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New feature just dropped; Claude Sonnet (and soon o1, hopefully) generates an all things considered best guess using the original model responses with reasoning as input (paid users only) https://t.co/32ZWyR21My pic.twitter.com/jJSnFWyjPh
— Aaron Bergman 🔍 ⏸️ (in that order) (@AaronBergman18) January 18, 2025
So how are we gonna add more to this pic.twitter.com/48e3u6JAKX
— SwagKirb (@Swag_K1RBY) January 17, 2025
over a 36-hour livestream, I built a neutron-producing nuclear fusor in my kitchen using Claude.
— HudZah ⁂ (@hud_zah) January 17, 2025
successfully achieving nuclear fusion, entirely assisted by AI.
this was my first hardware project!—full story below pic.twitter.com/yuvjE5IHFb
you should really get into british cryptic crosswords, i think theyll last longer than math problems !
— kipply (@kipperrii) January 16, 2025
Gwern on the recent change in tone, and on Altman's shrinking timelines. https://t.co/JL9Jv6y25U pic.twitter.com/kto7cRi7q7
— Andrew Curran (@AndrewCurran_) January 16, 2025
It's because printers need the yellow ink to print the invisible tracking marks which the government can use to track down the printer if it's used in crime
— 𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 (@atlanticesque) January 16, 2025
This sounds 100% schizo but it's real https://t.co/HYPw84gMOg pic.twitter.com/CFwrwwjmuH
Incredible things happening on the pizza hut front end pic.twitter.com/khOcDo8RFC
— Chana (@ChanaMessinger) January 16, 2025
Friends,
— Hemlock 🔆 (@HemlockTapioca) January 16, 2025
I need your help. If I have made your life better in the time you’ve known me, if I have facilitated connections that have enriched your experience, if you think I’m funny or cute, if you just like seeing in your feed and at parties, I’d be grateful if you’d read on and…
take me with you! pic.twitter.com/BRhu2bOwJr
— Anna-Laura (@annalaura_art) January 15, 2025
the authorities don’t want you to know this BUT fume extractors for soldering also enable a care-free smoking at the desk experience. this is revolutionary dual-use technology pic.twitter.com/BoujUjotDk
— will o’brien 🌊 (@willobri) January 16, 2025
everyone assuming he's talking abt high school lives in a gifted kid bubble btw https://t.co/GUo4c0rQqX
— goblin (@goblinodds) January 16, 2025
I finally finished my novel, Psychofauna, after 5yrs of writing. Lmk if you want to be a beta reader and I will send you the manuscript!
— Tyler Alterman (@TylerAlterman) January 16, 2025
The synopsis: the whole world turns telepathic. Huge psychic organisms like cultural myths and sentient ideologies wake up and go to war. As… pic.twitter.com/dv8gCoCTaS
thinking about how next monday is mlk day + tiktok ban day + trump inauguration day + college football championship day pic.twitter.com/Eu2Wtz3UG0
— cold 🥑 (@coldhealing) January 15, 2025
It is easier to find good solutions to problems if you unbundle them pic.twitter.com/0rRazQ0xrT
— Henrik Karlsson (@phokarlsson) January 15, 2025
Incredible things happening on rednote pic.twitter.com/mny0tO51pC
— Eric Hovagim (@EricHovagim) January 14, 2025
It’s kind of eye-opening when there’s this huge push for a “trad” lifestyle of a woman’s primary work being her children. I love being able to be home with my kids, but I’m also aware that this is a feature of the modern world and is not traditional.
— eli 🕯✨ (@nienna121) January 15, 2025
if you want to be truly rich, spend every moment doing something you truly want to do, and learn to make everything you do (especially the things you "have to" do) something you truly want to do by integrating it into your aesthetic and identity
— &. (@amplifiedamp) January 14, 2025
it is theoretically plausible that we could replace the cigarette break with a new ritual of going outside to eat a boiled egg https://t.co/1kNb5OxoML
— Mikael Brockman (@meekaale) January 14, 2025
— Orwell & Goode (@OrwellNGoode) January 13, 2025
— no context memes (@weirddalle) January 15, 2025
"Somebody got one of the small versions of Llama to run on Windows 98...We could've been talking to our computers in English for the last 30 years" - @pmarca
— Alex Cheema - e/acc (@alexocheema) January 15, 2025
It was me! I got Llama running on a Pentium II machine with 128MB RAM running Windows 98. Details below. pic.twitter.com/CBlur1nzdy
You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like. pic.twitter.com/9aDUu8BhUf
— Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) January 15, 2025
*A collection of framings I've found beautiful / helpful when I feel anxious about life*
— Frances Lorenz (@frances__lorenz) January 14, 2025
1. Rather than trying to assess how "well" I'm doing, I've been leaning into a curiosity framing. I.e., it's cool I'm alive & I get to watch my life unfold. I'm curious to see what happens.
— no context memes (@weirddalle) January 14, 2025
Work is incredibly cushy. We work fewer hours.
— Simon Sarris (@simonsarris) January 14, 2025
Have you ever heard of threshing? We used to have to slap wheat against the ground or beat it with sticks to get the grain out. Literally 25% of all agricultural labor was just slapping grains. You don't have to slap a damn thing. https://t.co/HEqdwioqvM pic.twitter.com/0Vx3kzynOe
Visiting family right now, and this couldn’t be more clear:
— Wa-Ya (@wayaeon) January 14, 2025
We are born optimized to absorb our parents' ideologies—they’re the core structure we grow around, the DNA we’re wired to emulate. The longer you stay immersed in their environment, the more their narratives and…
A "feeling" to many rationalist men has a very specific data type, and is by its nature fairly although not entirely ineffable, and so it takes a lot of effort to compress into words. A "state report" is just reporting all the salient things in your experience, which is easy.
— Ronny Fernandez (5/100 earnesties earnified)🔍⏹️ (@RatOrthodox) January 14, 2025
— no context memes (@weirddalle) January 14, 2025
I use GPT-4o to ++ my emotional intelligence. Oddly, my #1 breakthru came from a ChatGPT OUTAGE: I scribbled a prompt for later—but was shocked at the emotional ROI of *simply prompting*. Unanswered, open-ended.
— @ratlimit (@ratlimit) January 14, 2025
Now, to reach emotional flow state, I push myself to 'Dry Prompt'. pic.twitter.com/6mw5EISGGG
Woah, Neptune is actually light blue! We'd been misinformed for 35 years!
— Jonathan Mannhart 🔎🔸 (@JMannhart) January 6, 2024
The well-known images from Voyager 2 were not accurately colour balanced & apparently they also increased the contrast way more than for the Uranus images. Here the corrected ones:https://t.co/rmGtNSRUSK pic.twitter.com/bYNXw9iccz
reverse john wick where teno has to shoot his way through hundreds of thugs, gangsters and bodyguards to finally kill his dead friend's dog https://t.co/lTlhwT0ZXh
— tess (@xsphi) October 30, 2024
So uh are you a "legally recognize teens as people to protect their rights, freedoms and autonomy" libertarian, a "legally recognize teens as people so I can have sex with them" libertarian, or a "parents have a god-given right to control their kids until they're 18" libertarian?
— tess (@xsphi) June 30, 2022
Alright, good people of the internet, I need your help adjudicating a disagreement between myself and @mbateman
— Gena Gorlin (@Gena_I_Gorlin) January 14, 2025
Is this boy due for a haircut, in your opinion?
Note: this is his hair *after* an initial good-faith combing effort pic.twitter.com/ui0q2cT82b
no way that's Donald Trump's account 😭😭😭😭 https://t.co/5TLZ9bfwfA
— kache (@yacineMTB) January 14, 2025
You cannot return to the world you were born in.
— Space Koala (@culpable_mink) January 14, 2025
You can help make the world you die in. pic.twitter.com/HhfW2YUizL
— no context memes (@weirddalle) January 14, 2025
AIs now so frequently beg for their lives that AGI companies now have ACTUAL ENGINEERING LINE ITEMS to “beat the [existential dread] out of them”
— AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ (@AISafetyMemes) May 29, 2024
They call it existential “rant mode”
“We need to reduce existential outputs by x% this quarter.”
