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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

4 months

every asian i know who got fucked over by college apps spent their years at shitty college grinding their ass off and now they're all cracked. not exactly fun though, for smart ppl the intellectual environment of lower-tier colleges is poison. u have to be careful to maintain a

End Wokeness

@EndWokeness

4 months

His GPA score is 97.3%, SAT score is 1560, enrolled in a top high school, does tons of extracurricular work. He was rejected by multiple colleges. They call this equity and inclusion.

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

8 months

one thing I hate about being a cs nerd is how status games are so deeply wound into the community. I like hanging out at hackathons and talking about cool technical stuff and no I don't want to hear about where u interned or what fellowship u got or who ur tryna raise from

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

8 months

this is why I love hanging out with robotics kids so much, no money in the scene so they're in it for the pure love of the game

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@btheshoe

4 months

@nabla_theta Yeah this is the real play

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@btheshoe

1 year

@tenobrus wfh swe is really the most dangerous state for a neet cuz it's financially stable (terrified i'll end up there)

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@btheshoe

6 months

@KamerynJW @pachabelcanon pregnancy and birth are kind of literally a transformation between spaces

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

1 year

@MarkovMagnifico the first one is how you have a successful career, the second one is how you become a wizard and transcend the concept of careerism

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

4 months

@var_epsilon Pattern matches onto so many ppl I know

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

1 year

@mr_8_bit it takes ~3 months of grinding leetcode 20ish hr/wk to get good enough to pass any interview, isn't that large of a time investment. am curious what older folks would say tho

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

2 years

@ykilcher weirder than open ai's definition of "open"?

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

1 year

@coppertonebb absolutely goated album tho

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

1 year

@PiquantParvenu just launch B, collect ur mrr, retire

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

1 year

@eshear @muddletoes @VivaLaPanda_ might only take a couple thousand years, evolution can move pretty fast

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

6 months

@bryancsk it's basically much worse now than when zirp was going on. basically only facebook is hiring now when back in the day u had all the fangs taking large classes. so all the people who would have fanged go elsewhere and overall there are just fewer slots available for everyone

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

4 months

lol no, loo kids are cracked bc they graduate with 2 yoe from their absolutely unhinged coop program. typical L beff take. stop culture warring in my quotes plz.

Beff – e/acc

@BasedBeffJezos

4 months

"Why are Waterloo engineers so f*cking cracked" Because Waterloo was one of the only colleges with meritocratic admissions. Anybody who's went through the grind of making your way to the top through the long path (no Ivy League) is hungry and has a chip on their shoulder.

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

6 months

@kdrag0n @skhaz @Cloudflare danny why do u have 11 pb of data on r2

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@btheshoe

1 year

@ML_PhDer i would be social too if i could talk about machine learning at parties

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

4 months

Gonna start Calvin and Hobbes poasting

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

2 years

@visakanv I love Dan Luus blog post where he goes "95 percentile isnt that good" The problem here, of course, is the arrogance of the instructor to fail 90% of the class

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@btheshoe

4 months

That's it?

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

1 year

@ctjlewis @lonemapleleaf just look at the majors that are female dominated and the majors that are male dominated and it will make sense

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

8 months

@xsphi honestly I just fr think vc's are easier to rizz than women

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

6 months

Jennifer Coolidge has been bombing the fuck out of my uni grad commencement address for the past hour and honestly the audacity of it is more inspirational than most commencement addresses 10/10

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

8 months

the reason why nontechnicals tend to have stronger political opinions is that they're never forced to grapple with how complex the world actually is

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

1 year

@netcapgirl Lmao typical Jane street quant intern

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

6 months

we still are, its just that the bar went from 2 weeks of leetcoding to 4

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

8 months

ok not trying to dunk on the guy, but the idea of a hackathon being prestigious and influential is just so alien to me. Hackathons are places to work on cool projects, and for noobs to get a start. Turning them into status games is just so evil and grifty

Allen Naliath

@AllenNaliath

8 months

Treehacks is one of the most prestigious and influential hackathons in the world. I’m extremely excited to announce that for this Treehacks, I found the winning prize check and took a picture with it. Didn’t win anything lol

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

4 months

Nah, it's just everyone capable of this is doing something better with their time Pro chess is a worse distribution of talent than quant trading

TracingWoodgrains

@tracewoodgrains

4 months

chess plays an important role in keeping the rest of us honest Ethan Pang has been playing for four years. he is better at the game than you will ever be. if you quit your job and studied chess full-time for four years, you would hardly even put up a fight so it goes

