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rewriting in rust for no particular reason

[Guru @CtrlGuruDelete]

okay openAI image models are crazy good. First time had a wow moment in a while!

[Guru @CtrlGuruDelete]

@bgurley called it!

[Guru @CtrlGuruDelete]

the best thing the US can do to win the AI race is flood the chinese market with nvidia gpus so they don't feel the need to vertically integrate their semiconductor manufacturing. All the AI doomers are doing a disservice to US

[Guru @CtrlGuruDelete]

@aidan_mclau https://t.co/i1GmWdi0Yh

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

crazy, looks like they're the most effective resource allocators on the planet

[Guru @CtrlGuruDelete]

@saranormous @andy_l_jones I agree its tbd. We will know more once 4.5 is scaled for test time thinking.
https://t.co/FEnYh1jDQP

[Noam Brown @polynoamial]

Scaling pretraining and scaling thinking are two different dimensions of improvement. They are complementary, not in competition.

[Guru @CtrlGuruDelete]

@growing_daniel Sorry for your loss Daniel!

[Guru @CtrlGuruDelete]

@garrytan @FortuneMagazine Congrats Garry!

[Guru @CtrlGuruDelete]

@mattfreed @kscalelabs Good luck dude!

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

One of my favorite things about the new AI age is that the demos are absolutely mind blowing

Every other day we see an impressive breakthrough like this one: take a few dozen photos of a space and turn it into a 120fps first person video game in any browser

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

This is a pretty wild demo. From a simple smartphone video or photos you can create 120fps video game-like tours of any space

Only made possible by recent breakthroughs in Gaussian Splatting

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

YC S24's @DigitalCarbonAI transforms images and videos into photorealistic, editable 3D scenes. Create virtual home tours or show off products in 3D using just your phone — no special gear needed.

Congrats on the launch, @CtrlGuruDelete + @LearnedVector!

https://t.co/ddrS4QKMUM

[Guru @CtrlGuruDelete]

Plastics might be the Great Filter!

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Actually I was reading the book "A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies" just last week.

I didn't realize the extent to which plastics have come to permeate and mess with our entire environment. It's not just about the polymer granules of the plastic, which is problematic by itself when during their breakdown they get small enough to make their way everywhere, including inside our organs, brains, etc.

It's about the ~thousands of exotic chemicals that get mixed into the plastics to tune them: plasticizers (to make them more flexible/durable), stabilizers (to help them resist heat, light), flame retardants, colorants, fillers, antioxidants, UV stabilizers, antistatic agents, lubricants, biocides, etc etc. These chemicals leach from the plastics over time (by default, but especially when you e.g. when you microwave your food). The vast majority of these chemicals have never been evaluated for safety.

There's many other fun facts in the book. We already knew "recycling" of plastic is basically fiction. It also turns out that e.g. when you see "biodegradable" on your plastic, that doesn't mean in normal natural conditions - they only degrade via specific processing plants that are equipped to degrade them.

Toxic, indestructible, synthetic molecules are mixing through the organic environments and the food chain and quite likely poisoning the environment and us.

It definitely feels like we've allowed the convenience of plastics to get way ahead of our understanding of their global effects and that there are some major unpriced externalities in the industry.

[Guru @CtrlGuruDelete]

@aphysicist IMO Startups often serve as early adopters and signal future market potential. They're agile in identifying real needs vs. hype. Big company usage, while impressive, may not always indicate the same level of product-market fit or future growth trajectory that VCs seek.

[Guru @CtrlGuruDelete]

@coreylynch is there a reason for onboard vllm inference vs hitting the api's? is it the latency?

[Guru @CtrlGuruDelete]

@tunguz Lfg!!!

[Guru @CtrlGuruDelete]

Its crazy that North Korea is outperforming India, Spain, and Switzerland in Olympics!!!