Sameer

Just a guy, trying do better in life.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

How to become expert at thing:
1 iteratively take on concrete projects and accomplish them depth wise, learning “on demand” (ie don’t learn bottom up breadth wise)
2 teach/summarize everything you learn in your own words
3 only compare yourself to younger you, never to others

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

# on shortification of "learning"

There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are learning (but actually they are just having fun). The people creating this content also enjoy it because fun has a much larger audience, fame and revenue. But as far as learning goes, this is a trap. This content is an epsilon away from watching the Bachelorette. It's like snacking on those "Garden Veggie Straws", which feel like you're eating healthy vegetables until you look at the ingredients.

Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort. It should look a lot less like that "10 minute full body" workout from your local digital media creator and a lot more like a serious session at the gym. You want the mental equivalent of sweating. It's not that the quickie doesn't do anything, it's just that it is wildly suboptimal if you actually care to learn.

I find it helpful to explicitly declare your intent up front as a sharp, binary variable in your mind. If you are consuming content: are you trying to be entertained or are you trying to learn? And if you are creating content: are you trying to entertain or are you trying to teach? You'll go down a different path in each case. Attempts to seek the stuff in between actually clamp to zero.

So for those who actually want to learn. Unless you are trying to learn something narrow and specific, close those tabs with quick blog posts. Close those tabs of "Learn XYZ in 10 minutes". Consider the opportunity cost of snacking and seek the meal - the textbooks, docs, papers, manuals, longform. Allocate a 4 hour window. Don't just read, take notes, re-read, re-phrase, process, manipulate, learn.

And for those actually trying to educate, please consider writing/recording longform, designed for someone to get "sweaty", especially in today's era of quantity over quality. Give someone a real workout. This is what I aspire to in my own educational work too. My audience will decrease. The ones that remain might not even like it. But at least we'll learn something.

[BasedBiohacker @BasedBiohacker]

speed beats perfection

GAS PEDAL.

[Johan @Adityapandeydev]

go outside more. watch more sunsets. set goals so big they scare you a little. drink more water. move your body even when your mind feels heavy. work hard on something that matters to you. laugh until your stomach hurts. make your bed even on the days you feel broken.

help people before they can offer you anything back. ask strangers how they’re doing and actually listen. call your parents more. hug your dad longer. tell people you love them while you still can.

scroll less. feel more. cry when life hurts instead of pretending it doesn’t. eat better. sleep deeper. fall in love even if it ruins you for a while. let your heart break. let it heal. try again anyway.

teach someone the lesson you learned the hard way. write down a few things you’re grateful for before life reminds you they were never guaranteed. see the world before time quietly steals the chance from you.

because one day you’ll realize life was never about becoming perfect. it was about being fully alive while you were here.

[Siddhartha Saxena @siddsax]

Anthropic onboarding day: Michael Scott introducing Karpathy like he just signed Wemby in free agency.

[✒️ @Literariium]

“i miss her. And I'm telling her with all the silence I am capable of.”

— Charles Bukowski

[Lost In Film @LostInFilm]

«The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever»

― Sofia Coppola

[Kevin Naughton Jr. @KevinNaughtonJr]

THERE'S NO FKN WAY 😭😭😭

[TDHBXG @TDHBXG]

In real life, the bad guys win.

[Filmytics @Filmytics]

The kings Men (2021) 🎬

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

If the professor calls about that job, just tell him, "Sorry, I had to go see about a girl."

“Son of a bitch,he stole my line”

[Naval @naval]

Truth, love, and beauty are all pursued for their own sake, even if they make us worse off.

[Sameer @0xsameerm]

Eid Mubarak ✨️
May this blessed day bring peace and happiness to people and families all around the world ❤️

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.

[CZ 🔶 Bainance - parody @cz_bainance_]

Too many people make things complicated when they don't need to be. Keep it simple. Back to basics, just focus on building real value.

[Sameer @0xsameerm]

@farcaster_xyz https://t.co/K1sF47n4by

[Neeche Se Topper @NeecheSeTopper]

no coldplay shit, my moment of frenzy will happen on 7th feb in an imax theatre, when cooper will command to analyze the spin, a top down shot will show a spinning endurance getting chased to dock, case will say "it's impossible", cooper will say "no, it's necessary" & the iconic intersteller theme will go on to rage in the background for the next 3 minutes pumping absolute life in my body & soul.