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Finally somebody is expressing the appropriate level of vocal outrage at Google's mass adoption of AI. https://t.co/K5hZvL9IpE

tips on how to make friends 1) do a sport (me: bjj) 2) have a creative outlet (me: pottery) 3) learn to cook a group meal (me: japanese curry katsu) Do sports and creative stuff, invite people over for food + a beer, or bring curry to the pottery studio (which i did) Make

As creator of said game: You should support indies if you can, but culture shouldn't exist only for those who can afford it. ULTRAKILL wouldn't exist if I hadn't had easy access to movies, music and games growing up. If you don't have money, you can support via word of mouth. https://t.co/iLTqy6s9vK

Using LLMs to develop software without good programming knowledge is like using Google Translate to write an article about Nuclear Physics in French while knowing neither Physics nor French. https://t.co/6WDmIafR2q

There is no generative AI in Beyond the Spider-Verse and there never will be. One of the main goals of the films is to create new visual styles that have never been seen in a studio CG film, not steal the generic plagiarized average of other artists’ work. https://t.co/t4tSUWCg4u

Name a film, preferably newish, that, while widely considered great, has you itching to get on your soapbox and shouting "DO YOU ALL REALIZE HOW GREAT THIS IS? WE NEED TO BE TALKING ABOUT HOW GREAT THIS IS. ALL. THE. TIME." Yes, I just rewatched Phantom Thread.

In the medieval period alone, Muslims invented geared mills, windmills, algebra, ammonium chloride synthesis, control valves, cryptanalysis, the kerosene lamp, double-entry bookkeeping, the magnifying glass, hyperbolic geometry, the syringe, the scientific method, and more! https://t.co/kURCU2ksGr

I give this book to everyone. Tufte works through hundreds of syntax patterns and their effects on the reader, using real examples drawn from every type of writing imaginable. This book is a fucking joy. https://t.co/3t797GQsYw

I rebuilt @Replit — Sandbox is an open-source cloud code editing environment with an AI copilot and multiplayer collaboration, made with @Nextjs + @CloudflareDev Workers https://t.co/gLX0j9rY2L

Spent a big chunk of the last three months doing a tour of brain research labs and start-ups. At least half of them are not yet really known to the public. My conclusion is that we're about to increase our knowledge of how the brain works by many, many, many fold. As in,

https://t.co/41X300RWkv "Essays on programming I think about a lot" A nice collection :)

Yes, the machines have already taken most of our jobs—and that's a good thing. They took jobs away from children, who now go to school. They took jobs away from the elderly, who now retire. They take our jobs on evenings, weekends, and vacations. And they took all the most… https://t.co/58uXPQ4BC9

🚨BREAKING: the @royalsociety publishes "Science in the Age of AI - How AI is changing the nature and method of scientific research," and it's a must-read for everyone interested in AI & science. Important information: ➡️According to the official release, the report addresses… https://t.co/dQurtEHtwI

To all my followers: I really can’t tell you how excited I am by this book. It’s one of the most wonderful things I’ve read in a very, very long time.

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

Flow - an animated feature film directed by Gints Zilbalodis which premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard 2024. https://t.co/IsL9cKVGil https://t.co/V7Ej42ueSt

My take on having children is that 1) many people underrate how incredible it is 2) society should be set up to help families thrive 3) people who do not want kids should not have kids 4) it's not the only source of meaning in life, ffs.

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

Previously unseen details of human brain structure revealed. Featured image: a single neuron with ~5,600 of the nerve fibers that connect to it. I feel overwhelming awe at nature's complexity and order. https://t.co/lLiEo6z1YQ https://t.co/bq8jtGCvWC

Proposed so far: - applied effective altruism - free energy principle - attention is all you need - against decadence >< for degrowth - accelerationism / time to build - cliodynamics - great polarisation - Simulation / AGI / transhumanism Excellent thread, taking notes! https://t.co/vhrwgArwLe

Convolutional Neural Networks in action https://t.co/EUD5Dh4Ddz

We misunderstand what makes a “good” school. A school that intakes students in the top 0.5% and outputs students who are in top 0.5% isn’t a good school. It’s just the students who are good. A good school intakes in students in the top 50% and outputs students in the top 5%.

@AlexTheGoodman AI generated, human curated.

When I left @OpenAI a little over a year ago, I signed a non-disparagement agreement, with non-disclosure about the agreement itself, for no other reason than to avoid losing my vested equity. (Thread)

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

This summer. Live different https://t.co/7qvu5Sm3Xv

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.

I was reading 2023 Nobel laureate Katalin Kariko's book, Breaking Through. She was brutally honest about the academic system in US. And, here is an example section from her book. https://t.co/uU3Os6qTPr

These models have no understanding of what they're reading and saying -- with correspondingly unreliable, sometimes comical results. Yet, they're optimized to sound as knowledgeable and authoritative as possible. Not a good combination.

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