David Su

Tech, Finance & Fun

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability.

The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is a group of reactions laughing at various quirks of the models, hallucinations, etc. Yes I also saw the viral videos of OpenAI's Advanced Voice mode fumbling simple queries like "should I drive or walk to the carwash". The thing is that these free and old/deprecated models don't reflect the capability in the latest round of state of the art agentic models of this year, especially OpenAI Codex and Claude Code.

But that brings me to the second issue. Even if people paid $200/month to use the state of the art models, a lot of the capabilities are relatively "peaky" in highly technical areas. Typical queries around search, writing, advice, etc. are *not* the domain that has made the most noticeable and dramatic strides in capability. Partly, this is due to the technical details of reinforcement learning and its use of verifiable rewards. But partly, it's also because these use cases are not sufficiently prioritized by the companies in their hillclimbing because they don't lead to as much $$$ value. The goldmines are elsewhere, and the focus comes along.

So that brings me to the second group of people, who *both* 1) pay for and use the state of the art frontier agentic models (OpenAI Codex / Claude Code) and 2) do so professionally in technical domains like programming, math and research. This group of people is subject to the highest amount of "AI Psychosis" because the recent improvements in these domains as of this year have been nothing short of staggering. When you hand a computer terminal to one of these models, you can now watch them melt programming problems that you'd normally expect to take days/weeks of work. It's this second group of people that assigns a much greater gravity to the capabilities, their slope, and various cyber-related repercussions.

TLDR the people in these two groups are speaking past each other. It really is simultaneously the case that OpenAI's free and I think slightly orphaned (?) "Advanced Voice Mode" will fumble the dumbest questions in your Instagram's reels and *at the same time*, OpenAI's highest-tier and paid Codex model will go off for 1 hour to coherently restructure an entire code base, or find and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems. This part really works and has made dramatic strides because 2 properties: 1) these domains offer explicit reward functions that are verifiable meaning they are easily amenable to reinforcement learning training (e.g. unit tests passed yes or no, in contrast to writing, which is much harder to explicitly judge), but also 2) they are a lot more valuable in b2b settings, meaning that the biggest fraction of the team is focused on improving them. So here we are.

[David Su @dawidsushi]

@SimpliiFin @canadapostcorp anybody know what this is "We're sorry. We are unable to complete this request. Please try again later.
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what's {Result #0151}

[David Su @dawidsushi]

Why Atlanta Georgia airport got no Tapioca

[David Su @dawidsushi]

@cityoftoronto is https://t.co/EMcjUwfx0K a scam

[Google SearchLiaison @searchliaison]

Hey, catching up. Yes, it's been removed. I know, it's sad. I'm sad too. It's one of our oldest features. But it was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn't depend on a page loading. These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it.

Personally, I hope that maybe we'll add links to @internetarchive from where we had the cache link before, within About This Result. It's such an amazing resource. For the information literacy goal of About The Result, I think it would also be a nice fit -- allowing people to easily see how a page changed over time. No promises. We have to talk to them, see how it all might go -- involves people well beyond me. But I think it would be nice all around.

As a reminder, anyone with a Search Console account can use URL Inspector to see what our crawler saw looking at their own page: https://t.co/KWIuvy51Zi

You're going to see cache: go away in the near future, too. But wait, I hear you ask, what about noarchive? We'll still respect that; no need to mess with it. Plus, others beyond us use it.

[Barry Schwartz @rustybrick]

Anyone else notice the cache link is gone? I tried dozens of queries and sites in the Google search results

[David Su @dawidsushi]

@xkcdHatguy_ misaligned values = waste of energy

[David Su @dawidsushi]

@TimeTimer would be great if timer list allows you to start stop timer right then and there instead of navigating to the one timer on click, any options for this?

[David Su @dawidsushi]

如何控制你唯一需要控制的東西 -- 多巴胺

數據呈現形式 + 形式冷卻時間

範例：
0. 連續劇，小說下一章出來的頻率
1. 某時間內商品特價
2. 某消費量解鎖下一個等級（愛馬仕鉑金包）
3. 小孩做了X事情才能接觸Y電視劇
4. 遊戲各種技能，能量棒回复
...
10. 每一天不刷超過十個廢文

[David Su @dawidsushi]

If some time in the future Satoshi makes a comment on https://t.co/BSFEJD4c7W that'd be COOL.

[David Su @dawidsushi]

#2023securitycheckup -- use a 2023 bespoke passphrase with 77-82 bits of entropy (~unhackable !!!) to secure yourself in 2024:

machine-robotics-federal-reservoir-showy-stock-battle

#eff #entropy #passphrase #2024outlook

[David Su @dawidsushi]

@mitsuhiko Distraction for EU stopping Adobe and Figma merger

[David Su @dawidsushi]

@IThinkWong my pain using Datastore

[David Su @dawidsushi]

different reality streams exist -- the travel guides also exist

[Morgan Housel @morganhousel]

A lot of financial debates are just people with different time horizons talking over each other.

[David Su @dawidsushi]

@LynAldenContact @nic_carter Where's graph starting from 2008

[David Su @dawidsushi]

@ylecun Best take on Q*/OpenAI so far

[David Su @dawidsushi]

This is ~like #stackoverflow shutting down 💔 RIP #cgsociety old friend -- was it due to https://t.co/NZE9DypxiK ?

[David Su @dawidsushi]

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