ChatGPT knows about all the companies that came out of Voltaire House <3

Making ChatGPT generate a MidJourney prompt:

Result:

Cool in 2010’s: I’m immortalized in the bitcoin blockchain.
Cool in 2020’s: I’m immortalized in the weights of GPT-3.

Note from fast.ai book: “The dataset you get given is not necessarily the dataset you want. It’s particularly unlikely to be the dataset that you want to do your development and prototyping in. You should aim to have an iteration speed of no more than a couple of minutes—that is, when you come up with a new idea you want to try out, you should be able to train a model and see how it goes within a couple of minutes”

“It’s interesting that the learning rate finder was only discovered in 2015, while neural networks have been under development since the 1950s. Throughout that time finding a good learning rate has been, perhaps, the most important and challenging issue for practitioners. The solution does not require any advanced maths, giant computing resources, huge datasets, or anything else that would make it inaccessible to any curious researcher. Furthermore, Leslie Smith, was not part of some exclusive Silicon Valley lab, but was working as a naval researcher. All of this is to say: breakthrough work in deep learning absolutely does not require access to vast resources, elite teams, or advanced mathematical ideas. There is lots of work still to be done that requires just a bit of common sense, creativity, and tenacity.” fast.ai book.

The fact that everyone is obsessed about how a centralized exchange (mis)managed user funds means there’s still a loooong way to go for crypto. The whole fucking point was reducing third party risk.

我们都休息五年吧

让我把电脑打开
让我把书打开
让我把帽子戴上
我刚把衣服洗了

“Deep learning folks really do like to add jargon everywhere they can!” .- Jeremy Howard.
I like this guy better every day :)

Cleverness is the root of all evil.

“The reason why this works is not entirely obvious” .- an honest machine learning teacher

我小狗叫了我跟他一起走路。 老师让我练习一点儿。 昨天我的朋友请我吃早饭。

𒂗𒃶𒌌𒀭𒈾, sumerian name of Enheduanna: a woman and the first known named poet. How cool is that?

Finding Meaningness’s chapter on control very interesting.

普通话很棒

“The mark of a good programmer: given any tools you will figure out a way to get it done” - John Carmack

I finally get this joke:

A: 我要睡觉！
B: 你很累？
A: 不累！我的肚子很饿。我要水饺！

Bootstrapping a non-profit organization is 10x harder than building a startup.

A: 我家离健身房两百米。
B: 哦！海边呢？你家离海边有多远？
A: 也很近。百米左右。

4 different uses of 呢 in one dialogue:
A: 你的狗呢？在哪儿呢？
B: 在这儿呢！它在睡觉呢

The significance of the symbolic.

El ocio dignifica.

If we ever build true AGI, will they want to do the dishes for us? Is it even OK of us to ask?

“Ironically, Stable Diffusion’s manner of release moves us closer to “open AI” than the way DALL·E was released by the company called OpenAI.”, Andrew Ng.
Image made with MidJourney.

I recently noticed that people who don’t read science fiction have a harder time telling apart science from fiction.

Heard at Burning Man: “Affluence is the ability to invest in the generations that follow.”

普通话比英文难。

我住的地方的冬天从来不下雪。有时候下雨。

有一个很小狗的周末了！

我想去中国500天

我每天学习中文左右

Explorers, conquerors, settlers, gardeners. Know thyself.

I finished Naval Ravikant’s book. What resonated most today for me is: “I think being successful is just about not making mistakes.”

Hello world!