Finally got a real Twitter account - guess I can't be a social media Luddite forever. :)

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new blog post: "Biohacking Lite" karpathy.github.io/2020/06/11/bio… fun to write / learn about quick tour of human energy metabolism

Silly Sunday content (to avoid covid graphs...) I'm delighted with this style of stupid pun en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swifty

you trying to open an email lately: “I hope you’re well or as well as can be expected in these crazy times etc” Emily Dickinson: “I hope that you have Power and as much of Peace as in our deep existence may be possible. To multiply the Harbors does not reduce the Sea.”

Great paper: a brain-computer interface lets a patient "type" at ~90 char/min (avg smartphone typing: ~110c/m) by imagining themselves handwriting biorxiv.org/content/10.110… ht Sophia Batchelor Even better—they used a ~simple ML arch and very little training data! Low-hanging fruit?

Imagine what machines will be able to do in the next 5-10 years. Boston Dynamics' machine shows its flawless gymnastic routine. Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸

Can’t tell what’s more amazing... his robot or his facial expressions as he trusts it to navigate blades and vacuums around his head 😱🤯😃

Some people are naturally gifted at sabotage that they already know the contents of this manual innately without ever having read it. Reads almost like parody, but it's legit (link to cia.gov source in the thread).

1 = 1^2 / 1^2 121 = 22^2 / 2^2 12321 = 333^2 / 3^2 1234321 = 4444^2 / 4^2 123454321 = 55555^2 / 5^2 12345654321 = 666666^2 / 6^2 1234567654321 = 7777777^2 / 7^2 123456787654321 = 88888888^2 / 8^2 12345678987654321 = 999999999^2 / 9^2

It’s really quite cool that, of the ~30,000 protein coding genes in a mouse, you can get rid of *one* gene and cause the whole mouse to age multiple Xs faster — or increase the gene and cause the mouse to live a significant % longer

Verifying myself: I am allibell on Keybase.io. uBwaGRF35sZI2nNvCFpx4FodtOeV2FvBcAud / keybase.io/allibell/sigs/…

I too have pretty well-rounded weeks

If Java is so good at garbage collection, why doesn't it collect itself?

Addiction is a progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure. Happiness is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. The former emerges passively. The latter takes work.

Big day! With today releases of macOS Ventura and iPadOS 16, passkeys are now available on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. Safari 16.1 for macOS Monterey and Big Sur, also out today, bring support for passkeys to those operating systems.

It’s almost as if humans were meant to live in small, multigenerational groups. x.com/wrathofgnon/st…