Niba 🎬

my notes on whatever i find interesting ✨ 🔬 science-backed 🔍 curiosity driven 🎤 host on @SciShow @KQED @PBSTerra @FeministBookClub 📍 san francisco/london

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Your brain deserves better than brain rot 🧠
Come learn with Big Ideas: compound eyes 🐝 eggs 🥚 bioluminescence ✨

Human made. Real scientists. Real filming.
Out now: https://t.co/jE00SnjDLt
from the @kqedscience team behind @deeplook

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Is AI helping you think, or helping you spiral? 🌀 You ask → AI answers → You read and ask again → Repeat.
But what if AI knew when to stop?
What do our thought spirals and persistent AI agents have in common? (more than you might think)
📖 8.5 min: https://t.co/0VRCg3IziQ

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@CurtTigges Biggest result in mech interp ever, I can’t wait to read the technical paper once it’s released. I’m so proud of you!

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I wish I had a stupid, aligned AI over a smart, misaligned one.

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@ChelseaHerps Mamdani probably communed w ‘em

[TierZoo @TierZoo]

I'm starting to hate AI video essay scripts even more than AI visuals. When someone uses AI images or clips in a youtube video, it looks tacky for sure. But I can sympathize with having something you want to say, and getting stuck trying to figure out what to show on screen as you say it. I write myself into a corner all the time when scripting my videos. But when the foundation that a video essay is built on is itself created by AI, why even make the video in the first place? What creative vision did you have?

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someone emails you and you notice it typo in their email where they forgot to put a space between two letters do you…

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“nothing is set in stone, we rly want your feedback!”

the stone:
🪨 ur entire responsiblities already mapped out in a doc

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I think good collaboration is mostly just making it easy for people to tell you what they actually think

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my carnivore kitties after me, a vegetarian, gives them some meat

[ACERVO @AcervoCharts]

Fotógrafa registra filhotes de guepardo após se alimentarem.

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good process is so underrated. Not that process is exciting, but bc when it works, u get to spend way more time making things and way less time figuring out what’s happening

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me as an American

[josh :) @jfonsecarivera]

yes, i add exclamation points to 80% of my slack messages!

that's okay!

at least its not ai slop!

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Robots can move fast, but can they think fast enough to keep up?
⚡A new Al technique lets robots plan their next move while they're STILL acting, cutting reaction delays by 10x+ and completing some tasks 2x as fast, w NO extra compute.

My latest: https://t.co/8Jg79PVeei

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nothing says “we’d love your input” quite like opening a document and discovering your future responsibilities have been filled in for you

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;_; I'm so jaded now the first thing I wonder when I see unbelievable animal cuteness like this is whether or not it's AI

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yet people get defensive when you point that out. Yet these systems make fields accessible only to people who can afford to do hours of uncompensated work, and fields like AI already have a diversity problem, and this kind of thing just makes it worse. (2/2)

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hot take that shouldnt be a hot take: it’s fair for jobs to ask for work samples or tests. But for a 9-12wk fellowship, the amount of unpaid labor just to apply can get pretty absurd. At some point ur just selecting for people w the time + resources to do it and (1/2)

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page 1: every single thought, word vomit, brain dump, keep going til there’s nothing left in your head
page 2: organize
???
profit

[josh :) @jfonsecarivera]

as ai makes life more effortless, do not lose your relationship with effort

learn and create, for these are the things that make up the human experience

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not only do my cats get infinity food, water, naps, pets, but they also get to live in peace never having to learn a thing about AI 🥲

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@CurtTigges @pli_cachete knowing which problems r still unsolved is just googleable :/