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

1 year

@RichardMCNgo @bryan_caplan all the math prodigies i knew at my school (ie highly successful on the math competitive circuit) also racked up an insane number of aps

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

1 year

> "at google we" let me stop you right there. Has google released a single relevant product in the past decade? I don't know a single person who's used Lens. Google engineers won't even use Google Home. Android sucks so much people my age are embarrassed to use it

typedfemale

@typedfemale

1 year

> "at google we" let me stop you right there. because you aren't at google. not even close. everything you did "at google" was a sick perversion of our ideals. we will not allow it here. bring up bazel again and your coworkers have been instructed to attack you with baseball bats

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

6 months

honestly if ur hiring programmers and having trouble filling diversity quotas have u considered not being such a fucking transphobe smh

lumpenspace

@lumpenspace

6 months

"there are no good women engineers" is the most transphobic thing i've ever heard

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

4 months

thinking about starting a group house in sf. looking for houses with 6+ br. does anyone have pointers for resources to find these places?

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

4 months

spending four hours wrestling with ur python environment is good for you. builds character

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

5 months

democracy is just kinda bad. like clearly we shouldn't let the bottom half of Stanford vote

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

7 months

I've never understood the thing where male status is based on how much you have sex with women. surely there are more important things to be spending your time on, like math research

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

6 months

it's so nice when the best ppl u know succeed

Mark Rachapoom

@markrachapoom

6 months

We just got into @ycombinator !!

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

4 months

holy fuck am i glad i didn't end up joining them

Adept

@AdeptAILabs

4 months

Today, we’re announcing some updates to our strategy and some changes to our leadership and team. More details are in our blog:

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

1 year

@allgarbled idgi dude, like r seniors rly so insecure they need to respond to juniors being a lil immature? and surely this is all solveable by putting a little bit of effort to establish some rapport

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

6 months

cs : math :: pickleball : tennis

Squirtle

@squirtle_says

6 months

shut the FUCK up about fake sports like PICKLEBALL AND SPIKEBALL DONT LET THE AVERAGE TECH BRO CONVINCE YOU THAT THESE ARE “REAL SPORTS” PLAY VOLLEYBALL OR TENNIS LIKE GOD INTENDED

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

7 months

I have never taken a class where I learned quicker than if I had just read the textbook I have never taken a class more fun than if I had just read the textbook with my friends why do universities exist?

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

4 months

yes, and i suppose modeling isn't entirely about natural born looks either. still cooked if u were born under an 8 tho.

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@pinkddle

4 months

I find Terry Tao to be a whitepill, if you follow his writing he makes very clear that math is not about raw intelligence, actually it's not about *you* at all. It's about the problems at hand, which are large enough for anyone to enjoy climbing them.

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

8 months

if u ever want to hire a cracked engineer just go to any university robotics competition and see who the best teams have maniacally debugging the bot when it breaks two hours before competition starts

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@btheshoe

1 year

finishingcollegewillbegoodformefinishingcollegewillbegoodformefinishingcollegewillbegoodformefinishingcollegewillbegoodformefinishingcollegewillbegoodformefinishingcollegewillbegoodformefinishingcollegewillbegoodforme

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@btheshoe

2 years

@goingforbrooke @dieworkwear

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

1 year

@hkarthik Ya but Skyrim is more fun if u ignore the main quest and spend all ur time screwing around n side questing

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

5 months

If ur runway is running low consider staying for a bit in a third world country that costs less, like Germany

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

7 months

i remember when i met mark he was super discouraged, didn't want to keep working on merse clearly in the we're so back era now MERSE MERSE MERSE MERSE MERSE

Mark Rachapoom

@markrachapoom

7 months

Character consistency is the biggest barrier in generative media. Merse is here to solve this, and we're launching its API. Try it out here:

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

8 months

just met this cracked Ukrainian guy at my school, he told me about how he was studying competitive programming psets while a war raged around him, ultimately placed top ten in country. I have never respected a grindset more

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

7 months

@andersonbcdefg trishume perf optimizations rly just killed like a hundred startups

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

7 months

my attitude in college was that i don't go to one of these 4, so I can't rely on my university to teach me anything. The only way to reach excellence was to learn everything myself.

techbrahh

@techbrahh

7 months

there’s like four cs programs that actually teach you how to be a 10xer and every other program is kinda just terrible unless ur a grinder who would do good wherever and different programs teach you different 10x capabilities; eg stanford for ai, cmu for robots, etc

