S. Ali Zaidi
@zaidi.fm
🔍 Currently: Studying ML / AI (theory + intersection w/ policy)
🏛️ Previously: Campaign and/or Hill staffer to Rep. Beto O'Rourke, Rep. Jimmy Gomez, Rep. Loretta Sanchez | + Tom Steyer, SD Dems, & others
💙 Photography, physics, piano, & my pup
📍San Diego
🏛️ Previously: Campaign and/or Hill staffer to Rep. Beto O'Rourke, Rep. Jimmy Gomez, Rep. Loretta Sanchez | + Tom Steyer, SD Dems, & others
💙 Photography, physics, piano, & my pup
📍San Diego
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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
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You live long enough to see America elect a white supremacist criminal President and then follow it up with a Muslim American mayor of NYC.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
You live long enough to see America elect a white supremacist criminal President and then follow it up with a Muslim American mayor of NYC.
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i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
November 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.
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Obama: "They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and blame DEI for every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? Must be DEI. Your wife kicked you out? DEI. Who knew?"
November 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Obama: "They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and blame DEI for every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? Must be DEI. Your wife kicked you out? DEI. Who knew?"
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crazy it is almost as if weiss has been promoted beyond her ability
October 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
crazy it is almost as if weiss has been promoted beyond her ability
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Trump is right, there is a war on Christians. He's the one doing it.
WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.
October 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Trump is right, there is a war on Christians. He's the one doing it.
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Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"
October 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"
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October 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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You already can’t tell AI text from most non-AI text. Videos are on the horizon too. It’s important not to fool yourself about this!
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
You already can’t tell AI text from most non-AI text. Videos are on the horizon too. It’s important not to fool yourself about this!
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Can’t even laugh at this. The idea of these meatheads skulking around my beautiful, glittering jewel box of a city, looking to tackle every non-white person they see, makes me sick to my stomach. This is the real domestic terrorism.
ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
September 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Can’t even laugh at this. The idea of these meatheads skulking around my beautiful, glittering jewel box of a city, looking to tackle every non-white person they see, makes me sick to my stomach. This is the real domestic terrorism.
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Welcome to America, where masked and armed federal officials will chase you down if you criticize the President.
September 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Welcome to America, where masked and armed federal officials will chase you down if you criticize the President.
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I pulled some updated data for ATOM Project // Interconnects.
Qwen has taken the crown, is accelerating away in market share.
U.S. has signs of promise in GPT-OSS & Nvidia.
Qwen has taken the crown, is accelerating away in market share.
U.S. has signs of promise in GPT-OSS & Nvidia.
September 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I pulled some updated data for ATOM Project // Interconnects.
Qwen has taken the crown, is accelerating away in market share.
U.S. has signs of promise in GPT-OSS & Nvidia.
Qwen has taken the crown, is accelerating away in market share.
U.S. has signs of promise in GPT-OSS & Nvidia.
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it includes model weights + data + training code + paper
this is objectively open source
this is objectively open source
One of the reasons this will be valuable for academics is that it provides a very clear recipe for pretraining ~3B-scale models on custom corpora.
And new paper out: Pleias 1.0: the First Family of Language Models Trained on Fully Open Data
How we train an open everything model on a new pretraining environment with releasable data (Common Corpus) with an open source framework (Nanotron from HuggingFace).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How we train an open everything model on a new pretraining environment with releasable data (Common Corpus) with an open source framework (Nanotron from HuggingFace).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
it includes model weights + data + training code + paper
this is objectively open source
this is objectively open source
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One of the reasons this will be valuable for academics is that it provides a very clear recipe for pretraining ~3B-scale models on custom corpora.
And new paper out: Pleias 1.0: the First Family of Language Models Trained on Fully Open Data
How we train an open everything model on a new pretraining environment with releasable data (Common Corpus) with an open source framework (Nanotron from HuggingFace).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How we train an open everything model on a new pretraining environment with releasable data (Common Corpus) with an open source framework (Nanotron from HuggingFace).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
One of the reasons this will be valuable for academics is that it provides a very clear recipe for pretraining ~3B-scale models on custom corpora.
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And new paper out: Pleias 1.0: the First Family of Language Models Trained on Fully Open Data
How we train an open everything model on a new pretraining environment with releasable data (Common Corpus) with an open source framework (Nanotron from HuggingFace).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How we train an open everything model on a new pretraining environment with releasable data (Common Corpus) with an open source framework (Nanotron from HuggingFace).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
And new paper out: Pleias 1.0: the First Family of Language Models Trained on Fully Open Data
How we train an open everything model on a new pretraining environment with releasable data (Common Corpus) with an open source framework (Nanotron from HuggingFace).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How we train an open everything model on a new pretraining environment with releasable data (Common Corpus) with an open source framework (Nanotron from HuggingFace).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University
September 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University
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we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
September 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there
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someone said of Wikipedia: “it is a thing that does not work in theory but turned out to work in practice”
September 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
someone said of Wikipedia: “it is a thing that does not work in theory but turned out to work in practice”
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for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
September 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world
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🚀 We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming AI & Scientific Discovery online seminar! We have an amazing lineup of speakers.
This series will dive into how AI is accelerating research, enabling breakthroughs, and shaping the future of research across disciplines.
ai-scientific-discovery.github.io
This series will dive into how AI is accelerating research, enabling breakthroughs, and shaping the future of research across disciplines.
ai-scientific-discovery.github.io
September 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
🚀 We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming AI & Scientific Discovery online seminar! We have an amazing lineup of speakers.
This series will dive into how AI is accelerating research, enabling breakthroughs, and shaping the future of research across disciplines.
ai-scientific-discovery.github.io
This series will dive into how AI is accelerating research, enabling breakthroughs, and shaping the future of research across disciplines.
ai-scientific-discovery.github.io
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longcat is hot stuff. honestly not sure why this isn’t making a bigger splash
Meituan, China's largest food delivery company, is releasing more open-weight LLMs.
LongCat-Flash-Thinking: Smarter reasoning and leaner costs!
Performance: SOTA open-source models on Logic / Math / Coding / Agent tasks using 64.5% fewer tokens to hit top-tier accuracy on AIME25
LongCat-Flash-Thinking: Smarter reasoning and leaner costs!
Performance: SOTA open-source models on Logic / Math / Coding / Agent tasks using 64.5% fewer tokens to hit top-tier accuracy on AIME25
September 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
longcat is hot stuff. honestly not sure why this isn’t making a bigger splash
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If you want to understand the failure of our media, since Kirk’s murder Republicans have fanned out across the media for interviews, all claiming Dems calling Trump ‘fascist’ causes violence. And not a single interviewer has pushed back with: ‘But Trump called Harris a fascist!’
September 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM
If you want to understand the failure of our media, since Kirk’s murder Republicans have fanned out across the media for interviews, all claiming Dems calling Trump ‘fascist’ causes violence. And not a single interviewer has pushed back with: ‘But Trump called Harris a fascist!’