Tricky @trickylabyrinth Twitter profile

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Tricky

@trickylabyrinth

3 days

takes too much effort to lay out full arguments time to start schizo rambling without context

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Tricky

@trickylabyrinth

4 months

Stripe runs on AWS, and it seems like those're their only servers AWS (and the rest of Amazon) now depends on Stripe for payments isn't there now some risk of a mutual outage? a risk of them knocking each other out in a positive feedback loop

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@MarmotRespecter tfw her getting the ick gives you the ick

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2 months

why do a bunch of novelty accounts go from posting moderately interesting things to posting mute-worthy horseshit?

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“Historic vids”

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6 months

in my experience, it's the exact opposite: actually good materials make learning ~1-2 orders of magnitude faster, but they're exceedingly hard to find the effect's so strong that effective learning's dominated by the cost of searching for them; aka this tweet:

Ludwig Yeetgenstein

@yeetgenstein

6 months

Educational materials (books, lectures) don’t matter. There are no good books, there are no good lectures. What matters is doing the exercises. When you’re at MIT you’re in an environment where you are encouraged to do all the hard exercises.

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10 months

@originaltwt @aquaimperium8 it's from Scott Aaronson's book, which's free on his website

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1 year

@isabellagharvey @girld0nniedark0 she asked for the worst

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1 year

@micsolana could probably be clipped better, but here's the full China entanglement segment

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11 months

@thechosenberg I give this like 30m before this gets spread to the wrong parts of twitter

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4 months

@dickcheneyavi something like: stripe payments temporary outage -> aws payments affected -> stripe can't pay for its own compute provisioning -> aws pulls their compute -> stripe payments ~permanent outage -> aws ~permanent outage (cuz stripe's their only payments processor afaik)

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@trickylabyrinth

3 months

I fear not the man who has made 10,000 parts once, but I fear the man who has made one part 10,000 times.

Grant♟️

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3 months

Dude, HOW

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1 month

@chinesegon realized that I needed to figure out what I actually wanted; took the time to do so and it was great wrote a partially complete essay about the process:

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Tricky

@trickylabyrinth

9 months

hi new followers. quick lore recap > be me > cs grad who got into FAANG (MAGMA now?) > it's fun for a while when it's in person > COVID kicks in, remote work for years str8, work becomes bureaucratic af > feels like my soul's being crushed, so quit > do research on my own for a

brooke bowman

@gptbrooke

9 months

hi new followers. quick lore recap > be me > avg white middle class upbringing > commercial fishing in alaska widens worldview > rebel: punk, indie, anarchist phases > use drugs to broaden perception > try heroin > 10 yrs later: quit heroin, become homeless, pick up crystal meth

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@binarybardo lmao

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@IsaacKing314 hmm, is it that niche? usually that's the main example people give to show you can create interesting things with automata

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1 year

@growing_daniel @elonmusk isn't communities just a better version of circles

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8 days

@rxdyxn in order of usefulness: - - - more than advice, you need to have a list of interesting open problems that you periodically just throw yourself at

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3 months

@deepfates softballing probably helps get the guests too few people tolerate being interviewed more adversarialy, especially in front of a massive audience

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2 months

do people understand how big the sun is? a dyson sphere is such an insanely massive and complicated construct come on, it'll be at least 2040 before we have one

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2 months

15% chance of dyson sphere by 2030 is absurd, we havent even put a human on mars yet. what are these people smoking

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8 months

it'd be a hilarious prank if ~$100b of funding got dumped into this regime in 1y and it turns out to actually not scale

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8 months

New paper by Google provides evidence that transformers (GPT, etc) cannot generalize beyond their training data

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5 months

@autocanceller reminds me of one of my favorite threads:

Alexey Guzey

@alexeyguzey

2 years

if the person you're talking to is not interrupting you all the time, they're either not listening or just have no respect for your time.

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1 year

@LongFormMath the original four color theorem proof was beautiful

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3 months

what's an exhaustive list of the reasons to go into space? - imaging: telescopes (outward), surveillance/recon (inwards) - comms, like Starlink - space manufacturing, taking advantage of microgravity - mining: asteroids, lunar ice - basic science research: ISS++, manned or

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@sdamico

3 months

still feels like people aren’t appreciating the fact that starship is going to work

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@trickylabyrinth

1 year

@Lauramaywendel models have an analogue for human retrieval induced forgetting, which's why pretty much any training (like RLHF) reduces its capabilities in everything else

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1 year

OpenAI doing RLHF on the GPT-4 base model

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1 year

@skooookum what're you even doing if your oats and potatoes aren't bully?

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1 year

@ThePrimeagen mfw the Zig origin story revealed

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2 months

a casualty of payouts ig

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4 months

sparked from rereading this announcement:

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10 months

@ErfanOfNazareth yup, was a big deal

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10 months

god I love finding schizo shit on this site so much

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24 days

learning i'm blocked by a cracked schizo lowbie feels 100x worse than learning i'm blocked by someone famous

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Tricky

@trickylabyrinth

9 months

what his lecturer told him:

prge

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the insight why ReLU works is actually insane i live my lecturer

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@trickylabyrinth

5 months

mfw no one posted it yet

Ben

@BenRatkaj

5 months

all incoming sensory inputs have Write access to your mind. you cannot change this no matter how intelligent you believe yourself to be.