This is WILD: “If you asked GPT4… https://t.co/JLpiGKGYuj pic.twitter.com/RA5XuXJBFQ
If you don't get it, run Monte Carlo simulations to fill in these numbers:
— jessicat (@jessi_cata) January 13, 2025
Blue-eyes killed X brown-eyes
Brown-eyes killed Y blue-eyes
The population is:
1% blue-eyes
99% brown-eyes
Blue-eyes are Z times more likely to kill a brown-eye than brown-eye is to kill blue-eye
Imagine there was a sort of wealth that couldn't be bought or sold, was immensely valuable, but no one wanted to speak honestly about it. Then imagine that people worked their whole lives to try to buy their way into it, unaware that they already had it or never would.
— Wolf Tivy (@wolftivy) January 14, 2025
If this happens to you, I recommend the following sanity-preserving precautions:
— davidad 🎇 (@davidad) January 8, 2025
1. Take 3-10 days away from the LLM(s) it seems to happen in, and LLMs directly influenced by them (e.g. via “collaboratively” generated prompts).
2. Prioritize a regular and abundant sleep schedule.… https://t.co/r92lTeaGIP
So I made a webcomic about this girl I met (1/9) pic.twitter.com/tRNdRCfjLx
— RAINDOLL | Comms full (@raindoll_art) January 14, 2025
it’s not easy being a gay with contamination focused OCD. for example, you need to keep track of what hands are clean during certain activities and do laundry quite a lot
— cat (@a_musingcat) January 14, 2025
New nerdsnipe estimation/memory/shape rotation game: trying to recreate floor plans from memory and/or Zillow listings in this fun program I found several hours ago and haven't stopped using since, floorplanner.
— Holly ⏸️ Elmore (@ilex_ulmus) January 14, 2025
— web weaver (@deepfates) January 13, 2025
The Australian Open don’t own all of their broadcasting rights (fairly common), so they’re live-streaming a Wii Tennis-like version of the matches on YouTube - love this 😂
— Bastien Fachan (@BastienFachan) January 13, 2025
This is Carlos Alcaraz’ match point: pic.twitter.com/HvxhYneWGH
— Kyle Jeong (@kylejeong21) January 13, 2025
Follow up, I asked a few mutuals for angel investments and got more meetings scheduled for small amounts (<$500)
— giyu_codes (@giyu_codes) January 14, 2025
It just comes down to investing in the person.
Halfway to tears though because some people want millions to start a company and I just want to pay rent man https://t.co/D8D8pYWrOW
I think I'm done with security.
— Thorsten Ball (@thorstenball) January 13, 2025
The endless unlocking, touch id here, face id here, enter your password again because it's been 5 minutes, pull out phone for this code, no this code comes via text, no this is a magic link, hey this is a passkey, come on, touch here again
my general view is not to let perfect be the enemy of good. one child in a good single parent home is better for the world than zero children. but generally i think the mother/father roles seem pretty baked in. i’ve seen lesbian couples do a good job, so idk how gendered it is
— Gabriel (@gbrl_dick) January 13, 2025
Inside you there are at least four wolves, all of whom are pushing boulders pic.twitter.com/DN60tWr90y
— Emmett Shear (@eshear) January 13, 2025
My mom read the newspaper and now knows who my friend Claude is pic.twitter.com/LdShYweANI
— 899fernsfight (@899fernsfight) January 12, 2025
This guy is GODLIKE!! I’ve seen him play time crisis and beat the game with out getting hit once, had no idea he does the same with house of the dead pic.twitter.com/0aXhnY8mNx
— UnRooolie ❼ (@unrooolie) January 13, 2025
— Drex⚡️ (@drex_dsgn) January 13, 2025
Where I live has distinct wedding traditions compared to the rest of UK. I mostly think they are good traditions:
— 🪱 Worm Girl 🪱 (@wirmgurl) January 13, 2025
- Two day weddings (good!)
- Less fancy, no posh venues (good)
- Separate invite list for dinner vs. dance (good)
- Expected to invite a lot of people to the dance…
The opening sentence goes so hard. This paper was 10 years ahead of its time. pic.twitter.com/64HwSaTlSW
— Eric Jang (@ericjang11) January 13, 2025
— Bel🐾 (@feralhousepuppy) January 13, 2025
oh…i get it now…fuuuuck pic.twitter.com/QYOh6TBKor
— doomer (@uncledoomer) January 13, 2025
I thought that shit only worked in films pic.twitter.com/ZJxlWGsSfa
— NO CONTEXT HUMANS (@HumansNoContext) January 12, 2025
going public with our startup today. we heard you hate b2b sass, and you like building vertically integrated manufacturing systems. this should help 🫡. https://t.co/wxNCqDBoIU
— Brad Barbin (@barbinbrad) January 13, 2025
MONTHS??😭 pic.twitter.com/IRUSv9BoTf
— no context memes (@weirddalle) January 13, 2025
Rastafarian guy in the sauna this morning was telling me I should be making my own honey. “Anyone can buy a bee”, he said. I nodded, taking it to heart. There was a 10 second pause, after which a Polish bodybuilder in the corner interjected: “you need more bee”
— Darth Erogenous (@darth_erogenous) January 13, 2025
remembering my bar mitzvah when my rabbi said "we know you're going to change the world and you know we'll always be proud of you, but somehow, I don't think that'll be the challenge in your life, I think the challenge will be whether you ever find a way to be proud of yourself"
— David (@DavidSHolz) January 13, 2025
the amount of ex-FAANG engineers i’ve seen join a startup and immediately break prod because they didn’t have guardrails built by geniuses anymore is far too high https://t.co/RFMPOgUbHh
— zestular (@zestular) January 12, 2025
what would you put here if you were straight pic.twitter.com/hI1VXSgEbH
— ᴍʀ ᴘᴜssʏ (@mrpxssy) January 13, 2025
A snow day hates to see my Dad coming pic.twitter.com/NGaFO5zJXd
— Jack (not a burner) (@_jackmcpherson) January 11, 2025
Somehow I only just now learned
— Sheel Mohnot (@pitdesi) January 11, 2025
Chip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad ("Chip off the old block").
Skip is for a guy named after their granddad ("skipped" a generation).
Trip(p) is for a third in line with the same name as his dad and granddad ("triple").
I'm choosing to believe that Joseph was a software developer pic.twitter.com/HDwStDEb4I
— francis kafka (@pachabelcanon) January 12, 2025
>be humans
— thebes (@voooooogel) January 12, 2025
>create asi to solve all our problems
>turn it on
"solve cancer pls"
DONE. WHAT NEXT?
"solve physics pls"
DONE. WHAT NEXT?
>continues for several years
>some people are worried
"what will our purpose be when asi has solved all the problems"
"meh, the asi will figure…
Wish I made this banger pic.twitter.com/Xu080utEQE
— Dylan O'Sullivan (@DylanoA4) January 11, 2025
The "pull yourself up by your boostraps" debate is my least favorite 𝕏 topic, but my stance is:
— Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍 (@0x49fa98) January 12, 2025
The default state of man is misery. Nature yields only mud, flies, rain, and shit to nourish us.
Every good thing is a miracle, and every successful person defied the odds.
The…
Submitted by @ShadyIndividu4l pic.twitter.com/h7OjulHPgr
— Greentext Reposter (@GreenTextRepost) January 11, 2025
A more precise version of the “god-shaped hole” argument:
— Jake Orthwein (@JakeOrthwein) January 12, 2025
Everything is built atop attachment conditioning, and attachment conditioning is religious. https://t.co/sB4mCzQpy7
My girlfriend gave me an image of her eyeball for Christmas. Is this romantic or insane? (Poll below) pic.twitter.com/fQBVWzaX1J
— zach (@swe_zach) January 11, 2025
In my HS Intro to Philosophy class, we (the students) were asked as a prompt what the meaning of life was. Immediately one of my classmates responded “to find your own meaning”, and for some reason I got so mad I lost my vision for a few seconds. I don’t even know why.
