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I'm an English professor and a few years back I taught a course on Utopias and Dystopias. Below is our reading list. If some of the selections seem strange, we were also discussing social organization (how do some social structures thrive and some collapse?) and Foucault’s… https://t.co/K4Itf6wkv6

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Taiwan is basically Arrakis. It's the sole source of the single most important commodity for our civilization, that if produced in enough quantities can perform miracles, enable space travel, solve longevity, birth gods. Both Chips and Spice come from sand. Both are produced… https://t.co/Yc9hcYoDkH

The Rubens tube, also known as a standing wave flame tube, is a physics apparatus that visually illustrates the connection between sound waves and sound pressure Flames along the tube's perforations respond to these pressure variations https://t.co/l6DAlm4UXT

BREAKING: @UCBerkeley announces partnership with @NASA to build the Berkeley Space Center, a 36-acre site in Silicon Valley that will house companies, labs and students working to generate futuristic innovations in aviation and space exploration. https://t.co/Q4ccRNzbmb

THE TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO part 1 “You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.” — Walker Percy “Our species is 300,000 years old. For the…

Which kind of AGI parent are you? https://t.co/soqIljWcce

This incredibly sincere white guy trying Indian food for the very first time and having his mind blown is so wholesome https://t.co/ChDld0D1I0

this is the most important essay you can read today https://t.co/W10AQX2DzF

Did you know? Puffins are excellent swimmers, and use their wings to essentially 'fly' underwater while using their feet to control direction. https://t.co/nNaIEQ8dRj

X should implement a feature called "On This Day." It would rewind the timeline to any given day since Twitter's founding to let you feel the pulse of the moment. A crucial tool for modern historians.

https://t.co/NrryWlAZAg allows you to upload any academic paper, highlight a text which results confusing to you and get a clear explanation. Bonus: you can ask follow up questions if you need a more in-depth answers https://t.co/05W5CXh8Gz

Be an Open Source Absolutist! It is hard to overstate how much value Open Source Software has added to the world, and how broadly empowering it is. Operating systems, development tools, core libraries, and critical applications – a great many of the software tools used by the…

Starting today, we’re giving free access to Replit AI. Now anyone can use Replit AI to debug, autocomplete, and turn natural language into code with one-click. Get started by creating a free Replit account. https://t.co/E5QgHUSLWN

Yesterday demonstrated why turning Twitter into X has changed everything. If you don't believe me, look at how the media covered yesterday. The worldview shared by most elites no longer has a monopoly over what we see with our own eyes. That alone is worth $44 billion.

If you are a teacher who is confident that AI does a bad job on your assignments based on a few very "ChatGPT" answers, I'll bet that you are only catching the folks bad at prompting. When I had my students "cheat," after a few prompts you couldn't tell https://t.co/MFvKkTr6Rw

Q: Why is it easier to start a hard company than an easy company? In the clip below, Sam Altman tells the class at Stanford: “It’s easier to start a hard company than an easy company. Most people—especially young people—want to pick something that doesn’t sound too ambitious.… https://t.co/NCFCIDgN9L

The fact that most individual neurons are uninterpretable presents a serious roadblock to a mechanistic understanding of language models. We demonstrate a method for decomposing groups of neurons into interpretable features with the potential to move past that roadblock.

You don't become an adult when your brain fully develops. Lot of people with fully developed brains aren't adults. You're Actually An Adult When:

Do not use AI detectors. They generate false positives and ruin the reputations of students randomly (but hurt non-native speakers more). If you have them in your school turn them off. https://t.co/V4qRwnx3xb

Dear Sherina, I know it's been 23 years, tapi.. Mengapa bintang bersinar? Karena energi dari reaksi fusi Mengapa air mengalir? Karena shear force mengatasi gesekan Mengapa dunia berputar? Karena residual momentum yg terjaga oleh gravitasi Mudah-mudahan cukup jelas ya 🙏

Lots of people are getting this deepfake scam ad of me… are social media platforms ready to handle the rise of AI deepfakes? This is a serious problem https://t.co/llkhxswQSw

Physics grants you read access. Engineering grants you write access.

For my birthday this year, my dad gifted me a dirty bottle of water. Not kidding. In the past he’s gifted me: a first aid kit, pepper spray, an encyclopedia, a key chain, dedicated a book he wrote to me, etc. good ol dad gifts. He told me this years gift was extra special as… https://t.co/N56AiGgErJ

If you’ve binged on TED talks or devoured Malcolm Gladwell’s insights, you should know there’s a major crisis on the underlying social science research - called the replication crisis, sometimes it’s just torturing the data until it spits out what you want to see, or in this…

Redditors had the exact same attitude towards paid @NotionHQ templates. "Who would ever pay for a template? Just build it yourself." I decided to ignore them. Results: - $1.8 million in template sales - 20,000+ happy customers - 12 people have jobs I'm sharing this because… https://t.co/6WW9FKkAnY

The worst things on the internet - GDPR cookie pop ups - old media pay walled articles - embedded videos that won’t full screen - web links to the App Store not the actual app - video that auto plays, especially with audio - big dumb ads between blocks of text … what else?

Christopher Nolan doesn’t write detailed outlines. Instead, he “draws shapes and diagrams and other structural things” to keep the story on track. Like this, the plot map Nolan used for Inception. Let me explain... In storytelling, the idea of structure is everywhere: • 3… https://t.co/WpKHN7yp6r

Azula if she calm Katara if she mad & Toph if she taking it serious https://t.co/mKKfMu7pU2

A few thoughts about writing. Write the kind of stuff you like to read. Writing for yourself is fun, and it shows. Writing for others is work, and it shows. https://t.co/LoE1Hf5brY