Cornell '14 (CS/EE). Formerly: edtech swe, math grad student + ml researcher, machine learning engineer at Apple, Gauntlet AI champion. Views my own. 5'7" ;)
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Trevor Slaton retweeted
Y'all I found the source of the midwit meme in a book written by a Dominican monk in 1920
Amazing
Tornyol (@tornyolsystems) is building micro-drones that kill mosquitoes.
They use smartphone microphones, car park assist sensors, and some clever DSP and control to transform 40-gram toy drones into mosquito killers.
Trevor Slaton retweeted
If we ever get near saturation on this eval set, the next eval set we create must be called
Humanity's Last Exam _Final.docx
Correct.
It is important to understand that current US Democrat policies can *never* work, even with unchecked authority and unlimited money. There is no blaming "but it was the Republicans!" when you have these blank checks.
Fantastic work!
You kept asking for it so I finally put all my articles in a single place.
Here's your machine learning library.
Trust me, you want to bookmark this.
It's only going to grow from here on: thepalindrome.org/p/the-pali…
Some cultures are DEFINITELY better than others.
This isn't even a controversial statement.
If you think it is, you subscribe to a culture that you think is definitely better than another culture you believe to be mean.
We need an alternative strategy for encouraging people to take in new information and update their beliefs.
This post is correct but sadly underselling... *most* people feel threatened by information that challenges their established views.
I'm slowly starting to realize that the "red-pill-awakening" moment that I and others had after Hurricane Helene, is extremely rare.
I was naïve in believing that if you just showed people the truth, they’d see it... and change their minds.
I was wrong.
Maybe that’s the scariest part, realizing some people don’t WANT to wake up at all.
They’d rather stay wrapped in emotion than face reality.
Feelings are a comforting, they are warm blanket where, no matter if you're wrong... you can argue that your INTENTIONS are good.
They’d rather live in the comfort of emotion than face the discomfort of reality.
It’s easier to FEEL right than to BE right.
It's WAY easier to be angry than to be honest.
I'm starting to understand that a significant portion of people I know actually identify themselves as a movement they belong to.
So when facts, the truth, challenge any part of that identity... well then that information actually becomes a threat to their very identity.
So actually the OPPOSITE of what I thought would happen actually occurs.
I thought the truth would open people's eyes... but I dramatically underestimated how much tighter people cling to the stories that make them feel safe, even when those stories are lies.
Because once you ACCEPT the truth, you can’t unsee it.
You can’t go back to sleep, and sadly I've realized that the vast majority of people would rather keep dreaming.
It is heartbreaking.
Sadly, it appears even the truth can’t compete with the dopamine hit of outrage or the warmth of belonging to a crowd that never asks them to think or defend any position.
Maybe that’s what makes waking up, these "red-pill moments" so rare.
It's not just that you have to see the truth, you have to have the courage to be willing to admit you were wrong and change your mind.
I'm realizing, perhaps WAY too late, how rare that actually is.
A turning point, perhaps.
Tech just said “no” to woke culture.
The cancel crowd has lost its hold in tech and look really stupid now.
They tried to cancel the creator of Ruby on Rails and take away his project. Instead hundreds of programmers and tech CEOs finally found their voice and said “enough!”
This is a great day. Too long the crazy cancel crowd terrorized the industry, but no more.
The spell is broken.
You know what else is underpriced in this regard? Nvidia GPUs!
