovornik, čeprav bi s tem ukinili prav področje, na katerem sam dela. To je nekaj, kar bi morali znati ceniti. Človek, ki je pripravljen podpreti ukinitev lastnega delovnega področja, ker razume, da država ni sama sebi namen. Morda bi se morali končno nehati spraševati, kako pobrati še več davkov, in se začeti spraševati, koliko različnih davkov sploh potrebujemo. Davčni sistem ni umetniško delo. Njegova vrednost ni v številu podrobnosti, ampak v tem, kako malo življenja vzame ljudem. In od tega spoznanja je samo še korakec do EDS. Enotne davčne stopnje. Manj izjem. Manj privilegijev. Manj birokracije. Manj države med človekom in sadovi njegovega dela. Jebenti, poenostavimo že to državo.
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A bi lahko, prosim, nehali s tem subvencijskim sranjem, @vladaRS? Subvencije niso nič drugega kot leglo korupcije in klientelizma! Znižajte davke, razpustite nepotrebne agencije in ponovno znižajte davke! In bo lažje za vse, ne samo za izbrance.
Namesto, da bi znižali dajatve oz. dali olajšave bodo birokrati na Spirit, ki jih vsi plačujemo, delili z davki zbrani denar, v zameno pa se bodo podjetniki morali udeležit tečajev, ki jih spet vsi plačamo: nov razpis za 9.000€ subvencije finance.si/9052292
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No pa smo. Cel sistem je narejen tako, da se ga lahko nagne v smer kot si zaželi gospoda. Tole dragi moji je en glavnih obir za preboj in smrt za stabilno in gospodarsko uspešno državo. Nianse …
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