Cihat Imamoglu

yet another curious soul. Previously seen at @layer_ai, @FatLlamaHQ, @PalantirTech, @Google

[Cihat Imamoglu @cihatimamoglu]

Brilliant!

[quibble @quibbleUK]

Hello, we are Jonathan and Abigail - unashamed pedants who want to bring this affliction to bear on all things public policy and practice.
We believe that details matter, especially in public administration. This is why today we are founding quibble: a campaign to fix the small stuff.
Think, for example, about the cookie banner that we click on every webpage. Each instance is not a big deal, so we just put up with it. But its cumulative impact adds up - on average we press it 5 times per day. The European Commission estimates that it costs EU citizens 343 million hours per year.
And who is there to represent the impacts of seemingly minor issues like this in a systematic way? We want quibble to be the answer. In the case of the cookie banner, lots of advocacy has rightly focused on privacy, but has this meant that user experience has taken a backseat? We believe there are ways to improve user experience without compromising on privacy. We will share more about this soon.
Consider another example. Did you know that in some government-run car parks you can be fined for a minor keying error, such as accidentally typing a zero instead of an “o”? Again, we will come to the detail of this quibble in the coming weeks, but for now just consider again the question: who? Who is there currently to systematically represent the interests of the parker who is given an unfair ticket?
An inherent feature of consumer interests is that those who have them rarely have enough other things in common to make collective organisation and representation feasible. This is the gap that quibble seeks to fill. Now of course excellent consumer interest groups exist. But understandably quibbles might not be at the top of their lists. Our hope is that quibble will be complementary; picking up the bottom-of-the-list issues faced by various groups - the stuff they are almost too embarrassed to raise because they are too small.
We are not embarrassed about detail. If you’ve ever had a splinter, you know small things can have a big impact. This is what quibble is committed to tackling, and our wider hope is that by doing so we will also incentivise policy makers to be even more careful about detail.
Check out our website here, including our first four campaigns: https://t.co/gZiqqHbhIL

[John Collison @collision]

As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Major life hack: Don't complain, ever. Nobody likes a complainer. They drain the energy of everyone around them. It's exhausting spending time around someone who constantly complains about things outside their control. If it’s within your control, go do something about it. If it’s not, you’re just wasting energy thinking about it. Complaining gives too much power to the thing. Take back that power.

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Be quiet, Marxist.

Nuclear is the safest energy source on a deaths per terawatt-hour basis, second to solar.

It is also the most reliable and least “carbon intensive” energy source there is on the market.

If you really cared about climate, you’d support nuclear power.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Trikafta is one of the most inspiring medical advances in decades.

Approved in 2019, the drug at first makes cystic fibrosis patients vomit up mucus for a few days.

But while they lose those days, they gain a lifetime–a healthy, *normal length* lifetime.

It's a miracle drug.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Cihat Imamoglu @cihatimamoglu]

@grkn "The UK government is replacing the current two-year qualifying period for unfair dismissal with a six-month period as part of the Employment Rights Act 2025."

[Cihat Imamoglu @cihatimamoglu]

@onderkayaistan1 Ailesi Dragos'ta yasardi. Kucukken annesi Emine Esenbel ile tanismistim, mekani cennet olsun.

[Cihat Imamoglu @cihatimamoglu]

@Dom_Hallas How sturdy is this confirmation? What makes you believe that they 100% won't declare it on 26 November?

[LiorLefineder @lefineder]

Celtic words in the Turkish language, ultimately sourced from the Galatians who settled in Anatolia in the 3rd century BC.

[Cihat Imamoglu @cihatimamoglu]

@paulg @bscholl @boomsupersonic Palantir has done this for many years as well.

[Cihat Imamoglu @cihatimamoglu]

@CagriKent Ulkenin "far right" denen partinin (su an secim olsa acik ara en cok milletvekiline sahip olacak partiyi de boyle tabir etmek zaten bir cakallik da neyse) en ust birkac kisisinden biri bile Zia Yusuf =) Ulkedeki cok buyuk cogunlugun kaliteli, yasal gocmenle hicbir sorunu yok

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

English town names tell a lot of history. Anything ending in -caster, -cester or -chester was a Roman fort. -bury and -borough are Saxon forts. If it ends in -by it was settled by vikings (by is still the Swedish and Norwegian word for village.) -ford is a river crossing.

[David Perell @david_perell]

It can all be so much more beautiful. Even the simple things... the soaps, the sinks, the lamps, and even the door knobs. All of it could delight us, if only we cared a little more.

The problem isn't a lack of money. The problem is apathy. Making something beautiful begins with the decision to elevate your standards and commit to making something beautiful, and our culture has forgotten that simple fact. Until we raise our sights again, we'll be trapped in a dull existence of flat surfaces, lifeless white walls, and mass-produced objects that have no soul.

[Cihat Imamoglu @cihatimamoglu]

@bryandubno @operatorsdotlol @jakemor @Superwall @bryandubno I really want to use this! That being said, I'm not US based, so not sure which airlines does it work it. Could you please update your website to list the airlines that this app works with?

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

My sleep scores during recent travel were in the 90s. Now back in SF I am consistently back down to 70s, 80s.

I am increasingly convinced that this is due to traffic noise from a nearby road/intersection where I live - every ~10min, a car, truck, bus, or motorcycle with a very loud engine passes by (some are 10X louder than others). In the later less deep stages of sleep, it is much easier to wake and then much harder to go back to sleep.

More generally I think noise pollution (esp early hours) come at a huge societal cost that is not correctly accounted for. E.g. I wouldn't be too surprised if a single motorcycle riding through a neighborhood at 6am creates millions of dollars in damages in the form of hundreds - thousands of people who are more groggy, more moody, less creative, less energetic for the whole day, and more sick in the long term (cardiovascular, metabolic, cognitive). And I think that many people, like me, might not be aware that this happening for a long time because 1) they don't measure their sleep carefully, and 2) your brain isn't fully conscious when waking and isn't able to make a lasting note / association in that state. I really wish future versions of Whoop (or Oura or etc.) would explicitly track and correlate noise to sleep, and raise this to the population.

It's not just traffic, e.g. in SF, as a I recently found out, it is ok by law to begin arbitrarily loud road work or construction starting 7am. Same for leaf blowers and a number of other ways of getting up to 100dB.

I ran a few Deep Research sessions and a number of studies that have tried to isolate noise and show depressing outcomes for cohorts of people who sleep in noisy environments, with increased risk across all of mental health (e.g. depression, bipolar disorders, Alzheimer's incidence) but also a lot more broadly, e.g. cardiovascular disease, diabetes.

Anyway, it took me a while to notice and after (unsuccessfully) trying a number of mitigations I am moving somewhere quiet. But from what I've seen this is a major public health issue with little awareness and with incorrect accounting by the government.

[Cihat Imamoglu @cihatimamoglu]

@mariosaputra Is there a changelog/release notes for Astro?

[Cihat Imamoglu @cihatimamoglu]

@SidBendre Is there a recording of this by any chance? @SidBendre @JasonPatel13

[Cihat Imamoglu @cihatimamoglu]

@JasonPatel13 Is there a recording by any chance?

[Cihat Imamoglu @cihatimamoglu]

@OfficialLoganK @OfficialLoganK Could you please let models accept multiple input images? ChatGPT does this and it's super useful.