Santosh Vijayakumar

Agile Coach, Actor, Dancer

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Neuralink

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Elon Musk explains his 5-step algorithm for solving any problem:

"The most common mistake of smart engineers is to optimize a thing that should not exist."

"I have this very basic first principles algorithm that I run as a mantra."

Elon breaks it down:

Step 1: Question the requirements.

"Make the requirements less dumb. The requirements are always dumb to some degree, no matter how smart the person who gave you those requirements. You have to start there, because otherwise you could get the perfect answer to the wrong question."

Step 2: Try to delete it.

"Try to delete the part or the process step entirely. If you're not forced to put back at least 10% of what you delete, you're not deleting enough. Most people feel like they've succeeded if they haven't been forced to put things back in. But actually they haven't, they've been overly conservative and left things in that shouldn't be there."

Step 3: Optimize or simplify.

"The most common mistake of smart engineers is to optimize a thing that should not exist. So you don't optimize until after you've tried to delete."

Step 4: Speed it up.

"Any given thing can be done faster than you think. But you shouldn't speed things up until you've tried to delete it and optimize it otherwise, you're speeding up something that shouldn't exist."

Step 5: Automate.

"And then the fifth thing is to automate it."

Elon explains why the order matters:

"I've gone backwards so many times where I've automated something, sped it up, simplified it, and then deleted it. I got tired of doing that. So that's why I have this mantra."

[Santosh Vijayakumar @SandyBones]

@elonmusk But this would still involve taxing the rich corporations and individuals?

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Jurassic Park’s first Brachiosaurus reveal is still pure movie magic. 30 seconds of awe, silence, and John Williams. Nearly 30 years later, still gives chills.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

💯😂

[Moonlake @moonlake]

Introducing a world built by the Moonlake's world model. 🏙️

Most world models only allow for a limited action space.

Moonlake maintains multimodal states across physics, appearance, geometry, and casual effects and predict how they evolve under different actions. 👇

[Fan-Yun Sun ✈️CVPR @sunfanyun]

We releasing an early version of Moonlake's world modeling agent.

It is not just a tool for generating beautiful scenes. It is a system for creating worlds you can interact with. Objects respond. Physics runs determinstically. Your actions have real causal effects.

We believe in building with the community, not in isolation. Over the past month, we have iterated closely with users, hosted hackathons, and worked side by side with hundreds of beginner game developers to understand their workflows, frustrations, and creative ambitions firsthand.

Our intention is simple. Help developers solve real pain points. Expensive tooling. Repetitive tasks. Tedious work that slow down creativity. We believe humans are the true source of creativity. Tools should amplify that power, not replace it. Game developers, and more broadly creators, will always be at the center of our ecosystem.

This is our first beta release. It is an early step, but we hope it gives you a clear sense of what we are building toward. A future where anyone can create rich, interactive worlds with intention and meaning.

[Santosh Vijayakumar @SandyBones]

@elonmusk Isn't this the socialist promise? If everyone has wealth, wouldn't that simply inflate the cost of everything? Like a million dollars wouldn't have the same value anymore

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Tesla’s Optimus will beat any human surgeons in 3 years at scale.

- “Don’t go into medical school.”
- Elon: “Yes. Pointless.”

And in 5 years, everyone will have access to medical care thats better than what the presidents receives today

~ Elon Musk

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

BREAKING: Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday.

[Santosh Vijayakumar @SandyBones]

@grok @elonmusk @xai I'd like to brainstorm in private but can you help put in a word with the big guy @elonmusk 😉

[Santosh Vijayakumar @SandyBones]

@elonmusk @xai I'm developing a time machine concept pop-up as part of a broader future-vision project in Niagara Falls, ON. I'd love to have it powered by @grok if you can support a startup centered on innovation and problem-solving! DM for more info!

[Santosh Vijayakumar @SandyBones]

@AravSrinivas Comet browser's assistant and Perplexity search has been down since yesterday's update. Is this connected to the AWS issue or can users rollback to the last stable version? Customer support has been non-responsive for two days!

[Mahesh Sathiamoorthy @madiator]

~2012 must have been like a crazy time.

Neural networks were considered nonsense by most people. Hinton, LeCun and Bengio were the amongst the very few people who kept it all alive for decades.

Alex Krizhevsky, a mad coding genius and a socially aloof kid, shows up to Hinton's lab and says he is bored by the software engineering courses and asks to work there.

