Noise aka Noise Reduction

There will always be noise, that’s the nature of the beast. All information is about triangulation. I am not a cat.

[Noise aka Noise Reduction @PPDMNNY]

@WSJ A Harris spokesman said: “Trump’s entire campaign is in service of people like Elon Musk and himself—self-obsessed rich guys who will sell out the middle class and who cannot run a livestream in the year 2024.” 🤣

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

I've made that point before:
- LLM: 1E13 tokens x 0.75 word/token x 2 bytes/token = 1E13 bytes.
- 4 year old child: 16k wake hours x 3600 s/hour x 1E6 optical nerve fibers x 2 eyes x 10 bytes/s = 1E15 bytes.

In 4 years, a child has seen 50 times more data than the biggest LLMs.

1E13 tokens is pretty much all the quality text publicly available on the Internet. It would take 170k years for a human to read (8 h/day, 250 word/minute).

Text is simply too low bandwidth and too scarce a modality to learn how the world works.

Video is more redundant, but redundancy is precisely what you need for Self-Supervised Learning to work well.

Incidentally, 16k hours of video is about 30 minutes of YouTube uploads.

[DHH @dhh]

"The best designers and the best programmers aren’t the ones with the best skills, or the nimblest fingers, or the ones who can rock and roll with photoshop or vim, they are the ones that can determine what just doesn’t matter. That’s where the real gains are made."

[Koyfin @KoyfinCharts]

Druckenmiller on why you should never invest in the present.

"It doesn't matter what a company's earning, what they have earned - you have to visualise the situation 18 months from now - that's where the price will be".

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

We discuss each of the 12 functions of the modern university:

1. CREDENTIALING AGENCY
2. EDUCATIONAL COURSES
3. RESEARCH BUREAU
4. POLICY THINK TANK
5. MORAL INSTRUCTOR
6. SOCIAL REFORMER
7. IMMIGRATION AGENCY
8. SPORTS LEAGUE
9. HEDGE FUND
10. ADULT DAY CARE
11. DATING SITE
12. LOBBYING FIRM

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

Every time I hear about someone being fired poorly I think about this clip from Moneyball.

Every manager should watch this

[rosey🌹 @thechosenberg]

What the actual fuck is happening in Korea

[fukumimi @fukumimi]

Behold the wonders of Japanese earthquake resistant civil engineering

[Pessimists Archive @PessimistsArc]

Virtues of today were vices a century ago, meaning some New Year’s resolutions in the past were opposite of resolutions today:

2024: Read more
1924: Read less

2024: Cycle more
1924: Cycle less

2024: Play more chess
1858: Play less chess
https://t.co/i16aSsijMf

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Better access to knowledge is ....
... As bad as opium 🤔

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Gym owners on the first week of January

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Here are the most epic Cramer memes of 2023.

Share yours in the thread below 👇

[Uber @Uber]

✨ What's your plan for New Year's Eve? ✨

[Uber Eats @UberEats]

Dec 25: Christmas 🎄🎅❄️☃️
Dec 26: order delivery and watch tv
Dec 27: order delivery and watch tv
Dec 28: order delivery and watch tv
Dec 29: order delivery and watch tv
Dec 30: order delivery and watch tv
Dec 31: New Years Eve 🎉🥳🎊🪩

[Kevin Finnerty @timeimmemorial_]

driving to work at 6am because I wanted to be funny in high school

[Kenny Lay (Parody) @EnronChairman]

Just send the astroid already

[Charlie Munger Fans @CharlieMunger00]

"The problem isn't getting rich, it's staying sane"

— Charlie Munger

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

Hello my name is Jürgen and I am from Deutschland and I would like to invest in your company. $300K for 51% and you will call me daily with status reports.

thx ;)