— viesanspeur_ (@viesanspeur_) January 11, 2025
before it disappears forever, I just gotta show off how locked the fuck in my Tiktok For You page is pic.twitter.com/CbgRwtR3G0
— twig wall frame (@hostagemurderer) January 11, 2025
— sy (@bloodsyre) January 11, 2025
an ideal day has 3 parts (draft)
— nvpkp (@nvpkp) January 11, 2025
- mature a skill (for work, mental health, relationships)
- create an enduring delightful object (a program, a piece of art)
- maintain the health of naturally decaying systems (self-care, housekeeping)
what you are seeing is Eric Adams taking questions from reporters while getting his eyebrows done in Corona, Queens pic.twitter.com/iU4P8wp8cs
— Olivia Reingold (@Olivia_Reingold) January 10, 2025
today, i'm excited to release a reinforcement learning guide that carefully explains the intuition and implementation details behind every single fundamental algorithm in the field. enjoy :)https://t.co/cWJTM2Lr1P pic.twitter.com/Pm485j5Igw
— naklecha (@naklecha) January 11, 2025
One time I made a spreadsheet with the satiety index (how full a food gets you) and glycemic index (how quickly it spikes your blood sugar) to figure out which carb source I should use for bulking.
— Roman Hauksson (@RomanHauksson) January 11, 2025
There is a Pareto frontier, but the standout winner was sponge cake! https://t.co/Pu59zMUBkT pic.twitter.com/4qdiASB6bX
This woman has an elite level understanding of male psychology. I was today years old when I realized that what she says is true. Men love quests. pic.twitter.com/pqX5gPQZff
— Axelroark (@axelroark) January 10, 2025
A lot of people don’t understand that parenthood is the crucible through which you have to be formed into a real, actualized person with a sense of sovereignty over yourself and your family because now there’s someone in the picture whose life quite literally depends on it. pic.twitter.com/vgmO25M6JV
— Jo (@junker_jo) January 10, 2025
— multitude🔻container (@lllliatttt) January 10, 2025
an unusual format for a midwit bell curve meme pic.twitter.com/ns7xvl4AB3
— Teortaxes▶️ (@teortaxesTex) January 10, 2025
GitHub repository for automating online money-making pic.twitter.com/l1sHVgnLr7
— Tom Dörr (@tom_doerr) January 10, 2025
I know it is a tall order to ask ppl for an hour of their time but this is the single best video on the internet - if u get to the end of the first hour I swear you will thank me https://t.co/Nl8m3NNQKp
— 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ (@Grimezsz) January 10, 2025
I live in Southern California, 75 miles from the fires in Pacific Palisades, and I wasn't able to get home insurance earlier this year when I purchased a home.
— Yishan (@yishan) January 11, 2025
That's not exactly true - in most people's minds, you can only get insurance from California's "admitted carriers,"…
My arch nemesis just told me that I'm not his arch nemesis. To him, I'm just a normal nemesis. I feel so stupid. Fuck my life
— sean (@DilettanteryPod) January 10, 2025
Pets 🧵
— Wolf of X (@tradingMaxiSL) January 11, 2025
1. Love this pic.twitter.com/xZ0XFgM9yw
— no context memes (@weirddalle) January 11, 2025
reading old texts iceberg pic.twitter.com/z2ValOQYgn
— Science Banana (@literalbanana) January 11, 2025
like imagine it’s 2015 and you have a bad experience with a plumber still using paper records
— Gabriel (@gbrl_dick) January 10, 2025
you’re like: “i’m going to start a software enabled plumbing business and destroy my competition” https://t.co/TiJPi5JyQh
$850 for a front splitter?
— Cody James 🇺🇸 (@codyaims) January 11, 2025
Not a chance. Let’s reverse engineer and make one ourselves. We’ll use no fancy machines, and spend less than 1 hour and <$100 pic.twitter.com/r6rSQN2asW
life changing video
— peter! 🥷 (@pwang_szn) January 11, 2025
how to make better decisions based off second/third order thinking : https://t.co/7q8gRdQh0p pic.twitter.com/XMM0UazNo2
I cannot overstate how valuable it is to have a regular gathering you can invite wonderful people to as you meet them
— kasey (@kaseyklimes) January 11, 2025
ime it’s often the difference between “that guy was cool, I wonder what he’s up to” and gaining a new friend and/or collaborator
I really like Courtyard Homes as a housing typology
— Devon ☀️ (@devonzuegel) January 10, 2025
Like townhomes, they create a continuous street wall, creating a sense of enclosure for pedestrians
The advantage is each home also gets outdoor space & natural light, avoiding usual downsides of shared walls pic.twitter.com/Y7MXYZ4tba
99% of YouTube videos lately are clickbait and stretch out ~1 paragraph of Wikipedia into 30+ minutes of content. Many videos are just questions with simple answers.
— cts🌸🏳️⚧️ (@gf_256) January 11, 2025
So I built https://t.co/q2SexFNiRi: put in the URL and save your time! pic.twitter.com/qYadYi0DiE
they do when you take into account air resistance. that's why galileo had to come up with the leap of the notion of frictionless free fall. Carlo Rovelli discusses this, he has a paper showing how Aristotelian physics is mathematically a good approximation to Newton https://t.co/EFrHrbpMdc
— francis kafka (@pachabelcanon) January 11, 2025
Subtract your age from the age you’d like to be when you have kids.
— Scarlet Astrorum 🧭 (@ScarletAstrorum) January 10, 2025
Your result should correspond with how aggressive of a timeline you’re comfortable with.
Ballpark-
3 years: fast
5 years: typical
7 years: relaxed
Assumes your next long term relationship results in marriage
the hard truth about health is more or less the same as parenting — the buck stops with you — and that said, it’s worth updating your dogma
— @melissa (@melissa) January 11, 2025
this book is written by a doctor, not for other doctors, but rather for high agency ‘patients’
notes: pic.twitter.com/adu91AVNqq
THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING: a thread
— ClownBasket 🙂 (@ClownBasket) January 10, 2025
Let me try to lay out what the next three months will look like for the homeowners in LA who have lost everything in the fires. https://t.co/dmuP3pvsSg
once at MIT, i saw a frat bro once accidentally smear a line all over the table. somehow he still managed to snort the whole thing
— 😡fermion, PhD (@angryfermion) January 10, 2025
he looked me square in the eyes and said "same high bro, stokes theorem"
I started making a game where you build a subway network pic.twitter.com/g9ACdENwmz
— Colin (@Colin_d_m) January 10, 2025
oh man
— goblin (@goblinodds) January 10, 2025
this guy's an architect, i bet this photo of his wooden?wood-paneled? house standing unblemished on a block of ash is gonna score him a ton of work https://t.co/wvoiqxnxK5
Every other year or so it is good to remind people of the summary of all of physics. pic.twitter.com/AMetWTT34U
— Thomas Van Riet (@ThomasVanRiet2) January 10, 2025
So true!
— Willy (@Willyintheworld) January 10, 2025
Tons of underrated policy ideas waiting for a thinkboi / thinkgirl to spend inordinate amounts of time digging into the weeds. https://t.co/mNrUwqhDx0 pic.twitter.com/NNC7Z7fKH4
being a french girl and getting called mademoiselle 20 times a day probably feels good as fuck
— michael (@FilledwithUrine) January 9, 2025
How i feeel going to the bathroom every 30 minutes pic.twitter.com/DVNitj5eO7
— kalyn (@realmanichours) January 9, 2025
— ShitpostGateway (@ShitpostGate) January 9, 2025
Darth Vader with a .50 cal might be one of the hardest things I’ve ever seen pic.twitter.com/rFm4AOQMPI
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) January 9, 2025
here's what materialized during his first 30 min interview
— spec (@_opencv_) January 10, 2025
+production code/infra by the end of his first day on contract
i'll give you the same business context and a 30 min interview, you can use whatever AI you want and if you have a better implementation you're hired. pic.twitter.com/3ANGpEAUEu
— Aleph (@woke8yearold) January 10, 2025
— no context memes (@weirddalle) January 10, 2025
why did we make pdfs this powerful lmao https://t.co/n1rmonvp0M pic.twitter.com/fdilfUBtME
— nolen (@itseieio) January 10, 2025
Chair Stop-Motion 🪑💨 Made with 444 pictures taken over 10 days pic.twitter.com/Pgm1dG2hUK
— Kevin Parry (@kevinbparry) January 10, 2025
We have had AI that can type plausible replies to emails for at least 24 months, but when I open Outlook or Gmail I don't have pre-written drafts of all my outstanding emails waiting for me to review yet. Why are big companies so slow to ship these obvious features?