Hinton has another student Ilya Sutskever, who is like this mystic guy, who says neural networks are the future and they will outpace human intelligence.

Safe to say most people at this point think these guys are crazy.

Hinton tells these two guys to train a convolutional neural network on Imagenet and specifically tells them to use GPUs. He wants to make machines see.

Krizhevsky goes to town and masters CUDA and parallel programming, and they train a model called SuperVision. Hinton understands the magnitude of what just happened, and tells him to use the name AlexNet instead to carry on Krizhevsky's legacy.

This is submitted to the ImageNet challenge, and Fei Fei Li's student is like "wtf, this must be someone cheating" because it's miles ahead of other submissions. This was most likely the last year for ImageNet challenge because the progress was super slow until then.

Fei Fei Li gets a call and the student says "you better take a look at this".

They can't find out any problem. They test the model on entirely unseen data, and it crushes everything else.

Fei Fei Li is dumbfounded, not just because of the jump in performance, but because it's using this "nonsense" piece of technology called a neural network. She says “It was like being told the land speed record had been broken by a margin of a hundred miles per hour by a Honda Civic”.

Two things happen: people wake up about neural networks. And Jensen truly now (actually only in 2013, but that's story for another time) understands what Nvidia needs to do next.

And then the socially aloof Alex Krizhevsky disappears completely, but his legacy lives on with AlexNet. It is rumored that he is living somewhere in Mountain view, having given up on AI and perhaps technology itself.

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

A 22 year old computer science engineer from Guindy has just won India a world speed skating gold!

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I am (slowly) re-reading the Tolkien legendarium (of which Lord of the Rings is a small part). The whole body of work is so incredible and there's nothing else like it... it dilutes other worlds of fiction. Wait - your story doesn't have a comprehensive history/mythology spanning multiple ages all the way back to a creation myth as detailed in separate volumes? You didn't first invent new languages and dialects for your characters? You didn't pack it with powerful themes and stories written it in a beautiful, archaic style and compose poems and songs alongside? It didn't take you multiple decades of iteration? And what of all the uncharted territory still remaining? Is Tom Bombadil one of the Ainur. Where are the Entwives. What happened to the two unaccounted Istari. Can we hear more about what it was like in Cuiviénen when the elves first awoke? Or to see the light of the two trees of Valinor. Or of the splendor of the caves of Aglarond.

What's most on my mind though - the Tolkien legendarium is imo a concrete example of a height of culture. Does AI, today or soon, make it easier to reach this high via empowerment in both writing and ideation? Or harder, when quick wins are tempting and ~free, and an independent ability to create is stifled. If such a body of work is made again but now with heavy AI assistance, does it inspire the same wonder? What if thousands of them come out on demand with just a prompt? Why do you feel cheated when you learn that something your read was AI generated? Is it transient or a function of capability? Is it slop? What is slop? Or is wonder inseparable from its own creation myth of a lifelong obsession of a mind like your own? So many questions.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

They’re building the Hyperloop!

Good for them. We should do it in America.

[Tencent Hy @TencentHunyuan]

We're thrilled to release & open-source Hunyuan3D World Model 1.0! This model enables you to generate immersive, explorable, and interactive 3D worlds from just a sentence or an image.

It's the industry's first open-source 3D world generation model, compatible with CG pipelines for full editability & simulation. Set to transform game development, VR, digital content creation and so on. Get started now👇🏻

Project Page：https://t.co/bbFzdTXUdU
Try it now：https://t.co/swscD5KGu2
Github：https://t.co/vKq8ykY4Hu
Hugging Face：https://t.co/StC2E9kOmE

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Midjourney now does video, and, like Midjourney itself, its advantage is that it has features that allow you to create styles that are hard achieve with other video creation tools & feel less like standard video pastiche

Here are a bunch of five second clips I made, for example.

[Santosh Vijayakumar @SandyBones]

@PerpLEXIty I'm excited to share more soon!

[Santosh Vijayakumar @SandyBones]

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be participating in Perplexity’s Business Fellowship to further develop my skills within AI.

[Santosh Vijayakumar @SandyBones]

For those unfamiliar, @Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that's transformed how I work. Beyond real-time answers from the web, org files, and proprietary data like Crunchbase and FactSet, it now offers Deep Research that generates expert-level analysis in minutes.