Mikey Marrewa

[Mikey Marrewa @SD_Mikey]

@rationalyst @latentspacepod Using CLA, you don't need the real environment (3 years on the job training), you need an environment that preserves the decisions & feedback loops that matter to compress the dead time & keep the meaningful reps. It's not a "fake" job, it's just better learning design.

[Mikey Marrewa @SD_Mikey]

@rationalyst @latentspacepod There's a field called ecological dynamics that studies how people learn skilled behavior. The core idea is that learning happens through interaction with your environment, not just learning/memorizing rules. The coaching application is called the Constraints-Led Approach (CLA).

[Mikey Marrewa @SD_Mikey]

@nope_its_lily I miss the exuberant bioinformatics PhD at UCSD. It sure feels like we’re close to crossing the Rubicon.

[Mikey Marrewa @SD_Mikey]

@SlopeOfHope Especially because the effective tariff rate barely budged. We’re basically where we were in the morning with tariffs. When folks figure that out, they’re not going to be happy.

[Mikey Marrewa @SD_Mikey]

@nope_its_lily Any reason you’re not posting on the other blue app anymore?

[swyx @swyx]

🆕 AI Fundamentals: Datasets 101!

https://t.co/sJVEllP2Bd

@fanahova and I finally got together to give the epic 1hr intro to (LLM) datasets that we wish existed, covering:

- Concepts: whats the difference between a Dataset and a Benchmark? What is a Scaling Law? Why are all Datasets measured in Tokens? Is an LLM a Database? (shoutout @sarahcat21 haha)

- Major Datasets: What are the origins of CommonCrawl? What role do UGC platforms like Reddit and Wikipedia play in training LLMs?

- Are we out of data? Most academics say yes, we're in a "Token Crisis", but @ilyasut and @BlancheMinerva say we're not even close

- Issues: Cleaning, Bias, Contamination, Copyright...

all this and more on the latest @latentspacepod!

[Mikey Marrewa @SD_Mikey]

@BFoofer @TheMaverickWS I just want to know how to create a sustainable retirement system. It seems every system is tied to population growth or increasing productivity. Is there something else I’m not aware of?

[Mikey Marrewa @SD_Mikey]

@dreyonthemoon That’s the misconception for all of software dev. Often times engineering thinks it’s about adding cool new features or fixing bugs. It’s about delivering business value and that value drives revenue growth.

[Mikey Marrewa @SD_Mikey]

@dreyonthemoon Is there a different goal to other jobs in software development?

[Mikey Marrewa @SD_Mikey]

@Beaker @perpetualsec From a random purple belt on the interwebs, congratulations @perpetualsec on the black belt!

[Mikey Marrewa @SD_Mikey]

@nope_its_lily Allergic to something in the spirits?

[Mikey Marrewa @SD_Mikey]

@nope_its_lily Honestly, the best thing I’ve done for this issue having already tried chiropractic, sitting on balls, special chairs, braces, etc was to make the muscles supporting the head stronger. I use the Iron Neck. Yep, it looks weird, but it works. https://t.co/7xJnyHRHon

[Mikey Marrewa @SD_Mikey]

@the_alphatrades Literal insanity

[Mikey Marrewa @SD_Mikey]

@the_alphatrades Russia didn’t launch a nuclear weapon, they just blew one up that was sitting on the ground.

[Mikey Marrewa @SD_Mikey]

This thread explains the issues of the great financial crisis and why DeFi could lead us down that same road.

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

14 year ago, the world's financial system came to the brink of collapse. Central banks scrambled to react. Businesses shuttered. People lost their homes. Many governments fell. Faith in our institutions shattered. The Occupy movement was launched. So was Bitcoin. 1/

[Mikey Marrewa @SD_Mikey]

@jbeda @Bob_Wachter Super interesting. I didn’t see the Las test study. The BinaxNOW tests seem to work best from our family testing.

[Mikey Marrewa @SD_Mikey]

@jbeda @Bob_Wachter It’s tough to compare because rapid tests have poor sensitivity and specificity when compared to pcr so we’re well within coincidence.

[Mikey Marrewa @SD_Mikey]

@jbeda We had a similar situation. We ran an experiment where we did one test with nasal swabbing only and one with back of throat then nasal swabbing. Back of throat first came back positive while nasal only was negative. I did this after reading @Bob_Wachter describe this method.

[Mikey Marrewa @SD_Mikey]

You can now pay $3/month for the privilege to post JPGs that you paid money for as your twitter profile that you could still do paying $0/month with JPGs you paid $0 for.

To quote Don King "Only in America!"