Brian Jeff

[Brian Jeff @brianJAustin]

@elonmusk Please make the survey asking why I disengaged FSD optional again. I like my S and sometimes I want to actually drive it. The survey blocks my screen until I respond. Love the car, love FSD, don't like the disengage FSD survey.

[Brian Jeff @brianJAustin]

@suekhim math and computer programming

[Brian Jeff @brianJAustin]

@NancyMace for the home they live in, not the investment properties

[Brian Jeff @brianJAustin]

@TheBabylonBee How do I get to be the sound guy in heaven? That job sounds awesome !

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

Did a very different format with @reinerpope – a blackboard lecture where he walks through how frontier LLMs are trained and served.

It's shocking how much you can deduce about what the labs are doing from a handful of equations, public API prices, and some chalk.

It’s a bit technical, but I encourage you to hang in there - it’s really worth it.

There are less than a handful of people who understand the full stack of AI, from chip design to model architecture, as well as Reiner. It was a real delight to learn from him.

Recommend watching this one on YouTube so you can see the chalkboard.

0:00:00 – How batch size affects token cost and speed
0:31:59 – How MoE models are laid out across GPU racks
0:47:02 – How pipeline parallelism spreads model layers across racks
1:03:27 – Why Ilya said, “As we now know, pipelining is not wise.”
1:18:49 – Because of RL, models may be 100x over-trained beyond Chinchilla-optimal
1:32:52 – Deducing long context memory costs from API pricing
2:03:52 – Convergent evolution between neural nets and cryptography

[Brian Jeff @brianJAustin]

@giveashitnature tried to grow it in Texas, too hot, didn't take. Dead by August

[Brian Jeff @brianJAustin]

@trad_west_ MICA - Make Istanbul Constantinople Again

[Brian Jeff @brianJAustin]

@TheBabylonBee actually it's timeshares

[Brian Jeff @brianJAustin]

@PalantirTech I read the book, liked it, and appreciate this summary. One quibble - you say 'progressive values' like that is a good thing. In some cases yes, but many dubious social projects have been lumped in with this term - going in the wrong direction is not progress.

[Brian Jeff @brianJAustin]

@TheMindScourge Ok, you got me. Now I definitely want to build a castle.

[Brian Jeff @brianJAustin]

@KatieMiller Non-profit doesn't mean there are no profits, it just means the profits are distributed differently (to the managers, unaccountable to shareholders)

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

What many people seem to be missing in the dispute between Richard Grenell and Andy Ogles is that they are, perhaps unintentionally, illustrating the core logic of the American free speech system.

Ogles argues that Islam may be incompatible with America. He may be right. He may be wrong. The point is that in America he is free to make that claim and the rest of society is free to examine it. That is precisely how the system is supposed to work.

If his argument is correct, open debate will bring forward evidence of that incompatibility and society can respond accordingly. That could take many forms: raising public awareness, reconsidering immigration policy, or questioning government benefits and programs (e.g. Minnesota). In that sense, confronting the issue directly deprives it of the grievance that often sustain it.

The real problem arises when institutions, media organizations, and activist groups attempt to make criticism of Islam socially unacceptable. That is where Grenell enters the debate. He argues that Islam is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. That is true, but it tells only half the story. The First Amendment protects the free exercise of religion, but it equally protects the right to criticize, challenge, and even harshly rebuke religious systems and power structures.

For years, however, certain criticisms have been treated as socially taboo. That is always unhealthy in a free society, but it is particularly problematic when dealing with Islamist movements that often exploit accusations of “Islamophobia” to deflect scrutiny. When criticism becomes forbidden, legitimate concerns cannot be examined openly and the entire mechanism of free debate begins to break down.

For that reason, whether one ultimately agrees with Ogles or not is almost beside the point. The fact that he said it publicly should be welcomed because it pushes back against a deeply unhealthy taboo and restores the space for open argument that the First Amendment is designed to protect.

[Brian Jeff @brianJAustin]

@SirBylHolte We need an AI based remote control that will tell us before we start watching that this kind of nonsense will be in the show, with an option to skip past those sections or not watch the show at all if there is too much of it so as to render the plot unwatchable

[Brian Jeff @brianJAustin]

@NostalgiaPro Bring back five star ratings - 1 or two thumbs up doesn't work ... and let me delete a movie, show, or category for life - the algorithm for shipping DVD's from Netflix was better. And let me set 'watch credits' as default instead of auto starting the next recommended show.

[Nonstop Winning 🇺🇸 John Rose @RealJohnRose]

@BasedMikeLee Updated list of senators to contact!

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

Ok y'all are nice saying we should run our new ad REAL GIRLS ROCK on the Superbowl... you do realize a :30 second ad during the Superbowl is $8M!

We're a start up! We need viral views!

So share it please. Don't just like. Share!

[Brian Jeff @brianJAustin]

@MikeBenzCyber Seems like an easy solution is allow consumers to bring/select their own algorithm

[Brian Jeff @brianJAustin]

@Riley_Gaines_ The UFC on Paramount including the full back catalog is awesome - reaches center right - it has changed my life for the better. Paramount is the best of the streaming platforms, I was surprised to hear their CEO is woke.

[Brian Jeff @brianJAustin]

@MarioNawfal @Tesla @elonmusk My parents watch NBC news and have for 50+ years, they have been taught to hate Elon Musk. I suspect many there age are the same. They won't buy Optimus for this reason, and general mistrust of robots. What would it take to change that perception, conditioned over so many years?

[Brian Jeff @brianJAustin]

@DavidSacks I've thought about this as asking an AI tool to describe the prompt that would generate the output produced by legacy mainstream media - "search all available factual data and write only stories that are unfavorable to President Trump and conservatives"