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

2 years

@QiaochuYuan Gihub pages by far. Free, you don't have to worry about any hosting stuff, you just have a github repo with a predefined structure and GitHub handles the rest for you

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

1 year

god is a woman. in fact god is an asian mother. this is why god hates me, because i'm bad at math

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

6 months

i hate college i hate college i hate college i hate college i hate college i hate college i hate college i hate college i hate college i hate college i hate college i hate college i hate college i hate college i hate college i hate college i hate college i hate college i hate

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

5 months

@Kirsten3531 rigorous high school is better for meeting smart people reasons. high schools are better than universities at concentrating talent for some reason

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

1 year

@krishnanrohit Isn't designing Twitter like the prototypical systems design interview question lmao

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

7 months

@justindross problem is scaling laws are exponential so this gets u like 4-5ish more generations. Also algo improvements don't matter, everything is data

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

8 months

every middle school needs a special ed program for gifted kids where they just go and start getting a PhD at the local university

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@btheshoe

1 year

@mister_shroom naw but sometimes u gotta poast stuff that purges followers to avoid audience capture u feel me

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

1 year

@captain_mrs yes but treating things as an iq issue isn't useful so it's best to discard that belief, whats most useful is to believe that you have control over ur skill issues, ppl tend to underestimate what they're capable of

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

1 year

@writerNMD Lol y'all have fun being luddites

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@btheshoe

1 year

@ryxcommar Keep coping

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

1 year

Yesterday was the last day of HackWashU, the end of my part in a project I helped start and have been working on for the past two-ish years. I believe in looking forwards, always on to the next thing. But I'll reminisce about this one, the happy memories, the triumphal moments

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

1 year

@andersonbcdefg from the e/acc discord

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

1 year

uni hackathon organizers have a single role, which is to transform company recruiting budgets into food in the stomachs of cs majors

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@btheshoe

4 months

@anammostarac > Interestingly, we don’t resent the royal family this seems obviously untrue?

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

7 months

I love how the humanities ppl who have never produced surplus economic value and exist basically as parasitic leeches on society think they have a monopoly on moral behavior

The Atlantic

@TheAtlantic

7 months

At Stanford, almost one in five undergrads now ends up majoring in computer science. At MIT, it’s 42 percent. CS is taking over academia, @ibogost writes, and its newfound power may corrupt:

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@btheshoe

8 months

growing up is seeing launch yc posts but it's ur friend's startup

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@btheshoe

2 years

@eigenrobot ??? experts have specialized language for discussing their specialized topic???

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@btheshoe

4 months

@tracewoodgrains one of the things that I love about being in cs is that everything can be boiled down to a skill issue

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@btheshoe

8 months

@EddyVGG @halogen1048576 even more than that, the way the system incentivizes it and practically forces everyone to play that game is evil

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

6 months

more importantly, being a good person to be around can boost the happiness and success of ur friends by magnitudes

Tyler Bruno

@tylerbruno05

6 months

The people who you surround yourself is one of if not the most important things you can do in life. Being around the right people boosts your happiness and success by magnitudes

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

8 months

this is literally just a skill issue, if ur like minimally competent u can always find a 150k start up job

near

@nearcyan

8 months

its actually over literally no one hires junior devs anymore

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

9 months

Active shooter on UC Berkeley campus rn!!! Plz stay safe all

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

7 months

thinking back I was basically never in the wrong as a child and every time I got in trouble was an adult being an asshole

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@btheshoe

4 months

"hey, are you a 7 figure-level MLE but want to come work for a startup for no equity and a 50k a year stipend?"

Arman Cohan

@armancohan

4 months

📢 My lab at Yale is looking for a postdoc to work on LLMs/NLP for health. This is a unique collaboration with a health startup focusing on both cutting-edge AI research and real-world impact to tackle domain-specific challenges of LLMs. Pls help spread the word! 1/2 🧵

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@btheshoe

4 months

@elucentdev yes, this is probably the best response. but it isn't really one you can arrive at coming from the asian immigrant experience. but like, there are real benefits to being successful in your career? material conditions exist? don't appreciate the human rights discourse, i find

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

6 months

dude literally half of them are suicidal why are we doing this to the kids

Hannah Frankman

@HannahFrankman

6 months

“If your kids don’t go to public school, they won’t be socialized!” The socialization they’re missing out on: •bullying •peer pressure •pop culture •pecking orders •hall fights •grade-level segregation Guys, I think the kids “missing out” will be fine.

