Daedalan

Just add more compute

[Neel Nanda @NeelNanda5]

I often claim that mechanistic interpretability is full of low hanging fruit. I want to put my money where my mouth is! Announcing 200 Concrete Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability
Post 1 is on toy language models, plus 12 toy models I've trained!
https://t.co/OkLTcjl5i9

[Mike Schiff @MikeSchiff_]

Cheat codes I know in my 30’s that I wish I knew in my 20’s:

[Michael Ashcroft @m_ashcroft]

I'm going to try to explain Alexander Technique using an idea from computer science: functions

I am not a dev so forgive any mistakes

a function is a separate chunk of reusable code that is called from the main program, does something, then the main program continues

[Daedalan @SamdiJen]

@codinghorror “Meta launching drug discovery program to combat cybersickness”

[evan.sui @EvanWeb3]

Much has been written about Sui. But most have missed THE key innovation - its data model and txn processing pipeline.

I'll do my best to provide a high-level arch desc and its many advantages.

Part 1: traditional blockchain arch
Part 2: Sui arch
Part 3: Sui advantages

1/x

[Nick @nickcammarata]

@nosilverv thoughts by some definition are often about myself, but I’ll also go a lot of time walking around without any “thoughts” just looking at things

[Matthew Gottesdiener @MRossG199]

When I was a jr/analyst on Wall Street trading desk, I used to stay late every night trying to learn stuff I had pretended I already got, preparing trade pitches i would learn the next day were somehow “too cute yet too ugly”, & thinking how to ingratiate myself to my bosses 🧵

[Aaron @anesmithbeck]

Seeking advice:

I experience great benefit from staying up late at night (pleasant states, a liberating sense of timelessness, flow, creativity, grand ideas) some beautiful and enjoyable parts of myself become much more alive late at night

[noxx @noxx3xxon]

The first in a series of EVM Deep Dives.

To be a great solidity dev one must have a deep understanding of the EVM.

https://t.co/RPkQgmFHdg

cc

@transmissions11
@gakonst
@MartinLundfall

[Eli Tyre @EpistemicHope]

The LessWrong Sequences (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
Meaningness (David Chapman)
Unqualified Reservations (Mencius Moldbug)

What other giant (internet) treaties, laying out a whole worldview and an associated deep problem, belong on this list?

[Nick @nickcammarata]

Everything is downstream of caring

[Nick @nickcammarata]

@altsanabo @JakeOrthwein @blisstweeting I remember dancing down the street being like wow I think this is going to last foreeeeeveerrrrr, about 12 hours before it left

[friendly neighboorhood rectangular package @UntilTrees]

In the most literal sense possible I felt myself slip in and out of time

[Daedalan @SamdiJen]

@nickcammarata Do increased meditation abilities not help with working, studying, and problem solving?

[Nick @nickcammarata]

For many meditators seeing emptiness starts a video gameification of life, a transition to being a player in an increasingly higher resolution dynamic game

It sounds like this would make them care less and lower empathy but it does the opposite, plus freeing and fun and exciting

[Sam McRoberts @Sams_Antics]

When I first saw Fight Club as a kid, all I saw was a movie about a tool and a rebel, with a mind bending twist. The deep philosophy went right over my head 🤦🏻‍♂️

So, in case you’ve missed it, here you go, an epic thread on the Philosophy of Fight Club 🤜🤛

[networkp @maxbochman]

🌜Unofficial Guide to the ZORA Protocol🌛

@ourZORA @ZORAEngineering

What it is, why it’s important, and how it will empower/protect the ecosystem if it can reach mass adoption

To begin this exploration, let's talk about the current NFT marketplace incumbent -- @opensea

[Daedalan @SamdiJen]

@nickcammarata @JakeOrthwein @sashachapin What do you mean by “cluster headaches”? I’ve experienced fogginess and headaches, but not sure what you’re referring to exactly — nor how to fix them!

[Robin D. Ji @robindavidji]

Are you fundraising as a crypto project with future potential tokens?

Get up to speed on raising with SAFEs + token side letters.

To get the best outcome from investors, here’s what you need to know:

[Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani]

How to sabotage Russian war efforts?

There are ways to sabotage Russian war capacities by focusing on its three major bottlenecks: demographic, economic & institutional. Let's start with demography. Russian started this war suffering from the shortage of young draftable males🧵