“Ever wondered what makes an #LLM really tick—what’s behind the colorful pinball-machine metaphors?”

Learn more about #parameters here: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/07/1130795/what-even-is-a-parameter/ #TechNews

JOEL KANNING Convergence

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Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

Recent research has shown that language models can learn to \textit{reason}, often via reinforcement learning. Some work even trains low-rank parameterizations for reasoning, but conventional LoRA cannot scale below the model dimension. We question whether even rank=1 LoRA is necessary for learning to reason and propose TinyLoRA, a method for scaling low-rank adapters to sizes as small as one parameter. Within our new parameterization, we are able to train the 8B parameter size of Qwen2.5 to 91\% accuracy on GSM8K with only 13 trained parameters in bf16 (26 total bytes). We find this trend holds in general: we are able to recover 90\% of performance improvements while training $1000x$ fewer parameters across a suite of more difficult learning-to-reason benchmarks such as AIME, AMC, and MATH500. Notably, we are only able to achieve such strong performance with RL: models trained using SFT require $100-1000x$ larger updates to reach the same performance.

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🎩 Oh joy, another insipid attempt from #Google to coat their latest buzzword-babbling #AI in a veneer of importance, now with 200 million #parameters of pure 🤯! As if we needed another bloated "foundation model" to mispredict our futures with the precision of a Magic 8-Ball. 🙄
https://github.com/google-research/timesfm #foundation #model #buzzwordbingo #Magic8Ball #HackerNews #ngated
GitHub - google-research/timesfm: TimesFM (Time Series Foundation Model) is a pretrained time-series foundation model developed by Google Research for time-series forecasting.

TimesFM (Time Series Foundation Model) is a pretrained time-series foundation model developed by Google Research for time-series forecasting. - google-research/timesfm

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tinygrad: A simple and powerful neural network framework

The #epidemiology of #pathogens with #pandemic potential: A review of key #parameters and clustering analysis

📜 An article on #OAuth #Parameters so #dry it could double as a desert 🏜️ #survival #guide. Who knew listing endless acronyms could make time travel possible, as readers are transported to the future—a future of utter #boredom. 🔮 Enjoy the riveting journey through #RFCs, guaranteed to cure insomnia! 💤
https://www.iana.org/assignments/oauth-parameters/oauth-parameters.xhtml#parameters #humor #HackerNews #ngated
OAuth Parameters

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