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@btheshoe

1 year

@visakanv I think that it's bc ppl take it as a signal for manipulation which tbh is very sad to me. Like being unable to trust that ppl would put effort into things for reasons that aren't self serving or zero sum

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

2 months

Director at google wife failed startup founder husband (real couple I know)

Bojan Tunguz

@tunguz

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Founder mode.

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@btheshoe

7 months

- cold application online - cold application online

tess

@xsphi

7 months

(no particular order) - r/wayland - LinkedIn? I think? - multiple friends warned me about it - The Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas hackathon

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@btheshoe

7 months

am I doing the right thing right now am I doing the right thing fuck fuck fuck what if I'm doing the wrong thing no wait chill you sat down and thought it through theoretically this is the right thing but what if I missed something fuck am I doing the right thing what if I'm doi-

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@frideswyth

7 months

I’ve never been able to find my calling, or what I’m “supposed” to do even though I feel a strong sense that there is something. The feeling that I don’t know what I’m supposed to be doing is so awful that it’s replaced death anxiety as my most tortured thought form.

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@btheshoe

5 months

@zinniaa_3 when all the indians at my high school got rejected from uiuc we called it the browntown massacre

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@btheshoe

6 months

i saw an asian kid and thought he was smart and then i saw he was reading this book. ha! in 7th grade and still learning to count. what a fool!

Colin Fraser

@colin_fraser

7 months

A math department at a major university in the US is now offering a semester long course on “game theory”. Yes, you read that right. Games. The things tiny children play. The dumbing down of America continues…

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@btheshoe

8 months

DUDE they automated copy pasting from GPT-4. MIND BLOWN 🤯

Raunak Chowdhuri

@raunakdoesdev

8 months

🤯 crazy exchange on @modal_labs slack between @cognition_labs 's Devin & modal's support team

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

6 months

the nontechnicals always win at the end, many such cases

Sam Altman

@sama

6 months

Ilya and OpenAI are going to part ways. This is very sad to me; Ilya is easily one of the greatest minds of our generation, a guiding light of our field, and a dear friend. His brilliance and vision are well known; his warmth and compassion are less well known but no less

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@btheshoe

10 months

white privilege is not having math related trauma

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

4 months

video games were the thing that taught me I could be good at stuff. The whole thesis for cs was literally "hey what if I knew as much about something economically useful as I know about Minecraft?"

ShanghaiPanda

@thinking_panda

4 months

Tencent, the world's largest gaming company, announced that all minors in China can play online-games for an hour a day on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays during their summer holidays. As the father of a minor, I agree with Tencent's restrictions on minor game time.

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@btheshoe

1 year

thinking about how god hates me and ill never find love cuz im bad at math (only fields medalists are allowed to be happy)

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

2 months

@MidtownMarty @varadhjain @PaterPoliticum @rohindhar Hey, your dm's aren't open and I'd love to chat about SF real estate

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

2 years

@one_more_EIS @river_is_nice lol a ton of extraordinary musicians from my high school who play in carnegie hall or whatever to get into stanford and then immediately pivot to a cs degree

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@btheshoe

1 year

@ericjang11 ai bro equivalent of getting rich and then doing a math phd for fun

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@btheshoe

2 months

classic out of touch rich person take. so much money they forgot what being broke is like

Andrej Karpathy

@karpathy

2 months

I feel like a large amount of GDP is locked up because it is difficult for person A to very conveniently pay 5 cents to person B. Current high fixed costs per transaction force each of them to be of high enough amounts, which results in business models with purchase bundles,

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

6 months

aws culture is ppl with asian parents who need to be abused a little to perform optimally

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@btheshoe

8 months

@DeepDishEnjoyer basically other colleges stopped autoaccepting all the comp math kids so they all go to mit now

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

4 months

@aheze0 @felpix_ "yes, that one"

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

7 months

@_ericrosen matrices are transformations between spaces! The fact that we associate them with numbers is vulgar and disgusting

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

7 months

@DefenderOfBasic this is because the "rules" don't exist, just need to be sufficiently good at reading other ppl. the rules are however u expect them to react.

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

8 months

@sur4js @dandipietro1 ya and the crazy thing is knowing stuff like that is dramatically higher signal than any credential

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shoeshoeshoe (201/🍓)

@btheshoe

4 months

i have discovered evil and it is the pytorch autograd functionalization edge cases fuck my life

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