Arin

Catching my pokemons

[Hayashi Heikichi @lianda_edu]

I don’t think students from MIT, Harvard, or Stanford are necessarily much smarter than me (except for those who came through IMO and other major math competitions). Nor do I believe they were born inherently superior. In many cases, they simply won the “ovarian lottery” that Warren Buffett talked about. Most of them are products of heavy packaging by their families and institutions. After all, there’s a huge element of packaging involved in undergraduate admissions. Especially at Stanford — their “fake it until you make it” culture has led many students to habitually exaggerate or fabricate things just to inflate their own value.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Latest table of contents for Advice on Upskilling:

CHAPTER 1: CONSISTENCY

► You’re Not Lazy, You Just Lack a Habit
► Don’t Have a Passion? Go Create One.
► Make the Habit Easily Repeatable
► The Hardest Part is Just Getting Started
► How to Overcome the Suck
► If You Struggle to Train Consistently, Do It Immediately After Waking Up
► Training Sessions Should be Short and Frequent as Opposed to Long and Sparse
► A Little Extra Consistency × A Little Extra Time = A Massive Increase in Volume & Progress
► Don’t Overreact to Bad Days
► Seek Virtuous Cycles
► Protect The Habit

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CHAPTER 2: SKILLS

► Hardcore Skills Are Always The Answer
► The “Alien-Level Skills” Hack
► The Importance of Having Your Prerequisites In Place
► Most People Don’t Realize They Can Systematically Climb Skill Trees
► The Least Efficient Learning Strategy
► The Skills You Need Should Sit Several Layers Deep
► Your Missing Foundations Will Wait For You
► Consuming is Only Helpful Insofar as it Enables You to Produce
► Actively Doing is the Key to Alpha
► Everything Matters
► You Want Exciting Opportunities? Learn Math and Coding
► If You're Not Both Technical and a Domain Expert, Then You're Underpowered
► Domain Expertise, Math, Coding, Communication
► What Math To Learn for Skill Stacking
► Failure Modes in People Who Develop Math Skills but Don’t Capitalize On Them via Coding
► There is Always a Bad Excuse to Rationalize Not Skilling Up

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CHAPTER 3: DISCIPLINE

► The Magic You’re Looking For is in the Full-Assed Effort You’re Avoiding
► Don’t Put Off Training Because You Think Your Goals are Too Far Away
► At Some Point, Doing the Hard Thing Becomes Easier Than Making the Hard Thing Easier
► How to Cultivate Discipline
► Keep Your Hands On The Boulder
► Just Do The F*cking Work

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CHAPTER 4: THE GRIND

► Upskilling is Hard and That’s a Good Thing
► The Most Superior Form of Training
► Outsized Success Requires Outsized Work
► Transformation Is Discomforting
► Enjoyment is a Second-Order Optimization
► Ability is Built, Not Unlocked
► What Max-Efficiency Training Feels Like
► The Necessity of Grinding Through Concrete Examples Before Jumping Up a Level of Abstraction
► Be Willing to Do Tedious Work
► Don’t Undervalue Turning Up the Dial on Your Grind, but Don’t Overvalue the Last Turn
► When More Volume Equals More Progress
► Failure Is NOT the Key to Success
► Don’t Drown Yourself in the Deep End
► Focus Less on Feelings and More on Measurable Progress
► The Problem with Overly Difficult Problems
► It’s Not Just About Attempting Hard Things, It’s Also About Successfully Achieving Them
► It Always Becomes a Battle of Willpower By the End
► The Cycle You Want To Be In

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CHAPTER 5: THE JOURNEY

► Don’t Get Hung Up on Youth Competitions
► It’s Too Easy To Gas Yourself Up Thinking About Your Percentile
► The 3 Stages of Talent Development
► There Are No Shortcuts in Talent Development
► The Effect of Debating While Lacking Foundational Knowledge
► Loss of Interest Can Sometimes Be Traced Back to Lack of Foundations
► If You’re Making Silly Mistakes Then You Need More Practice
► No Train, No Gain
► Why You Should Push Yourself
► Keep Your Foot On The Gas
► You Are a Car
► What to Do When You Hit a Ceiling
► Learn to Love the Games That You Were Built to Win
► Compound Hard Work and Luck
► Get Yourself In A Position Where You Can Eat Risk
► Tie Your Comfort to Real, Tangible Value
► If You Can’t Find a Job That Really Excites You…
► How to Allocate Your Bandwidth While Searching for Your Mission
► Repetition Can Lead to Expertise, Expertise Can Lead to Variety

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CHAPTER 6: THE TEAM

► If You’re Asking Someone to Be Your Mentor then You’re Doing it Wrong
► Put Pressure on Your Boss to Come Up with More Work For You
► Get On the Right Team
► Competition as a Means of Collaboration
► Your Goal is NOT to Prove You're Smart, it's to Make Problems Go Away
► Make Your First Impression On a Contribution, Not a Critique
► Never Come Up Empty-Handed
► You Need a Berserker At The Helm

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CHAPTER 7: THE MISSION

► Selecting a Good Problem to Work On
► You Have To Work Really Damn Hard to Figure Out What Fulfills You
► The “Progress Equals Pressure” Formula
► Love What You Do
► Be a Builder, Not Just a Fighter
► Build Where Building Creates More Opportunities to Build

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CHAPTER 8: MOTIVATION

► The State of “Blah”: Why You’re In It and How You Escape It
► Disinterest is Often Just Overwhelm
► You Can Often Just Make Yourself Like Things
► Why Extrinsic Motivation Matters
► How to Become a Super-Producer
► How The Highest Performers Sustain a Massive Workload
► Overcoming the Paradox of Serious Training
► The Joy of Upskilling is Like The Joy of Exercise
► The Lie That Learning Should Feel Pleasurable
► How Taxing Work Becomes Fun
► Why Try When Others Could Do Better?

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CHAPTER 9: LEARNING

► The Greatest Educational Life Hack: Learning Ahead of Time
► What’s the Point of Being Way Ahead? It Buys You Time.
► The Whole Point of Instruction
► When Does the Learning Happen?
► There is No Such Thing as Low-Effort Learning
► The Greatest Breakthrough in the Science of Learning Over the Last Century
► “Following Along” Versus Learning
► The Need to Practice Retrieving From Memory
► The Vicious Cycle of Forgetting
► One of the WORST Mistakes You Can Make While Studying
► Recall First, Reason Second
► The Vicious Cycle of Context Overload
► Prereq Yo’ Self Before You Wreck Yo’ Self
► Filling In Your Foundations is the Difference Between Omitted Steps Being Minor Potholes vs Uncrossable Chasms
► Plan Your Broad-Strokes Journey Top-Down, but Carry Out the Granular Steps Bottom-Up
► The Efficient Learning Loop
► Don't Bloat the Feedback Loop
► Some Pitfalls to Watch Out For When Learning From Projects
► Review Should Feel Challenging
► Learn Like You Lift
► Schooling Versus Talent Development
► Learning Doesn't Have to Be Synchronized for Camaraderie to Occur
► A Sanity Check for Effective Study Techniques

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CHAPTER 10: EXPERTISE

► The Driving Force Behind Expertise is Long-Term Memory
► Learning is Memory
► Learning is About Bridge-Building, Not Jumping
► It’s All About Domain Knowledge
► Your Brain Should Surprise You
► Turn The Magical Into The Mechanical

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CHAPTER 11: STAGING AREA FOR MORE PASSAGES

► Too Many People Quit Before They Start
► The Only Reliable Path to Wealth
► The Performance Formula
► The Best Tool for Writing Powerful Tweets
► If You’re In Science, Learn Math and Coding
► A Grade Level of Learning Can Be Compressed Much Shorter Than A Year
► Edge Cases Are Interesting If You’re In A Domain You Love
► The Process of Building Intuition Can Itself Be Counter-Intuitive
► You Can Be Happy Doing Tons Of Work
► Nothing Really Matters Unless It Matters In The Long-Term
► Don’t Get Lazy
► Your Story is a Hero’s Journey
► The Utility of Hard Truths
► The Highest Job Security
► Don’t Dwell On The Past
► Success is the Product of Small Efforts Compounded
► Vastly Underrated Predictor of Success
► What’s Even Harder is NOT Doing The Work
► Put Your Environment On Easy Mode
► Nothing Comes Together Unless You Make It So
► The Biggest Flex
► The #1 Killer of Creativity (and the #1 Unlock)
► Pain of Action Versus Pain of Regret
► The LLM Training Corpus is a Small Subset of All Knowledge
► Just Get Started
► How To Figure Out What To Do
► Yes, You Should Memorize Math Facts
► You Have Potential
► How To Do Cognitive Weightlifting
► Mathematical Acceleration is Developmentally Appropriate For Students Who Have Learned The Prerequisites
► Channel Your Anger Into Productivity
► How To Do a Ton of Intense Work
► The Most Transferable Skill
► How to Pull Alpha Out of Your Brain You Didn’t Even Know Was There
► The Hardcore Skills That Changed My Life
► How to Go From 0 to 100 mph
► The Longer You Wait Before Building The Life You Want, The More Likely You Are To Settle For Something Else
► The Most Costly Part of Failure
► The Process of Building Intuition Can Itself Be Counter-Intuitive
► Confidence Opens Doors But Competence Gets You Through Them
► Take Action
► Zoom Out
► Expertise is the Base Layer and Automation is the Multiplier
► Obsession Is The Highest Form of Habit

[Jino Rohit @jino_rohit]

https://t.co/7Sxw83YIdt

[Anjney Midha @AnjneyMidha]

Stanford @CS153Systems, Week 1 (Full Lecture)

AI Scaling, Bottlenecks, and Why Compute Isn't a Commodity Yet

00:00 Compute Coachella
00:29 Simple Life Heuristic
01:08 Uncertainty Creates Opportunity
01:42 Four Bottlenecks Framework
01:51 Empirical Proof Matters
02:05 Cloud Costs Are Shifting
02:15 Verifiable vs Fuzzy Progress
02:48 Scaling Predictability Explained
03:43 CapEx Explosion in Big Tech
04:06 Chips Aren’t Commodities
04:45 Compute Scarcity Conclusion

[elie @eliebakouch]

beautiful

[Arin @4G142]

Written by gpt... didn't even have to check.

[Divya Gandotra Tandon @divya_gandotra]

When a respected ASI veteran like Prof. K.K. Muhammad a man who has spent decades preserving India’s archaeological record calls the last 11 years “the darkest age” for the ASI, it cannot be brushed aside as political commentary.

It forces tougher questions:

• How did an institution once known for scientific rigor fall into alleged bureaucratic paralysis?

• Why are key excavations, conservation projects, and heritage mappings delayed or abandoned?

• Has archaeology a discipline meant to protect India’s civilizational memory become collateral in political battles?

• Who is accountable when national heritage is reduced to headlines instead of research?

Heritage is not Left vs Right.

It’s India’s legacy and its loss will cost every generation.

[Arin @4G142]

@CANehaNiharika @congratstothe

[Arin @4G142]

@thundermeowx @robmooreEsports yeah i see what u did there

[Arin @4G142]

???????

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

This is a playlist of 9 AI & ML youtube videos you can’t miss as an AI engineer,

It’s 50+ hours of technical hands-on courses:

1. Neural Networks Zero to Hero (Karpathy)
https://t.co/ffdq7buycG
From micro-gradients to nanoGPT, code-first all the way.

2. Stanford CS336 (2025): Language Modelling from Scratch
https://t.co/0p7LUY8Dzm
A full-stack LLM bootcamp: data → training → serving → evaluation.

3. MIT 6.S191 (2025): Intro to Deep Learning
https://t.co/n7P1poXDEr
Transformers, diffusion, and modern DL in under 2 hours.

4. CS25: Intro to Transformers with Karpathy
https://t.co/CXeva0AMPM
Turns “Attention Is All You Need” into code you can actually deploy.

5. Stanford CS229 Guest Lecture: Building LLMs
https://t.co/Gn01aGHkkY
Behind the curtain of Stanford’s 2025 LLM stack.

6. Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
https://t.co/tIKBP2p7HK
3.5 hours of how GPTs really work under the hood.

7. Let’s Build GPT from Scratch
https://t.co/wqKHo4vmUr
200 lines of Python → a functional GPT. Watch, code, repeat.

8. Agentic AI by Stanford
https://t.co/4qO2hEbLvg
Gain an introduction to the concept of agentic AI language.

9. Transformers and Self-Attention
https://t.co/fZIsULEQlp
Introduction to the Transformers architecture from scratch

Hats off to @ordax for the list!

[Arin @4G142]

who cares about checking github commit history typical indian aunty behaviour.
Noone cares focus on yourself and stop posting about others dumbass

[Dilpreet Grover @dfordp11]

India's top GitHub committer ka commit history
🤡

Iska kitne ka package lagega, write in comments

[Arin @4G142]

@beffjezos Boing Boing

[Arin @4G142]

@ananyachdh Hey congrats on the launch i would love to try

[Quentin Bertrand @Qu3ntinB]

Before diving deep into diffusion with these Lectures you can start with a friendly blog post on flow matching :) https://t.co/IJIO2Bzo8X

[Arin @4G142]

@wanshunzhi what is TH team card doing in hand of nobody

[Arin @4G142]

@100T_VAL @Boostio would be good if y'all played that game too fkin shit org

[Odraputra Prataparudra Jagannatha Dasa @KalingaGajapati]

How to escape India while living in India ?
1. Always travel in flights unless its too expensive
2. Live in a gated community
3. Buy groceries from supermarket
4. Do not munch street food
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[malone @malonehedges]

unofficial guide to nyc's AI underground, aka places i wish i knew sooner

- latent space: former bank vault hosting banned model training & token parties
- https://t.co/tkvbRK3mav: communal living for prompt engineers w/ weekly completion battles
- gradient gallery: chinatown basement running autonomous art collectives
- tensor tea house: invite-only spot for model merging & midnight inference sessions
- the null: dumbo warehouse for generative art & rogue agent experiments

[Cheng Lou @_chenglou]

Worst thing to do when you're full of agency is to wake up and browse Twitter