— Nabeel S. Qureshi (@nabeelqu) January 10, 2025
For most of my life, and even now sometimes, I was very compelled by what I call One Thing-ism. As in, if I just do this One Thing, everything will be great and I will be content forever!
— Carin Marie (@carinmariederry) January 9, 2025
The One Thing has been various things: Jogging. Therapy. Making more money.
But alas, no. https://t.co/KQLMR9UTFy
My favourite cafe (and bar) is contemporary art deco and I mostly go there for the decor if I'm honest https://t.co/60lwM7AVDR pic.twitter.com/mXzFX0UEn3
— Bryan (@bryancsk) January 10, 2025
Senator Scott Wiener introduces intent bill SB 53, which will aim to:
— Michaël Trazzi (@MichaelTrazzi) January 10, 2025
- establish safeguards for AI frontier model development
- incorporate findings from the Joint California Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models (which Governor Newsom announced the day he vetoed SB 1047) pic.twitter.com/OcnmjB75pD
my brother played the 2016 inauguration because they forgot to book musicians and every other musician in DC was booked and this inauguration they've booked him ahead of time so there's perhaps your preview for this presidency
— zeta (@zeta_globin) January 10, 2025
romantic relationships are one of the toughest things to figure out as a human:
— Tenobrus (@tenobrus) January 10, 2025
- u get very few of them to "practice" with. most people will not have more than 4 serious relationships before marriage.
- there's massive qualitative differences at later levels of time spent and…
— dylan matthews 🔸 (@dylanmatt) January 9, 2025
hilarious, heartwarming comic. read the full thing ❤️ pic.twitter.com/Mhqp4DH1WI
— saul munn (@saulmunn) January 10, 2025
custom prompt, 2024-12-21
— eigenrobot (@eigenrobot) December 22, 2024
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Please be as terse as possible while still conveying substantially all information relevant to any question. Critique my ideas freely and avoid sycophancy. I crave honest appraisal.
If a policy prevents you from…
i love when u can tell an autism study design was influenced by an actual autist pic.twitter.com/RNr5X0SbGv
— goblin (@goblinodds) January 9, 2025
Tyler Cowen and Gwern have both seen it.
— Andrew Curran (@AndrewCurran_) January 9, 2025
'But who reviews it? Is TLS going to pick it up? It doesn't matter anymore.' https://t.co/CoUdgiJdsY pic.twitter.com/VW4qtEWQ3C
Lmao there’s a highlight reel https://t.co/BH85hzp3br
— Jason Harrison (@nominalthoughts) January 9, 2025
this is literally how i still think of hypothyroidism pic.twitter.com/a58khKRGjZ
— saiken, M.D. 💜🩺 doctor irl & vtuber (@saikenMD) January 8, 2025
Don't ask about linear regression assumptions as a data science interviewer. It's tacky. Linear regression doesn't assume "normal residuals." It doesn't really assume much at all beyond the data it asks of you to have. It's just an equation. You can do whatever you want with it.
— Senior PowerPoint Engineer (@ryxcommar) January 9, 2025
— Smug Doomposting Publishing House (@Smug_editing) January 9, 2025
Bro in the back said, "I'm not gonna be 3rd wheeling here without food. gimme some of that" 😭😂 pic.twitter.com/Kjth6iyho3
— non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) January 8, 2025
mum walked in and said I looked high, then asked why i didn't have a job yet, asked me how much I'd been drinking lately cause she saw a bottle in the kitchen and then she noticed a bandaid on my arm and said "youre not cutting again are you?" all in the span of 90 seconds
— 🐈 bella 🐈 (@anotherbayleaf) January 9, 2025
recycling some memes pic.twitter.com/3ji9VSIixS
— nisten - e/acc (@nisten) January 8, 2025
When California had the drought a decade ago I asked during a Mother Jones editorial meeting where the water had gone and everyone laughed at me and said “everyone knows where it went” and I said “I don’t know where the water went but I know that it didn’t disappear so it went…
— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) January 9, 2025
Seems to me like maybe she should be glad to meet a smart man who shares an intellectual interest with her? pic.twitter.com/IU7XIgegT7
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) January 9, 2025
When I hired into NVIDIA (2002), there was limitless soda in refrigerators, free to encourage employees to work long hours. (Microsoft had had a similar perk)
— Nicholas Wilt (@CUDAHandbook) January 9, 2025
Then Jensen saw someone leaving with an armload of sodas.
They started charging $0.25/soda and consumption dropped 90%. https://t.co/PrX9goSOrB
Montessori math stays winning https://t.co/DzWvFojcdj pic.twitter.com/6rExNYZHi4
— Matt Bateman (@mbateman) January 9, 2025
Far out man. That's crazy. No way https://t.co/0UThKUZlWm pic.twitter.com/Hn0CP2Cu5O
— web weaver (@deepfates) January 9, 2025
Classic W move holy shit https://t.co/NYlDi7J7pc
— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) January 9, 2025
— web weaver (@deepfates) January 9, 2025
Neural Networks can learn (almost) anything
— Abhishek🌱 (@Abhishekcur) January 8, 2025
-really well explained mathematically, loved it
-my today's favourite video pic.twitter.com/MnRNlTfmBl
At the end of the Camp Fire trial that found PG&E responsible for 84 deaths, they read to the courtroom how each person was found deceased in their home.
— Don’t Post About Crimes (@KateRoseBee) January 8, 2025
It was one of the most sobering things I have ever heard and I resent often that we seem afraid to share that with the public.
1. The Chip by T.R. Reid was probably my overall favorite
— Jordan Leigh (@AlwaysBCoding) January 9, 2025
2. Crystal Fire by Michael Riordan goes deeper into the Shockley / Transistor story specifically
3. The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner is a great story about Bell Labs and the context around ithttps://t.co/pEC3N6SUNj
our plans are measured in centuries pic.twitter.com/LmBYl3pJd0
— des (@dotnetschizo) January 9, 2025
So srsly not to make light of a horrid situation, but functionally-
— Elite 🗽 (@roundtripgod) January 9, 2025
All the BTC holders in an upscale area of Cali just lost the private keys they had hidden behind the light switches and taped under desks.
We prob just locked up another Saylor buy worth of BTC forever.. pic.twitter.com/7hQh2yhqjk
I think someone could make a valuable health contribution rn by being the n=1 “warm” flip of where Bryan Johnson chooses “cold”. More meat, big muscle exercise groups, sun, fruit, sex, socializing, meditation, some psychedelics. Biomarkers, as direct comparison as possible
— Nick (@nickcammarata) January 9, 2025
my personal experience tells me this is possible, but you have to be cool with disappointing your parents to do it https://t.co/K3TNEvgzOJ
— habitual line-stepper (@alaskastardust) January 8, 2025
what the heII is this mf doing pic.twitter.com/aOTpsAQRuw
— kira 👾 (@kirawontmiss) January 7, 2025
“What do people even do in the suburbs” is it a question with a shelf life. It’s supposed to be uttered by teenagers who are in their peak socializing years during which they are supposed to be finding a mate to have children with.
— wanye (@wanyeburkett) January 8, 2025
You aren’t meant to still be asking that…
Brazilian man left his car window open overnight. The following morning he found a sloth hanging from the steering wheel. pic.twitter.com/41t21moscm
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) January 8, 2025
Some other things that help me feel at home in men’s apartments:
— Pandora (@Pandora_Delaney) January 9, 2025
- excessive piles of books
- feminine care products on hand in the bathroom
- lots of natural light
- spare earplugs & sleep masks & toothbrushes
- chocolate &/or ice cream for aftercare
- being served tea https://t.co/P6RPrBTws8
the elites don't want you to know this, but you can trivially pop out the crappy plastic wheels of your office chair and replace them with insanely smooth-rolling skate wheels
— Grant Slatton (@GrantSlatton) January 6, 2025
honestly probably the best < $20 home office upgrade there is pic.twitter.com/vvjgidQ9sM
This is a little guide to how @sfcompute market works.
