Yaros Brekhunchenko

[Mo Zarrinsadaf @MoZarrinsadaf]

The future belongs to people who can sit with uncertainty without begging for a fake answer.

[Naval @naval]

The human brain isn’t designed to process all of the world’s breaking emergencies in realtime.

[Abhishek @HeyAbhishek]

10 YouTube channels that will make you an AI expert:

1. Andrej Karpathy - modern, practical lectures
2. Yannic Kilcher - Breaks down AI papers in detail
3. AI Explained - Makes tough ideas easy to get
4. CodeEmporium - Step-by-step AI coding
5. 3Blue1Brown - Visuals for neural networks
6. Lex Fridman - Interviews with top AI folks
7. CodeEmporium - Step-by-step AI coding
8. sentdex - Python for machine learning
9. DeepLearningAI - Courses from Andrew Ng
10. AI Coffee Break - Weekly updates on AI

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[Allie ✞ @allie__voss]

Facebook: Everyone you know is dying or having babies
Instagram: Everyone you know is getting married or running marathons
X: Everyone you know is slowly going insane

[Vladimir @vlelyavin]

@karpathy Andrej is the type of person who drops a post like this and people actually read it thoroughly til the end

"it hurts the ego a bit" is the most relatable line here imo.

we spent years learning how to code and now we're just project managers for an intern that never sleeps

[Yaros Brekhunchenko @brekhunchenko]

@sumlenny Because continuing the war and holding onto this territory will not be free. It will cost hundreds of thousands of killed Ukrainians and hundreds of thousands of disabled people. Plus, these cities will be completely uninhabitable

[Yaros Brekhunchenko @brekhunchenko]

@McFaul Only a few small cities remain in Donbas. The largest cities—Donetsk, Luhansk, and Mariupol—have ALREADY been annexed.

If the war continues, technically small towns will remain, but they will be completely bombed out and uninhabitable. Also tens of thousands will die defending

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I am (slowly) re-reading the Tolkien legendarium (of which Lord of the Rings is a small part). The whole body of work is so incredible and there's nothing else like it... it dilutes other worlds of fiction. Wait - your story doesn't have a comprehensive history/mythology spanning multiple ages all the way back to a creation myth as detailed in separate volumes? You didn't first invent new languages and dialects for your characters? You didn't pack it with powerful themes and stories written it in a beautiful, archaic style and compose poems and songs alongside? It didn't take you multiple decades of iteration? And what of all the uncharted territory still remaining? Is Tom Bombadil one of the Ainur. Where are the Entwives. What happened to the two unaccounted Istari. Can we hear more about what it was like in Cuiviénen when the elves first awoke? Or to see the light of the two trees of Valinor. Or of the splendor of the caves of Aglarond.

What's most on my mind though - the Tolkien legendarium is imo a concrete example of a height of culture. Does AI, today or soon, make it easier to reach this high via empowerment in both writing and ideation? Or harder, when quick wins are tempting and ~free, and an independent ability to create is stifled. If such a body of work is made again but now with heavy AI assistance, does it inspire the same wonder? What if thousands of them come out on demand with just a prompt? Why do you feel cheated when you learn that something your read was AI generated? Is it transient or a function of capability? Is it slop? What is slop? Or is wonder inseparable from its own creation myth of a lifelong obsession of a mind like your own? So many questions.

[doomer @uncledoomer]

the engineers who design these machines for weird random physical tasks in manufacturing are so cool. "hey we need a bottle stander upper machine, can you do it?" "sure thing, itll be a big wheel and we'll slap em. we'll just the slap the shit out of em"

[prayingforexits 🏴‍☠️ @mrexits]

Steve Jobs explaining the meaning of life

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This false nomenclature of “researcher” and “engineer”, which is a thinly-masked way of describing a two-tier engineering system, is being deleted from @xAI today.

There are only engineers.

Researcher is a relic term from academia.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

That is the acid test

[Yaros Brekhunchenko @brekhunchenko]

@iamgingertrash Trillions of dollars spent on a war that managed to capture a few bombed-out villages. Hundreds of thousands killed just since the start of this year. All the smartest people have left the country. The economy is in the dumps. A real genius haha

[Naval @naval]

Instead of fighting Elon or helping Elon or hating Elon or loving Elon, just be the next Elon.

[DR22 Ω 🪬🎭 @DejaRu22]

This is easily the best time to be alive in human history.

Unlimited access to information, generational wealth able to be created by pressing buttons, comparatively instantaneous global travel available worldwide.

THIS IS EASILY THE BEST TIME TO BE ALIVE IN HUMAN HISTORY

[siddhant ᯅ @siddhantxh]

gm anon

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Just showing up is half the battle.” - @elonmusk

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

5 books to read in May 2025:

1) The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard P. Feynman