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Grandpa saying a massive thank you for making him go viral !!! He loves all his fans ❤️#rockstar
Here's what our solar sytem moving through space looks like.
February 2024 · 28 bookmarks
Grandpa saying a massive thank you for making him go viral !!! He loves all his fans ❤️#rockstar
Here's what our solar sytem moving through space looks like.
We are in so much trouble….
that’s from one pic
look at the eyes
drawing breath
lip sync
realistic emotions on par with an A-list actor
The AI husbando/waifu market will go into fast takeoff.
Birth rates are going to collapse
This is absolutely brilliant 🤩 Harry, your grandpa rocks!
Following an F1 car around a lap with a drone
Playing with the sine function
[🎞️ themathwizard]
The geological history of Earth — from Pangaea to the present — in 12 seconds
I could see loads of notifications saying folk were tagging me but I’ve only just been able to check my phone. I was not disappointed, this is AWESOME 🏴🖤
Real
Damn good stuff.👇
How Singapore is preparing its citizens for the age AI.
Einstein's biggest blunder
My grandpa who is 85 started making this rock map of Scotland in 1992.He collected rocks during amateur geology trips over 30 years. He says it had to be geologically correct and also aesthetically pleasing.He asked if I could share online as He wants to go viral so please share
Sam Altman: “Build the fastest-iterating company the world has ever seen”
“The cycle here is basically: talk to customer to understand pain point → build product to address that → get that in front of user → see what they do → repeat cycle. This cycle is how you iterate and improve. The law of compound growth being what it is: if you can get 2% better every iteration cycle, your iteration cycle is every four hours rather than every four weeks, and you compound that over the course of a few years, you’ll be in a very very different place. Make it one of your top goals to build the fastest iterating company the world has ever seen.”
Source: @StanfordOnline
JavaScript is NOT a real language
Tarun Nayar is a former biologist who turned into a musician when he found that every life form has bioelectricity: he now makes music using mushrooms and plants.
How to Do Great Work by @paulg
The average PG essay contains condensed wisdom packed into 500-1500 words.
So when he dropped this 10k word essay in the summer of 2023 on how ambitious people could do great work, it was—as they say—Christmas in July.
The essay reminds me of Hamming's "You and Your Research" but written for technologists in the 21st century.
Here's my mindmap of the essay but of course go read the whole thing for yourself (link in following comment)
My biggest takeaway was the importance of following your curiosity and pursuing projects you find personally meaningful.
In some ways I've been inclined towards that approach my whole career.
Yet I didn't always have the confidence to double down on my curiosity when others doubted.
And as I transition from Youth to Age, I need to truly internalize this wisdom.
CPU vs FPGA
You might have seen a .gif recently showing the backwardness of Eastern Germany.
While Communism has its role to play in that backwardness today, it's not all there is.
But as it turns out, Eastern Germany was different from the rest before it was Communist.
Nothing better than watching talented people doing something they are passionate about
East/West Germany's phantom borders
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Majority of people treat Programming Languages as some sort of Cryptocurrencies.
Can I say something ?
strong intuition that this thing is over-engineered
you can smell it
in a 100 step process, why does every step have to be “cutting edge”?
doesn’t make sense… only the gating steps need to be cutting edge…
tolerances for other steps can be looser.. maybe even last generation
why do you have 5k suppliers ?
each with sporadic and small volume?
why didn’t you pull an SpaceX and vertically integrate
are you really managing the suppliers and quality as well as you could?
software..
20 million lines of code without test cases?
only senior folks can touch code
Yeah….
this thing is an Airbus style boondoggle
yes it’s good decent tech
but with its own politics
beatable
Only question is whether we choose to be surprised when 🇨🇳 beats the west…
Or we choose to mobilize now
This is account is like a glimpse of the old internet: a weird & mysterious passion project(?) with no explanation or details forthcoming
It just posts one person’s one-tweet shaders, code for generating complex moving designs that fit into a tweet. Fascinating generative art.
If you’re having a bad day. Here’s a bat eating a banana.
What if your glasses gave you AI superpowers?
This is Frame, a reinvention of eyewear for the AI era
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I expect that, in the near future, AI is going to be handling spreadsheets very well. (It already does a reasonably good job - here I asked it to analyze financial assumptions and create Monte Carlo sims)
There are a lot of very high value jobs that are based around modelling.
The only Twitter bio line I think of often is this one from @gordonbrander. It is worth remembering that many people care deeply about what they create or do.