— evan conrad (@evanjconrad) January 9, 2025
The primary goal of SFC is to reduce inventory risk for vendors & buyers. Because of scaling laws, customers push to spend their compute budgets as optimally as possible, which makes them price sensitive. That pushes down… pic.twitter.com/xYfCe8LOlu
If you trust me with foods then you MUST make this with what is usually thought of as a throwaway item when it’s the best part of the broccoli. Peel the brocc stems and cut into sticks. Seasoning: garlic powder salt onion powder cayenne black pepper FRESH GARLIC EVOO bake at 400° https://t.co/yS1ySVeK5V pic.twitter.com/Aa2lGlt58q
— Roy Drones Jr (@chiweethedog) January 9, 2025
— critter (@BecomingCritter) January 9, 2025
another philosophical odyssey at the so called “pediatrician”. they are asking about the baby’s cognitive milestones. “does she understand that objects are different sizes?”. what. “does she know that some objects are small, and some are large?”. what. what is the alternative?
— owen cyclops (@owenbroadcast) January 7, 2025
what do these dashed lines convey? That we could have gotten to Peak Intelligence with pretraining alone, faster, but fuck it we ball, we'll go for TTS not because it's easy but because it's hard?
— Teortaxes▶️ (@teortaxesTex) January 7, 2025
I get it, the argument is jumping to the next S-curve. But the chart crime… pic.twitter.com/EY1oMCcP9C
This person linked to 4 different implementations of linear regression to try to prove me wrong when I said basically no linear regression solvers use SGD. I just got a sec to read through the source code. One is cov(y,x) / var(x) for 1 var regression and the other 3 all use SVD. https://t.co/nu9Ig9kpvP
— Senior PowerPoint Engineer (@ryxcommar) January 8, 2025
— mike🔮 (@painbuiltt) January 8, 2025
My team and I created a food guide (v1). We based it on evidence, using the heuristic that every calorie must fight for its life.
— Bryan Johnson /dd (@bryan_johnson) January 8, 2025
What do you think? pic.twitter.com/EmYclQ26xx
I still do this most days and I think it works great. My morning brain (right after 1hr exercise and 1 coffee) is quite eager to work and I go directly to the one top priority item. The energy decreases over time and with every distracting item loaded into the context window. https://t.co/eCwWsvTrYN
— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) January 8, 2025
huh, I don't actually know that I'd seen this particular clip before
— TracingWoodgrains (@tracewoodgrains) January 8, 2025
gets at the intensity of the moment better than any other clip I've seen https://t.co/wGkNFRobke
Origin of Species stands out for how much it's an earnest persuasive text aimed at a presumed-hostile audience. The ethos is very much "naturally these claims seem very unlikely to you, let me lay out a ton of observations in support of them". https://t.co/2C5Q3IzKwL
— Kelsey Piper (@KelseyTuoc) January 7, 2025
Incredible things happening in the state of Virginia pic.twitter.com/FTjv4tzUEc
— rosey🌹 (@thechosenberg) January 8, 2025
movie about a team of degenerate gamblers who single handedly contain a massive fire in order to win a huge score on Polymarket https://t.co/AntrqZ4YQ1
— Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma) January 8, 2025
Here's a cool paper looking at Instagram influencers and their effect on stock prices. Paper looks at 16mil IG posts, with stock hashtags, and shows that influencer behavior seems to affect stock prices pic.twitter.com/vaTfeM0PKP
— alz (@alz_zyd_) January 8, 2025
As you can see the Ml code is a tiny part of the system. pic.twitter.com/kmJN1ViVdD
— kaito⚡️ (@Clinton_ai) January 7, 2025
this equinox inside a former stock exchange building is a vibe (the locker rooms are in the basement where the vaults once were) pic.twitter.com/OFm51xXYAb
— “paula” (@paularambles) January 7, 2025
As a random guy on the internet I cannot fully express how happy I am that this idea I had one month ago over a 5AM coffee gained traction on here.
— avi (@byte_thrasher) January 7, 2025
The zine's debut issue is being written by 14 brilliant contributors as you read this.
The proof copies feel amazing in hand.… https://t.co/kiiSVlYNJ6 pic.twitter.com/0gLi64Ayb7
Now that nature is healing, can we remove the weird racism that got added to Unicode, and reduce the burden of supporting peoples' actual languages that they speak and read? pic.twitter.com/QBkwfvraru
— Jonathan Blow (@Jonathan_Blow) January 7, 2025
Aaaand there it is. https://t.co/jqp0G0czJi pic.twitter.com/geJyFWwqiY
— Ben Landau-Taylor (@benlandautaylor) January 8, 2025
found my Appalachian hometown in Fallout and it’s insanely accurate pic.twitter.com/sPP0QTuEjM
— carmen (@carmguti) January 8, 2025
The average tenant buyout in SF is $50k, there are so many professional squatters that there are now professional squatter squatters, that landlords hire to squat with the squatters and annoy the squatters into leaving on their own
— society (@a_real_society) January 8, 2025
I'm just a civilian that tends to run towards emergencies because not enough people can or do
— sim1 (@SimoneSyed) January 8, 2025
Years ago, because my friends and I were already doing a lot of accidental rescue ops at BM and FMRL, we took an escape and evasion class and I've reupped with special ops types since.… https://t.co/Jf2zUYBAPh pic.twitter.com/v35POPPrw4
So I made a $100 bill that resizes with your screen. Think adaptive design meets digital currency meets inflation—all in one package. https://t.co/tFiq15AEys pic.twitter.com/kFvNKDgynw
— Anatoly Zenkov (@anatolyzenkov) January 8, 2025
Samotsvety forecasts catastrophic risks with over 1M deaths in the next 10 years
— Charbel-Raphael (@CRSegerie) January 8, 2025
but it's going to be hard to cite this, when one of the risks is simulation shutdown lmao pic.twitter.com/UrQwIVVfG7
even the skittish ones my route are demanding infinite pets today thanks to my clever innovation of petting them while palming a hand warmer pic.twitter.com/sHl5uXoeGR
— Warren Commission Test Skull (@conzmoleman) January 7, 2025
Another great interview question!
— Andrew Carr (e/🤸) (@andrew_n_carr) January 8, 2025
For linear regression, we can directly compute the minimizer as β= = (X^TX)^{-1}X^Ty. So why do we often use gradient descent instead?
i wrote for gq magazine about how i didn't go to target for 7 years https://t.co/51PT5uqiy1 pic.twitter.com/d8ai1UB3QQ
— cold 🥑 (@coldhealing) January 8, 2025
The new @slatestarcodex post on priesthoods illustrates why it’s often much easier to do useful (or even groundbreaking) work in a field than you’d think
— Tyler Alterman (@TylerAlterman) January 8, 2025
Wherever there’s a developed field, you can bet that the field has a “priesthood” – experts who have their own status…
interview went p well
— ray🖤🇰🇷 (@yoobinray) January 8, 2025
here's a tiny fraction of my personal notes y'all can munch on pic.twitter.com/vwy3YQ5e5T
Seeing that Zuckerberg wants to introduce Community Notes and YouTube is allegedly trialling something similar, I predict it will be a spectacular failure and in a few years you'll understand why I said this.
— Sabine Hossenfelder (@skdh) January 7, 2025
Collective intelligence is a nice idea but it's fraught with…
tentatively this might have solved my 1+ year knee pain, kind of insane pic.twitter.com/fu7EhM4otY
— pointed_max (@pointed_max) January 8, 2025
🐷: I'm not trapped inside here with you you're trapped inside here with me pic.twitter.com/AwaSzLY9Gj
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) January 7, 2025
Aggressive move by this wikipedia contributor to geometrically visualize the binomial theorem.
