I wish ChatGPT were integrated directly into my Kindle. How cool would it be to highlight a phrase and ask it to explain something, complete with references to other works? IP laws prevent this kind of useful innovation.

There might not have been an annus mirabilis in 1905 had Einstein been forced to jump through the hoops of modern PhD programs: writing incremental papers, begging for grant $, all under the watchful eye of administrators. Scientists: $100k to pursue breakthrough research 👩🏼‍🔬

"congratulate" strikes me as an odd word what's a word that you find bizarre?

If you want to host a poetry reading at your business in San Francisco, you have to apply for a permit, which entitles you to: 1) Pay a fee 🤑 2) Meet a government bureaucrat 🤡 3) Attend an inquisition by an unelected commission 🧟‍♀️🧟 sf.gov/get-limited-li…

VC turns high-risk companies into a high-performing asset class.

Free speech is simple, it's just not easy.

In honor of #GEOINT2024, I just drafted a blog post arguing that there is no venture-backable business in earth-observation for commercial use cases. Would love to hear people's reactions to that thesis, on either side, as I prep for publication.

it's annoying that both PE and P/E are common financial terms

"vector embeddings are approximations of an underlying platonic reality" gives off Kanty vibes arxiv.org/pdf/2405.07987

i wish i had an app to share memes with my friends

CNN moderation is the winner of this debate.

Your ears aren’t deceiving you—AI has allowed me to make a new model of my voice like it was before my PSP. I hope this helps show creative ways we can empower people facing the kinds of health and accessibility challenges I have and demonstrate our abilities don’t define us.

finally turned off auto-capitalization on my mac already feeling fresher 😎

the work will teach you how to do it

it's called "metaphysics" because the guy who originally bound Aristotle's complete works started off with Aristotle's Physics—everything after was "meta-physics" 🫠

"BART is running at slower speeds because of warm weather." wtf???

after spending two hours at the DMV, I began to wonder why anyone would think it's a good idea for the government to run healthcare

"why don't we sail to tahoe?"

AI is a high-value exchange: electrons -> compute -> intelligence