Ali Khan

[Ali Khan @KhanAli]

The very best of the podcasts.. and the books.

[Peter Adamson @HistPhilosophy]

After the celebration of 500 episodes, we're back to early modern philosophy! I speak with Mara van der Lugt about Bayle and pessimism:

https://t.co/2un2ZI1xdO

#philosophy #podcast #pessimism #bayle

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

The limit on software used to be engineering and now it's mostly imagination.

I'd spend a lot more time on the version of my idea that makes people say "wait, what is that?"

Most software looks the same, so anything that looks different gets noticed, shared and remembered.

[Ali Khan @KhanAli]

"The most trustworthy Super Intelligence system will not be the one with the model we trust most. It will be the one that enables us to trust the model the least."

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/MjwFy73LOF

[shipra @shipranotes]

Read more difficult books. If a text doesn't force you to pause, re-read a page three times, and uncomfortably inspect your own behavior, you aren't expanding your mind. You are just consuming easy narrative junk food to feel productive.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is something that I've always found pretty cool in China - and isn't widely known: no matter how large or futuristic the city (this is Shanghai 👇), you always see people fish or swim in the river.

Always gives me an oddly reassuring feeling: that modernity doesn't erase the simple pleasures, and a river is still a river even with the biggest skyscrapers around it.

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

This is a slide from Terence Tao's 'Math 2.0' public lecture yesterday evening at Caltech. I am highly confident that, if the cure actually worked, almost any Stage 4 cancer patient would tell you that human comprehension of its mechanism is completely irrelevant to them.

[Fireside Alpha @firesidealpha]

Ben Affleck reveals he writes Python, understands convolutional neural networks, worked extensively with GPUs, and used his celebrity status to get private looks at Google and OpenAI’s video models

“I’ve always been kind of into computers since I was young. Then, when film started to move from analog film to digital, I became more interested in that aspect of it. The visual-effects workflow for many years has included machine learning, so I can write pretty shitty Python scripts and stuff like that.

“With convolutional neural networks, which were the precursors to what the transformer can do, which is much more computation simultaneously, you would do things like look at what’s called a tensor. That’s the numerical translation of a visual image in numbers, like the batch number, the frame number and the red, green and blue values of each pixel in each frame. It’s just that simple. That numeric is called a tensor.

“You’d use a convolutional neural network to identify patterns that reveal what’s called edge detection or feature extraction, which is identifying patterns well enough to know, this is where the window ledge is, so we can more easily take the green-screen image out and replace it with something.

“That was familiar to me early on because, prior to Artists Equity, I had a small visual-effects company. I’ve worked with GPUs a lot too. The visual-effects guys said, ‘Hey, you should see. There are a couple: Google and this other company, OpenAI, are doing really interesting stuff with transformers in video.’

“I’ve learned that I can actually just call up and go, ‘Hey, it’s Ben Affleck. Can I come see what you’re doing?’ Sometimes people say yes, to my astonishment.”

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

This document is going to be an assigned reading in college classes that cover this moment in time, there's a lot happening in a few paragraphs... https://t.co/pXhgPwFqtg

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

What’s happening in the AI-powered reverse engineering and decompilation is absolutely insane. Pretty soon all software will be de facto open-source.

AI is coming for everything and everyone.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

There’s an old Chinese proverb that I love:

“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow.”

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Great read from Patrick, as always.

“Personal agents will, I think, act as a kind of structural subsidy for product quality.”

Yes, and well put.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

When you “hit a wall” in something you are trying to learn, it’s typically just a massive debt of unlearned prerequisites that are finally being called due.

[signüll @signulll]

there’s something profound about how so much of the greatest art ever created was a source of pain for its creator & a source of joy for its audience.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

The history of Gaza is full of surprises: I had no idea it was home to a Christian Byzantine school of rhetoric, "an important library that could compete with Athens, Alexandria, Beirut and Constantinople" and also an Festival of Roses that celebrated "the arrival of Spring and the workings of Eros" at which poetry was read- in other words a sort of erotic Gaza Litfest.

[geoff @GeoffreyHuntley]

🗞️ if your team is too busy doing their 'normal job' to experiment with AI, you're preparing them to be replaced

https://t.co/KTaIgFpvpK

In this post, I guess this's the last time I'll say it. AI use is no longer optional if you wish to be employed. What follows is advice for current employees and hiring managers on how to hire in 2026 to source AI-first candidates.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

good lord how can anyone be this whiny; are you not ashamed

[Syed @Gypsy_heart8]

Who’d have known that Nana Patekar and Basit Ali used to talk on a monthly basis. Lovely tribute!

[Alperen Keleş @Keleesssss]

Reading is a very underrated skill
(https://t.co/CEKUZ4ALuo)

[Ali Khan @KhanAli]

Yay! Much more meaningful update in AI ways of working than AI app/widget itself in productivity tools. Thats #1 reason for me switching from OneNote (yep! was still using it) to @obsdmd for personal work.

Tagging @Microsoft

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