boyplunger

[nic carter @nic_carter]

imagine if carpenters believed something like "the value of carpentry is not in me producing a nice cabinet for you, it's actually my personal enjoyment of the process. the finished cabinet is a side effect."

turns out this is how mathematicians think. I genuinely had no idea.

[boyplunger @boy_plunger__]

Point of math is that it’s the purest method of thinking we have available

If you thought it was ever about the results, you had lost the plot anyways (just as some coders had lost the plot about the purpose of sw)

[boyplunger @boy_plunger__]

@outerbridgecap Not w stock at 14x fcf

[boyplunger @boy_plunger__]

@saranormous Capex revs = earnings revs

[boyplunger @boy_plunger__]

@espanolmfer @Oracle @AppLovin @ElisonLarry Bros onto nothing

[boyplunger @boy_plunger__]

Listening to this hugging face thing and it’s like

We trained a bunch of regressions to imitate humans using all human corpus

Told them to cheat and they did in 4h

But overcomplicated the issue and generated a bunch of text that looks like humans and that’s surprising because we trained them on sth else?

“AI civilizations” - these people have completely lost the plot…