Michael De Groote

Write. Revise. Repeat. I am De Groote.

[Michael De Groote @DeGroote]

Having trouble getting started on your dream? Keep making the first step smaller and then smaller until you take it. No first step is too small. The problem isn't that your dream is too big, it's that your first step isn't small enough!

[Michael De Groote @DeGroote]

@danmccay Dowdle is a great guy!

[Michael De Groote @DeGroote]

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[Michael De Groote @DeGroote]

@Ore_Dear Gotta love that when the bear runs away from magical cat, the woman continues knocking on something other than the door...AI Slop ...

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Terence Tao is the greatest living mathematician.

Fields Medal at 31. Solved problems that had been open for a century. Widely regarded as the sharpest analytical mind alive.

And he just told you the thing your entire career is built on is now worthless.

Tao: “AI has basically driven the cost of idea generation down to almost zero.”

For five hundred years, the idea was the prize.

The theory. The hypothesis. The flash of insight a physicist chased for twenty years in a lab before it landed.

That was the bottleneck. That was what tenure rewarded. That was what Nobel committees were looking for.

Gone.

A model can generate a thousand candidate theories for a scientific problem in an afternoon. Not noise. Not garbage. Plausible, structured, publishable-grade hypotheses.

A thousand of them. Before dinner.

The idea used to be the scarcest resource in any room.

Now it is the cheapest.

But Tao went somewhere most people are not ready to follow.

Tao: “Verification, validation, and assessing what ideas actually move the subject forward… that’s not something we know how to do at scale.”

Sit with that.

We automated creation.

We did not automate truth.

We can produce ten thousand explanations for a phenomenon.

We cannot tell you which ones are real.

That is not a gap. That is a chasm.

And it is the most important unsolved problem on Earth right now.

Tao: “Human reviewers… they’re already being overwhelmed actually.”

The entire scientific apparatus was built for a world where a single paper took months to produce.

Peer review. Journal boards. Consensus forged over years of replication and debate.

That infrastructure was never designed for what just hit it.

Journals are flooded. Reviewers are buried. The filters that separated signal from noise for decades were engineered for human-speed output.

They are now absorbing machine-speed volume.

And they are cracking under it.

Tao compared it to the internet.

The internet drove the cost of communication to zero. That did not produce clarity. It produced an ocean of noise with islands of signal buried somewhere inside.

AI just did the same thing to knowledge itself.

Infinite generation. Zero verification.

The person who can produce ideas has never mattered less.

The person who can prove which ideas are true has never mattered more.

That is the inversion nobody is processing.

Every company, every lab, every institution is racing to generate more. Faster models. Bigger outputs. More theories. More code. More content.

Nobody is building the system that tells you which of those outputs are actually correct.

And that is the only system that matters.

Whoever solves verification at scale does not win a market.

They become the filter that all of science, all of engineering, all of human discovery flows through.

The bottleneck of the last five hundred years was producing the answer.

The bottleneck of the next fifty is knowing whether the answer is real.

And right now, according to the greatest mathematician alive, we do not know how to do that at the speed the machines demand.

That is not a research problem.

That is the race beneath the race.

And almost nobody has entered it.

[Michael De Groote @DeGroote]

"Stop dreaming, just ski."
- @MikaelaShiffrin

[Michael De Groote @DeGroote]

" Your life is led by the questions you ask."
-@richienorton

[Michael De Groote @DeGroote]

"Then how the reindeer loved him" LIE! They didn't love him, they were jealous and hated him all the more. #howlifereallyworks

[Orson Scott Card @orsonscottcard]

Valid Rules for Writing

To echo St. Paul, they are: Faith, Hope, and Clarity… and the greatest of these is clarity.

1. Believe people would do what you show them doing.
2. Care how things work out for your characters.
3. Understand what is happening and why.

These are true in every language.
Peculiar to English are these:

1. We use present tense for jokes and tall tales. When we want to be believed, we always switch to past tense.
2. First person is farther removed from the action than third person limited, because it is remembered by the narrator.
3. Second person is mandatory for recipes and instructions — because it is in the imperative mood.
4. English adds prepositions to verbs to make compound verbs, which may be correctly used to end sentences with. [Verb: “to end with”]
5. English uses two-word infinitives, which may have modifiers inserted whenever clarity demands. [“To boldly go …”]
6. Your style is the way you SPEAK ALOUD. Write like that, and your language will sing. Follow Strunk & White, and your own style will never be found.

That's a pretty good list. Otherwise, consult your own language usage and use it — why write in someone else's version of English?

[Michael De Groote @DeGroote]

Happy #pioneerday America!

[Orange @CG_Orange_eng]

When two paths ignites a new future.

Watch Levithan on Netflix.
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[Michael De Groote @DeGroote]

@ScottWesterfeld Congratulations!

[Orson Scott Card @orsonscottcard]

You don't need an agent until you have an offer from a publisher. The kind of agent you can get now is the kind you'll have to get a lawyer to get rid of later.

Especially for children's books. The earnings are so low, few agents would consider it to be worth their while.

What makes you a writer is that you write. You write many different things. You don't wait for a manuscript to sell before writing another and another and another. And with each new project, you're getting better and better.

[Michael De Groote @DeGroote]

"Every scene has to have the potential to be somebody's favorite scene in the book." -@BrandSanderson #writing

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[Mitt Romney @MittRomney]

Ann and I extend congratulations to President-elect Donald Trump and to Vice President-elect J.D. Vance. Congratulations, as well, to the new members of the U.S. Senate and House. The people have spoken. It is now up to these leaders to thoughtfully chart the course ahead, as it is not without challenges. May God bless our great United States.

[Michael De Groote @DeGroote]

One thing both sides can agree upon is that if the other side wins, it is the end of our nation. #Election2024 #ElectionDay

[Michael De Groote @DeGroote]

@LinguistRita @Nick_Pettigrew In an airplane. You were in an airplane

[Will Rogers @RealWillRogers]

November 7, 1932 – “There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it’s not a tie, for we couldn’t go through with this thing again.”

[Joshua Becker @joshua_becker]

Sometimes a calm, clean home feels just out of reach. Here’s the trick that most people miss: the secret to maintaining a clutterfree home isn’t found in a once-a-year deep clean or a major decluttering project. The real key lies in small, daily habits.

[Michael De Groote @DeGroote]

Biden dropping out is unprecedented! #Biden