David Larochelle

Using computer science for social science @berkmancenter Media Cloud project; machine learning data science

[Tyler | Kenji Capital @KenjiCapital]

This is exactly why it’s hard to leave the Bay Area when you grew up in the Bay Area.

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@dissidentwest @bryan_johnson Neither meat nor sunshine are panaceas

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@GergelyOrosz What qualities are they looking for other than being willing to come in person in SF?

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@bett_yu Does Waymo have to pay the towing that people do when their car gets towed?

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@lindy_lou_j Is there support for this in the medical literature?

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@esrtweet @amelia_tweetz Is this because Norway has better social support? Could the U.S. also achieve this with different policies, such as better support for children?

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@esrtweet @amelia_tweetz IQ is artificially fit to a normal distribution. By definition there will always be ~16% of people with IQs under 85

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@realAkashAnand research

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@Viking89148844 @bryan_johnson Are you supplementing with iron bisglycinate and sublingual B12?

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@paulsaladinomd @bryan_johnson He tried both proferrin which is heme iron and bisglycinate which doesn’t require stomach acid.
Why would meat provide a more absorbable source of iron?

[David Larochelle @dlarochelle]

@bryan_johnson Thanks for addressing bisglycinate. Sorry to hear that it didn’t work for you.

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@bryan_johnson Did you try ferrous bisglycinate chelate iron supplements? These restored my ferritin levels after starting a PPI related to a different autoimmune disease

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

As engineering, product, design, DS, etc. melt into a new kind of role, I was reflecting on what roles might look like in the future. For example, when I look at the Claude Code team I see what I think is five archetypes:

1. Prototyper: comes up with brand new ideas; churns out many ideas, most of which don't ship
2. Builder: quickly turns a prototype/idea into production-grade product/infra
3. Sweeper: cleans up the UI, simplifies the code and system, unships, optimizes performance
4. Grower: takes a product that has been built and iterates on it to improve Product-Market Fit
5. Maintainer: owns a mature system to make it secure, reliable, fast, and efficient as it scales

Many people span across 2 roles, and sometimes 3 roles. I also notice that these roles are not really tied to job function -- eg. across Anthropic, some designers match category 1, some 2, some 3; same for engineers, PM, DS.

A healthy team needs a mix of these, depending on the product:

- A product that is new and pre-PMF needs people that are strong at 1+2+3
- A product that is growing and has found PMF needs 2+3+4 and some 5
- A product that has strong PMF needs 3+4+5 and some 2

Maybe product roles of the future will look more like this, and less like the domain-specific roles of today?

[StripMallGuy @realEstateTrent]

Met my wife on a dating app while on vacation in 2018.

I was 38.

There are no rules about how you’re supposed to get there - trust your own timeline.

For me, this is 46, and I couldn’t imagine things turning out better.

[Tiago Forte @fortelabs]

I just realized what makes Latino/Hispanic culture so unique and why it's so important to the rest of the world

It's the only large-scale culture that is BOTH Western and collectivist

There are other Western cultures, like the US and Europe, but they aren't collectivist anymore, and thus have lost their sense of a cohesive society and social bonds

There are other collectivist cultures, most of them in fact – India, Africa, China, the rest of Asia – but they aren't Western, and thus lack the emphasis on individual sovereignty and freedom

Latino culture has both – the individual and their liberties matter, and solo achievement is valued, but always with the needs of the family and society in mind as a counterbalancing force

Surely someone has thought and written about this before?!

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@Atrioc @GergelyOrosz Apple also charges for snacks and specialty coffee although there are coffee machines

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@D952x @realEstateTrent Plenty of native-born Americans are moving to California

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@erichustls @threadreaderapp unroll

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

More likely story:

The "jailbreak" wasn't super serious (a situation anyone who has ever received bug reports is familiar with), Anthropic thought the demand to halt model was absurd, and Fed Gov used opportunity to punish and humiliate Anthropic for the prior sins of not bending knee.

Anthropic has more credibility on such topics than Washington

[Katie🌻Moussouris (she/her/she-ra/she-hulk) 🪷 @k8em0]

I’ve seen the paper. It’s not a jailbreak. It was Defense Oriented Prompting (DOP), capabilities defenders need. My thoughts on the hasty Export Controls that made Anthropic pull Fable. If Nat defense is the goal, this just scored an own goal against us

https://t.co/DfiAKEylSV