Amit

i hate failing at a nap attempt

[; @deimialexanderv]

La cantidad de cosas buenas que hay en tu vida depende de tu capacidad para notarlas

[Amit @amiitshiinde]

Your screen time is a measure of how long you didn’t want to be alone with your own thoughts.

[Amit @amiitshiinde]

The dishwasher is a cupboard with a wash cycle.

[Amit @amiitshiinde]

A parking ticket is the market correcting your bull case.

[Amit @amiitshiinde]

https://t.co/C4Z95TUr0J

[Amit @amiitshiinde]

Imagine Duolingo but for any topic

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

I wonder if my recorded call has ever been used for training or quality purposes.

[Amit @amiitshiinde]

every subscription is a tiny landlord

[Lina. @LaRepelente]

Bajen la jubilación a los 35 años, ya no aguanto más.

[𝕭𝖎𝖗𝖉𝖞 @mary_got_grace]

Create not to be seen, but to see yourself

[Mark Jaquith @markjaquith]

This is my new shortest “what is Jev” explanation

[dounbug @dounbug]

if you have an addictive personality you are one hyperfixation away from weaponizing it into a generational fucking run

[VV @visualizevalue]

You are what you think you are.

[alfie @alfienxo]

the era where you dropped your phone and your battery flew out was just crazy

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Writing by hand activates brain connectivity patterns that typing on a keyboard does not. A 2023 study in Frontiers in Psychology put electrodes on the heads of university students and found that handwriting triggered widespread neural connectivity across the brain, while typing produced almost none.

The study was led by Audrey van der Meer at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She measured high-density brain waves in 36 students while they wrote words by hand with a digital pen and while they typed the same words on a keyboard. During handwriting, the brain showed increased connectivity between regions involved in movement, vision, and memory. During typing, the connectivity was significantly weaker.

The difference comes from the motor demands of each task. Forming a letter by hand requires the brain to plan a unique shape, guide the hand through it, and receive visual feedback as the letter appears. Each letter is slightly different every time, and the brain has to adapt. Pressing a key on a keyboard is a uniform action that requires no shaping, no feedback loop, and no variation. The brain can do it on autopilot, and it does.

The connectivity patterns observed during handwriting resembled the patterns seen during learning and memory formation, which is why students who take notes by hand remember more than students who type, even when the typists record more words. The hand is forcing the brain to process the information, while the keyboard lets it pass through unprocessed.

Every school that replaced handwriting lessons with keyboard skills did it in the name of progress. The brain data says the thing we gave up was the thing that wired us to learn. The pencil was never just a pencil. It was a brain tool. https://t.co/02KHM8n4Af

[Travis Fischer @transitive_bs]

OpenAI's board finally realizes what Ilya saw

[oguz @OguzEup]

Fırın aslında böyle çalışıyormuş

[Dr Singularity @Dr_Singularity]

We're entering the era of Great Acceleration.

We will make more progress in the next 3 years than we did in the previous 1000 years.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Results are important, but the way they are achieved, the process, is equally important.

[Ilya Sutskever @ilyasut]

Gotta teach the AGI to love

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Being kind reduces inflammation and strengthens your immune system.