alenp

a person that exists on the internet and in real life.
co-founder of Space Monkey, Inc. (RIP 2014)

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"data center water use is a red herring!" they say. https://t.co/60U3qxuCsC

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@Jason https://t.co/TGRFfZtQYM

[Dr. Manu Kumar 👋🏽 @ManuKumar]

Pulling 16hr days when you’re 50+ is a lot more taxing than when you’re in your 20s! 🤪

[Guitar Gods Unleashed @gguworld]

"Ramble On" is 56 years old and Robert Plant just walked onto The Late Show and made it sound like he wrote it this morning.

[Jerry Thornton @jerrythornton]

This is going to stick with me forever

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@theallinpod this is the smartest, most thoughtful conversation on geopolitics and other topics @theallinpod has ever held. nice work raising the bar, @jason and @friedberg

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@theallinpod, more Brad Gerstner (@altcap) please — discourse is discernably higher quality every time

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Cormac McCarthy was also amazing at non-fiction: https://t.co/Ac6rL8nLTr

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@LaughLax you might enjoy the History of English podcast — Stroud talks about this example in one of the episodes

[Santiago @svpino]

AI will not replace you. A person using AI will.

[Giannis Daras @giannis_daras]

DALLE-2 has a secret language.
"Apoploe vesrreaitais" means birds.
"Contarra ccetnxniams luryca tanniounons" means bugs or pests.

The prompt: "Apoploe vesrreaitais eating Contarra ccetnxniams luryca tanniounons" gives images of birds eating bugs.

A thread (1/n)🧵

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

AGI before reliable headphone pairing.

[alenp @alenp]

@squires_alan @saraschaefer1 you are 100% right, this is the correct answer and guaranteed winner of the Toto covers game https://t.co/13MX1xov7S

[Spencer Ryan Hall @spencerhall]

Love this remastered video of Utah in 1940s https://t.co/z7213wR2Eh

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@raechellambert Hard Fork

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Vox Populi, Vox Dei.

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you need to scroll through this thread

[Eckler ✦ @daniel_eckler]

ANOTHER AI MEGA THREAD 🧵

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congrats @jtolds and @jwilloughby_, great leaders!

[Storj @storj]

ANNOUNCING: @jtolds as Chief Architect and @jwilloughby_ as our new Chief Technology Officer! The expanded executive leadership team will work to meet the growing demand for #performant, #secure, #decentralized, and low-cost cloud object storage.
https://t.co/KLf4anMqxP

[Matt Schnuck @mattschnuck]

The most sought-after exec coach in Silicon Valley coached
@naval.

Then went on to coach the CEOs of Reddit, OpenAI, Coinbase....even Sequoia Capital.

Here’s the tool he uses to help Naval & CEOs unlock success AND happiness:

[alenp @alenp]

note: these experiences are all on a brand new Pixel 6a. there's no third party to blame.

[alenp @alenp]

tried so hard to like Android system gestures after recently upgrading, but implementation seems like a complete failure. breaks too many apps that use right/left swipe, eg:

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unfortunately for now, it means I'm back to the three button interface at the bottom of the screen, which solved all the problems mentioned above plus others. but it now feels old and stale, and I'd really like to switch to gestures. does anyone at Google test this stuff?