WEEK 12 · ENDORSEMENT ROUTE OPENS; HYBRID MODEL V0

Do one thing.
Then you are ahead.

Two stories this week, one social and one technical, and they are the same story. The social one: arXiv, the main preprint server for ML, asks newcomers to be vouched for by someone already publishing there, like a private club where a member must sign your application. You open three routes at once (a founder, a cited author, a local academic), because one route is a hope and three are a plan. The technical one: yo…