People say TikTok is dumb but there’s seriously so much great content. #savethebees

I will never forget a conversation I had with the composer Alvin Singleton at MacDowell. I said, "What’s it like being a composer? Whenever I try to write music I get like 40 seconds in and get stuck." "What you call Being Stuck," he said, "I call Composing."

Out of curiosity I dug into how NFT's actually reference the media you're "buying" and my eyebrows are now orbiting the moon

Matthew Yglesias Sorry, 20th and 21st. We should also, incidentally, be more prepared for solar flares. Those also happen every century or two, and a modern one would cripple the electric grid for moths and kill potentially hundreds of millions of people.

Can’t they just turn the canal off and then turn it on again?

Modern military intelligence satellites have a resolution of 5-10cm per pixel (2-4 inches), so most things are big enough that you can see them from space. "Wow, that's a big tomato" "Yep, it's so big that you can see it from space"

The co-founder of Chewy raised $550M at a $11.5B pre-money to do something in the video game space. Pretty cool. Surprised Tiger did not get in the round.

“How a coastline 100 million years ago influences modern election results in Alabama”

All of you have seen cave art, right? Either sketches or photos in books or online. If you're really lucky, maybe you've been in a cave yourself with a flashlight or something. But is it possible that the way we look at cave art today hides a key aspect of the art? 🧵

Shout out to the HBO Max Engineer who is currently having a full blown panic attack

Game of Life running a Game of Life. Since the Game of Life is Turing Complete, it is capable of simulating itself. youtu.be/xP5-iIeKXE8

Elon recently toured Tim Dodd around the Starbase facility in Texas, where SpaceX is building the tallest rocket ever (Starship). Over 2 hours of footage. It's gold. Best part: Elon breaking down his 5-STEP design and manufacturing process. Here it is 🧵

Stats question: There seems to be a lot of call for replacing p-values with things like the Bayes factor. But to make a decision, I wonder if what you really want is to do a cost-benefit analysis integrated over the posterior distribution... is that ever doable?

OpenAI has announced GLIDE, a new 3.5 billion parameter text-to-image generation model that is even better than DALL-E! Link: arxiv.org/abs/2112.10741 Take a look at some of these results from the paper! Read on to see how you can try it out for yourself!⬇

Octopuses are surprisingly intelligent, and reproduce at 1 year old. If we'd started a breeding program 50 years ago, we probably could've gotten them smarter than dolphins by now. A disappointing failure of the long-term mad science ecosystem.

🎅 Ho-ho-ho! Today a bunch of ICLR 2023 papers dropped! This is a conference with blind submission, authors are anonymous till review A lot of multimodal AI: text-to-video (yes, another one), text-to-3D, another 'teach-diffusion-new-concepts', texto-to-audio... and more! 🧵

Mitochondrial DNA mutations can lead to rare disease and accrue with age. But how does nuclear genome variation influence mtDNA variation? Here in >250k people, we find that nuclear variants can impact variation in the levels of mtDNA mutations. (1/5) medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

me: “a lot of this old code was written by an idiot dev who was flagrantly ignorant of the business context. we’re all still paying for those sins” them: “git says it was written by you 3 years ago?” me: “that’s right”

just one more axiom bro. i promise bro just one more axiom and it will make the system consistent and complete. bro. just one more axiom. please just one more. just add this one gödel sentence to the set of axioms and we can fix this whole problem bro. bro cmon just give me one m

I can't think of a better description of living than this piece by Italo Calvino: