Andrew Stephen

AI & Automation Consultant by Profession, Ecommerce Generative AI/Web3/Defi/NFT/Metaverse/Creator Economy are my Games, Loves Home, Dogs, Food, Kids & Gym

[Andrew Stephen @Andrew1Stephen]

@joinditto Great experience to get insured through Ditto. Very helpful with proper guidance during claims.. Thanks Akshat and claims support team. 🙏

[Adam Silverman (Hiring!) 🖇️ @adamsilverman]

You can now build full-blown AI workflows, agents, and content machines—without writing code.

Here are 20+ real-world projects built using Gumloop and n8n. Confident a few of these could be turned into amazing businesses.
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[swyx @swyx]

going on a long flight 🇸🇬

pls recommend a <30,000 view youtube video that I will still be talking about 2 years from now

[Virat Singh @virattt]

I just updated my LLM pricing table.

Contains top LLMs with API support.

There are 5 pricing tiers:
• Tier 0: free or rate limited
• Tier 1: up to $0.55 output cost
• Tier 2: up to $6.40 output cost
• Tier 3: up to $15.00 output cost
• Tier 4: up to $60.00 output cost

Overall, Grok 3 from @xai reigns supreme.

Tier 0: this includes new LLMs that are not yet priced. Grok 3 dominated all ELO scores.

Tier 1: R1 from @deepseek_ai owns this tier. I could not find better ELO at this incredible price point.

Tier 2: o3-mini from @openai and qwen2.5 max from @alibaba_cloud have near-identical ELO scores, but o3-mini is cheaper.

Tier 3: gpt-4o is both better priced and has a higher ELO score than claude 3.5 sonnet.

Tier 4: o1 lives in my highest pricing tier, but has a lower ELO score than R1.

Surprisingly, gpt-4o has a higher ELO score than o1.

Thanks to @lmarena_ai and @huggingface for centralizing the Arena ELO scores.

If there are other benchmarks, let me know.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Today is my 34th birthday.

Here’s a truth you may not know:

I spent the first 30 years of my life chasing all the wrong things.

Chasing someone else’s definition of success. Hiding myself from the world. Seeking external validation to fix my internal problems.

In 2021, I woke up one morning and felt completely lost.

In a dark moment, my parents gave me a small compass inscribed with a message:

“So you may always know where your True North lies.”

The message brought me clarity:

Life is about direction, not speed.

It’s better to climb slowly up the right mountain than fast up the wrong one.

In that moment, I saw the truth:

I was frantically climbing up someone else’s mountain, never taking the time to question if it was the one I wanted to climb.

The harsh truth is that you'll never feel successful unless you create your own definition of success.

You need to focus on your True North.

So, that was exactly what I did:

I rejected the default definitions and built a life by design.

I focused on my True North.

I’m guessing there are a lot of others like me out there:

In search of a life that breaks with common convention, that carves its own path.

I wrote my first book, The 5 Types of Wealth, to help you do just that. It hits shelves worldwide in just a few weeks.

This book is the compass for your journey to a life of wealth that goes far beyond money.

Order your copy today: https://t.co/9PIGvcQVrJ

[Andrew Stephen @Andrew1Stephen]

Thank you Ratan Tata.. You gave the world your legacy.

[Math Files @Math_files]

Famous words of IND Proud
#RatanTata

[Andrew Stephen @Andrew1Stephen]

@balajis Wow.. Seeing you once is a dream come true moment for me.. Go India Go Tamil Go Dosas

[Andrew Stephen @Andrew1Stephen]

@Vatsal_Sanghvi Though your journey is challenging, You will eventually win.. Keep hustling. Good luck 👍

[Andrew Stephen @Andrew1Stephen]

@karpathy Grateful living in this world with such legends. Thank you Karpathy..

[Andrew Stephen @Andrew1Stephen]

@index_academyhk @borgetsebastien @TheSandboxGame @TheSandboxCH @Akshat_World I have been following you for the last few years. You have inspired many on homeschooling and upbringing the next generation. I would love to hear your thoughts on this approach by Hongkong schools.

[Andrew Stephen @Andrew1Stephen]

@Akshat_World We understand your thoughts on Macro.. Please keep inspiring us Akshat.. There will always be people who will throw stones. Use those stones to build your legacy..

[Roshan Rai @RoshanKrRaii]

These 12 minutes have the power to open millions of eyes.

What a video, do not miss this.

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[Andrew Stephen @Andrew1Stephen]

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[Balaji @balajis]

Five ideas on AI.

1) Amplified intelligence: the smart get smarter, as they’re best at prompting the machines.

2) Additive intelligence: everyone gets the software equivalent of a public defender, who interprets all the digital information coming in and gives their recommendation.

3) Agentic intelligence: the machines get independent enough that they replace all but the smart.

