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Eran Friedman retweeted
Rory McIlroy explains how 14 years of failure flooded his brain after one disastrous shot at the 2025 Masters, and the mental reset that kept the tournament from slipping away:
“It felt like it was then or never. If I didn’t go on to win, it would have been one more bad memory and more scar tissue building up.”
“My best chance was 14 years ago in 2011. I’ve been close since. I’ve finished second. I’ve played in final groups. I’ve just never been able to quite figure it out.”
“I put it out there that this is what I want. This is what I want to achieve.”
“That puts more pressure on you from the outside.”
“I was in the lead on the 13th hole and I got ahead of it and made a bad swing. My dad said to me afterward, ‘You had all of Georgia on your left, and you hit it right.’”
“I hit a similar wedge shot at the US Open in 2023 that lost me the US Open.”
"All those bad memories start to enter your brain, it can paralyze you."
“I was like, ‘I’ve done it again. You idiot. I’ve done it again.’ It can really mess with your head.”
“I felt awful, I made a seven, but I looked up at the big leaderboard. I still had the lead.”
“I was like, ‘Okay, you still have the lead. You’ve got five more holes to go. You’ve got another par five. Everything’s okay.’”
Two holes later, McIlroy faced a similar shot over the water:
“All I needed to do was focus on hitting it and making sure I struck it well enough to get over the water.”
"I just reminded myself I had hit a perfect one the day prior, and all those great shots I had hit in the past, just leaned on those memories."
“It came out perfect. That was the shot that turned it around. That got some momentum again.”
“No matter what I do going forward, that’ll go down as the greatest shot of my career.”
Eran Friedman retweeted
Slide into the weekend with 3 video generations at no cost with Veo 3 in the @GeminiApp. But act fast — you have from now until Sunday, 8/24 at 10 pm PT.
On your marks, get set, wheee!! 🛝
Eran Friedman retweeted
To keep bike lanes safe, Amsterdam limits e-bikes to 15mph.
Faster ones are treated as mopeds and are banned from bike lanes.
Police test a bike’s limiter on the spot and fine €300 for the first offence. Beyond that they confiscate. They confiscated >10k bikes last year!
Eran Friedman retweeted
Product management is becoming the new bottleneck according to @AndrewYNg
"I don't see product management work becoming faster at the same speed as engineering. I'm seeing this ratio shift.
Just yesterday, one of my teams came to me, and for the first time, when we're planning headcount for a project, this team proposed to me not to have 1:4 PM/engineers, but to have 1:0.5 PM/engineers.
I still don't know if this is a good idea, but for the first time in my life, managers are proposing having twice as many PMs as engineers.
I think it's a sign of where the world is going."
Andrew Ng (@AndrewYNg) on how startups can build faster with AI.
At AI Startup School in San Francisco.
00:31 - The Importance of Speed in Startups
01:13 - Opportunities in the AI Stack
02:06 - The Rise of Agent AI
04:52 - Concrete Ideas for Faster Execution
08:56 - Rapid Prototyping and Engineering
17:06 - The Role of Product Management
21:23 - The Value of Understanding AI
22:33 - Technical Decisions in AI Development
23:26 - Leveraging Gen AI Tools for Startups
24:05 - Building with AI Building Blocks
25:26 - The Importance of Speed in Startups
26:41 - Addressing AI Hype and Misconceptions
37:35 - AI in Education: Current Trends and Future Directions
39:33 - Balancing AI Innovation with Ethical Considerations
41:27 - Protecting Open Source and the Future of AI
Eran Friedman retweeted
Cool demo of a GUI for LLMs! Obviously it has a bit silly feel of a “horseless carriage” in that it exactly replicates conventional UI in the new paradigm, but the high level idea is to generate a completely ephemeral UI on demand depending on the specific task at hand.
Eran Friedman retweeted
The race for LLM "cognitive core" - a few billion param model that maximally sacrifices encyclopedic knowledge for capability. It lives always-on and by default on every computer as the kernel of LLM personal computing.
Its features are slowly crystalizing:
- Natively multimodal text/vision/audio at both input and output.
- Matryoshka-style architecture allowing a dial of capability up and down at test time.
- Reasoning, also with a dial. (system 2)
- Aggressively tool-using.
- On-device finetuning LoRA slots for test-time training, personalization and customization.
- Delegates and double checks just the right parts with the oracles in the cloud if internet is available.
It doesn't know that William the Conqueror's reign ended in September 9 1087, but it vaguely recognizes the name and can look up the date. It can't recite the SHA-256 of empty string as e3b0c442..., but it can calculate it quickly should you really want it.
What LLM personal computing lacks in broad world knowledge and top tier problem-solving capability it will make up in super low interaction latency (especially as multimodal matures), direct / private access to data and state, offline continuity, sovereignty ("not your weights not your brain"). i.e. many of the same reasons we like, use and buy personal computers instead of having thin clients access a cloud via remote desktop or so.
I’m so excited to announce Gemma 3n is here! 🎉
🔊Multimodal (text/audio/image/video) understanding
🤯Runs with as little as 2GB of RAM
🏆First model under 10B with @lmarena_ai score of 1300+
Available now on @huggingface, @kaggle, llama.cpp, ai.dev, and more
Eran Friedman retweeted
English is the most powerful human language and the universal medium for thought. I’d take mastery of English over multilingualism any time of the day.
Eran Friedman retweeted
Constraints foster creativity. Mario has a mustache and a hat because they couldn't render a mouth, eyebrows, or animate hair with limited tech
Eran Friedman retweeted
A good reminder for builders is that someone adopting your product happens in two moments. 1️⃣ awareness 2️⃣ low-friction first use. People use products when they *need* them.
As an example, someone pitched me their pre-release “ai-native photoshop” the other day. I went to the site and roughly got the idea. It helped that the product itself was the website so I understood the idea faster by messing with it, rather than marketing fluff.
However, just now I actually had a use case. I was astonished by how good this thing is. It worked first try and I’m now entering the “holy shit” phase.
The first time I used it was the awareness development moment. If the product builder expected a successful “session” then, he would have set himself up for disappointment.
The second moment was the crucial one. Users’ attention spans, propensity to go through yet another tool, signup, etc are very low. That second moment needed to be flawless and it was.
Incidentally this is why you need to really pick your battles with product surface and optimize for quality. Had that second moment not been successful, I don’t know if I would have tried it again for a while. Anecdotally, people seem to do an “exponential back off” with products they’re disappointed by. They won’t try you again next week, they’ll try you again in a few months, maybe after another awareness moment in between.