Arun Nagarajan

Product and Tech @EvolveVR. Prev: Co-Founder/CTO @BigSpringAI, @Uber, @Google and various startups.

[Arun Nagarajan @entaq]

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[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Insane idea from Opus 4.8

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If you told me 5 years ago that SpaceX (now the owner of Twitter) makes majority of revenue via a terrestrial data center for AI from a company called Anthropic

I would ask you what is Anthropic?

(Anthropic was first announced with their initial funding in circa May 2021)

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@travisk @chrisfralic Sweet 16!

Write in - NYC!

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These are the types of post that makes me remember how great and how hilarious the internet can be!

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The is the divide between Research and Product that @GoogleDeepMind needs to fix.

Hoping the move to native Mac app is a first step. Too many surfaces like @GeminiApp @antigravity and @GoogleAIStudio @geminicli ADK and Vertex also probably part of the problem.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

The continuing gap between the capabilities of Gemini Pro 3.1 (very good model) and the capabilities of the Gemini app/website is odd. The model can do what Claude/GPT can do, but there is a minimal harness for tools (file creation, research etc), no auditable CoT/actions, manual canvas, etc.

The reason this is odd is that Google is trusted by enterprises & has the compute to burn, so a good harness would solve so many of Gemini’s gaps and make it an easier sell to companies. The model can make Office documents, for example, but the harness doesn’t allow it. It could also decide when to use other Google tools (and Google has a lot of very good AI tools) and apply them, taking advantage of the ecosystem, but it doesn’t consistently.

I assume something will be coming out here eventually, but the gap with Claude and ChatGPT has only been growing.

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But the goal is not survival - its outlier success. I find it extremely impressive that it has not gotten worse with all the wanterpreneurs for 1-2 year rates!

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

A crazy image

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Energy, urgency, clarity.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

I’m convinced 90% of the founders job is to just do 3 things:

- be delusional in your optimism
- push everyone to move faster
- make it crystal clear what to work on

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@MikeVichich @bcherny Seems was related to daylight savinga switch

[Anthony Morris ツ @amorriscode]

Desktop users with scheduled tasks who are in a timezone that observed daylight saving time were affected by an infinite loop. When the app tried to locate tasks scheduled during the “skipped” hour, it couldn’t resolve them and got stuck.

Download 1.1.5749 at https://t.co/LYC1GdVxfP to get the fix.

Sorry for the disruption everyone.

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@tweetsbycolin We are rooting for you! And counting on you 🙏

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This is an amazing visualization of millions of "startup" farms to larger, concentrated and more productive farms. Sad at an individual level and but hardly noticed at the collective level.

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8 years “late” but compared to what else… pretty impressive overall tbh.

[Prakash @8teAPi]

better late

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This is incredible. The original AI friends… this was just 40 years too early before https://t.co/x96H4xnit0

[Lemma’s Animal Desk @DoctorLemma]

In 1986, the "Rent-a-Friend" VHS was released for lonely people with VCRs. The 42-minute direct-to-video program featured a friendly man named "Sam" (played by Ben Hollis) who looked directly into the camera, asked the viewer questions, left space for answers, and offered compliments to create the illusion of companionship.

It was sold through mail-order ads in the back of magazines and some video stores, priced around $19.95.

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This is powerful and true -
“It’s time we stop treating this like a tech moonshot and start treating it like a public health intervention that will save lives.”

[Dr. Jon Slotkin @slotkinjr]

I have a guest essay in @nytimes today about autonomous vehicle safety. I wrote it because I’m tired of seeing children die. Done right, we can eliminate car crashes as a leading cause of death in the United States

@Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million driverless miles. I spent weeks analyzing it because the results seemed too good to be true. 91% fewer serious-injury crashes. 92% less pedestrians hit. 96% fewer injury crashes at intersections. The list goes on.

39,000 Americans died in crashes last year. More than homicide, plane crashes, and natural disasters combined. The #2 killer of children and young adults. The #1 cause of spinal cord injury. We’ve accepted this as the price of mobility.

We don’t have to.

In medicine, when a treatment shows this level of benefit, we stop the trial early. Continuing to give patients the placebo becomes unethical. When an intervention works this clearly, you change what you do.

In driving, we’re all the control group.

Cities like DC and Boston are blocking deployment. And cities are not the only forces mobilizing to slow this progress.

It’s time we stop treating this like a tech moonshot and start treating it like a public health intervention that will save lives.

Link to article below.

👀 this video of Waymo cars evading crashes with people and vehicles. I especially note the ones that require it having a 360° view.

My sincere thanks to Alex Ellerbeck and @acsifferlin for their wisdom and sure hand in editing this piece.

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Ok @skdh doesn’t change her mind often….

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

AI Is Suddenly Surprisingly Good At Physics

https://t.co/lLIhgRUK0A

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@nrvntkk Very telling that are celebrating tokens processed vs downstream users or incremental revenue generated

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@nrvntkk did you buy?

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@nrvntkk With low time preference but high urgency

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@TurnerNovak @levelsio Its really hard to tell sometimes. You have honed your craft 👏

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@jrochelle @AcquiredFM Wow! What did view XML do? Was that that the backend representation for sharing?