4) Augmented intelligence: silicon- and carbon-based approaches to improving intelligence both proliferate, with gene editing becoming mainstream as a way to keep up with the digital Joneses.

5) Anti-intelligence: a Butlerian anti-tech jihad rises, unifying aspects of both left socialism and right conservatism against the increasing complexity of modern life.

All of these may happen in different ways. The idea of a digital public defender that levels the playing field for people who aren’t that good at computers — thereby adding to their intelligence — is particularly interesting.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

15 life lessons I wish I could tell my younger self:

(Learned through failures, stumbles, and a few successes)

1. No one has it all figured out.
2. Choose your hard.
3. Dive through every cracked door.
4. Man plans, God laughs.
5. There are no timelines in life.
6. Create value, receive value.
7. Focus on growing, not falling.
8. Explore then exploit.
9. Learn to live like a lion.
10. Do the old-fashioned things well.
11. Everyone is fighting a battle.
12. Everything in life is cyclical.
13. Just keep showing up.
14. Most of your friends aren’t really your friends.
15. Life is more fragile than you think.

Come with me for a day in the life, as I walk through these 15 powerful life lessons I wish I could tell my younger self!

Full video here: https://t.co/3t1Q7eZALs

[Ramanuj Mukherjee @law_ninja]

Things I wanted to achieve before I hit 35

1. Financial independence

2. A house in the hills

3. A quiet life with my family

4. Get fit, live a healthy life

5. Win national level championships in Kyokushin karate

6. Backpack around the world for 2 years

7. Work at the grassroots with people on social causes

Things that happened to me before I hit 35

1. Avascular necrosis, surgery on both hip joints, had to quit karate

2. Could not walk without a stick

3. Shut down several businesses so I could focus on health and one main business

4. Main business hit by illegal breach of contract

5. Started from scratch, climbing out of a financial hole

6. Developed depression and suicidal thoughts

7. Marriage failed, got divorced

8. Moved away from Goa with one suitcase

9. Became obese, weighed 107 kg with 36% bodyfat at a point

10. I feared I would never run, jump or walk down the stairs without experiencing excruciating pain again

11. Got close to bankruptcy, worked without a salary for months

12. Started building life from scratch

13. Fell in love again but had a heartbreak

14. Developed insulin resistance and became pre diabetic

15. Massive system inflammation detected

16. Did a stupid webinar (out of hundreds of good ones I did), shamed on social media, media articles about what a terrible person I am

17. Activists campaigned on social media to get me to step down as CEO but my team backed me up

18. Got rejected by dozens of VCs because our business didn’t fit into their thesis despite doubling or tripling revenue profitably every year with zero outside capital

I am 36 now, here is where I am

1. I can deadlift 100 kg, can just get up & run 10km, I play badminton 4 times a week

2. Down to 15% bodyfat, never been stronger

3. Pre diabetes reversed, inflammation under control

4. I am at peace, absolutely thrilled to be alive

5. Met Lily during the pandemic. We fell in love and started living together.

6. She helped me to solve many of my long standing health issues, I am now healthier than I was 10 years back

7. LawSikho recognised as #1 legal edtech company in the world against 104 competitors

8. Launched Skill Arbitrage and scaled to 1.5 cr revenue per month within 6 months

9. We have bootstrapped profitably to 60 cr+ annual revenue and doubling every year

10. I have incredible cofounders, team and friends

11. I feel happy, excited and optimistic about the life ahead

12. And last evening our DRHP got in principle approval, we are about to go and do an IPO

I never gave up on my dreams. And it feels like I am vindicated today. The best is, of course, yet to come.

Turns out those motivational speakers were right. Fight for your dreams, consistency & perseverance beats all odds.

[elvis @omarsar0]

Really enjoyed NeurIPS!

After attending great sessions around LLMs, I documented a huge list of interesting LLM papers that were either presented or mentioned.

Here is a list of some of my favorite papers in no particular order. I have included papers that won awards and are pushing ideas that we will continue hearing more about:

