working towards better AI futures. AI risk at @snyksec. Organizing @lisbonai_. Data and capital at @capitalfactory. Prev: @gumroad @techcrunch @oreillymedia
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Yo Sean. The planet isn’t political. We all share it, regardless of our political stances. Stop being an idiot who thinks that because you lean one way economically, you also have to also be anti-everyone else.
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How are you supposed to trust a platform that abandons actual identity verification? Twitter never actually tried to scale true verification, and now you're straight-up tearing it down.
How you conflate these 2 ideas is beyond me.
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Reality is every manufacturer wants to say they’re a part of IoT. But they also want complete control, their own protocol, and their data.
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I understand that you want to understand rather than divide, but data is data, Lex. You don't have to host people who make misleading (or plain false) claims. As a man of science, I would assume you're interested in defending the scientific method, no?
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We live in 2016. We have self-driving cars and iPhones without headphone jacks. But HTML email is still complete garbage.
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"and don't forget to 👏 smash 👏 the like and subscribe buttons under this video - that means a lot"
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we're spoiled idiots. We call a dual-core smartphone with a 8mp camera + software that interprets language + fits in pocket "disappointing".
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Just read this on a blog: ‘Soon every device with a sensor will blend seamlessly into the Internet of Things’. Dreaming is alive and well.
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I'd love to talk to whoever did the data analysis on this and concluded that a chart showing the change from last year's change was the right way to represent this information.
This is going to be horribly misinterpreted, and at a glance, paints the wrong picture.
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Let it be said for posterity that if they give me a tshirt and a meet and greet for an account I've had for 17 years, it better say "@f(uck this platform)"
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My pattern has been this: fall asleep normally. Wake up 4 hours later. Mind floods with anxiety. Stay up for 2 hours trying to just tone shit down. Fall asleep out of exhaustion for another hour. Repeat 24h later.
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Exposing her to reality through the Sony HD 3D Google prototypes at that young age may be a little careless, Doc.
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Sorry, at this point it would have to involve time travel and being on Twitter back in 2006.
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I just read the whole thing and my mind is blown. No justification whatsoever? On a new account? Clown fiesta out there at @ebay.
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it's extremely clear because it is also extremely bad. All things considered, I'll take the smaller mistakes I never hear about.
That, and we're talking about feedback loops. I think we can both agree he is incapable of updating his beliefs.
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India got an actual spacecraft to orbit Mars for less money than it cost to produce the movie Gravity. How's that for perspective?
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Flowers for Algernon has already been mentioned, but Ted Chiang's Understand is worth a read too.
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The hype is real.
Announcing GPT-4, a large multimodal model, with our best-ever results on capabilities and alignment: openai.com/product/gpt-4
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my current mac setup isn't... a mac at all. Super excited about this hackintosh setup - and performance is nuts. Will share a how-to soon.
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I'm surprised Paul is drawing a comparison between running Twitter and Tesla/SpaceX, but I've seen the same mistake elsewhere.
The output of twitter is non-tangible — it is community. Twitter is less about the code that goes into it and more about the emergent collective.
It's remarkable how many people who've never run any kind of company think they know how to run a tech company better than someone who's run Tesla and SpaceX.
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It doesn't address performance. You bundled it up with "security" and literally cop out by saying security is sensitive so you say nothing about either.
Simple: can we expect the significant netcode and client-side performance updates the game truly needs?
But hey, emotes...
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easy answer. Top trending search queries pre-brexit were all about fish, chips, and the Euro 2016.
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⭐️ "The iPhone X silicone case described our vision for the future of the smartphone accessories. With the XS case, we're extending that vision through significant advances in camera hole placement which completely sets it apart from last year's model." ⭐️
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The ruby and rails communities both owe you a great deal. Thank you for everything you've done for all of us. Can't wait to see what you do next, Sam 🙌👏
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people interested in game mechanics should probably check this stuff out, from SCVNGR's deck: gist.github.com/899599 /cc @500startups
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@hotdogsladies i hear you like productivity and text files, so here's some productivity with text files: github.com/pkamenarsky/atea (not mine)
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happened to me many years ago. It's more complicated than that, but the poll doesn't have what would be my answer: no change.
