Little Two Cheng

Engineering manager at Preface Coding. We are hiring:

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

It’s pronounced “Hermes”, not “Hermes”

[Little Two Cheng @LyttleTwo]

@SlackHQ @KGurtovoy50616 In my experience, autoplay the next video doesn’t provide any benefit in a conversational or workspace context like Slack.
Slack is a professional communication tool, not a social media, features like autoplay seem like just a distraction to us...

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

I think about this twice a day.

Every morning when I sit down to read & again when I begin to work, I say to myself,

“Accept the initial agitation.”

When you try to focus, Andrew Huberman explains, “the brain circuits that turn on first are of the stress system.”

Meaning:

“The agitation and stress that you feel at the beginning of something—when you’re trying to lean into it and you can’t focus: you feel agitated and your mind’s jumping all over the place—that is just a gate. You have to pass through that gate to get to the focus component.”

There’s a common misconception, @hubermanlab continues: “the misunderstanding around how these brain circuits work has led to this idea...a kind of obsession with the idea that we have to feel good in order to be productive.”

“And nothing could be further from the truth.”

The truth is it’s the reverse: we have to be productive—we have to start working, we have to lean in and get going, accepting the initial agitation—in order to feel good.

So along with “accept the initial agitation,” sometimes—when I don’t feel especially good, motivated, interested, or energized—I say to myself,

“Forget how you feel right now.”

“It will feel good,” Huberman says, “but there’s a whole staircase in which it feels kind of lousy...The early stages of hard work and focus are always going to feels like agitation, stress, and confusion.”

“Remember: there’s a gate of entry. You have to wade through some sewage before you can swim in clear water. That’s the way I always think about it.”

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“Mood follows action.” — @richroll

The clip below is from Andrew’s 2020 interview on Rich’s podcast (https://t.co/HqdLeNKTxm)

[Ad Professor @The_AdProfessor]

8. Abramson Cancer Centre

Principle: If you want to reach a specific demographic, use their specific language.

[Tore Knabe @Tamulur]

A group with the most advanced AIs of the world try to figure out who among them is the human: https://t.co/AHERFzid4v

[Little Two Cheng @LyttleTwo]

@gilbertwat static 和 dynamics typing 既programming language 一直是互相影響，分久必合，合久必分的狀態。呢件事本身好dynamic 。

[DHH @dhh]

Don't kid yourself, though. PWAs won't be 100% as good as the very best mobile apps, at least not yet. But most apps don't need 10/10ths of UI polish. If we can get to 9/10, or even 8/10, it'll be good enough for most. We'll be testing this theory with https://t.co/viKQ8g66rk

[Tomas Pueyo @tomaspueyo]

Most ppl are missing the key point regarding OpenAI
This is not standard startup drama
This is literally a fight for the survival of humanity, linked to the original purpose of OpenAI: saving us from the end of the world:
🧵

[Little Two Cheng @LyttleTwo]

一語道破

[DHH @dhh]

Everything that happens, everyone who matters, is on X first. Even the most rabid Musk haters come crawling back to this platform when it counts.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

The beauty of writing code: the end users/customers don't care what is underneath the surface and what frameworks you use.

The people who care? The other developers.

When it's just yourself: you do what *you* want to do. When it's a whole team: that's when it's more nuanced.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:

- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 300/day

[Thai Pangsakulyanont @dtinth]

Today I learned: By using an HDR <video>, a website can display a very bright white, like ~7 times brighter than #FFFFFF, on an iPhone/iPad.

This can be used to e.g. show a bright QR code for easy scanning despite user’s low brightness settings.

https://t.co/zZ8SLomPun

[Louie Bacaj @LBacaj]

These clips are two of the best pieces of writing advice you will ever get about writing on the internet.

I promise.

It is so good we show it to our newsletter students.

1st: Most of us should write to help ourselves think.

[Little Two Cheng @LyttleTwo]

@gilbertwat 風火山林，因時制宜👍🏻

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

What an insane day in the world of AI.

We got huge announcements from Google, HuggingFace, Scale AI, and Synthesia.

Here's the rundown on everything you need to know:

[Randall Hunt @ranman]

This is completely false. I was there.

I have him muted but 50+ people have sent me this nonsense and asked for my comment... so I've conceded.

The record needs to be corrected. He's completely incorrect and I have receipts. 🧵

[Little Two Cheng @LyttleTwo]

@gilbertwat this is exactly what you said.

Using Atomic Networks To Find Product-Market Fit https://t.co/Rlda9ZQwb3 via @YouTube

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

Release of GPT4All

7B param fine-tuned curated set of 400k ChatGPT assistant style generations.

Release includes AI model that can run on a laptop, costing nothing except electricity to run.

Edge is happening

🧵Thread

[Mckay Wrigley @mckaywrigley]

I hooked up an iOS shortcut to GPT-4 and GitHub.

Here’s how it works:
- identifies the repo
- identifies the target files
- writes the code for me
- creates a branch
- commits changes

Now I can code right on my Apple Watch with nothing but my voice!