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4 months

@dvassallo the issue is that a) there's an adversary on the other side adapting to your protections and b) you can't be too aggressive with your auto-bans/actions cuz you'll get a bunch of false positives those two alone make it highly nontrivial

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1 year

@joodalooped mfw shkreli meant that about Dario but still got blasted

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1 year

@tszzl tfw the people who scanned literally every single english book for archival purposes does this

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3 months

I can be trusted with the 50kW anti-drone laser

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3 months

My Twitter is all "wifejak" this and "Airchat" that And nobody talking about DRAGONFIRE, the UK's newly-declassified 50kW anti-drone laser

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Tricky

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8 months

@mycoliza that hashmap/sqlite boundary should be way higher like 50k or 1m or something

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10 months

@Jonathan_Blow @PalmerLuckey it's simultaneously both

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11 months

@FinitePhysicist a weapon to rival metal gear

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9 months

if @visakanv 's goal is to rebuild the Baghdad House of Wisdom, mine's to rebuild the Bell Labs café, where Hamming and Shannon could serendipitously stumble on each others' work and change the world

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to rebuild the Baghdad house of wisdom

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2 months

@8chabard pretty sure some parts of Australia and South Asia split the year into wet/monsoon season and dry season instead

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@growing_daniel real

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@trickylabyrinth

2 months

why do a bunch of novelty accounts go from posting moderately interesting things to posting mute-worthy horseshit?

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@trickylabyrinth

9 months

how is there simultaneously a surplus of tremendously down bad men and tremendously down bad women? what the fuck is even going on?

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1 year

@onefiftyfivemm uncomfortably? it's fucking awesome

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4 months

mutuals, can you post below what field you study or what your specialty is? some of you have it in your bio, but otherwise it's hard to know who I can talk about what with i'll start with mine: - CPU HPC, learning GPU atm - theoretical computer science:

Tricky

@trickylabyrinth

9 months

theoretical computer science is the branch of math that considers not just "can X be solved?" or "what's the answer to X?", but also "how many resources does it take to solve X?" everything else flows from there also, software dev/eng : computer science :: mech-eng : physics

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7 months

@BasedBeffJezos idk, he had George Hotz on (as part of that debate), and he's had other non-AI people like Tyler Cowen who iirc disavow the doom narrative I think it might've just been you being anon before; it's pretty awkward to just have the static profile pic up on screen

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1 year

@var_epsilon @willdepue is also pretty good

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3 months

I swear he just never lost this mentality

Matthew Green

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3 months

This thing Facebook did — running an MITM on Snapchat and other competitors’ TLS connections via their Onavo VPN — is so deeply messed up and evil that it completely changes my perspective on what that company is willing to do to its users.

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5 months

feels like we just got a bunch of meme formats back to back

mattparlmer 🪐 🌷

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5 months

I think I’ve birthed a meme format lmfao

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5 months

at what point am I allowed to just throw in the towel on bot followers? I've been removing every single one, but there's quite a few of them now

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@trickylabyrinth

6 months

pretty sure this's why:

Anna Gát 🧭

@TheAnnaGat

6 months

Male self help is about self control. Female self help is about self love. I find this fascinating.

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5 months

@gfodor new job? that's the classic jester role

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@trickylabyrinth

4 months

the hive switch isn't real, right guys? ...guys?

Emmett Shear

@eshear

4 months

I don’t know if this study will replicate…but I’ve long believed humans have a basic need for synchronization. It’s available through team sports, dancing (especially if everyone is dancing the same dance), choir, complicated group photos where everyone jumps…

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@trickylabyrinth

7 days

doesn't the entirety of TPOT do this?

fedaykin reepicheep

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Eigen’s long standing habit of liking *every* reply incentivized engagement with his poasts. man was gaming the algorithm even before we were getting paid.

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10 months

@ErfanOfNazareth yup, was a big deal

Amazon-Stripe partnership accelerates ecommerce and streamlines online payments

Amazon and Stripe have signed an expanded global agreement under which Amazon will significantly expand its use of Stripe’s core payments platform.

stripe.com

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10 months

@originaltwt @aquaimperium8

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3 months

@bradneuberg @elonmusk this blasts those completely

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2 months

@peterrhague huh, she's actually doing the meme

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7 months

mfw I instantly run out of things to tweet the moment I start working on something interesting @tszzl was right

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6 months

mfw I remember how much effort it took to get the labels on this for 2 likes

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8 months

there's some lowbies who happily spit str8 flames into the void

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@trickylabyrinth

9 months

theoretical computer science is the branch of math that considers not just "can X be solved?" or "what's the answer to X?", but also "how many resources does it take to solve X?" everything else flows from there also, software dev/eng : computer science :: mech-eng : physics

