My happy place

The model thinks Schrodinger's cat is gonna make it?

That's... nice?

I enjoyed Netherland all those years ago; this one is as enjoyable

AGI on the same day that Odysseus comes home? Nice :) Sam Altman

roald dahl, the author, helped invent a special valve to drain liquid from the brain for his son, who was in a car accident. his son recovered too quickly to need it, but thousands of other kids used it before someone else invented something better. the “dahl” here refers to him:

In awe of the Eslite and Kinokuniya bookshops in Kuala Lumpur; spectacular browsing experience, staggeringly good selection. I came out wanting to read 20+ books immediately. Nothing in India comes remotely close.

I’ve left OpenAI! Already miss everyone on the Training team & my friends ❤️ but very excited to soon announce what’s next Until then, I’ll be taking a break to solve OCR for Sanskrit so we can immortalize the classical Indian literary canon in the weights of superintelligence

We found the title of a scroll for the first time! This cylinder of charcoal turns out to be "On Vices, Book 1" by Philodemus

This was the translation that jumpstarted Penguin Classics. A generation who had experienced war firsthand read this clear prose version with new eyes. And Rieu began it to distract his family in London during the Blitz, reading them new episodes as the bombs fell.

If you want to raise a Thiel Fellow, have them participate in a Montessori program, many of the fellows went through Montessori schools as children.

I'm a curriculum and instruction guy, but if I've learned anything in more that two decades in education it's that school culture kicks the butt of every other in-school factor.

'Hawking, provide me with a geodesic' is quite the request.

I guess this was like the...Brilliant Tutorials of Soviet Russia? Much has been lost.

Roadmap (13-18): Help your children pick a lane (academic, entrepreneurial, creative), find a mentor who loves your child, sets world-class standards, and coaches the craft. Ship real projects.