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Recipe for $10,000/mo indie business in 6 months: 1. Pick one audience segment you are excited about. Commit to work with it for the whole of 2024 2. If you understand this segment well, write down 3 key irritating problems, 3 key desired benefits, and 3 unconventional insights.

if i can ever give you a helping hand in 2024, please let me know. jweinstein@gmail.com

When I realized I didn’t have to accomplish great things or save the world, but just live a simple life of love, that’s when I was ready to get married and have children It makes my true life’s mission super easy, but any other mission almost impossible

The prompt I use to get ChatGPT to write an article that people want to read. If you just tell ChatGPT to write an article, chances are you will get an article, but it will be one that you have to modify a lot. But after using it for a year or so, I’ve figured out how to get it

Earlier this year I left my tech role in industry to focus full time on philosophy--to think about technology, the good life, and the good society I had certainly been taking actions to pursue a better society, but I didn't know the first thing about it. Cocktail party…

Starship will make life as we know it multiplanetary for the first time in Earth’s ~4.5 billion year existence https://t.co/G7lJo3gckz

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.