Sankalp Acharya

Inquisitive ∞

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. "create an svg of pelican on a bicycle". As one idea to generalize it, I was interested what Opus 5 would do if I gave it the first paragraph of the Lord of the Rings, a 1M token budget (~$10) and asked for three js render of it. Opus went off for ~2 hours and wrote 5500 lines of code that (procedurally) rendered the story. It's kind of janky but fun. But it's a bit mindboggling that the LLM has to place and orchestrate various polygon assets in (x,y,z) coordinates and write code that animates it all, and that it even does anything at all.

I also like this kind of examples because no one in their right mind would ever spend the time to write something this custom but LLMs have all the stamina and patience in the world, so it's an example where we go from "no one would ever do this" to "sure, why not, it's ~free". There might be a lot more. But I'm excited about creating hyper custom worlds that you can imagine dropping players into, e.g. here to participate in the LoTR story as a spectator NPC, or one of the characters, or etc. Something like an ephemeral GTA of X on demand.

Last thought is that the domain of worlds/games exposes a weakness in LLMs: they can't easily audit their work because they aren't able to efficiently and natively perceive videos or play games within them. Here, Opus 5 had to very slowly and painstakingly take screenshots at different points, and it messed up a few times and created a bunch of jank. An example of raw capability (multimodal, gameplay) that I think is still quite lacking.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Don’t focus on the goal, focus on building the environment, the lifestyle, and the routine that will naturally increase the probabilities of you reaching that goal, focus on becoming the kind of person who will inevitably get it done.

[Sankalp Acharya @Sanku_Reflects]

Science is the highest form of creative art.

[Greg Egan @gregeganSF]

While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.

[Kate😶‍🌫️ @katehqs]

I think one of the most heartfelt experiences in life is discovering that someone genuinely enjoys your presence. Not what you provide, Not your accomplishments. Just you, your thoughts, your energy, your existence.

[The 48 Laws of Power @48LawsofPowerr]

Law 21

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

We say “peace of mind” but really what we want is peace from mind.

@naval

[Sankalp Acharya @Sanku_Reflects]

The art of life is enjoying the passage of time.

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

"We may have knowledge of the past but cannot control it; we may control the future but have no knowledge of it." — Claude Shannon

Image v/MIT Museum

[ً @artfuIchaos]

someone once told me “emotional intelligence is the discipline of sitting with a feeling long enough to understand it before you hand it to someone else” and that honestly changed how i move.

[Sankalp Acharya @Sanku_Reflects]

Except for love, the world feels empty.

[Naval @naval]

Existence itself is a miracle - the rest is science.

There is no single meaning to existence - if there were, we’d be slaves to it.

Within existence, there are rules of logic and science. If it was magic, the world would be un-navigable.

Truly the best of all possible worlds.

[Sankalp Acharya @Sanku_Reflects]

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

[Sankalp Acharya @Sanku_Reflects]

Instead of only making AI systems bigger and better, humanity should develop a rigorous mathematical science that explains what intelligence fundamentally is and how it works.

[The Cinéprism @TheCineprism]

Every year, I understand him a little better.

[Viraj Sheth @viraj_sheth]

life is a game, man. don't take it as anything more than that.

have fun. fall in love. sidequest maxx. live the human experience.

and then if you are to make an impact, you will. don't hound yourself so much over it.

[Issybeatz @Issybeatz_]

the older you get the more you understand why people disappear into art, music, books and quiet living

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Donald Knuth included Fermat’s Last Theorem as one of the exercises in his monumental The Art Of Computer Programming.

[Nostos @NostosLit]

- Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka