You don't have to be special to be successful. Ordinary people can do extraordinary things by choosing to be what most people are unwilling to be: consistent, hardworking, patient, and determined. Simple, but not easy.

9 years ago I was interning under Ilya at Google Brain. First thing he told me is Solomonoff Induction and AIXI, i.e. why prediction leads to understanding. GPT came from sentiment neurons. The level of clarity he and Geoff had was always inspiring.

Me: coding all the time is dumb, real breakthrough needs deep thinking and abstraction Also me: we have no clue what's going on, anything fancy we come up with by thinking ends up destroyed by more compute. Coding small changes and testing experimentally is the only way

An LLM is the ultimate spaghetti code.

Beers opened, twitter open, will do my best to engage with folks showing up in my feed

T S Eliot, The Cocktail Party (1948)

Elon Musk If you would like people to have more children, you can use your money to reduce child deaths. This year 5.9 million children died. 16,000 every day. We know how to save the lives of many of them. What we are lacking is money: ourworldindata.org/cost-effective…

My favorite thing about AI going mainstream is that it sneakily serves as a litmus test for supposed wisdom. Take your favorite philosopher, business expert, sociologist etc who has turned into a “guru” and Google what they say about AI. If you are hands on with AI, you’ll

Cells are molecular intelligence.

Time to Know Who’s who Is Now

Hustlers and hobbyists reporters are having a field day. Again, the argmax wins. Until the Machina rises

If work you're proud of has been rejected from an important conference, just remember that it's a momentary blip and that the true judgement of impact will be whether others benefit from and build on your work. (In addition to Chelsea Finn's example below, I've had similar

i'm comically impressed that people are coping on deepseek by spewing bizarre conspiracy theories -- despite deepseek open-sourcing and writing some of the most detail oriented papers ever. read. replicate. compete. don't be salty, just makes you look incompetent.

Nothing amuses me more than seeing such kind of convo. Can’t even say skill issue because that would do auuuge disrespect to “skill issue statement”. Lols for life

Bro tawks whatever is popular. He might cure yapping if it ever starts to decel.

That’s very typical of that gang. I would be surprised if anything sensible came out of those stooges.

2-line proof that LLMs can’t achieve superintelligence: 1. LLMs don’t learn out of distribution. 2. Superintelligence is out of distribution.

The problem with LLMs is that word knowledge is not world knowledge.