waking up before ur alarm is such a slay like yeah I rely solely on divine intervention to arise from my slumber not a temporally synchronized, mechanized auditory signaling apparatus
its insane how 99.999% of suffering can be solved by
-picking up sth heavy
-seeing daylight
-drinking more water, caffeine, or both
-allocating a majority portion of financial assets into a digital currency with < 24 hours of market presence
.. its literally that simple
having a productivity fixation is important bc whenever there’s a voice in your head questioning if you’re lonely or on the wrong track in life there should be a louder voice yelling who cares if you’re a loser idiot you need to finish the fucking feature
I think human art still has value, not because a machine can't make it, but because just one person can have the talent to make something so beautiful that a machine can make perfectly without a second thought (or any real thought at all)
It seems like everyone knows what RLHF is but what’s the devex around it? What tools are used? Once you’ve collected the data, what do you actually do to the model to get it to incorporate it?
one of the biggest blockers to progression is having to teach beginners that the secrets to success lie in words like "pandas" and "matplotlib" and "scipy" when you're trying to do something like "show a bar chart"
There's an argument to be made that we should be paying civil servants like $300,000 a year so that they actually focus on doing work instead of playing the political games necessary to secure their slice among the pizza rats
Climate degrowthers would have a point about air conditioning if we didn’t have a way to power air conditioners using the Sun. I know Phoenix Arizona is blessed by the Lord because he made it so that solar panels work the best on the brightest, and therefore hottest days
Tinfoil hat theory: Putin and other Russian leaders are monitored by a biometrics sensor suite, which act as inputs into the Dead Hand system. Makes it impossible to assassinate any of them, could also explain why Prigozhin had to back off at the cusp of victory
the overlap between communists and people who don’t support space travel becomes rational once you remember that their primary critique against capitalism is its never ending march towards resource consumption, which ceases to be an issue if we colonize the universe
The Matrix only really took off in cultural lore because the movie was a 1-in-a-million banger. Imagine how lame you’d feel working on a movie with some dumb math name like “The Logarithm”
Vision Pro was the missing puzzle piece for IoT robotics. The fusion of sensors + actuators into our eyes will enable brand new occupations. Forget apps; let's talk about tractor, excavator, and fighter jet HUDs. Let's talk about seeing pipes through walls and the ground!
if rich people always put their family in positions of power after ascending to the throne themselves it seems like a good survival strategy is to find a rich person and treat them better than their family does
In much the same way as people push you to travel outside of your hometown, I think it's important to have accounts on social media sites you never use to understand the different variants of online people. I have near-perfect mental models of HN, pinterest, and tumblr users
<NYT opinion article naming committee> (throws dart) MANHATTANITES are attempting to (throws dart) GENTRIFY (throws dart) PROSPECT PARK SOUTH in a bid to overthrow the (throws dart) BROOKLYN VIBE
It’s pretty nice that they make sure the scientists helping the evil villains in superhero movies all die in the end. Keeps the scientists in the real world in check
The North American Nebula in false color. This area is HUGE in the sky, just too faint to see visually. If it were brighter it would be dozens of times larger than the full moon!