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Thursday, July 23, 202644 min read
Daily Reading · Paper of the Day

A random network hides a sparse one that trains from its first weights

A pruned subnetwork reaches full accuracy from the exact weights it started with and fails from fresh ones, and at ImageNet scale only once that starting point rewinds a few steps into training.

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Investing · Company Analysis

CoreWeave's depreciation and interest already consume most of its revenue

Its GPUs depreciate over six years while the debt that bought them is paid in cash today, so a record $98.8 billion order book has to outrun both.

9 min read9 sources
Parenting · Parenting Research

Timing, not method, is what the evidence on starting solids settles

One New Zealand trial program is most of the evidence on baby-led weaning, and it found the method neither riskier nor better than the spoon.

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daily-news

The US opens Saudi Arabia a path to enrich nuclear fuel

American power ran through foreign capitals today, from Riyadh to south Lebanon, while at home the AI industry wired up its next layer of agents.

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Daily Reading · Word of the Day

Apophenia was a symptom before it was a bias

Klaus Conrad coined it in 1958 for the involuntary, dread-soaked conviction that everything has begun to mean something, and the everyday word we kept is a milder thing than the one he named.

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