Still laughing about the time a computer scientist who had his bike stolen tried to explain binary search to a cop

Ouch, Spotify

Worked with a guy at Microsoft who was a 10x engineer He reported directly to the CTO of our org His only job was to figure out insanely hard problems I watched this in real time CTO gave him a problem, he downloaded the text book on Android to his kindle, read it every day

# On the "hallucination problem" I always struggle a bit with I'm asked about the "hallucination problem" in LLMs. Because, in some sense, hallucination is all LLMs do. They are dream machines. We direct their dreams with prompts. The prompts start the dream, and based on the

Growth mindset is just replying to yourself with “skill issue” every time something goes wrong

fun story: terry tao was on both my and my brother's committee. he solved both our dissertation problems before we were done talking, each of us got "wouldn't it have been easier to...outline of entire proof" 🫠

Math Stack Exchange

The Fields medalist Terence Tao has championed the use of computerized proof verification tools, including the computer language called Lean. Tao recently led a collaborative effort to formalize a combinatorics proof with Lean. It took just three weeks. quantamagazine.org/a-team-of-math…

A teen hacked Nvidia, got arrested, was released on bail under police supervision. Police confiscated his laptop and put him in a motel room. He then used the Amazon fire stick connected to his motel room TV to hack Rockstar and steal GTA 6 clips bbc.com/news/technolog…

what i wish someone had told me: blog.samaltman.com/what-i-wish-so…

Some motivational pep talk.

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don't be jealous of others' success. celebrate theirs and use it as motivation to find your own

some people unknowingly bless the world when they choose to be an interviewer 🤌🏻

I quit PhD (for a day) and opened a boba shop at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Generative Boba! It’s a huge success - right next to our office so all the AI researchers are enjoying it. Checkout our boba diffusion algorithm in the poster to understand why boba generation is so important to MIT CSAIL !

paul graham on hard work

𝚜𝚞𝚍𝚘 𝚊𝚙𝚝 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚗𝚟𝚒𝚍𝚒𝚊-𝚌𝚞𝚍𝚊-𝚝𝚘𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚒𝚝

summer student project presentations are incredible

I don't have too too much to add on top of this earlier post on V3 and I think it applies to R1 too (which is the more recent, thinking equivalent). I will say that Deep Learning has a legendary ravenous appetite for compute, like no other algorithm that has ever been developed

"sure lemme just share my screen"