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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.

Introducing the Daylight Computer It does less… So you can be more 🍃 Order now: https://t.co/MWYzSM4534 https://t.co/NyRy4rKEwX

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

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This Craigslist ad for a 1999 Toyota Corolla is a masterclass in copywriting. https://t.co/fgiWGVu2ea

Introducing Copilot+ PCs: the fastest, most powerful and intelligent Windows PCs ever. They give you a photographic memory of everything you’ve done on your PC and the ability to cocreate with AI in real-time! Here: https://t.co/Lz6RabK5KD https://t.co/cx5zL782E9

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

Startups are betting against AGI.

One of the coolest videos from the meteor yesterday in Portugal https://t.co/jmGi89lgqj

Honored to launch @Starlink in Indonesia! https://t.co/cAHRxm3jvn

Observing the development of cognition in infants and toddlers is still our best window into the nature of human intelligence

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

Most of my academic friends know me for my work in generative AI, image and video diffusion models, vision and language, even fairness. But I don’t often talk about my passion for AI applications in fashion — which shaped my PhD thesis, and a good portion of my industry career. https://t.co/JSdUscQpUP

“the time will pass anyways” has rewritten my brain and it’s a random comment on a tiktok https://t.co/cArWsgREZD https://t.co/o3olmwbjLi