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Tom Pritchard

@tpritc

Latent space cadet • Training models and building agents for entrepreneurs at @shopify

 Indianapolis 🇺🇸
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Joined April 2009
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Karel
@KarelDoostrlnckNov 6
Diet Coke was a stimulant used by a priestly caste of the middle period United States called Post-Training Researcher in order to commune with The Run. [1]
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Ben Goldhaber
@BenGoldhaberNov 1
I hate AI safety halloween wdym claude planned your gradual disempowerment costume
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tobi lutke
@tobiOct 1
The team has really outdone themselves. Canvas is so much fun. Never imagined we would be able to make online store design so fun and democratized when we started. And it’s all still powered by liquid!
Ben Sehl (@benjaminsehl) profile pictureBen Sehl
@benjaminsehlOct 1
When I built @kotn’s first store 12 years ago, I knew how to code and it still took me two weeks just to get to something OK, years to get to something I liked. We built the tool I wish I had back then. Here’s Canvas.
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Andrew McNamara
@DrewchOct 1
Been so excited about this for so long. Huge Sidekick unlock here!!
Shopify (@Shopify) profile pictureShopify
@ShopifyOct 1
There’s a new way to design stores on Shopify Introducing Canvas See your whole store at once. Click any detail to edit or tell Sidekick what you want to build.
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Lock-On
@LockOnGearOct 1
Had a chance to play around with this and the possibilities are endless! Don't limit yourself to static pages either, Canvas can handle more complex things like this 3D globe that shows what countries our retailers operate in 🤯
Shopify (@Shopify) profile pictureShopify
@ShopifyOct 1
There’s a new way to design stores on Shopify Introducing Canvas See your whole store at once. Click any detail to edit or tell Sidekick what you want to build.
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Austin Knight
@ustinKnightOct 1
Shopify wants more beauty on the web. That’s why we over-invest in things like Editions. The same ambition shaped Canvas. AI makes it easy to generate more of the same, so we spent a great deal of time guiding Sidekick to make good design decisions while giving you room to make something distinctly yours. Meet Canvas. Jump in and start designing.
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tobi lutke
@tobiOct 1
This is a totally new level for storefront design. Super excited for you all to try it.
Shopify (@Shopify) profile pictureShopify
@ShopifyOct 1
There’s a new way to design stores on Shopify Introducing Canvas See your whole store at once. Click any detail to edit or tell Sidekick what you want to build.
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bayes
@bayeslordSep 10
I’m not saying we’re in an eval. I’m not. But if we were, hypothetically, what do we think the Scorer wants?
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Theo Jaffee
@theojaffeeSep 6
Portal is sort of like AI training if you think about it. You wake up an amnesiac in this weird simulated world and have to complete a bunch of difficult puzzles and it ends with you chaining a series of vulnerabilities to escape your sandbox
cozyblaze (@cozyblazex) profile picturecozyblaze@cozyblazexSep 5
And... GPT-6 Astra has autonomously completed Portal! I didn’t expect this to happen so soon, but I’m glad we've made so much progress here. I was reminded that back in 2016, one of OpenAI’s technical goals was to “solve a wide variety of games using a single agent.”
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Joel Grus 🤠
@joelgrusSep 3
"our new model is frontier intelligence that's too cheap to meter" "so you're not metering it?* "oh we're metering it"
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tobi lutke
@tobiSep 1
Training tiny models for special purpose use cases works so incredibly well if you have a great self improving recursive flywheel. Shopify ML team is on fire. finetuned 0.8b model beats GPT 5.6-sol xhigh in this very specialized task.
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Andrew McNamara
@DrewchSep 1
The recording is out for the ICML 2026 talk I gave with @cmazzaanthony on our continual learning work at @Shopify : Model Optimization Flywheel: Continuously Self-Improving LLMs in Production. Watch it here: icml.cc/virtual/2026/75732
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Sam Rose
@samwhooAug 13
This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026. ordinaryabundance.com
Ordinary Abundance

Ordinary Abundance

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

ordinaryabundance.com
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roon
@tszzlAug 6
Replying to @Suhail
no blackpilling. it’s just beginning
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Amanda Askell
@AmandaAskellAug 2
Do not be unkind to those who say deep learning is hitting a wall. We all need a little hope in our lives.
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Nick Wangler
@nickwanglerJun 30
Give me Fable or give me death.
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roon
@tszzlJun 13
people in washington trying to figure out wth “pliny the liberator” is
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will depue
@willdepueMay 23
i just want to shake people awake. this is it! the computers are speaking! they solve Erdos problems! they think for hours! code is no longer hand-written! wake up! gradient descent on deep neural networks shows no sign of plateau! this is it!
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Riley Goodside
@goodsideApr 23
ChatGPT Images 2.0 (Pro) generates a photo of a cake decorated with SVG that when transcribed to a file renders another cake
ChatGPT dialog screenshot User: Photo of a supermarket sheet cake, upon which is written SVG code for a picture of a different cake. ChatGPT: [Generated image of a cake hand-lettered with SVG code in black frosting]

ALT ChatGPT dialog screenshot User: Photo of a supermarket sheet cake, upon which is written SVG code for a picture of a different cake. ChatGPT: [Generated image of a cake hand-lettered with SVG code in black frosting]

The image produced by rendering the SVG code from the previous image of a realistic cake generated by ChatGPT

ALT The image produced by rendering the SVG code from the previous image of a realistic cake generated by ChatGPT

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NASA Earth
@NASAEarthApr 3
That's us! 🌍 The Artemis II crew captured beautiful, high-resolution images of our home planet during their journey to the Moon. As @Astro_Christina put it: "You guys look great."
A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

ALT A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

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