can you just find any neuron?

if you have a qwen3.5 4b around, please try steering neurons L14 N8949 +1 and L13 N7956 -1 now you have evil qwen recipe: dose × median(‖resid‖ leaving layer L, tokens 1:) / ‖W_down[:, n]‖` at the down_proj at every input

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Plants Do Quantum Computing? A leaf moves energy with near-perfect efficiency. In 2007, physicists thought they'd caught it using the strangest trick in physics to do it. The truth turned out to be subtler — and in some ways stranger. Every green thing on Earth runs on an engineering feat no human technology matches. When sunlight strikes a photosynthetic antenna — a cluster of pigment molecules in a bacterium, an alga, or a leaf — the energy has to travel to a reaction center where it can be stored as chemistry. It makes that trip with almost absurd reliability: roughly 99 percent of absorbed photons successfully deliver their energy. Stumble, leak, or take a wrong turn, and the energy is lost as heat. It almost never stumbles. For decades, the textbook explanation was a random walk: the excitation "hopped" from molecule to molecule until it happened to arrive. But a random walk should leak. The numbers never quite added up — and in 2007, a team led by Gregory Engel and Graham Fleming at UC Berkeley found out why they might not have to. The wave that walks every path at once Using two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy — firing ultrafast laser pulses and watching how the energy states interact — the researchers examined the Fenna–Matthews–Olson (FMO) complex, a small protein "wire" in green sulfur bacteria that connects the light-harvesting antenna to the reaction center. They saw quantum beating: rhythmic oscillations showing the excitation existed in a superposition of states, spread across multiple molecules at once, for at least 660 femtoseconds at 77 kelvin. In plain terms, the energy did not take one path. It moved like a wave, sampling many routes simultaneously, and settled into the most efficient one. It was the logic of a quantum search algorithm, running inside a bacterium. The [paper, published in *Nature* in April 2007](pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1742…), effectively launched the field of quantum biology. The obvious objection was temperature. Quantum coherence is fragile; heat and noise usually destroy it instantly. A result at 77 K (−196 °C) might be a laboratory curiosity. So in 2010, Engel's group, by then at the University of Chicago, [showed the coherence survives at physiological temperature](pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…) — at least 300 femtoseconds at 277 K — arguing the protein itself protects the effect by correlating the fluctuations around the pigments. The same year, Elisabetta Collini and colleagues reported coherent energy transfer in marine algae at room temperature (*Nature* 463, 644–647; DOI: 10.1038/nature08811). For a few years, the headline version of the story seemed secure: evolution had built a quantum computer for moving sunlight. The plot twist Science's immune system eventually responded. In 2017, Hong-Guang Duan, R.J. Dwayne Miller, and colleagues re-examined the FMO complex with more discriminating spectroscopy and published [a paper with a title that left little room for ambiguity](pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.17…): "Nature does not rely on long-lived electronic quantum coherence for photosynthetic energy transfer." Their analysis found that true electronic coherence decays within about 60 femtoseconds — far too fast to steer the energy — and that the long-lived oscillations everyone had been measuring came mostly from molecular *vibrations*: the pigment-protein scaffold physically shaking, not an electronic superposition persisting. In 2020, many of the field's own leading figures, including early proponents, signed onto [a reassessment, "Quantum biology revisited,"](pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…) reaching much the same conclusion: the famous long-lived signals are predominantly vibrational in origin. 1 of 2

Let's go!!! Extremely bullish on specialized models. And Canva just entered the frontier image model race. Craft is Canva's first image model for design, built by their Canva Research team. It can plan the composition before it renders anything. We use Canva at our company, so it's exciting to see where this goes, given their expertise.

@distcog just came out of stealth, backed by Verdict Capital, with a different bet on superintelligence. Instead of one giant model, a team of small open models working together. They say the right way of connecting those models already beats the single smartest one. Their memo explains why a crowd needs different minds. Today's LLMs train on similar data, so when they're wrong they tend to be wrong the same way. They plan to release their research openly.

Do you understand a single word that Todd says? You probably live in San Francisco. :-)

Bro k80 is cheaper. the btc-s37 is cheap. 192gb for less than 1k and I've already writen the software to make it all work together. git.teamide.dev/David/Panthe…

⚠️ Node.js is vulnerable to remote code execution. CVE-2026-111497 (high): A Node.js process that decompresses attacker-controlled Brotli data can be made to leak memory or run arbitrary code. You’re exposed if your app or a library decompresses bad Brotli data (e.g. the built-in fetch(), body-parser) Aikido detects this. Patches are available.

You buy them, not build them 😉 although the price that I paid is not possible anymore, there is beefier version now for ~412 euros per miner - 80 GBs VRAM but hold your horses - we need to figure out how to optimize LLMs for this hardware first 😎😉

While people try to convince you that running models on $70k hardware is normal, I'm focused on making them run on hardware that's actually within reach of ordinary people🚀

It’s going to get a lot worse btw

So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.

Me after patching my servers for the php2shell exploit.

Pegasus is an AI agent system I’m building that runs locally on my computer. You give it a task, and it can bring in specialized agents, use tools and check their work while you watch the process unfold. That’s the runtime you saw in the video. The bigger idea is a feedback loop: capture what worked, what failed and what needs to change, then use that evidence to improve the system. It’s still being refined, but I’m building toward something that doesn’t just answer questions. It gets work done and carries useful lessons into the next job.