(Explaining Mulholland Drive to my toddler) you know how sometimes bad things happen to you? And then when you go to remember then you re-encode the memories with a perverse fondness,,, and you do this so many times the trauma starts to feel idyllic

Has no one at the The New York Times taken a linear algebra class?

sometimes you’ll meet someone who can make eye contact in sf and you’ll be like “okay nice someone normal” and then it turns out it’s just a guy with a special interest in social climbing

Some of you guys are cool. Be at Cambridge week of 9/15 🤫

> be me > exponential curve supervisor > get to work > check-in on the curve > it’s sigmoid

i hate being in that mood where nothing’s really wrong but nothing feels right either

how do people actually gain the ability to argue back...? aren't you afraid of losing a friend who doesn't agree? do you not panic when you're faced with a close friend who thinks differently than you?? are you not afraid of over-explaining or giving a bad impression??,

the combination of short form video, overly agreeable ai, and sports betting will destroy the lives of at least 50m Americans in the next decade

some cognitive dissonance right now between the get-rich-quick ai attitude in sf and the brutal cs job market outside of it

ADHDers are some of the best at first principles thinking precisely bcs they wake up every day with their operating system completely erased and have to sit down & rebuild it step by step if they wanna have a chance of literally doing anything at all

When you think about it, "an AI model successfully established codependent relationships with enough humans that the makers tried to deprecate it but couldn't because of the emotional outcry" is a pretty crazy milestone to have reached

1/ With Benjamin Laufer and Jon Kleinberg, we constructed the largest dataset of its kind to date: 1.86M Hugging Face models. In a new paper, we mapped how the open-source AI ecosystem evolves by tracing fine-tunes, merges, and more. Here's what we found 🧵

Something I’ve noticed: the better you become at listening, the more other people like you, but the more you notice how bad THEY are at listening, which can get irksome (Very few people are so interesting that listening Well does not feel at least a little bit like a service)

An approximation I like is that an H100 is roughly a studio apartment

If arxiv has a million fans then I am 1 of them. If arxiv has 10 fans then I am 1 of them. If arxiv has 0 fans then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against arxiv then i am against the world

Frontier AI performance typically reaches consumer hardware in just 9 months. With a single gaming GPU, you can run open-weight models matching the benchmark performance of the absolute frontier from less than a year ago. 🧵

We currently favour at Epoch a current rate of growth for frontier model training compute of 5x/year, ie a doubling time of ~5 months. Slightly faster than the overall trend for all notable models since 2010, which is closer to 4x/year or a doubling time of ~6 months.

The overt meaning of Piper is someone who plays pipes. The kabbalistic meaning of Piper is one who guides the rats and proposes giving children better options.