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Devon

@devonbrackbill

Post-training LLMs. Building Gen AI tools. LP investing in SaaS and AI. https://teapawt.net/t.co/g8EcmKCZ8i - Effortlessly dispatch your workforce

 Boston, MA
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Joined June 2009
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Later, The Coffee Gets Cold
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This looks useful - someone read most of the major longevity books and compiled a list of recs. reddit.com/r/PeterAttia/comm…
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Scott Aaronson on GPT: “How can anyone stop being fascinated for long enough to be angry? … When was the last time something that filled years of your dreams and fantasies finally entered reality… ? That’s the scale of the thing.”
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Mesmerized by creation spaces. Silvia Bächli, Steve Jobs, Dieter Roth, Ralph Erskine
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cant stop thinking about this
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Not a single death from Covid in anyone who got any of these vaccines in a clinical trial. Not. One. #VaccinesWork Graphic credit : @MonicaGandhi9
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1. Re-upping this from yesterday afternoon. This is the CEO of Webull explaining clearly and unambiguously that his firm imposed buying bans on GME, AMC, and KOSS because clearinghouse collateral requirements had become too expensive.
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@JamesSurowiecki28 Jan 2021
Very interesting - Webull's CEO says that its clearing firm said it wouldn't settle trades in GameStop, AMC, and Koss because the volatility was making it too costly to do so.
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The new answer to a 77-year-old problem in data analysis, published today in @naturemethods. Instead of significance tests, use estimation graphics. Our software suite DABEST makes it easy for everyone to visualize effect sizes. rdcu.be/bHhJ4
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Is there a deep evolutionary connection between toolmaking and normative thought? In this new paper I propose a "skill hypothesis" regarding the nature and origin of normative cognition (open access): link.springer.com/article/10…
Toolmaking and the evolution of normative cognition

Toolmaking and the evolution of normative cognition

Biology & Philosophy - We are all guided by thousands of norms, but how did our capacity for normative cognition evolve? I propose there is a deep but neglected link between normative cognition...

link.springer.com
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Got my invite to the @OpenAI GPT-3 API from @gdb. I actually think it deserves more hype than it’s getting, but not necessarily for the magical reasons Twitter touts. Why? My quick thoughts and impressions: (1/11)
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Madeleine Albright had her first real *job* at age 37. Michael Bloomberg started his company at age 39. Charles Darwin published “Origin of Species" at age 50. There's still time to do something big.
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Below is a thread about the future of remote work after the COVID-19 pandemic is over. I predict that remote will go through a trough of sorrow due to hybrid not working out, and most companies will return to being office based. But many all remote companies will see success.
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Actual and projected data on US capitas per capita since 1790.
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Statistics in slow motion
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Introducing "this word does not exist" today - AI generated English words with dictionary definitions. Be kind! thisworddoesnotexist.com

This Word Does Not Exist

We use artificial intelligence to make up new English words.

thisworddoesnotexist.com
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A reminder to people who are doing “gotcha” on either Neil Fergusson’s private life or Imperial model code as evidence that there was something misguided in the UK’s assessment of the extent of the Coronavirus outbreak and potential for excess deaths - leading to lockdown >>
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A dizzying drone flight around a deserted Roma
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Two recent studies from CA claim a large % of the pop. has already been exposed to #COVID19. Here's why you should be skeptical. The test they used cannot distinguish between COVID19 and other coronaviruses, such as HCOV-OC43: a strain of common cold. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
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I don't think there's a way to say this diplomatically, but I think it's important to tell the truth: I have zero confidence in the Santa Clara serology study, and the recent work of Eran Bendavid generally.
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Stargazing
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