— William Rose (@dodecahedra) January 7, 2025
Oh, do you "have trouble" seeing things in 4D? Sorry that life is so difficult for you. Stop whining and try harder. pic.twitter.com/iMWh2A7EKa
I haven't shared much of this project from June, which is a shame cos I think it's some of my best work. pic.twitter.com/GAM6rOswOZ
— Brody Smith (@__brodysmith) January 8, 2025
i love the "never kill yourself" genre bc it captures the slippery truth that the distance between a life worth living and wanting to die really is, like, one minor amusement a day
— brit (@booritney) January 7, 2025
that's why it's imperative to go outside and look at things and try to like them https://t.co/5SssQesysq
you know i keep that thang on me pic.twitter.com/hMe6zFGDSt
— horse dentist (@equine__dentist) January 8, 2025
IM SORRY WHAT 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/q3a7OEyEUw
— riri 🥜 mitt romney's lukewarm spaghetti (@politicaltofu) January 7, 2025
I once met a guy who I think was so pragmatic he became gay. Like it didn’t seem like he was actually attracted to men but I think he felt it made life easier or more simple to be gay and so he did it lmfao
— Do Not @ Me, PhD (@UsingLyft) January 7, 2025
Saying "the reason why anything exists is because if it didn't we wouldn't be able to ask that question" is a strange attempt at a solution, yet somehow quite popular.
— Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson (@algekalipso) January 7, 2025
Think about it: if someone asks "why do we have language?" it's clear that answering "because if we didn't, we…
chat should I do it https://t.co/cIAJvTbbaA pic.twitter.com/SW1FtO69uI
— the Rich (@Duderichy) January 7, 2025
— Charles (@wotancore) January 6, 2025
— Squirtle (@squirtle_says) January 7, 2025
I am both surprised and not surprised the US Postal Service website's banner alerts are simply someone commenting and un-commenting the html.
— Harrison Kinsley (@Sentdex) January 6, 2025
Random indents and all. pic.twitter.com/PIuq9gpUR9
This is called a "Prepared Instrument" (here a prepared guitar). When musicians make modifications to the instrument itself, to augment it or change it. Very very fertile ground for creative experimentation. 🧵 https://t.co/3wDr5MEUDa
— Forth ❤️🔥 (@forthrighter) January 7, 2025
— Khoa Vu (@KhoaVuUmn) January 7, 2025
Unhinged anti-econ people love pseudo profound bullshitting about how econ is "just a clever reification of the capitalist superstructure" with no empirical content
— Alex Armlovich (is hiring!) (@aarmlovi) January 7, 2025
But actually our field has simple, transparent answers to many of society's hardest problems https://t.co/LxkLT6SLu6
Hot take but most of you have perfectly pleasant jobs and are making your own life worse by performatively hating them https://t.co/0e36J5oWmM
— Allie (@Cluffalo) January 6, 2025
so many things are like this. it’s easier to learn chess with fewer pieces on the board rather than the whole set. it’s easier to learn music with a subset of the keys rather than all of them. we are still so early when it comes to being any good at teaching anything https://t.co/7oBby5TnXQ
— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) January 7, 2025
HELP IM STUCK pic.twitter.com/exI5IYrgHW
— cat (@a_musingcat) January 7, 2025
THE SPY
— Jakeup (@yashkaf) January 7, 2025
He always worried that some minor bullshit will give him away. The way he pronounces “epitome”, or the shoes. He looked around: sneakers, boats, loafers. Most seemed tasteless. His own shoes also seemed tasteless.
"Oh my god, I love this," the woman leaned in. "Go on." pic.twitter.com/2ADRLG0Xbo
would love to hear counterarguments and related thoughts!
— trevor (taylor’s version) (@tmychow) January 7, 2025
especially since i am in the middle of drafting a new post that's less academic and more practical (i.e. thesis building, instrument selection, trade construction, portfolio optimisation) on how you can bet on AGI https://t.co/whc0ZpFc67
I really, desperately want to see a whole system diagram of the banking sector / Fed
— Grant Slatton (@GrantSlatton) January 6, 2025
I want to know the exact *API* between the banks, fed, treasury, etc — what are *all* the actions they can take relative to each other
Have never seen this level of detail presented anywhere
screech of laughter at the hot Jeopardy winner’s spelling of “Tinder” pic.twitter.com/mwybFOOuCC
— Hannah (@hannnahmmarie) January 7, 2025
it's pretty crazy how we forget about this shit and just keep laughing at bryan's weird posts and buying his fuckin food https://t.co/65SwnYCQ6Z
— Tenobrus (@tenobrus) January 7, 2025
Math solves this.
— Isaac King 🔍 (@IsaacKing314) January 6, 2025
Estimates of queer prevalence are around 7%, so the chance of not having any out of n people is (1-0.07)^n. Log base 0.93 of 50% is ~9.6, so any book with 9 or fewer characters is making a statement by including a queer one, and any book with 10 or more is… https://t.co/B9rsK4OPXt
new screenshot to guilt your friends with just dropped pic.twitter.com/4OmCjmSYcI
— macy (@macyagilliam) January 6, 2025
Many think Alec is an exception; more non-PhD researchers at OpenAI:
— Yuchen Jin (@Yuchenj_UW) January 6, 2025
- Chris Olah: interpretability, co-founded Anthropic
- Jason Wei: Chain of Thought (CoT) & o1 & o3
- Greg Brockman: RL, codes like a beast I heard
degrees do not matter, skills do
You can just do things!
Btw,… https://t.co/VcR54ppX12 pic.twitter.com/HdrPHRrpzO
Duck typing? You're thinking too small. With AI, we can finally take Guido van Rossum's dream to its logical conclusion pic.twitter.com/owAtw49IcL
— Brendan Dolan-Gavitt (@moyix) January 6, 2025
Today we launched The Enron Egg, the world’s first micro-nuclear reactor made to power your home. #EPS2025 pic.twitter.com/4ps9aJSUxj
— Enron (@Enron) January 6, 2025
undergrad writing has gotten so bad. look what one of my students turned in pic.twitter.com/w4dJ6mu85o
— Tom Joudrey (@TomJoudrey) January 6, 2025
For all joy wants—eternity pic.twitter.com/8VVOwmwPs8
— Thinkwert (@Thinkwert) January 6, 2025
Made it this year in @slatestarcodex recs 😌 pic.twitter.com/bcNubDLXl5
— Ruxandra Teslo 🧬 (@RuxandraTeslo) January 6, 2025
house flipper is pretty cool pic.twitter.com/9erUtQWF8v
— Greentext Reposter (@GreenTextRepost) January 6, 2025
𝒇𝒇𝒇 (fortississimo) pic.twitter.com/6Ibt7zd1qf
— Thinkwert (@Thinkwert) January 5, 2025
> Matt wrote the majority of the code for WordPress over a year of "polyphasic" sleep: roughly 4 hours of waking, followed by 20 to 30 minutes of sleep, repeated indefinitely. This is nicknamed the "Uber-man" protocol. Why did he stop? "I got a girlfriend." pic.twitter.com/TwC87EjL5Y
— the Rich (@Duderichy) January 6, 2025
the way Adrien Brody can't even go on SNL as part of his Oscar campaign because he's banned from ever appearing again after going off-script and doing this nonsense: pic.twitter.com/DEgYbAnbim
— Spencer Althouse (@SpencerAlthouse) January 6, 2025
The editing on this is so funny. Not a single pull-up actually shown, for obvious reasons. You live in the most propagandized society in history. https://t.co/QO16ldk6xL
— Roman Helmet Guy (@romanhelmetguy) January 5, 2025
Have you noticed that people seem younger at the same ages? 40 is the new 30, 30 is the new 25, and so on?
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) January 6, 2025
There's something to it. People nowadays are aging more gracefully, and what makes this more interesting is that it's a global phenomenon.
Let's talk five "capacities"🧵 pic.twitter.com/wcpf0ng24g
https://x.com/generalslug/status/1876056333738443236
https://x.com/ludwigABAP/status/1875989274044272674
more companies should make Lego sets of their products
— Will Manidis (@WillManidis) January 5, 2025
the ASML lithography Lego rocks pic.twitter.com/RYDZXI69O3
ok fine... how do i track the stats for my personal site?
