My 1126 Bookmarks & Retweets

a deep generalist is someone who discovers new niches by following their curiosity with extreme faith, and once the newly found niche is understood and its complexity exhausted, in a meta-systematic fashion, it’s time for them to move on

This paper introduces 26 guiding principles designed to streamline the process of querying and prompting large language models. Paper - 'Principled Instructions Are All You Need' Tested on Llama 1/2 (7B, 13B, and 70B) and GPT-3.5/4. https://t.co/IsF6fmoiuX

@AlexTheGoodman AI generated, human curated.

We are moving from a knowledge economy to an allocation economy. https://t.co/6h1PP2MZlw

If you're feeling really awful one day, try changing up something. Anything. Probably you'll feel better the next day because of regression to the mean, but you'll also have acquired a new superstition to practice for the rest of your life.

Name something that’s forever funny no matter how many times it’s repeated.

Clarity AI is 100% open-source and can be self-hosted while Magnific is closed: https://t.co/QmjeuKkRA2 Clarity AI is free to use on Replicate, while Magnific is paid only: https://t.co/hp1elJFooV Clarity AI has an API while Magnific does not, making it unable to integrate into https://t.co/B7Mi9mwhId

I still can't believe you can index your whole file system locally using BGE ( 100mb ) & vector db and then run llama 3 (4GB) on it what a time to be alive indexed my 20 pdf files in < 3 sec lol https://t.co/NSIhgD7t8Q

There's this phenomenon I noticed in bootstrapping a business which I'm going to just call "the squeeze". It is by far the hardest part of the mental game and it's something I went through at the end of 2023 and beginning of 2024. The squeeze is characterized by: 1. Making https://t.co/y8Xjcp3N6Q

Google is doing something very interesting by building specialized versions of its frontier models for math, healthcare, and education (so far). The benchmarks on all of these are pretty impressive, and it seems to be beyond what can be done with traditional fine tuning alone.

Microsoft has released Data Wrangler, a VS Code extension that gives you a UI for data viewing & cleaning and that generates clean Python/pandas code. I really hope that they rip out Power Query in Excel and replace it with this! I'd go as far a saying that this should have been https://t.co/RcyY7yAWy7

If you're making content- either be ultra-authentic (Emma Chamberlain, Sam Sulek) or a fictional character (Gstaad Guy, Dax Flame) The in-between (which is 99% of 'content creators') will get absolutely smoked in the next few yrs Be extremely real or extremely fake Both work

as much as people need personal websites they also need personal apis.

Ada klien mak2 Dateng ke kantor, mas dengan budget segini xxxxxx, bisa gak datengin sales ribuan. Aku ketawain dong wkwkwk. Gini aja bu, gak usah bayar, aku promoin pakek caraku. Yaudah aku scrape nomer di google map dan autoposting di FB. 1 bulan kemudian laporan kewalahen.

life gets so much better after you accept that the beginning of anything ever is going to suck a little bit but will ultimately be worth it (for example-most pilot episodes/first seasons, starting a new exercise routine, doing laundry, picking up the phone, going outside, etc..)

age 0-25: try all the things age 26+:

GUYS I DIED AND WENT TO HEAVEN WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK https://t.co/vB0CukW3lq

If you email me—even if I don't know you—I will respond. (so long as it's not spammy) So many people did this for me when I was younger and it had a major impact on my life. My email is on my website.

a Zionist asks Chomsky what he thinks about the statement that Israel should not exist, and whether he is horrified by it and thinks it's anti-Semitic and genocidal. He responds: "Actually, I agree with that." And adds that Zionists are the actual genocidal ones. https://t.co/Pt3l1Ln9tt

🚀 AI Employees at Azara AI! 🤖 Watch as Azara effortlessly streamlines our engineer onboarding process with just a voice command. From welcome email to e-signatures. Want to build your own AI Employee? @yoheinakajima @davemcclure https://t.co/tzN6Z2t3E5

Q: What are your infinite games? "Make your life decisions predominately based on your infinite games" - @tobi A few of mine: - Learn the 'art of gathering' - Become a top 1% communicator (written & verbal) - Act as a facilitator of interesting people https://t.co/3x6QmgoRsM

after much trial and error, i've figured out how to reliably get myself to grow & learn as an adult not just "i finished the course" but actually "i can now do stuff i couldn't do before" let me show you:

Over a decade later, this is still the most useful framework for thinking about customers for your MVP. From @sgblank originally, I believe. https://t.co/BRltPCA3by

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Many in edtech are inspired by the AI education in The Diamond Age. The fictional edtech is a nanotech pseudointelligent book, The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer. It bonds to a child at ~4 and educates them until ~16. Features of interest of the Primer, then general thoughts… https://t.co/z81QSntpJf

i keep saying this someone should make a website that just list 20 textbooks to get you ahead of 99% of people in that field.

I am lazy. Success needs hard work. So I had to hack my way into working hard. https://t.co/22IlBR600o

What are the best AI Agent ideas out there right now?

"experts are fake, smart generalists rule the world. everything is designed by people no smarter than you, and courage is in shorter supply than genius" - @tszzl . specialization is for insects. humans are able to live complex lives where they can constantly recreate themselves https://t.co/46l3GQQV2c

It sounds cheesy every time I say it (in fact, I explained it to someone last week), but this book literally changed my life: The Change Function: Why Some Technologies Take Off and Others Crash and Burn By Pip Coburn Every project that I have seen failing fell victim to the