Esa-Pekka Pälvimäki

MD Neurosurgeon | PhD Neuropharmacology | Dev | Fooled by randomness | Back on twitter because of A.I. | If you suspect I'm wrong, see my pinned tweet

[Esa-Pekka Pälvimäki @eppe]

The brain is a machine for turning glucose into mistakes

[Esa-Pekka Pälvimäki @eppe]

The human brain operates on roughly 20 Watts.

Superintelligence does not necessarily need a lot of power

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This bird is a Dire Straits fan and sings their songs

[Esa-Pekka Pälvimäki @eppe]

from @AlecTPhD

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

Taleb on employment.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Microsoft's diagnostic AI solved 83% of 304 complex New England Journal of Medicine cases. Generalist physicians with reference materials solved 36%. We need to get this technology into clinics safely and fast. We need to stop making people wait for the right answers.

[Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross @alexwg]

They can shake their fists at the Dyson Swarm.

[Esa-Pekka Pälvimäki @eppe]

Cleaning out a closet produced a blast from the past, my first software sale. While working as a night guard, I noticed errors in our payslips, so I wrote a payroll app in spaghetti BASIC and sold it to my employer for about 600 bucks, adjusted for inflation.

I simply walked into the managers office and demoed it and they bought it on the spot.

Still remember that incredible feeling walking out of that meeting with a wad of cash in my hand. It was a huge sum back then.

It was a revelation about the power of code

[Esa-Pekka Pälvimäki @eppe]

@KrisLuckPhoto thank you

[Kris Luckenbach @KrisLuckPhoto]

I’ve been using X for 15 years and I finally put the greatest photos I’ve ever taken on your timeline

[Esa-Pekka Pälvimäki @eppe]

@barrylachapelle @joeywaves sure is

[Esa-Pekka Pälvimäki @eppe]

Anyone with a laptop and a hundred dollars a month can change the world now. While on holiday.

[Pietro Miotti @PietroMiotti]

My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site in Mexico, using LiDAR data from a NASA dataset.

72 hours from a random thought on vacation to a reply from Mexico's national archaeology institute.

What a time to be alive…

[Esa-Pekka Pälvimäki @eppe]

@marginletter most of the work is deterministic

[Esa-Pekka Pälvimäki @eppe]

@marginletter no, it doesn't

[Esa-Pekka Pälvimäki @eppe]

hopescrolling

[Kevin Wimer @kevinace]

I have stage 4 cancer. I thought I'd fight it alone.

I was wrong.

Since mid October, ~20 strangers on X have stepped up to help me. All for free so far:
- An NYU Langone lab offered to run my tumor data through their system to sharpen my vaccine targets
- A U Michigan lab offered to test drugs on my actual tumor cells
- A biotech ran AI analysis on my tumor RNA
- A vaccine company offered to design a second vaccine to check the first one

Scientists. Engineers. People I've never met.

Cancer has been picking us off one at a time for all of human history. It counts on us fighting it alone, scared and quiet.

Not anymore.

We have AI. We have the internet. We have each other.

Cancer, we're coming for you, bitch. Buckle up!

[Esa-Pekka Pälvimäki @eppe]

The grace of cats

[JAMES WEBB @jameswebb_nasa]

Em 1969 os russos estudaram o comportamento de animais em ambiente de gravidade zero.

Vejam o gato.
Simplesmente o gato!

[Thariq @trq212]

we need fewer one shot demos and more tools that show how you can collaborate with models to bring your vision to life

[Richard Davey @photonstorm]

https://t.co/lw7LWv7LVM

[Esa-Pekka Pälvimäki @eppe]

100%

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

[read about what’s happening with AI]

ME: Wow we’re actually legit fucked this is so bad.

[go outside]

ME: Wait those people are all acting like nothing unusual is happening. Maybe I was just in a paranoid bubble? Yeah it must be that. Phew.

[read more about what’s happening with AI]

ME: Wait no we ARE fucked. Shit. It’s all those people outside who are in a delusional bubble.

[go outside]

ME: Wait...

[Esa-Pekka Pälvimäki @eppe]

Gemini Carbon is the first model to have me in its weights

[Esa-Pekka Pälvimäki @eppe]

eliminating negativity works in life

[Esa-Pekka Pälvimäki @eppe]

My X timeline is amazing these days. Hopescrolling