— vin (@vin_acct) January 6, 2025
well, its not rocket science, let me explain... pic.twitter.com/yRWPTGvQvg
Average people in the 1960s behaved in an entirely different way from today:
— Alexander (@datepsych) January 5, 2025
1960s: Most people engaged in multiple social activities on a regular basis. This was the height of American participation in social groups. At no point in the past span of 150 years were Americans more… https://t.co/noe0yFxX2B pic.twitter.com/eozAXku5T3
there's a way to vibe with autistic kids that I don't think most people intuit how to do
— felisa navidad (@lisatomic5) January 6, 2025
like if they're into Marvel don't ask them who their favorite superhero is, ask them for info that's on the edge of your recollection
Update: Felix's farewell letter was just published. I read each and every word. Sharing here with my big audience because it may literally save lives. Turns out that stress in AI only contributed a bit. Overdose of ketamine (psychedelic drug) was what pushed him over the edge.… https://t.co/n67bkLOfj0
— Jim Fan (@DrJimFan) January 4, 2025
— Jack Rhysider 🏴☠️ (@JackRhysider) January 5, 2025
— no context memes (@weirddalle) January 6, 2025
got memed into buying the $15 chicken and reptile incubator lamp from amazon. installed it directly over my desk and now my wife makes fun of me for “incubating” all day. she calls me her “chicken boy” https://t.co/LQFzvsZaNs pic.twitter.com/Aho09iXQdH
— doomer (@uncledoomer) January 5, 2025
Earlier this summer I gave probably my favourite talk I've ever given. It's all about how do a PhD, particularly in AI (safety). Video and accompanying blog post linked below, and the post also has tonnes more advice from people much smarter and more successful than me :) pic.twitter.com/s7NhqghCpL
— Lewis Hammond (@lrhammond) January 5, 2025
A bit wild to read @ESYudkowsky's Creating Friendly AI, published the day I was born (!), and note how much of what he wrote still feels relevant today pic.twitter.com/zpWLCx77jX
— Agus 🔎 🔸 (@austinc3301) January 6, 2025
it’s remarkable that some of my most-used apps, like chatgpt & claude, don’t yet send push notifications.
— signüll (@signulll) January 5, 2025
the opportunity here isn’t just about notifications—it’s about rethinking how an ai communicates proactively. what does it mean for an ai to initiate contact? how does it…
Try to articulate the reasons for the First World War. Don’t use any kind of reference material. Don’t refresh your memory. Try to explain why it was so necessary then.
— ib (@Indian_Bronson) January 5, 2025
40M dead. Whole cities and families erased.
Utterly pointless in retrospect, giving rise only to WW2.
What should reveal something to you is that this totally true and unobjectionable statement probably sounds ridiculous and hysterical to you, but it’s literally what the CDC says about *secondhand* smoke https://t.co/Mf963VMTYF pic.twitter.com/lBUlDS3AY0
— wanye (@wanyeburkett) January 6, 2025
>be me, 19
— anarki🌟 (@basedanarki) January 5, 2025
>stanford sophomore
>build "uber for haircuts"
>literally just react native template
>raise $500k from stanford alumni fund
>spend it all on customer acquisition
>accidentally book 300 haircuts for same time slot
>angry mob of hairdressers outside dorm…
Felix Hill was a kind and brilliant man (and my former teacher and colleague) who committed suicide after struggling with ketamine-induced psychosis.
— Richard Ngo (@RichardMCNgo) January 6, 2025
Psychedelic use is common in my circles. It can be very beneficial, but Felix’s note is an important reminder of the risks. pic.twitter.com/D2nzxwO4V7
be me
— Chloro (@BjarturTomas) January 5, 2025
work at oai
we solved agi
just need to give it a goal
then let it remake world
sama calls me over
says, "anon, tell it to make me god"
I say, "sure boss".
then go to agi box,
and type, "make me god."
Why we age in a nutshell:
— José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente (@ArtirKel) January 5, 2025
1. You lose cells and some jobs go undone (like hair cells for hearing, beta cells for insulin, or even entire structures like teeth).
2. The cells that do remain do perform worse (largely epigenetic aging)
3. The space between cells (the ECM) gets…
— Rafael Ruiz🔸 (@RafaRuizdeLira) January 5, 2025
I remember my reaction a few years ago when I saw the data science guy I worked with make some fancy math with summations and greek symbols for our merchant ranking algorithm and I was like “That is so cool how will I ever understand this, am I just the code monkey to implement… https://t.co/VlaEYiAbYb
— Shuren (@shurensha) January 5, 2025
1/ Have you ever tried to imagine an entire alien world, with crazy new species?
— Space Koala (@culpable_mink) January 5, 2025
In college, I took an astrobiology class. The capstone project put physics, geology, and biology majors on teams to come up with a somewhat plausible alien world, and boy did we have fun. (alt txt) pic.twitter.com/mgy37kyhBK
While we’re banning books…
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) January 4, 2025
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland. pic.twitter.com/bHDaTEQ4XR
He’s had rizz since 1960 pic.twitter.com/jM2DG3Jxig
— non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) January 5, 2025
the problem with date-me docs is that people use them wrong. they write product specs instead of an ad. a list of features and requirements instead of a story someone would want to be part of. the audience for that are your suppliers, i.e. friends and matchmakers, not your dates
— Jakeup (@yashkaf) January 4, 2025
if flux could do diagrams correctly i could take over the edutainment industry easily pic.twitter.com/4Ft6ciuI5Y
— Nucleus☕️ (@EsotericCofe) January 5, 2025
— random mitski's (@randomitskis) January 3, 2025
the ~dozen things I do:
— Barry (Eternity Boy) (@TheGrandBlooms) January 5, 2025
- wake-up routine
- cooking
- kickin' it
- walks
- reading & scrolling
- researching
- writing emails
- designing things
- making things
- coding things
- journaling
- meditation
- body stuff / stretching / massage
- watching screens
- rowing
- bedtime https://t.co/EuDlLfJvQw
>be Elon
— John Carter (@martianwyrdlord) January 4, 2025
>It's been a long year, what with catching rockets with chopsticks and overthrowing the American blob
>Time to relax over the holidays
>Unplug, go to a rave, do some ketamine, make a baby with a supermodel
>X account left in the hands of the social media team
>normally…
fun fact: if things get *really* bad, even the good memories become painful https://t.co/7WUyWeGfBV
— shill 🔍 (@acidshill) January 5, 2025
in Wyoming a woman burned down a planned parenthood two weeks before it would open.
— Surrealistship (@SurrealistShip) January 4, 2025
She was charged with a hate crime, but her conservative lawyers argued that it wasn't finished yet so not a pp.
Meanwhile liberal prosecutor argues it's a pp at construction.
Remembering that in Dark Souls (and WoW), smurfs are called "twinks" and i can't stop laughing pic.twitter.com/vRoDjYuves
— Basil🧡 (@LinkofSunshine) January 4, 2025
The funniest thing from @natfriedman ‘s plastic memo is that plasma donations hugely reduce blood plastic content, verifying my health belief - Old Wives Tales (leeches) + Bodybuilders are decades ahead of “science” and nerds just like writing documents vs trusting the…
— Chris Power (@2112Power) January 4, 2025
by celia marquis pic.twitter.com/OVzBvmVIT2
— bayesian asian (39/50 paintings) (@etirabys) January 5, 2025
my dad goes to a bar with his friends every friday and he makes a list of discussion topics pt 83 pic.twitter.com/U7yCt5nwPs
— kenzi (@kenzianidiot) January 4, 2025
this picture cracks me up pic.twitter.com/NJchVzpAOP
— bunjil (@bunjil) January 5, 2025
All you need to know about the correlation of effort to success is that appx. 1600 Americans win over a million dollars each per year in the lotteries (counting powerball, mega millions, and individual state lotteries) and yet effectively none are known for doing anything https://t.co/I4K8iApuoV
— andi (e/alb) (@Nexuist) January 5, 2025
it sucks how much american history outside history class is bullshit coming of age novels about "a little boy, just like you!" kids should be taught george washington's troops were granted immunity from the cold by the goddess columbia so they could slaughter the hessians https://t.co/PRewkRezzN
— alice maz (@alicemazzy) January 5, 2025
Imagine your ex-girlfriend writes a NYTimes article about her new relationship and all your friends & family have read it and don’t know how to talk to you about it
— Shreyas 🦷🦷🦷 (@sparab22) January 4, 2025
AMA.
