What can an 8-year-old build in 45 minutes with the assistance of AI? My daughter has been learning to code with Cursor and it's mind-blowing🤯 Here are highlights from her second coding session. In 45 minutes she built a chatbot powered by Cloudflare Developers Workers AI 👀

If you use a relative standard to measure poverty, establishing the bottom x% are poor regardless of their absolute income, you will never win the war on poverty. But President Johnson wanted an absolute standard. With such a standard, the poverty rate has fallen more than 90%🧵

Machine learning pioneer Andrew Ng says AGI is still "many decades away, maybe even longer" and companies that say it is only a year or two away are using non-standard definitions to lower the bar

Classic: Step 1. People publish studies affirming lithium reduces suicides Step 2. Someone meta-analyzes these studies and there's evidence of publication bias Step 3. A large, preregistered analysis fails to support the existence of the effect at all

When every high-level military guy who worked for Trump publicly denounces him, it's a strong signal that you should not support Trump.

Air conditioning lets you use your brain more Students do worse when its hot. Over 13 years in NYC alone, "upwards of 510,000 exams that otherwise would have passed likely received failing grades due to hot exam conditions," and these failures delayed or stopped 90k graduations!

Someone please look at this graph and tell me what was so great about the past.

🚀Excited to announce: Open-source AlphaFold3 implementation! 🚀 I am thrilled to announce one of the models we have been building for the last 8-weeks at Ligo - an open-source implementation of DeepMind’s frontier model, AlphaFold3! Here’s what we have learned, a thread (1/11):

This chart shows a 200-year story of progress. Let's not go backwards.

It's funny how the people critical of founder mode didn't show up until Tuesday, after the holiday weekend.

From noted socialist, Goldman Sachs

This is not good. Hachette Books, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and Wiley have won their case and their books are going to be removed from the Internet Archive. If you still want or need to get their books for free, use libgen and Anna's Archive.

new favorite example of the regulatory state: preschool is not allowed to remove bee stingers from kids. using tweezers is considered surgery.

SEAL Leaderboard Update🥇 We added 3 new models to the SEAL Leaderboards: - GPT-4o-latest (gpt-4o-2024-08-06) - Gemini 1.5 Pro (Aug 27, 2024) (gemini-1.5-pro-exp-0827) - Mistral Large 2 (mistral-large-2407) More detailed results in thread 🧵

Why poverty is not a major cause of violent crime: within-individual studies In a previous post, I reviewed multiple causally informative lines of evidence regarding the well-known association between poverty and violent crime. I concluded that poverty has little to no causal

The dog has learned how to make its pen walk.

The head of the US east coast ports union Harry Daggett has a statement for America: “Mark my words, we will shut the ports down on October 1st if we don’t get the kind of wages we deserve, container royalties, top notch health care, and no automated or semi automated terminals”

NEW: The University of South Carolina required all students to affirm the value of "diversity and inclusion" as part of a mandatory training this summer. Then, when I reached out for comment, USC claimed the training was "optional" despite telling students it was "required."🧵

I saw an earlier version of this a month ago, and it was one of those step-function moments when AI is doing so much that you can't quite believe it.

The history of three infectious diseases — smallpox, polio, and measles — before and after a vaccine was available. From my article on humanity's long fight against infectious diseases: ourworldindata.org/microbes-battl…