Time, Tech, and the Birth of Play docs.google.com/document/d/1b8…

What is our plan if the aliens come find us first?

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Every time I fly in and out of New York, I marvel at the city skyline—a man made mountain range forged by the concentration of ambition🗽

🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Happy birthday to America and its unapologetic pursuit of greatness.

Offline from work for a full week for the first time since leaving college. Don’t think I could do it again. England is beautiful though 🇬🇧

One of the hardest lessons to internalize is that you can’t *just* do good work, you also have to do a lot of it.

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it never fails to astonish me how much a small group of talented people working with extreme focus and intensity can achieve in a very short time

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I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Incredible! Congrats to both teams and their leaders to make this happen.

pretraining is an elegant science, done by mathematicians who sit in cold rooms writing optimization theory on blackboards, engineers with total absorb of distributed systems of titanic scale posttraining is hair raising cowboy research where people drinking a lot of diet coke

“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.” — Stephen Hawking

“What you cannot create, you do not understand”

Inference costs were expected to drop quickly with economies of scale, but the rate at which training costs are falling, even as capabilities continue to improve, is very promising.

It's astounding that Airbus has a backlog of 8600 aircrafts and Boeing has a backlog of 5900. YTD they've delivered 370 and 280, so at this pace it'll take them ~15 years to serve just the present unmet demand. boeing.com/commercial#pro… airbus.com/en/products-se…