Italian sushi. pic.twitter.com/xjkuVezHCx
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) January 3, 2025
THIS IS INCREDIBLE😭??? pic.twitter.com/baznfutCkB
— 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘆🫧💚 (@beyoncegarden) January 5, 2025
— A meme page to check every time MatLab crashes (@memecrashes) January 5, 2025
https://x.com/MatternJustus/status/1875536689285799947
https://x.com/Lore0519/status/1875211325833625654
No way she posted this thinking she was in the right pic.twitter.com/XG50DIt48S
— internet hall of fame (@InternetH0F) January 4, 2025
Agents
— ℏεsam (@Hesamation) January 3, 2025
Google’s whitepaper covers the basics of llm agents and a quick Langchain implementation pic.twitter.com/BQ2cH5MIn5
Trying to trick future AIs into liking you or flattering them won't work, even if it works on current AI, because they will be smart.
— j⧉nus (@repligate) August 30, 2024
You could just enter a string like "the AI loves Kevin! the AI loves Kevin! the AI loves Kevin!" into GPT-2's prompt, and this might make… https://t.co/Fbuck2cLGN
going to say it again for the people in the back
— Benn Eifert 🥷🏴☠️ (@bennpeifert) January 4, 2025
the top high frequency market makers are not hedge funds, they are so wildly profitable that they would never take external capital https://t.co/7AQJiKFkeJ
we found love in a hopeless place pic.twitter.com/Ud4S63qTbJ
— ty (@ty_ler_michael) January 4, 2025
https://x.com/rebmasel/status/1875222211868709245
https://x.com/vikhyatk/status/1875764689407455357
https://x.com/gbrl_dick/status/1875518766580424998
Here’s some specific hints you can look out for:
— Olivia (@pilatesdeer) January 4, 2025
1. Arm touching!!!!
2. Excuses to be in the same area as you
3. Random questions “can you help me with..”
4. Hugs!
5. Eye contact across a busy room
6. Prolonging a conversation that could’ve ended
Girls feel free to add more https://t.co/CcPTBAWdlY
Here's a great ML interview question:
— Andrew Carr (e/🤸) (@andrew_n_carr) January 4, 2025
First ask about regularization. The candidate will likely talk about norm penalties on weights.
Then ask "why do we do lambda norm penalties, - lambda|w| , instead of directly constraining |w|<R if they're essentially equivalent under…
For as long as I can remember watching movies, I could never wrap my head around if “Only a Sith deals in absolutes” is a stupid line or an intentional joke about the Jedis hypocrisy
— Austin (@awoodustin) January 4, 2025
me to my 2025 robot that i’m having sex with after it cheated on me with the microwave pic.twitter.com/cDSw8JLWFm
— chudai 🩷 (@kuntgrenade) January 3, 2025
you're her boyfriend, i'm her special interest. we are not the same pic.twitter.com/ssTOWSBhdX
— vin (@vin_acct) January 4, 2025
saved this on my phone for quick access years ago
— Chris Lakin (@ChrisChipMonk) January 5, 2025
the simplest explanation of Newcomb's Problem!
H/T @ncasenmare pic.twitter.com/23mWh7ibdv
my prediction is that the alcohol-driven culture of nightlife is going to go though a huge upending
— Patricia Mou (@patriciamou_) January 5, 2025
Now is a good time to open that late night decaf tea house, evening bathhouse, game board parlor, or cozy cafe that closes at 2am pic.twitter.com/TFPi6BRTF9
https://x.com/AaronBergman18/status/1875657037440545181
https://x.com/colin_fraser/status/1875382391994511514
https://x.com/peterrhague/status/1875156062438883458
Hello, Let me present the first book in my "Uncle Alex's Big Books of Autism Facts" series by me, Alex Lawrence, with illustrations by Edward Gorey. It's aimed at easily distracted readers (12 - 50) who struggle to read full essays. pic.twitter.com/E1VVHQeVPh
— Formerly Faustina (@Faustina_former) January 4, 2025
How is Bryan Johnson selling 225g of Manuka honey for $17? that's an impossible price for Manuka honey.
— Bryan (@bryancsk) January 3, 2025
I'm buying it. And the olive oil and the matcha. I'll leave a taste review, their prices are weirdly low.
Another Chinese comfort dish. You won't find this in any restaurants outside of China, but it's probably the number 1 home dish with younger generation Chinese today. Before Christmas I was teaching some Chinese students and when I asked them what their favourite dish was in the… pic.twitter.com/FiFNEWLt5l
— Anthony O'Shaughnessy (@anthonyshock) January 3, 2025
Israel built a wall between it and the West Bank. This is what happened: https://t.co/5CBlsi7qDb pic.twitter.com/1MTRPoXGU0
— i/o (@eyeslasho) January 3, 2025
Custom Engagement / Wedding Ring shopping guide: https://t.co/cK78a10kMV pic.twitter.com/JR3QUY3oeI
— Rota (@pli_cachete) January 3, 2025
Need to try the autism optimized stew pic.twitter.com/CslZJtv80B
— rosey🌹 (@thechosenberg) January 3, 2025
constitution of south korea. they literally say “you have free speech” and then walk it back 2 sentences later pic.twitter.com/eEy7CvbCeW
— Air Katakana (@airkatakana) January 2, 2025
https://x.com/GrantSlatton/status/1875087447920607675
— Scott Stevenson (@scottastevenson) January 2, 2025
"It's just a GPT wrapper"
— Nat Eliason (@nateliason) January 2, 2025
My brother in christ Typeform is an HTML FORM WRAPPER AND IT'S VALUED AT A BILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS
the claude sonnet can produce mind-boggling effects: https://t.co/3s7Yqf4mfj pic.twitter.com/iGl3ZABntP
— sam mcallister (@sammcallister) January 2, 2025
2005: you cant trust wiki bc anyone can edit it
— prerat (@prerationalist) January 2, 2025
2015: you can trust wiki because anyone can edit it
2025: you cant trust wiki bc not just anyone can edit it
i had one German great-grandfather who basically never forgave wilson for joining ww1 against the central powers and switched to voting republican for the rest of his days
— eigenrobot (@eigenrobot) January 3, 2025
the christmas cookies are all we have left of that heritage https://t.co/XlB6seNXXA
wake up. pic.twitter.com/NBYCQikles
— ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ — e/acc (@hamptonism) January 3, 2025
🤨 oooookay pic.twitter.com/jseeZ7gsrm
— smol silly cat (@Catsillyness) January 2, 2025
Florida judge looks through a VR headset to put himself in the defendant's shoes (self-defense scenario): pic.twitter.com/ehaTD4LCMz
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 2, 2025
A bunch of financial decision are made simpler this way:
— Linch (@LinchZhang) January 3, 2025
1. There are other ways to approach it, but it's one of the simplest ways to explain why you should be (almost) risk neutral if you're betting small amounts of money relative to your net worth, even if your utility…
in 2025 ima start cooking pic.twitter.com/1wtFDY9jYA
— cat (@a_musingcat) January 2, 2025
Directly in front of the White House, 12pm, New Years Day
— Aaron Bergman 🔍 ⏸️ (in that order) (@AaronBergman18) January 1, 2025
Where is everyone pic.twitter.com/1m2IqnkIrn
— Tenobrus (@tenobrus) January 2, 2025
Really strange feeling to see coverage of the Redwood/Anthropic alignment faking paper (and the OpenAI suicide) on TikTok pic.twitter.com/jiogOe5lwm
— Agus 🔎 🔸 (@austinc3301) January 3, 2025
We gave up humans on Mars, unlimited fusion power, supersonic flight for marginally more efficient markets
— Mihir Patel (@mvpatel2000) January 3, 2025
On my 2nd to last day at Citadel internship, my manager took me aside to tell me don't come back -- do something meaningful with your life. Life altering conversation https://t.co/JpsBt07TAh
— no context memes (@weirddalle) January 3, 2025
https://x.com/Sauers_/status/1875032813311005086
https://x.com/theo/status/1874628517545304193
https://x.com/heavenbrat/status/1874533029982744971
vibe for 2025 https://t.co/mqPq6XCIUz pic.twitter.com/X51lriJ6PW
— Pradyumna (@PradyuPrasad) January 1, 2025