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Chain of Code: Reasoning with a Language Model-Augmented Code Emulator - https://t.co/d0MFRyIzsy
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Towards Revealing the Mystery behind Chain of Thought: A Theoretical Perspective - https://t.co/nAthjZLRMr
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Scaling Data-Constrained Language Models - https://t.co/JWLFat0xDG
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Language to Rewards for Robotic Skill Synthesis - https://t.co/KrwMXXyXDC
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Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models - https://t.co/nfZ2N6mslU
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Why think step by step? Reasoning emerges from the locality of experience - https://t.co/TkffQfXsOh
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Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools - https://t.co/u7GanCTUjI
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Reasoning with Language Model is Planning with World Model - https://t.co/Gd7HH9hEkQ
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ToolkenGPT: Augmenting Frozen Language Models with Massive Tools via Tool Embeddings - https://t.co/fGssZNKECL
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DecodingTrust: A Comprehensive Assessment of Trustworthiness in GPT Models - https://t.co/owSD4bAqqC
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QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs - https://t.co/ILgUMZtk1x
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Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model - https://t.co/4DHb7Iot4T
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Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage? - https://t.co/HK4vDUTPmc
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Reverse Engineering Self-Supervised Learning - https://t.co/DNUtj85ZOs
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Learning Transformer Programs - https://t.co/b5kbJM16AY
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OpenAssistant Conversations -- Democratizing Large Language Model Alignment - https://t.co/ji5ZFwZlNc
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Privacy Auditing with One (1) Training Run - https://t.co/CmZYwMnVE5
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Language Models, Agent Models, and World Models: The LAW for Machine Reasoning and Planning - https://t.co/uvNyqMnRiJ
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Large Language Models as Zero-Shot Conversational Recommenders - https://t.co/oeSRM8kYeN
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Zephyr: Direct Distillation of LM Alignment - https://t.co/9ihZGCm62I
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I am also putting together a year in review later in the week or early next week so you will see other cool and important LLM papers that were published throughout the year. Stay tuned!

Feel free to comment with your favorite papers as well.

[AJAC @AJA_Cortes]

Fatherhood-Part 1, Be Adaptable

My son is nearing 1.5 years old now. I never understood why parents describe their children's age in months, then I became one, and you see how fast your child changes from one month to the next.

Not seeing a baby for 2 weeks or more, it's almost a different baby. Every month has its little behavioral quirks and milestones. Your child wont remember any of this, but you will. It becomes part of the deep lore that you will recall when they are an adult.

Everyone has an opinion on how to raise children (most of all, people who dont have any).

My approach to parenting I would equate to my approach to training; All babies are unique in their needs.

Your primary priorities are your child being fed and happy. How exactly you accomplish that, BE ADAPTABLE.

I dont read parenting books. Although I have done a great deal of research on pedagogy (especially childhood pedaogy). Pedagogy=the science and practice of how people learn. Training people effectively requires understanding how people acquire skills and behaviors.

Aside from that, Ive not read any actual parenting books. Have not seen the point.

But I have very strong paternal instincts.

What does that mean?

I was asked that during an AMA. Its a good question.

Paternal (and maternal) instincts are best defined as your attenuation to caring for and recognizing the needs of other people.

Some people are more inclined in this (women and men that grow up taking care of younger siblings). Some are less inclined (I would imagine people that are only children may struggle).

Caring for someone requires a level of conscientious and awareness.

My training career prepared me for being a parent more than anything else.

You spend years listening to people and watching them, and correcting them, and encouraging them, a child is not much different.

Most peoples struggles with parenting are not because they dont love their child

No doubt their are some fathers (and even mothers) who lack the ability to love. Dead beat dads are a real thing.

But such people aside, when I see other parents, and I can see them STRUGGLING, its not a failure of love.

It is communication.

Children are not rational agents. They are agents of chaos. Their needs are primordial. They react in ways that are utterly ridiculous.

Safety, food, closeness. Make it happen, in whatever way works.

Before you ever become a parent, release any and all expectations of how you think your child will be

You also need to assess yourself. Parenting is a day at a time process. There are no rule books. Every child is different. Comparisons and "my child reached XYZ MILESTONES"

Garbage bin all of that.

Its all meaningless. You see peoples egos emerge when they start trying to brag about this stuff "My child knew whole sentences at 11 months old!"

Cool story bro. None of that means anything when they are an adult. And you are raising a future adult human, one that is hopefully autonomous and productive, both individually and societally.

I enjoy the toddler stage immensely. Its magical. I also remind myself my son will be a man for far longer than he is a baby. The baby stage should be the fun stage.

Walkers and Talkers

There is a whole parenting lingo and jargon that you never know existed. One of them is "Walkers and Talkers". Walking usually starts around 12-18 months, sometimes earlier.
Talking starts around 12-18 months, sometimes early

Some children start talking early. Some start walking early. Rarely do both happen together.

My son is a walker. He is very physically strong. He helped me move bricks around the yard the other day. Superb core strength.

He doesnt talk yet, although he is very verbal, constantly baby talking all day. He understands us when we tell him to do things (or not do). He brings me my shoes and socks when I ask him.

He's very contrarian. He laughs whenever we say "NO" and does the opposite of what we told him.

I always laugh. A conformist and rule follower he is not.

Your offspring will share parts of your personality

My son is very demanding, and very impatient. I told him this while he was caterwauling while waiting for a bottle.

"You know, you are not very patient son. You're an impatient little man"

My Dad was in the kitchen at the same time, and started laughing

"and WHERE do you think he gets from?"

I knew this of course. But it was a good multi generational laugh.

[Andrew Stephen @Andrew1Stephen]

RIP to one of the best men of the century.. Thank you Mentor for all your teachings..

[Andrew Stephen @Andrew1Stephen]

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