Tobi Olabode

heading to NYC Tech week

Data Science, Climate Change and Strong Opinions on planning permission.

[Jéferfon Menezes @JefinhoMenes]

COMO ASSIM BICHO

O modelo de IA da PREFEITURA DO RIO bateu os modelos da Qwen e da Deepseek nos benchmarks e virou um dos melhores modelos de IA de código aberto ????????

[Tobi Olabode @TobiOlabode3]

Thinking of that @orenmeetsworld, Guy vs Girl algo video where he paid people to scroll on their feed.

[Tobi Olabode @TobiOlabode3]

This is actually a pretty cool idea having your own cultural curator for your Insta or Tiktok feed.

You can one up it: One could have different personas scrolling through different feeds. I would argue that's more for marketers though.

[Priyaa @pritopian]

I send codex on doom scroll quests to instagram on my behalf everyday. I love discovering hidden gems from influencers, but I hate this new trend where every reel is:
"comment LINK and I'll dm you my list." So I built a Codex skill to watch bookmarked reels for me, and turn them into field notes for:
👗 clothes I should buy
📚 books I should read
🍜 places I should visit
It identifies the brands, products, restaurants, and locations mentioned in the reel, finds the original product pages, pulls the actual product photos from the source website, and organizes everything into structured notes with links and any useful creator comments.

Instead of doomscrolling for 45 mins and forgetting everything, I have delegated brain rot to codex!

[arya @AJakkli]

I really liked Eric's take on why alpha go is profound: A 10-layer network can only do 10 sequential steps of thinking, by construction. And yet those 10 steps can "amortize and approximate to very high fidelity a nearly intractable search problem."

[Sarah Drasner @sarah_edo]

SF Native here- the whole post is about SF tech. Go to the redwoods. Go to Santa Cruz. Make friends with dog walkers, doctors, bartenders. Get involved in the food culture (and the after parties). Go see some live music. Stare out at the bay while eating seafood in mission bay. Have a picnic with friends in Golden Gate Park. Ride a boat in stow lake. There’s so much more to the city than the tech climb and grind. You can be in tech without having it swallow you whole.

[Tobi Olabode @TobiOlabode3]

@MilksandMatcha Swing by to Shoreditch, Very good independent cafes.

Allpress espresso is great.

[Teknium 🪽 @Teknium]

Very cool project that a lot of people have asked for for a long time, an LLM trained on 90GB of only 1800s and older texts

https://t.co/pio0FXssp4

[Jamon @jamonholmgren]

Devs need to get outside of the tech bubble and go solve real problems for non-tech people. We are an overserved market. Go ask your brother-in-law how his software is at his non-tech job and watch the wheels start turning.

[Tenobrus @tenobrus]

it's legitimately baffling to me that some people *dont* use llms daily across many aspects of their lives

[Tobi Olabode @TobiOlabode3]

@rcwhiteley @Object_Zero_ Yep, traditional image recognition will do the job for most of those use cases.

And at that point is dealing with edge cases that will take most of the dev time.

[Tobi Olabode @TobiOlabode3]

@RealPeterTeal @CSandbatch Underrated rock climbing joke.

[Dorsa @dorsa_rohani]

New fastest shortest-path algorithm in 41 years!
Tsinghua researchers broke Dijkstra’s 1984 “sorting barrier,” achieving O(m log^(2/3) n) time. This means faster route planning, less traffic, cheaper deliveries, and more efficient networks - and a CS curriculum revamp =)

[Jeremy Howard @jeremyphoward]

Announcing fasttransform: a Python lib that makes data transformations reversible/extensible. No more writing inverse functions to see what your model sees. Debug pipelines by actually looking at your data.

Built on multi-dispatch. Work w/ @R_Dimm
https://t.co/OGDrBFhnfP

[Tobi Olabode @TobiOlabode3]

@FJ000RD @danshipper Yep, I'm a data engineer, so I don't do front-end stuff. Cursor is a massive help.

[Tobi Olabode @TobiOlabode3]

I got Cursor to build the same thing using my annual review and journal notes from Evernote.

Thanks for the idea! @danshipper

I adjusted the prompt for more introspection.

[Dan Shipper 📧 @danshipper]

my weekend project:

deep background—a public, static site full of all of my notes, quotes, sources, and references. I feed the URL to deep research when I ask it a question and it uses ONLY my sources to write answers.

it's really fucking cool

[Tobi Olabode @TobiOlabode3]

I used simple hyperlinks to get it to work.

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

Thanks to AI: Ozempic without side effects

A newly discovered peptide from Stanford Medicine combats obesity in a similar way to Ozempic, but without its side effects.

The naturally occurring 12-amino acid peptide acts specifically in the hypothalamus and reduced food intake by up to 50% in animal experiments. Obese mice lost 3 grams of mainly adipose tissue in 14 days.

AI algorithms were crucial to the discovery. Researcher Katrin Svensson founded a company for clinical studies on humans.

[Daniel Vassallo @dvassallo]

How can web browsers render something like this at 60 FPS but if I add a few rows to an HTML table the page freezes for half a second while it repaints?

[James Cham @jamescham]

Are vibe checks the next evals?

[Aiden Bai @aidenybai]

vibe coding is awesome until i have to look at the code