@saneeshnp

Jack of a few trades. Thinking about AI, investing & philosophy. Writing at https://xitter.cf/t.co/tGKmEApItm

 India
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Joined June 2009
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It’s kinda crazy to me that we melt sand down, clean it to 99.99999% purity, literal wizards have to draw it slowly into an ingot, we cut it, inscribe a hundred billion little on/off switches on it, and when you run electric current through it you can do basic arithmetic, which when you do enough of it can do any math on the planet, and which describes reality well enough that we can teach it the ontological meaning of words and their distance from each other on a high-dimensional space, and if you ask, it can tell you what word comes next and that apparently is powerful enough that if you do it a hundred billion times it’s the smartest thing to ever exist oh yeah and we use this primarily for email
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Team up.
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kepano
@kepanoAug 18
The idea that there are no moats left is greatly exaggerated. Here are 80 ways things win in biology and business.

Many ways to win

Article · @kepano
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The internet made you forget that things usually take time.
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We have two rules for code going to production @PhonePe : 1. You own the code you commit 2. You partially own the code you review and approve How the code is generated is irrelevant. Been working out fine so far for the most part.
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On summarization: One of the great benefits of AI has been the ability to summarize or condense content into shorter form. Short content is easy, palpable and sometimes addictive (think short videos) All of this comes with the side effect that's well described with this mental model - 'the map is not the territory' The summary is not the content, but a map of the content. It's great if you wanted the map. But if you wanted to experience the territory, you are basically missing out or ill informed. With an attention span that's shrinking everyday, you're tempted more to condense stuff. Sometimes that's the only way to catch up in an ultra fast paced world. The real advantage is when you can judge where to use a map (and you actually do it).
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If you have too many thoughts, write. If you have too few thoughts, read.
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It's FOSS
@ItsfossSep 12
In the olden days, some of these magazines would come with a disk with Linux distros on them.
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"The investment business is full of people who got famous for being right once in a row." - Howard Marks.
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I’m becoming increasingly convinced that a good life is mostly ordinary days you actually enjoy. Good food. People you love. Meaningful work. Something to look forward to. Enough money. A little sunshine. Peace in your house.
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You don’t actually have to be good at your hobbies. You’re allowed to just enjoy them and suck at them.
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Out of the many things that you miss when you read a Summary instead of the whole book, the reading experience is probably the biggest one.
Kpaxs
@KpaxsAug 11
Someone recently asked me: “Why read books when the AI can just summarize them?" I think it’s a fair question. And my honest answer is: the summary was never the point. Reading is a sustained encounter with another mind. 300 pages of someone's thinking pressed up against your thinking, for hours, over days. A summary gives you the conclusions. But conclusions are cheap. What's expensive & rare & precious is the shape of the thinking that got there. You cannot compress that, you can only sit with it.
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If you’re curious and love to learn, there has never been a better time to be alive.
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Added this to CLAUDE md today:
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Claude Shannon, a juggler, a tinkerer, the Einstein of communications - the man is an inspiration on how to live a life full of curiosity. Reading this #book, it’s clear that Claude never boxed himself into a category. He will build things with his hands, prove theorems, and dream of a future (full of AIs and robots). When a journalist asked about his secret for living an easy life, he replied: “I don’t care for being useful. I do whatever comes naturally to me”. This modest attitude from someone who dropped the bombshell that information theory is unmatched against other scientific giants who took themselves way too seriously. Read the biography. It’s a detailed glimpse into his inspiring attitude towards life.
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VV
@visualizevalueJul 27
Building vs. betting.
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signüll
@signulllJul 27
my current general principle of ai: ai gets you roughly 2/3rds of the way to a good result on almost any cognitive task. that final third is where taste, judgment, iteration, domain expertise, & originality compound. today the last third is where almost all the value lives. as the models get better & better, the last third will shrink to ~zero & then possibly negative.
Josh Elman
@joshelmanJul 27
It has never been easier to get first draft quality work. Almost no effort. This means that taste and final polish will matter more than ever to rise above the slop. We will see this in every category.
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When you don’t compare, no one has more.
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If you think about it, the whole point of life is to look back and feel no regrets at the end.
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ORBIT ACHIEVED. 🚀 Vikram-1 Test Flight-1 has reached orbit. India's first privately developed orbital rocket has completed its final burn and injected its payloads into a ~450 km orbit, making India the third country in the world with private orbital launch capability. History is made. 🇮🇳 #Vikram1 #JourneyToOrbit #SkyrootAerospace
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