parameter golf was a blast.
2,000+ submissions. 1,000+ verified github accounts. ideas ranging from quantization and depth recurrence to TTT LoRA, SSMs, H-nets, JEPA, and more.
autoresearch made iteration dramatically faster — and led to emergent bulletin boards, issue threads, unofficial leaderboards, and agent-built writeups that helped everyone learn from everyone else.
it felt like a glimpse of where interaction with AI is headed: humans setting taste and direction, agents helping explore, coordinate, and share what works.
our goal was simple: make ml research accessible to anyone, anywhere.
it was amazing to see that happen.
full recap:
future events:
显示更多
Last week, Ethereum core contributors gathered in Svalbard for the Soldøgn interop: a week long event focused on hardening Glamsterdam implementations to scale Ethereum securely ☀️
Read the full recap, including their candidate post-fork gas limit, below:
显示更多
#
PaperADay# recap
On January 8th, I set out to read and take notes on one paper each weekday for the rest of the month. I missed one day due to a funeral, and another day due to bad time management, but not too bad.
I probably averaged a bit over 2 hours on each of them, which is only a rough read in some cases, but still enough to put a pinch in my work days. You can easily spend all day on a single paper if you dig in deep.
I have written code based on six of the papers so far, and the others are still kicking around in my head.
For now, back to my previous habits, but I may consider doing “week of papers” in the future after I digest where this fits in the exploration / exploitation time tradeoff.
15: Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models
14: MASTERING ATARI WITH DISCRETE WORLD MODELS
13: DREAM TO CONTROL: LEARNING BEHAVIORS BY LATENT IMAGINATION
12: Learning Latent Dynamics for Planning from Pixels
11: Discovering state-of-the-art reinforcement learning algorithms
10: LeJEPA: Provable and Scalable Self-Supervised Learning Without the Heuristics
9: floq: Training Critics via Flow-Matching for Scaling Compute in Value-Based RL
8: Beyond Gradient Averaging in Parallel Optimization: Improved Robustness through Gradient Agreement Filtering
7: Cautious Weight Decay
6: LOCAL FEATURE SWAPPING FOR GENERALIZATION IN REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
5: Small Batch Size Training for Language Models: When Vanilla SGD Works, and Why Gradient Accumulation Is Wasteful
4: Patches Are All You Need?
3: Self-Supervised Learning from Images with a Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture
2: Deep Delta Learning
1: Emergent temporal abstractions in autoregressive models enable hierarchical reinforcement learning
显示更多
🧵AMA Recap|Moonlight × UXLINK CEO Rolland
Our AMA title was “Why UXLINK May Be One of the Most Mispriced Mass-Adoption Infrastructures in Web3?”
In every Web3 cycle, “Mass Adoption” becomes the loudest catchphrase.
But after hosting countless AMAs and speaking with teams across ecosystems, I’ve learned one thing: very few projects are actually solving the hardest part of adoption, bringing real Web2 users into Web3 and keeping them there through real relationships, real usage, and real value.
That’s exactly why I invited Rolland, CEO of UXLINK, to this AMA.
Our goal was simple: cut through the hype and examine who is quietly building the long-term growth infrastructure of Web3.
What followed was a conversation that reframed how I, and likely many listeners, should think about mass adoption.
Mass adoption is already happening, but not in the way most people think.
Rolland began by acknowledging that mass adoption is no longer theoretical.
We’ve already seen projects like Catizen, CYBER, and PARTI drive explosive user growth in their respective domains, gaming, decentralized identity, and AI content.
Each of them is executing extremely well on a clearly defined track and has successfully pulled waves of new users toward Web3.
But Rolland challenged us to look beneath the surface. While these projects shine within specific verticals, very few are building a persistent network of real people and real relationships.
UXLINK operates precisely in this overlooked layer, not as a spotlight application, but as the foundation beneath the ecosystem.
From my perspective as the host, this was the first key insight: UXLINK is not competing for attention; it is competing to become indispensable.
To explain this difference, Rolland introduced an analogy that stayed with me throughout the AMA.
He described most successful applications as “track leaders”, highly optimized products designed to win within a single scenario. UXLINK, by contrast, is building the “soil.”
If other projects are digging wells on their own land, UXLINK is laying the underground water network. Instead of optimizing for one product form, UXLINK focuses on connecting real users, verifying social relationships, and creating a reusable growth layer that any project can build upon.
Tracks may change over time, but soil compounds.
One of the most important moments of the AMA came when Rolland reframed UXLINK’s core mission.
Most Web3 projects ask, “How do we grow faster?” UXLINK asks a very different question: “How do we make the entire industry grow more easily?”
That distinction explains why UXLINK doesn’t always look flashy during short-term market cycles. Infrastructure rarely does.
But once established, it becomes extremely difficult to replace.
From a host’s perspective, this also clarifies why UXLINK may be systematically undervalued, its value shows up in what others are able to launch, scale, and sustain because of it.
Rolland then broke down UXLINK’s long-term value into four deep moats, and hearing them explained together made it clear why the project sits in a category of its own.
First is the real social graph. In an industry filled with bots, scripts, and artificial activity, UXLINK insists on doing the hardest thing: connecting real people through acquaintance-based social networks.
This approach has enabled the genuine migration of tens of millions of Web2 users into Web3. Real relationships are an asset that cannot be fabricated or gamed.
Second is OAOG, UXLINK’s cold-start engine. OAOG is not a marketing slogan but a precision-operated growth system.
By combining social trust, verifiable relationships, and fission mechanisms, it allows projects to bootstrap real communities across chains, regions, and markets, breaking the traditional cold-start curse in Web3.
显示更多