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Interesting point/counterpoint. @leecronin @_OliverStanley https://t.co/YI5itNBklS https://t.co/ovRkivfDNV

Max Bennet's five breakthroughs of brain evolution outlined in the book "A Brief History of Intelligence" 1. Steering (Taxis Navigation) - The first brains evolved to enable steering and navigation of organisms with bilateral symmetry - Simple algorithm to move towards positive…

The "Hello World"s of machine learning & AI: 2013: RandomForestClassifier on Iris 2015: XGBoost on Titanic 2017: MLPs on MNIST 2019: AlexNet on Cifar-10 2021: DistilBERT on IMDb movie reviews 2023: Llama 2 on Alpaca 50k?

Lots of you have asked me how to train a custom Stable Diffusion model to generate consistent characters. Just found a really easy way to do it. You can even use it to generate images of yourself. Here’s how:

A lot of people have a hard time separating body type from style. This outfit would not look good on anyone. He needs a jacket; the sweater would look better if it was textured; blue chinos are hard to wear. This same outfit would look bad on a skinny or athletic person. 🧵 https://t.co/XkQCxHW8j8

It's been about 9+ years. Mungkin klo waktu itu ga diminta mertua stop, saya terus lanjut. https://t.co/B8x0K92g6W

OpenLetter to Sam Altman Dear @sama Merry Christmas. How’s the eggnog ? I want to bring your attention to the fact that Microsoft defacto owns OpenAI now, and either you break out of that control structure entirely, or you become Corporate Vice President of Microsoft AI in 2…

This is how to write your New Year’s resolutions btw https://t.co/hfyzhDsLME

We caught you. You're supposed to be on vacation. But there you are, Optimizing. Just like you do at work. How do you efficiently see everyone? What are the perfect gifts? How do you maximize the number of memorable moments? Can you hit level 100 in Diablo 4 before vacation is…

This is the male fantasy https://t.co/xt51QIJ7Dx

People are forgetting the reason you can get away with crazy amounts of plagiarism in the humanities / soft sciences is not just because of favouritism + nepotism but also because **no one reads most of these papers** and everybody knows this and still they keep producing them

If only someone told me this before my 1st startup: 1. Validate idea first. I wasted at least 5 years building stuff nobody needed. 2. Kill your EGO. It's not about me, but the user. I must want what the user wants, not what I want. 3. Don't chaise investors, chase users, and

fast forward a year from now. your life is the best it's ever been, entirely as a result of your own choices. what choices did you make now and in the coming months that created that reality for you?

big things happening at home. our cat is pregnant and the whole family is certain that our neighbour's cat got her pregnant. Mom thinks that we should give the neighbour half of how many ever kittens she births, dad thinks that we should ask said neighbour to pay child support

Grigori Perelman on why he declined the Fields Medal and the $1,000,000 Clay Institute prize for solving the Poincaré conjecture. https://t.co/RVb5eBqwpi

X Article: https://t.co/4JOEBBIzo2

They are it’s just not evenly distributed. The top 1% of kids are far stronger than the top 1% of kids 40 years ago. https://t.co/bZn3eyk5Z3

But AI can't be truly creativ -- A professor used AI to write a science fiction novel that won a national competition. https://t.co/gQe3msHH3G

24 hours of Midjourney V6 The world is never going to be the same again, people will lose their jobs, advertising will be flipped upside down and much more. A mega thread of community gold nuggets 🧵 A thread https://t.co/nOtbOeJmxL

Gw jatuh cinta sama cara mereka bercerita lewat konten-kontennya. Pengin tau deh, ada lagi nggak sih brand yang sekeren ini cara ceritanya? Kalau tau, tolong bantu reply ya 🙏🏻 I’m eager to learn from their accounts (or founders, maybe?) https://t.co/Zy6PulSAjm

ACT II. A New Computer. 01.30.24 See you in January https://t.co/oxJS8hg3gk

we’ll look back in a few years to the textbox interface for AI model as we did brick phones for calling https://t.co/1vXsL2ynyy

This is quite a paper on AI and scientific research! The authors got GPT-4 to autonomously research, plan, and conduct chemical experiments, including learning how to use lab equipment by reading documentation (most were operated by code, but one task had to be done by humans) https://t.co/d64JNKigeW https://t.co/LjaQvpGKYu

My notes from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk: 1. Elon’s Razor: Work on things that excite you.

If you’re not *absolutely sure* that school is broken, just look at how we teach math. I saw the problems firsthand 👇

William Strunk, an English Professor, quietly published a 43 page guide to writing and gave it to a dozen students ONE of them turned it into the highest-selling writing guide of all time: The Elements Of Style (1959) HERE are its 9 tips to captivate people with words Thread: https://t.co/nSV1SGWGRS

when I grow up I want to be a rational actor with perfect information

Google’s chief scientist, @JeffDean (joined Google 24 years ago), talks about start-up growing pains. https://t.co/NRqVcNKhTr

I spent the last 4 weeks building the holy grail of web scraping: It's a universal web scraper, built with GPT-4 + Vision + Headless Chrome The simple methods I tried at the start didn't work well: full page screenshots or the full HTML ended up being too much data to parse https://t.co/ivqwSTv0MG

When a scholar like Prof. Mearsheimer feels compelled to get on record so that “historians will see that some Americans were on the right side of history” then it’s worth paying attention. https://t.co/Hmh7glEex5