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1 year

@ThePrimeagen skill issue

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6 months

@Duderichy cant tell if he does it intentionally

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1 year

I see @jmrphy as an artist, and his medium is being dunked on

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8 months

"a swarm of agents" doesn't sound right; gimme suggestions for the blank: what should be the term for a group of LLM agents? a LLM agent : ____ of agents :: a raven : a murder of ravens

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8 months

huh, are cryptocurrencies actually the native financial system that LLM agents will use? getting credit card numbers for a swarm of agents seems like much more of a hassle than just generating private keys

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2 months

@SebAaltonen ye, theoretical CS is a branch of math

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theoretical computer science is the branch of math that considers not just "can X be solved?" or "what's the answer to X?", but also "how many resources does it take to solve X?" everything else flows from there also, software dev/eng : computer science :: mech-eng : physics

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@PradyuPrasad ye, but that has to be manually set in advance, so some automated system doesn't just automatically turn them off I'm wondering if that has been

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@trickylabyrinth

5 months

classic

Ben Landau-Taylor

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Even *I* don’t know medieval warfare trivia well enough to remember which is the motte and which is the bailey, and I have written an essay critiquing different theories of when European armies adopted the stirrup.

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8 months

@AravSrinivas 8. PayPal/Stripe 9. Patreon/Substack

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11 months

@allgarbled > owl > PhD in turtle biology 🤨

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@Ialwaysliked @benlandautaylor or like how the English switched lemons for limes and lost their scurvy cure

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10 months

@miniapeur it already has, the combustion engine industry just doesn't want you to know

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2 months

@OnwardsProject @pinoy_taxpayer isn't this just a case of the Meta model not having enough situational awareness to realize the tool it's using could have gotten your location somehow? I doubt that the LLM itself fed your location to the tool and then lied about it

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8 months

so does BeffJezos just work at Normal Computing, or are they both talking about thermodynamics-based analog chips independently?

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@nikitabier > Women account for basically all of time spent online and retail spending. how high are these numbers again? >80% each?

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7 months

@mimi10v3 except many are off sync from each other and with billions of neurons, you almost certainly hit gigahertz

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8 months

why do mains always follow their alts and vice versa? makes it slightly easy to put 2 and 2 together

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7 months

people read the words "strong beliefs, held loosely", but they don't understand what this actually looks like "quickly iterating upon contact with reality" and "disagreeing with your past self, to the point of flaking on your promises" are two sides of the same coin

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8 months

@airkatakana k, but if your gpt wrapper is that thin, you kinda deserve it

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11 months

@MollySOShea @typesfast haven't you heard, the EU prides itself as a Global Regulatory Power

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5 months

wait, "all bark and no bite" is an actual pattern of dog behavior? I thought it was just some rhetorical flourish lmao

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4 months

me and who

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6 months

this reminded me of one of my favorite tweets:

Emmett Shear

@eshear

6 months

Have you ever noticed that ideologies are always formed around writers who love to write a lot of words? They often cover the same few ideas, over and over, in different ways. But mostly it's a LOT of words. This is not an accident.

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apparently, in nodejs on my computer, fetch() has 2x the latency of calling curl on the command line and parsing its results (both just pinging a localhost server) I swear I'm gonna write this server in C at this rate

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@trickylabyrinth

8 months

k, prompt attacks are always hilarious af literally feels like trigger words for a sleeper agent

Jacob

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@Soul0Engineer Just ask chatgpt to reverse your input and then throw that into dalle

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first time being private time to purely reply to people who don't follow me

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5 months

the psychofauna are starting to hunt

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8 months

oi, do you have a loicense for that 3D printer?

mattparlmer 🪐 🌷

@mattparlmer

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This might actually be the dumbest bill I've ever read, mandates background checks for people buying 3D printers

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@techhsiren ik Yann got mad that Elon said WhatsApp was backdoored I think that was the first spat?

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8 months

me resisting the urge to apply to Anduril just to learn about all their secret superweapons

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@annaarthoe idk if you did this intentionally, but the first tweet in the thread being able to go either way is nice af

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1 year

@TechEmails just wanted to say ur acc curates some very interesting 1s; keep it up 👍

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@GrantSlatton there was an old article about how Chick-Fil-A had one of the largest Kubernetes clusters or something lemme see if I can find it

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8 months

k, did it actually just take 1 (one) big cultural work to shift the vibe

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all the “we can’t build cool stuff anymore” people been real quiet since the sphere dropped

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1 year

@eigenrobot when the ancap people realized what they asked for

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9 months

mfw I find a tweet that's so good I wanna RT it, but so out there that RTing it would make me lose about 1/4th of my followers

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@GrantSlatton ye, it's correlated with both reaction time and nerve conduction velocity (which's exactly what it sounds like)

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1 year

@Lauramaywendel Interesting timing on this tweet, cuz I was just reading how IQ's moderately correlated with reaction time and highly correlated with nerve conduction velocity And my first thought was "that sounds like clock speed to me"

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huh, a moot just liked one of my tweets and then instantly blocked me the final banger 🫡🫡🫡

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1 year

@guillefix @yacineMTB apple headset announcement soon

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