I simply became aware that some % of the attractive population for the person were people I couldn't be compared to within some criteria. Which is fine.
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if you're not at least slightly obsessive, you can't manage product design. sweat the details, or do something else.
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Oh man. Confession time? Youtube. I told @Chad_Hurley, sitting on the @TechCrunch home/office couch at the time, that I thought it might be a little too early for video on the web at scale. I was a bloody idiot.
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starting at @lisbonai_ in 2min: Dana Lawson of @Netlify, @davidgomes of @cursor_ai, @jaimefjorge of @codacy, @sarahwooders of @Letta_AI and @steveruizok of @tldraw. No big deal 😳 nitter.app/i/broadcasts/1gqxvrZLj…
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40 years later, Vi it’s still the sexiest editor out there. Drool over this screenshot. Damn.
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I still feel like I got away with my username on here. It was one of the letters that wasn't reserved for specific SMS-based commands.
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@ChrisBellDesign people who voted for Trump are aware, and I think the little shits are happy, too.
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most startups need (at least) one person in power who obsesses about every single bit of the experience. Most startups don't have that.
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You know what's funny? Most people that criticize your methods won't be alive to tell whether it all pans out.
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Friends: if you know a product designer who is looking for a new opportunity, send them my way. We're building something exciting for founders and investors, and are looking for someone who likes the intersection of design and entrepreneurship. Remote position 🌍 Thank you 🙌
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100%. That's an idea that I thought would be obvious to most people, but when I tried to articulate it this morning, I still got pushback 🤷♂️
I'm surprised Paul is drawing a comparison between running Twitter and Tesla/SpaceX, but I've seen the same mistake elsewhere.
The output of twitter is non-tangible — it is community. Twitter is less about the code that goes into it and more about the emergent collective.
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two Google Home devices talking at each other. I believe we are about to reach singularity. Watch here: twitch.tv/seebotschat
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working with React Native? @madebyform has just opened react.parts, a catalog of React Native components. /cc @Vjeux @reactjs
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in the fundraising meetings for Giphy, did anyone ask “Hey, you know you’re just a gif site, right?”
600M valuation, no revenue plan. Ok 👍
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very excited to release something me and @biasedbit worked on when he was in town. Owl is a spaced repetition app to facilitate memorization and learning. We built it for ourselves, but are setting it free.
owl.cards
ALT Screenshot of Owl, a spaced repetition app for memorization and learning. Visit at https://owl.cards
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what the actual fuck is wrong with people. Even some of the replies to that thread make me want to punch faces.
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I’ve read a lot of posts about San Francisco’s poverty problems, but none as entitled as this one. Cringe with me:
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I'm surprised no recent social network has experimented with actions beyond like/share. The existing mechanics are so heavily responsible for polarization, that I keep thinking about good ol' Slashdot's ratings of normal, offtopic, insightful, redundant, interesting and troll.
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shower thought: an unlimited number of bots shooting randomly for unlimited time will find all optimal wallbangs in CSGO.
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What a shit industry we are a part of.
Wait. @instagram strategically *withholds* "likes" from users that they believe might disengage hoping they'll be disappointed and recheck the app?! Harvesting painful insecurities. This is so messed up. theglobeandmail.com/technolo…
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this elderly woman doing a nazi salute at a Trump rally is the most shocking thing I’ve seen lately. Fuck you, lady.
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One interesting effect of the pandemic for me personally is that now, the smell of ICE exhausts has the same effect on me that cigarette smoke did years ago. I spent so long without it, that when I do, it is quite bad.
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I'm an emotional roller coaster today but I've had this in my head a lot lately, so:
having a son made me realize that showing my feelings towards people is good, not intimidating. I think over the years I wasted many opportunities to tell people I care. I'm a fool. Don't be me.
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Important to note, because the repository name will confuse a few people, that this is finetuned based on GPT 3.5 output, rather than 4.
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@HisWattson looks like people are struggling with the idea that your overnight success has been years in the making 👑
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Obviously selection bias, but more than 50% of my timeline is related to AI (mostly LLMs) in some way, and < 1% is about impact or ethics.
