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Much of the modern world has lost sight of something that had been self-evident for thousands of years -- that the primary purpose of our lives is to tend to the next generation, to ensure that it may not only exist but thrive.

Humans are happiest when moving toward a goal they have the clarity and skill to achieve. Humans are saddest when standing still thinking about a big goal. One they haven't broken down into smaller goals that they can attack right here and now.

First ever image of another multi-planet solar system captured by ESO Telescope https://t.co/VuN0Du6eUW

Introducing GNoME: an AI tool that helped discover 2.2 million new crystals. 💎 Crystals are found in everything from the chips powering our phones to solar cells creating clean energy. The model also better predicts the stability of new materials. 🧵 https://t.co/O3YdnVcJt1 https://t.co/OZZjZxf9dd

The greatest lie told to the public is that people make apps to sell data. Data has no value—you can buy a complete data set on the entire US population for under $10,000. In reality, we actually do it to sell engagement. Attention is more valuable than a spreadsheet. And you…

Ada kecurigaan terhadap Meta bahwa mereka sengaja menyensor narasi pro Palestina. Meski mereka mengelak dengan alasan terjadi eror pada algoritma tapi alasan serupa udah pernah mereka pakai 2 tahun lalu. Itupun konteksnya sama-sama tentang Palestina. Kok bisa? https://t.co/FkLDUQlY2t

there should be a "take your friend to work day" so we can actually see what our friends do all day and meet the characters from all their work stories

I’ve been an amazing procrastinator for 10+ years. And I’ve tried just about everything to be less distractible & more focused. Website disabler. Dumb phone. Todo list. Wife given passcode. Timeblocking. Pomodoro. None of it worked. But in the last week I found my crystal…

This year, I've written 5 papers, 4 grants, started 3 new collabs and won 2 awards I also helped 1 post-doc apply for promotion Today, she told me she was successful & this honestly far outweighs everything else Academia is a positive sum game Help someone win You win too 🏆

Paul Graham on why Airbnb succeeded. https://t.co/PlmGK27h0d

Can’t wait til someone says “is there a Doctor of Philosophy on board this plane? We’ve got an urgent historiographic problem!” https://t.co/xjVoUbpUkv

War On Truth > began yesterday > 2 incidents A) SEO hacker claimed a scalp - scraped the site map of a competitor - generated SEO articles using just the url titles - posted them on his own site - drained B) Google Images starts failing - Midjourney generated image - of a…

This is one of the best videos to ever exist for entrepreneurs, creators... I think about it often. In 2016, Pharrell Williams visited a NYU music production class to critique student songs. At the beginning you could see student "Maggie Rogers" drenched with the absolute… https://t.co/YZcvXs387o

Helping people decipher inscrutable government regulations to help them apply for benefits is such a valuable application of LLMs https://t.co/IGLlz0w2LV

My least scientific, most Malcolm Gladwell style midwit take about why we live in hell is that 90% of our species’ best and brightest who even 40 years ago would’ve been designing rocketships or fertilizers or home appliances 9 to 5 are now working on Algorithmic Hypergouging https://t.co/BBN27imUAm

Colorized footage of what the world looked like around 100 years ago (sound added) https://t.co/pWPrQIDm4U

More parents who have the means should offer their kids a form of patronage. E.g “hey I know you got that great starting offer from J.P. Morgan but you always dreamed of being a painter growing up. I’ll match that salary for 2 years for you to go 100% on trying to break into…

When the CIA got started as the OSS during World War II, they described their ideal officer candidate as “a PhD who can win a barfight.” I think this is a pretty good ideal to aim for.

It's a symbiotic relationship: AI doomers need AI hype in order to be taken seriously and be part of the discourse, and AI hypers need AI doom narratives for AI to look momentous and world-altering. https://t.co/pJhXiRoQJZ

Here is the story of Rimac: About 15 years ago, a Croatian dude appeared on a DIY electric car forum I frequented. Like most people who showed up there, he wanted to convert an EV but didn’t know how. He asked people what to do, and set about converting his blown out BMW. 1/2

Somewhere nestled deep within the digits of Pi, there exists the full weights of GPT-4, GPT-5, and all future neural networks.

At age 22 I was confused and unhappy. I dropped out of university. I went back and graduated from my BA at 24. Finished a part-time PhD at 37. First permanent post at a university at age 45. Anna is right. https://t.co/lZOo0YDUol

Full text from Jack Dorsey to Block employees via Insider: I want us to build a culture of excellence. Excellence in service to our customers, excellence in our craft, excellence in our respective disciplines, and excellence to each other. We want to help everyone achieve…

Check out our latest video to learn more about our PRIME Study! 🧠📱 https://t.co/7zTMFzdZsF

Say hello to Trace. A faster way to build beautiful apps using AI ✨ https://t.co/tayf2uesnh https://t.co/o7EpIA9HTo

update: i practiced for about 2 weeks and started beating my friends IRL who were way better than me prior. skill transfers over https://t.co/gwRV2BEUnK

Academia is a game of credit assignment. As such, the most important skill of successful academics is credit-taking.

Ini nih. Gw dr dulu nyebutnya dosa besar kuliah/kampus. Why? - having discussed with 1000+ anak sma, mereka tuh kuliah sbnrnya mission driven! Ada yg masuk gizi krn resah stunting. Ke kimia mau build their own chemical product. Msk psiko krn concern sama mental health. Namun… https://t.co/ok5y0jHdmV

voice to music we just launched a feature that allows you to sing and turn your notes into any instrument you want pretty cool to see how AI is giving humans the ability to do things they never could before https://t.co/U5hAPSW8Ar

I’m gonna help fix this problem by not publishing https://t.co/mIAMMLjaf5