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Ethan @ethanrosenthal.com · 1d

Imagine paying $10M to live in Hudson Yards

Zillow map screenshot with a circle around a 9.9M apartment

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Ethan @ethanrosenthal.com · 1d

practically instantaneous compared to the geologic timelines in many other areas!

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Ethan @ethanrosenthal.com · 1d

Also maybe the weather. This week is so dreary

Ethan @ethanrosenthal.com · 1d

If I ever leave this city, it will 100% be due to the price of housing rather than taxes.

Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 1d

Did New York's last big tax increase on the wealthy actually drive our millionaires to Florida?

No, absolutely not, says a new study.

And other links to start your day!

hellgatenyc.com/the-myth-of-...

The 'Myth' of the Fleeing NY Millionaire

And other links to start your day Tuesday.

hellgatenyc.com

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Ethan @ethanrosenthal.com · 2d

“…on current trends the grid can grow sufficiently to accomodate all of these loads and some residential electrification as well, and do so at a rate of growth only about half of that which was seen between 1975 and 2000.”
energyandstuff.substack.com/p/sam-altman...

Sam Altman vs. Jane Goodall

The astonishing commitments of energy to AI, put in perspective. A better idea to power it all, and a contemplation of why we think AI is more important than environmentalism.

energyandstuff.substack.com

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Ethan @ethanrosenthal.com · 4d

The greatest minds of my generation could be building the dopest music visualizers

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Ethan @ethanrosenthal.com · 6d

www.stateof.ai/2025-report-...

State of AI Report 2025

The State of AI Report analyses the most interesting developments in AI. Read and download here.

www.stateof.ai

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‏ deepfates @deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com · 7d

btw what I did here was I took a data set of ChatGPT interactions collected in the wild and reversed the "assistant" and "user" tags. fine-tuned llama 8B on some of that data and gave it the ability to message you first. 😊

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Ethan @ethanrosenthal.com · 7d

My favorite part of this was when the human flaggers, who were directing a section of alternating one-way traffic, forgot that I was still biking through that section and let the oncoming traffic start flowing at me

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Ethan @ethanrosenthal.com · 8d

I would love to see a choropleth map for this question

Ethan @ethanrosenthal.com · 9d

don't worry, they're optimizing it bsky.app/profile/nytd...

Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 9d

Change in Headline

Before: How Elon Musk Is Bringing Sexy A.I. Chatbots to the Mainstream
After: Elon Musk Gambles on Sexy A.I. Companions

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Ethan @ethanrosenthal.com · 9d

Is there actually much of a difference between combining LORAs and model souping? I would bet that you can model soup different tasks together.

Ethan @ethanrosenthal.com · 9d

Same idea as model souping, I guess (which is also mind-blowing to me)

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rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 9d

Good article from @pedramnavid.com about building a successful #DevRel team. databased.pedramnavid.com/p/reflection...

Measured and considered, and lots of wisdom. A++++ would read again.

Reflections on 2 Years Running Developer Relations

What is DevRel and do I need one?

databased.pedramnavid.com

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Weston Pace @westonpace.bsky.social · 12d

Lot's of work being done on columnar file formats lately. I count 5 new formats so far (Lance, Nimble, Vortex, FastLanes, F3).

It's definitely something we follow at LanceDB and it can be confusing to track. So here is my very biased head-canon (trying to stay positive)

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 12d

Great thread

David Picard @davidpicard.bsky.social · 12d

It's a great discussion because we all have different interpretation of what this means and what the consequences are.

Myself, I have absolutely no doubt that scaling works. If you have all the videos in the world and are able to train a model that can recall and merge any of them, then for sure...

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Ethan @ethanrosenthal.com · 13d

I was reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance last night, so it’s a bit of a surreal dichotomy to compare Quality to this Slop post

John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 13d

I've written an essay reflecting on how I use the word slop and some theory of what distinguishes slop from spam and kitsch.

minihf.com/posts/2025-1...

On Slop

minihf.com

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Randy Au @randyau.com · 15d

This week on Counting Stuff. Layoffs! I'm in search for a job now! It sucks but here we are!

Now's the ideal time to give me money in exchange for time or a project. Or if you just have leads in quantitative/data/researchy positions across NYC or remotely

www.counting-stuff.com/looking-for-...

Looking for work, surprise edition

I always told my wife this newsletter was my backup plan...

www.counting-stuff.com

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · 15d

LayerD: Decomposing Raster Graphic Designs into Layers

Tomoyuki Suzuki, Kang-Jun Liu, Naoto Inoue, Kota Yamaguchi

tl;dr: repeat(matting->inpaint). Apache 2 license
arxiv.org/abs/2509.25134

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Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 16d

“Is 90% of code going to be written by AI? I don’t know. What I do know is, that for me, on this project, the answer is already yes.” lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/29/90...

90%

AI is writing 90% of the code I was in charge of

lucumr.pocoo.org

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Ethan @ethanrosenthal.com · 17d

Or use Aleph if you have video runwayml.com/research/int... (sorry to shill)

Runway Research | Introducing Runway Aleph

runwayml.com

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Ethan @ethanrosenthal.com · 17d

Weird!

Ethan @ethanrosenthal.com · 17d

Heh, you’d think. Maybe it’s a manifestation of Conway’s Law for papers

Ethan @ethanrosenthal.com · 17d

Veo rewrites user prompts via an LLM prior to video generation. It’s pretty unfortunate that this paper doesn’t disambiguate between what the LLM is figuring out vs the diffusion model.

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Ethan @ethanrosenthal.com · 18d

Incredible that it took this long github.blog/changelog/20...

Pull request "Files changed" public preview now supports commenting on unchanged lines - GitHub Changelog

Comment on any line now available in the new "Files changed" page public preview!

github.blog

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