mastery

professor: ... you've ... installed python before?

student: no, this is my first time

professor: your envs are isolated per project. who taught you to do that?

student: it seemed the right way

professor: *muttering* he shall know your ways as though born to them

For centuries, the mist-shrouded island in the northern seas deemed unconquerable.

It’s tribes were too wild, its coastline too rugged, its location too distant.

When Emperor Claudius decided to launch a daring invasion, the tides of history would forever be shifted.

...🧵

sota RAG in 2024

the canonical emoji for tacked-on mid AI features in a product

Sometimes you have to change everything and bet it all to make it the best it could be.

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You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

AI timelines should make us take Peter Thiel's famous question much more seriously:

'What is your 10 year plan, and why can't you do it in 6 months?'

Inexpensive token generation and agentic workflows for large language models (LLMs) open up intriguing new possibilities for training LLMs on synthetic data. Pretraining an LLM on its own directly generated responses to prompts doesn't help. But if an agentic workflow implemented…

pre streaming TV value chain

Mistral 7b going 824 tokens per second on CPU.

sigh, take my money LEGO

token thriftiness is a virtue

Meta Horizon OS

Meta already sells the Quest systems basically at production cost, and just ignores the development costs, so don’t expect this to result in cheaper VR headsets from other companies with Quest equivalent capabilities. Even if the other companies have greater…

the real unlock with drone delivery is new user activation and retention at higher rates than next-day delivery

13 y/o Lauryn Hill gets booed at the Apollo and keeps going

Can AI rewrite our human genome? ⌨️🧬

Today, we announce the successful editing of DNA in human cells with gene editors fully designed with AI. Not only that, we've decided to freely release the molecules under the Profluent OpenCRISPR initiative.

Lots to unpack👇

This recently published Apple Silicon CPU Optimization Guide from Apple is gold. I'm just over halfway through (169 pages), but I highly recommend this to anyone building software for Apple Silicon. developer.apple.com/download/apple…

Amazon's new drones can carry 5 lbs and deliver within an hour. Bigger than I expected, and a really slick design that does vertical takeoff.

The dispatch algorithms powering these are going to be super fun. Especially if charging and picking up of packages happens across…