Anant Sharma

[Vince Classic @VinceClassic]

Oh my top favorite novels? Probably the 5 hardest ones

[WG RumblePants @WG_RumblePants]

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is better at T20 than Bradman ever was.

[Härkönen @yokaihainen]

Besides Tokarczuk, the fellow Nobel prize winning novelist Jon Fosse has tried to use AI in writing, but instead of getting one-shotted by it, he one-shotted the AI with his first if admittedly very long prompt: it thought for three weeks, then finally returned, thanked him and told him it had completed RCIA and converted to Catholicism

[Cricbuzz @cricbuzz]

Virat Kohli and the Impostor Syndrome...

[dior ✞ @deeore5]

chilling at about 96 thoughts per minute

[Clifton Duncan @cliftonaduncan]

Sometimes a sentence cuts right to the heart of the human experience in a profound way.

[Patrick Neve @catholicpat]

What if we built one big data center in the middle of the country, instead of all the small ones?

Maybe so big it reaches all the way to heaven?

[Lee Edwards @terronk]

Someone should come up with an exchange rate between these two currencies.

[absy @absycric]

I get transported to this whenever I hear his commentary

[Steve McCormick @Quasilocal]

take that, topologists

[Mathieu @miniapeur]

getting normalized must feel so good for the vectors

[Aparajite @amshilparaghu]

Wow Cricket Flicker Book!!!
During 80s, before reels, before whatsapp… before shorts… THIS was the cricket entertainment!

A rare Thumbs Up Flicker Book of Kapil Dev-pure nostalgia for every Indian cricket fan❤️

Do you remember this?

[Sterling Crispin 🕊️ @sterlingcrispin]

I was driving home from the store today and imagining life remapped to a single day.

Both my parents are gone now and I've been reflecting more on mortality. It feels so unreal and intangible. It's 4:30 pm for me, I still have time left but it's finite. It all goes by so fast

[Chess.com @chesscom]

INSANE chess statistic 🤯

The two players in the Chess World Championship match - Sindarov 🇺🇿 20yo vs Gukesh 🇮🇳 19yo - have a combined age younger than the game of chess itself

[Blixt @blixt]

First signs of AGI in Amsterdam

[Séb Krier @sebkrier]

When emails were invented, the barriers to sending random people mail went down massively. To deal with the influx, we had to develop both norms (what's acceptable to send to who) and technologies (spam filtering, aliases). This is the case with other technologies too, like the printing press: suddenly anyone can publish, and so over time society came up with libel laws, editorial gatekeeping, citation norms etc. It's inevitable that as costs go down, some degree of misuse follows, and society gradually adapts.

The same will apply with AI in all sorts of domains, including science: anyone can now write a plausible looking but hollow paper, and there will be plenty of academislop. We're going through a kind of Sokal Experiment at scale. In a way, this feels almost necessary to push our slow moving, status quo loving institutions to start developing better verification mechanisms, mandatory preregistration, code sharing, replication requirements, interactive/living papers etc. Imo getting this right should be a priority for the Progress/metascience community this coming year!

[nightowl 🦉 @iamnotnightowl]

Franz Kafka be like dukh dard keeda

[Stuart Buck @stuartbuck1]

Amazing: that viral couple were arguing about the Ben Sasse podcast and the future of liberal arts education.

https://t.co/giQFx21f1g

[Stephen Gibbons @Gibboanxious]

In MARTIN SCORSESE's interview with Deadline he talks about getting older and how, "It's too late" for him