Cédric @complexityced

Complex systems afficionado. Maximiser of positive externalities Joined December 2022

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Christin @hexprax

5 days ago

It ruins books for me when I get to "the sentence"

兔兒神 @chenchenwrites

6 days ago

It ruins books for me when I get to "the sentence"

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Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook_

4 days ago

You just need to take a good look at all the older people who didn't get to live the life they wanted, and it will become obvious that the causes are always the same, generation after generation:

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The incredibly clever trick that all frontier AI labs use which makes LLMs so fabulously powerful: they barely regularize at all, resulting in models which are massively overfit. This would be a problem, except they’re overfit to the domain of all human cultural knowledge.

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Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele

a week ago

I could do the funniest thing right now…

Kalshi @Kalshi

a week ago

I could do the funniest thing right now…

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Delta, Dirac (AKA Pan Guy, lmao) @DeltaClimbs

a week ago

I am building a cooking pan. 3 years ago I asked myself, "if I threw budget out the window, and made the best possible pan that won't be ITAR-restricted, what would I do?" Finally got around to it. Sintered, mirror polished silicon carbide. Single block machined carbon steel.…

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Jack Morris @jxmnop

2 weeks ago

first i thought scaling laws originated in OpenAI (2020) then i thought they came from Baidu (2017) now i am enlightened: Scaling Laws were first explored at Bell Labs (1993)

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Ben Landau-Taylor @benlandautaylor

2 weeks ago

In high school I had a physics class where the teacher had us do the experiments *before* explaining the concepts they were meant to demonstrate, as God intended. So we measured the temperature of a hot glass of water and a cold block of aluminum of equal mass, then put the…

Guy HAS FINISHED WRITING THE BOOK (BETA) @nosilverv

2 weeks ago

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Snarky Puppy @RealSnarkyPuppy

2 weeks ago

“Somni” is the biggest, most ambitious project we have undertaken in 21 years as a band. It involved 74 musicians, 256 lines, 12 cameras, almost 1,000 live audience members, and a whole lot of love and care from everyone involved.

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David Haber @dhaber

2 weeks ago

1/ One of the most valuable things you can do for your career – whether you are an investor or a founder – is to see what “great” actually looks like.

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Nick @nickcammarata

2 weeks ago

i have no idea how “I look like my parents and my kids look like me” didn’t immediately lead every scientist and general person with a brain to theory of evolution five seconds later. it only takes one more recursive hop, it’s a tree like this all the way up, so tiny

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roon @tszzl

2 weeks ago

companies like Facebook record every imaginable interaction their users have with the platform. they log each of your clicks and taps. they keep track of how long your gaze lingered on a post, whether you were on the same WiFi as that woman who might be your friend, which…

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Yuxi on the Wired @layer07_yuxi

3 weeks ago

Hinton ~1983 thought Boltzmann Machines > backprop, but debugged himself out of the infatuation Boltzmann Machines failed to learn, so he printed out weights, 8 cm thick, and inspected them for weeks it's the dreaded local minimum so 1 yr later, in desperation, he tried backprop

djcows @djcows

3 weeks ago

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Lennox Johnson @Lennox181

2 months ago

My first substack post is about my misguided attempt to convince the effective altruism community to become socialists, and how this backfired completely. Link below.

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Ryo Lu @ryolu_

a month ago

don’t build slot machines don’t fake humans don’t hide the messy truths don’t create black boxes don’t make people feel stupid don’t extract value or attention don’t optimize for vanity metrics don’t gatekeep knowledge don’t make tools that divide don’t sacrifice agency for…

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Yoon Kim @nicoscosc

a month ago

Borges at eighty: “I think that one should never use words like ‘the best’ or ‘the first,’ since those words carry no conviction and only lead to arguments. Beauty is not something rare. […] For example, I know nothing whatever about Hungarian poetry, and yet I am sure that [+]

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patrick @greekpoem

a month ago

Schopenhauer compares the poet with the philosopher:

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Thinkwert @Thinkwert

2 months ago

Prescient, from Shel Silverstein in 1981

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D the Designer @D_the_Designer

2 months ago

@timsoret There is a weird hauntology with a lot of AI imagery; parts of latent spaces that look like a style that *should* have existed, but didn’t.

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Vacha @TVachaW

2 months ago

To get “out of our heads,” sometimes we have to get fully into our heads first. Thoughts usually come with both sensory component and conceptual components. For “overthinkers” the sensation of a thought often feels like a light tingling in their brain. Or a tightness, pressure…

polo @DripArab

2 months ago

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Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom

2 months ago

Dopamine from information gathering is a dangerous drug. Your entire life will change the moment you stop looking for more information and start acting on the information you already have. Always get your dopamine from action.