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Research shows that PhD students initially aspire to be professors, but this desire wanes over time. Some think this is because of disillusionment with academia, while others attribute it to the challenging (impossible!) job market. What do you think?

Naval for kids. 2 years ago my nephew and I had conversation on important ideas from @naval Turned his ideas suitable for a 11 year old conversation. Back then he forbade me sharing the project on any social media. He changed his mind last week, sharing this now. https://t.co/5LY0PXoSEH

Christopher Nolan's speech at CinemaCon 2023 after receiving his award: “I started to reflect on all of us who work in movies from the studios, distributors, executives, theater owners, marketers, the people serving popcorn. We are all engaged in a process that in some small way… https://t.co/y5AB6wI4jx

Our children will go further than we could ever dream of. They will reach foreign stars and walk on alien soil. They will spread across the heavens like grains of sand on the seashore. Some of them might even remember the world of before and talk of us with wistful tenderness. https://t.co/kY6VfUXPDO

Still one of the most captivating charts of the Solar System exploration in details [source, zoom: https://t.co/C3rlQ0yBQQ] https://t.co/JkEN2DBvE2

If you're feeling like all your peers are growing in life and you're stuck Remember that in the 2000 Under 19 team Gautam Gambhir was in the extras list and MS Dhoni wasn't even mentioned in the list. In fact, it took Mahi 4 more years before he started playing for India.…

Here's Paul Christiano's (first author on the original RLHF paper, previously ran the language model alignment team at OpenAI) various estimates on risks from artificial general intelligence: https://t.co/NIHL81PtEU

I couldn’t help but do it! Data visualization, but make it Wes Anderson. https://t.co/ntezSj3ciL

On naval gazing -- We weren't meant to constantly be thinking about our internal state. Emotions are meant to move through us and help guide our actions, while our mind is freed up to think about the world outside.

I remember being 5 on the beach and having my mind blown when my dad said that if you walked down the beach and just kept walking you'd eventually end up back here from the other direction. This is the 3D version of that. From Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris. https://t.co/nuWoL7V48n

We should normalize just how good PhD students are. You already have a bachelors (maybe a masters too). You’re already highly qualified, and now you’re researching something that very few people IN THE WORLD can do. You’re literally one of the best in the world in your field.

There's a tradition of film directors and studios congratulating each other for beating their box office records. A THREAD In 1977, when STAR WARS beat Jaws to become the highest-grossing movie ever, Steven Spielberg took out the below ad for George Lucas in @Variety 1/11 https://t.co/ieN7FaN5qi

Tired of prompting. Just ask ChatGPT to be you. This prompt makes ChatGPT become AutoGPT: https://t.co/divCOadKu8

The AI researchers that invented the The Transformer Attention Function used in ChatGPT, did not know the true weight of what they created. Few prompt creators know what it is and how it works. This mechanism allows the model to selectively focus on certain parts of the input… https://t.co/HLw1vwLOGC https://t.co/dHPfia13ZX

Our goal is always a guided and directed output when we prompt ChatGPT. In the SuperPrompt we deliver a "program" and a sometimes detailed "map" of how this can be achieved. We show how to program a detailed map. This is how we build a SuperPrompt. https://t.co/mb0SChMT2Y

We're seeing some companies on @vercel that are literally making science fiction a reality. Here are some of my favorite ones:

The #1 use-case for AI is education. Everyone in the world deserves a world-class personal tutor that can teach them anything they want to learn in their preferred learning style. This will happen this decade. AI helps maximize human potential.

"He's not even a 10x engineer. He's like, 100x, or 1,000x engineer" Gmail creator Paul Buchheit on how Bret Taylor once rewrote Google Maps in a single weekend: https://t.co/GJvzPoKVWP

Listen to this AI generated song featuring Drake & The Weeknd. It goes so damn hard. It's by "Ghostwriter977" on TikTok and it's blowing up on socials + streaming platforms. UMG, which controls around 1/3 of the global music market, has already asked streaming platforms to ban… https://t.co/roz2EfI48M

Jangan coba2 lakukan ini kalau pelanggan atau pengguna Anda adalah orang dengan residensi dan kewarganegaraan Uni Eropa karena GDPR. Kalo mereka minta delete, HARUS didelete beneran. WNI sejak UU PDP disahkan jg harus dibuang. Ga semua data di internet itu soft-delete. https://t.co/cReEBaTenp https://t.co/GCPe8SxP9j

@mckaywrigley https://t.co/lZx31ftJgc

21st century collapse is unique in that the growth economy is obliterating species via abrupt land-use change at a faster rate than in any of Earth’s past extinction events. 🧵

The underlying story, both here and with that BBC interview, is that there is now a whole generation who (a) have little respect for journalists after being treated dishonestly by them, and (b) no longer fear them, now that they've lost their monopoly on the news. https://t.co/IhOMYm9ayG

Tulisan mb Sulis di @hariankompas ini lbh #jleb lagi. Para ilmuwan Indonesia teralienasi dari karya sendiri krn tak memiliki kebebasan akademik dlm bekerja, sekadar memenuhi kewajiban administratif. Dosen jadi manusia birokrasi, tak ubahnya bagai buruh. https://t.co/uYWTTt4bF3 https://t.co/16tZraKRyp

infrastructure that looks like sci fi 1/ liquid natural gas tanker https://t.co/2UNOjnZoYc

Meet Dolly 2.0: the first open-source, instruction-following LLM that’s available for commercial use & doesn’t require you to pay for API access or share data with third parties. Now, anyone can create a powerful LLM that understands how to talk to people! https://t.co/pchw6uZ9X7

dua screenshot @hariankompas dan petisi ini beredar sangat luas di kalangan dosen di indonesia. situasi ini memang HARUS serius ditangani @Kemdikbud_RI. persoalan ketidakmampuan integrasi sistem jangan ditanggungkan konsekuensinya pada dosen. tidak adil. https://t.co/eh730eFa0Z https://t.co/uuAqaDI0xR

Our homeschoolers only do 2hrs/day of school work. The rest of the time it’s caring for animals, gardening, art, play, etc. They’re testing well above grade. Makes you wonder what they’re doing in public schools all day. https://t.co/7aJGn3oFAQ

Here’s Polycam City🏘️ Made by Raffo_vfx who 3D scanned places from a real city with Polycam to create 3D assets and built this cool city project on Blender for other artist to use in their own projects👏 #lidar #3dscans https://t.co/EqZMGmrsgq

When ChatGPT came out I thought I wouldn't use it for learning because of its tendency to slip in some BS among 10 helpful explanations. Then I tried it, and found that it forces me to think critically about every sentence, which is the most effective mindset for learning.