Colin

[Colin @colpalm]

@geoffreylitt Love this

[Peter B @realpeteyb123]

Don’t care what anyone says, Orange County, California is still the best place to live in America.

I’m not living there now, for logistical reasons, but it’s the perfect spot.

Not a debate.

[Colin @colpalm]

@TheZvi 1. Overthinking turns "I don't know" to wrong answers
2. Overly agentic behavior ignoring instructions
3. Misrepresenting unexpected tool use results

Seems concerning as we're all racing to build more autonomous agent workflows with less human oversight

[Colin @colpalm]

@simonw If “consult Elon” isn’t in the prompt, could this be explained by the training process or RLHF?

1/ Plenty of Elon posts in the twitter training data.
2/ Intentionally/unintentionally boosting Elon’s opinions over msm during RLHF

[Colin @colpalm]

@vboykis Both are enjoyable 👍🏻

[Christina Farr @chrissyfarr]

In the next five years, the San Diego and LA startup ecosystems are only going to get stronger. Close enough to the Bay Area that it's easy to do a day trip but more affordable & you can have an office by the beach. A no brainer.

[Colin @colpalm]

@soniajoseph_ Did anything ever come of this?

[Colin @colpalm]

@coinbase wallet colpalm. Thanks for #4609 #CoinbaseWalletSweepstakes

[Colin @colpalm]

@youyanggu Awesome job on the covid projections, very inspiring to see what you were able to do. Hope the break serves you well

[Colin @colpalm]

@dwr any favorite books on the history of California?

[jomayra ⚡️ @jomayra_herrera]

normalize 4 day work weeks and 3 day weekends

[Robert McNees @mcnees]

Make the ratio of RTs to faves on this tweet an increasingly accurate approximation of π.

For example: 22/7, 333/106, 355/113, 103993/33102, 104348/33215, etc.

[Justin Kan @justinkan]

We should treat college as the empty credentialing it really is: strip all credit requirements, you just take an entrance test, pay $200k, take a 4 year vacation and get a certificate that let’s you get a job appropriate to how you performed on the entrance exam.

[Naval @naval]

California has a monopoly on all of the warm, dry coastline in the US, the largest market in the world.

This monopoly means that the government doesn’t have to function - people, money, and industry will keep flowing.

Like Middle Eastern countries that can dig for oil anytime.

[Julia DeWahl @juliadewahl]

Doesn’t feel like we’d lose too much if all books were half their length, but would gain so much from being able to read twice as many books.

Would love to see the new standard for nonfiction book length cut by 50%.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

just fyi.. ucsf, uc berkeley and stanford are not leaving the bay area

[Sean Linehan @seanlinehan]

Other than 0% income taxes, in what ways are Texas and Florida’s governance better than California?

[Colin @colpalm]

@BearNotesApp @Soff50547469 Any timeline on when the header and list folding will be available to all?

[Colin @colpalm]

@KellyBodwin Lockhart's Lament. Rethinking mathematical education and could easily be applied to statistics as well.

"The first thing to understand is that mathematics is an art."

https://t.co/CHwae3jWmf

[Colin @colpalm]

@traversymedia 2 years ago - started with python for data analysis in biotech field

Recently, was lucky to get a full stack dev role so learning Java, JS and HTML as I go. New challenges everyday