My 6952 Bookmarks & Likes

🚨New Paper🚨 Many have asked my opinion on @elonmusk's new verification, blue check & identity cue ideas for @Twitter. Today we published a large-scale experiment in @NatureHumBehav showing identity cues have dramatic effects on how we perceive & engage with content online A🧵 https://t.co/GcVCDOwc19

Love him or hate him, @elonmusk gave a masterclass on Price Anchoring last week Did you notice? [A thread 🧵]

1) A relationship with a local farmer/rancher can do more for your nutrition and health than your doctor. 2) The fiber is removed in fruit juices speeding up digestion and your body can't tell the difference between the juice and a can of coke.

Interesting point I hadn't considered: if you use the trick of changing the meanings of words without admitting that you're doing it, your intended meaning will be lost when people translate what you say into other languages. https://t.co/3UMiTBchAu

Imagine winning the genetic lottery by being a natural short sleeper (sleeping 4-6 hours a day while being more productive, more extroverted, more resilient, slimmer, and with higher mood than average!) https://t.co/iFZ79aryyD

Holy hell is this book FANTASTIC. https://t.co/vkjrjkY94l

Twitter's @birdwatch is a fantastic idea, and the team behind should get a massive raise. More of this and fewer speech committees and centralized truth arbiters.

How brain cells communicate: #neuroscience https://t.co/IrvwCxjhzc

This is not business. This is information warfare. You are a combatant in a global information war. Information war supports and precedes kinetic war. This isn’t a game. It is war.

astronomy is such a poetic science ❤️

Life at Starbase https://t.co/tYfYRLRQjU https://t.co/gmYHM4y3GR

Math, code, theory - all so serious. Let's do something more fun and look at machine learning and statistical modeling through stories. 🧵 7 short stories with insights on modeling mindsets

AI-based cooking? Check out our paper on zero-shot anticipation for predicting the next steps of procedural activities: https://t.co/SRIukSxsY8 https://t.co/1l3JnBJynr

The “poetic” Qur’an translation of H.B. Jassin into modern Indonesian caused a huge controversy in the country in the 1970s. 🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩 #qurantranslationoftheweek https://t.co/WQl3KwrvP2

I genuinely love both VR and Zuck's plan to build it. But I think Meta is making some really basic unforced errors that are hurting adoption. Yes, it's going to take years to solve key hardware issues, but they could easily fix the problems mentioned below: https://t.co/XYfbUhdYj3

Got a bunch of demos this week on the evolution of our cloud infra and it’s totally insane. Imagine instantly available, fully reproducible, and infinitely scalable environments. Will eat the software market inside out. Not only pro devtools, but going into academia, gov’t etc.

I fixed my phone addiction by having 2 phones: 1. Cocaine Phone - Full stack dopamine. Twitter. Instagram. TikTok. WhatsApp. Anyone can contact. 2. Kale Phone - Full stack serotonin. Notes. Kindle. Uber. Maps. Emergency number for 2-3 contacts. Lemme explain... https://t.co/IIPowAFsGB

Dari semua informal fallacy there is, paling suka sama the fallacy fallacy. https://t.co/l2JsWurwPd

What’s the craziest conspiracy theory you think might be true?

We've just released from @nomic_ai a new map for exploring 6+ million AI-generated images and the prompts used to created them, collected by @krea_ai. https://t.co/D8mYorLCGJ The most exciting thing for me here is how this changes full-text search: here's why (thread). https://t.co/ZDUdVsj1as

Introducing Frame Interpolation Generate seamless video from still images with just one click. Available now: https://t.co/rpNciHjZRH https://t.co/HOtAo16f0Y

Announcing the ESM Metagenomic Atlas — the first comprehensive view of the ‘dark matter’ of the protein universe. Made possible by ESMFold, a new breakthrough model for protein folding from Meta AI. More in our new blog ➡️ https://t.co/LsUhSjzqCf 1/3 https://t.co/5lq48rPv5A

This is really cool. It's like Replit but for hardware. https://t.co/fJMsBhrKHy

[Hey Yishan, you used to run Reddit, ] How do you solve the content moderation problems on Twitter? (Repeated 5x in two days) Okay, here are my thoughts: (1/nnn)

I read a lot of books for my podcast & blog. But often I can't finding the particular passage I'm looking for. Ctrl-F doesn't work unless you know the exact phrase. So I built search for ebooks using OpenAI's embeddings API. Link below to use. Works surprisingly well! https://t.co/UFDjDhZ507

I am so so sorry to hear that the brilliant Herman Daly - founding father of ecological economics - has died. His paradigm-changing work flipped my little econ head inside out & inspired me to write a book on rewriting economics… Here are just some of his big ideas 1/n. https://t.co/uLAcIh67Mz

9/20 *reads 100 articles about startups* "Most of the startups these days are garbage. I have this INSANE idea to make a (slightly) better version of <insert consumer app>. Can you believe no one is doing this?"

My suggestion for what AI needs, 2019. Nothing has changed. https://t.co/8aHX6Gd3HT

I learn from my grandpa’s life. High education level does not make you a more decent, good, human being. It has to start, always, from the heart. A heart that’s in the right place, will make sure education, no matter how high it is, does not turn one to be an asshole.

Twitter family — For 8 yrs I stayed low profile building (3+ companies worth $10b+). In the last year, I wrote for 100s of hours, compiling every learning. 2 books, 75+ threads, 190k+ followers. Here’s a massive thread roundup, and everything you need to build your startup: