hardmaru ✓

@hardmaru · Minato-ku, Tokyo · joined 10 Nov 2014

Co-Founder and CEO @SakanaAILabs 🎏

436 016Followers

1 900Following

25 915Posts total

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hardmaru ✓@hardmaru20 Sep

日経新聞による、グーグルディープマインド東京を率いる全炳河（@heiga_zen）氏の素晴らしい特集記事。 2018年、Heigaさんと2人でGoogle Brain東京チームを立ち上げた日々を懐かしく思います。当時は時差の厳しい深夜の会議をこなしながら、日本のAI研究の存在感を示すために必死でした。現在、彼が 15.9K views · 150 likes · 10 reposts · 53 replies Open on X →

hardmaru ✓@hardmaru17 Sep

Schmidhuber was building recursive self-improving systems back in 1987. His new post covers four decades of RSI, from meta-evolution and self-modifying policies to the Gödel Machine and modern LLM agents. https://t.co/gdComv0GoJ Reading this in 2026, the "pace the frontier" 68.8K views · 804 likes · 120 reposts · 43 replies Open on X →

hardmaru ✓@hardmaru16 Sep

Today everyone is talking about Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI). In 1987, when compute was 100,000,000 x more expensive, I published the 1st concrete RSI algorithms. Now compute is cheap, and RSI is driving the future of both software and physical AI. See: RSI since 1987 https:/

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hardmaru ✓@hardmaru16 Sep

This year at Sakana AI, we built and shipped more products than I would have believed possible: Sakana Chat, Namazu, Sakana Translate, Sakana Marlin, Fugu, Fugu Cyber, and Fugu Max. We created a Product Team from zero and proved that a research lab born in Tokyo can ship https://

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hardmaru ✓@hardmaru12 Sep

Virtual fruit fly is our generation’s Tamagotchi 🪰🧠 19.6K views · 292 likes · 13 reposts · 23 replies Open on X →

hardmaru ✓@hardmaru11 Sep

Introducing Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2: Orchestrating the Pareto Frontier The AI industry has spent a decade optimizing along a single axis: build bigger, more expensive models. But intelligence has never been a monolith. It is a collective, distributed system. Humanity itself h

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hardmaru ✓@hardmaru11 Sep

Introducing Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2: the next evolution of Sakana Fugu’s multi-agent orchestration system. Try: https://t.co/aDEFyySowk Blog: https://t.co/qj3JWgNPiC The frontier that actually matters is the Pareto frontier: capability on one axis, cost on the other. But the

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hardmaru ✓@hardmaru30 Aug

@hardmaru Except that SIs in Japan produce much lower quality software than in-house teams. They have price points to hit after all. And when the bulk of software in Japan is SI slop, adding AI slop doesn’t help. 1.7K views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

hardmaru ✓@hardmaru30 Aug

@hardmaru It’s also pulled global development culture way more towards Japanese SWE norms of hyper optimized specs and a preference for hardware-specific firmware. 2.4K views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

hardmaru ✓@hardmaru30 Aug

@hardmaru It is already happening; starting a business based on AI-powered contract development seems to be trending among some students. However, in urban areas, the concept is already becoming stale. 1.1K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

hardmaru ✓@hardmaru30 Aug

Silicon Valley dismissed Japan’s System Integration (SI) culture as an unscalable consultant trap. Writing the system is no longer the scarce work. Integrating it is. In the post-AI world, everyone becomes an AI-powered Japanese SIer. 69.6K views · 273 likes · 29 reposts · 38 replies Open on X →

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11 post degli ultimi 90 giorni, accanto alla fascia di 100K–1M follower. arriva a molti, ma pochi di loro reagiscono.

Visualizzazioni mediane31 885questo account6 273mediana per 100K–1M

Copertura, %7.31%questo account1.68%mediana per 100K–1M

Interazione, %0.46%questo account0.98%mediana per 100K–1M

Metrica	Questo account	Mediana per 100K–1M	Rapporto
Visualizzazioni mediane per post	31 885	6 273	5.08×
Copertura (visualizzazioni ÷ follower)	7.31%	1.68%	4.35×
Tasso di interazione	0.46%	0.98%	0.47×

Altri account di questa fascia → Confronta con un altro account → Come sono costruiti questi parametri →

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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

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1.1K

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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.98%.

What the audience does

Likes60.1%4 301 in total

Reposts8.3%591 in total

Replies4.7%335 in total

Quotes2.0%143 in total

Bookmarks25.0%1 786 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

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