🇨🇳 A team of construction workers in China operating excavators remotely. Grueling blue-collar work is now a cushy air-conditioned office job.

If you would like to increase my chances—and those of 100+ million patients worldwide—of living a life worth living again, then please consider donating to direly needed research:

How can you be actively working on an AI girlfriend and not think less of yourself? What is your moral justification for your work making the world better?

JAX is good I don’t get why so many people still use torch, especially for small scale stuff. Stop torchuring yourself folks

How do I deal with this while maintaining high performance at challenging brain work? If I work out at high intensity (=to exhaustion) in the mornings, my concentration and willpower is noticeably diminished for the rest of the day. But now working out in the evening is also bad?

Jonathan Zittrain says we're sleepwalking into a WALL-E future. “I worry that the more agentic we make the systems, the less agentic we become.” His solution: Design AI that asks about second-order preferences. Not just what you want, but what you want to want. We need AI that

Now that Ive been sitting in hardware meetings for a while, think it would be great if us software folks discussed every byte being used with the same amount of rigor as hardware folks as well!

You only really understand some concept if you notice when a frontier reasoning model tries to bullshit you on the topic Maybe this is how exams should be structured from now on

This past spring, I spent time with the EXO Labs team to work on a new DL optimizer and wiring up clusters of Macs for distributed TRAINING on Apple Silicon. If you’re at ICML, be sure to come by the ES-FoMo@ICML2025 workshop (posters 1-2:30pm) this Saturday. I’ll be there to share some

I have to say in many respects I've had more quality conversations in Berlin than in SF. Never has it happened in SF that people actually pull out pen and paper to talk precisely about hard concepts where surface level talk is just not enough. The overton window is wider and

Terence Tao on the supposed Gold from OpenAI at IMO

Sonith Touch some grass, read some lotr- the best weekends 😌

I’ll have what he’s having.