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I'm not in academia, but if the claim is true that 40% of papers that make it to top journals are not reproducible, then we should be hitting the big red "rethink this shit" button.
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At this point none of these are available, but the story is that back in the day, tiny usernames clashed with internal commands (like d for DMing someone). So they restricted registrations for those. But me (and some others) already had our accounts.
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It’s even more absurd because there are *so many* examples to get. All this guy had to do was use the phone not to read questions, but to browse twitter for a couple of minutes. Like, here:
Twitter has given Blue subscription coupled with full algorithm promotion to a follower of US far-right figure Nick Fuentes who has the N-word in his handle. Even he couldn't believe it.
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So you're saying there's a chance?
vice.com/en_us/article/889pk…
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this interview with @naval on @angellist and raising capital is a big deal. Watch it if you care about this stuff: thisweekin.com/thisweekin-st…
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HAVING 👏🏼 “IF” 👏🏼 STATEMENTS 👏🏼 IN 👏🏼 YOUR 👏🏼 CODE 👏🏼 DOESN'T 👏🏼 MEAN 👏🏼 YOU 👏🏼 BUILT 👏🏼 AN 👏🏼 ARTIFICIAL 👏🏼 INTELLIGENCE 👏🏼 PRODUCT
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this ain't the take, Ole. Have you looked through the AI act? Have you engaged with the problem of misalignment and the risks? He's not signing because he thinks this is overreach. He's not signing because he doesn't give a shit.
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I have a hard time going over the line where we allow clear, obvious hate speech on this platform — and that's all the EU is voicing concerns against.
I've been here a while. I've seen it with and without hate speech moderation, and I prefer the former.
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This caught my eye yesterday. Will probably try to replicate on top of Logseq at some point.
here’s a force-directed knowledge graph interface for @OpenAI’s gpt-4. given a topic, it prompts new questions to ask based on its own generated responses, allowing curiosity-led exploration of a concept.
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I don’t mean to jinx it but this is the venue for @lisbonai_ tomorrow. It is so quiet around here you can almost hear the GPUs go brrrrr
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I see you decided to lose a full day of twitter mentions to crypto apologists and whataboutism. People don't want to see what's uncomfortable (especially those in it for the $). Thing is I am yet to see someone (anyone!) tell me about something meaningful they bought with BTC.
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"Less than 33% of iOS users opt-in to tracking"
I am shocked that people are tired of getting their private data tracked, sold and leaked. Shocked! wsj.com/articles/after-apple…
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> similar to the tokens for all the other 200 public companies they offer
absolutely crazy statement to make. Holy shit.
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If you can only read one business book this year, let that book be Zero to One by @peterthiel.
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Time to brew strong coffee and get real cozy. piped.video/watch?v=_kRg-ZP1…
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I assume they just extrapolated from their own sales data, which is pretty reasonable given the broad application of their tech.
But naturally, they could also have purchased data from payment processing players.
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The man is the definition of fake it until you make it. He's still working on the first part.
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this is an amazing use of the iPad 2's smart cover. well done, @evernote. see blog.evernote.com/2011/06/08…
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I love this. *THIS* is a great idea. Using the LLM to broaden the idea space by asking questions in the vicinity of a particular concept.
here’s a force-directed knowledge graph interface for @OpenAI’s gpt-4. given a topic, it prompts new questions to ask based on its own generated responses, allowing curiosity-led exploration of a concept.
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While I understand where you are going with this argument, it is important to remember that innovative ideas build on top of each other. Google was better than Altavista, but it was also a search engine. Innovation fizzles out if you only get one of each thing.
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we're organizing @lisbonai_. You not being there would be sub-optimal, and nobody likes sub-optimal, so: lisbonai.xyz
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Previously: plant a tree, have a child, write a book. Now: build a task management app, create a bot, start a handmade notebook kickstarter.
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I don’t mean to jinx it but check out the venue for @lisbonai_ tomorrow. It’s so quiet around here, you can almost hear the GPUs go brrrrrr
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It's been a while, but I wrote a thing! A thing that's more than a tweet or two, about finding space to work between the ebbs and flows of creativity, and how our industry does a poor job at supporting its own, by telling us we should be always-on. Here:
helloform.com/blog/2021/04/0…
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