David Gasca

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Product @ Whatnot - ex @google, @twitter, etc.

[David Gasca @gasca]

wow

[Gregory Wieber @dreamwieber]

Making moving magic with Claude Fable 5.2 🤯

[David Gasca @gasca]

favorite part of this was @tylercowen talking about the design of the US dollar:

"I like the dollar though. I'm surprised you're so negative. I like the weird esotericism. The eye, the pyramid, the design is bizarre; it announces to the world we're crazy.

I like the arrogance of it also... the sense of we don't need to make the denominations look so different. If you're a foreigner, we expect you'll come here a lot. You'll master dollars. Maybe you use them in your home country as well. You know, they don't need to be different colors."

[Conversations with Tyler @cowenconvos]

Roman Mars has spent years telling stories about the design choices hiding in plain sight. His TED Talk on city flags is estimated to have sparked 250+ municipal flag redesigns, including one in a city he publicly called out for having the worst flag in America.

Some of Tyler’s questions for Roman in this episode, ranging from why classic cars looked so much better than today’s SUVs, to why American currency is “locked in amber,” to how you’d warn a future civilization about buried nuclear waste:

· Where in the world are street signs the most attractive?
· Why did cars get so much more boring-looking over time?
· Do Waymos look good, or just strange?
· Do New Jersey’s jughandles actually work?
· Why does Houston keep growing despite having little aesthetic appeal?
· Is there a single beautiful post-war American suburb?
· Why was the Chrysler Building so unpopular when it opened?
· Does brutalism age well, or badly?
· What did Jane Jacobs get wrong?
· Are global coffee shops and cities becoming placeless?
· Why does the iPhone look boring now?
· What’s the ugliest country you’ve visited?
· What’s your favorite currency design, and why is the US dollar dead last?
· Should America bury its power lines?
· How do you warn a future civilization about nuclear waste for thousands of years?
· Why do highway signs lie to you about the speed limit?
· What makes a city flag actually work?
· What’s the most unusual habit behind your productivity?

Watch the full conversation with Roman Mars and @tylercowen here, or search for Conversations with Tyler wherever you get your podcasts.
https://t.co/u2tagjEs0d

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

I replicated this with Claude Code!

It took a live webcam 7 km south of Southampton, UK and predicted its location purely from doppler effect in audio spectrogram + open-source aircraft location data.

Lo and behold, the predicted location (heatmap) peaks at actual location where webcam is situated.

It's crazy that this works at all, and crazier still I replicated it within a few hours.

[David Gasca @gasca]

wow - worth watching the video to get a sense for how crazy this is...

[Gregory Wieber @dreamwieber]

Claude Opus 5.5 is completely bonkers. I asked it to build a forest using a nanite/voxel inspired approach and it came back with this. 🤯

https://t.co/Pdr8HagRbD

[Rikiya Takehi @rikiyatakehi]

We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math.
It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training.

We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵
Blog: https://t.co/bOWCcFhCVq

[David Gasca @gasca]

Super special episode of the podcast...

Seeing Dwarkesh finally be able to talk to Caro and Caro keep saying "Oh, that's a great question" really warmed my heart...

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

The master biographer reflects at 91. The Robert Caro interview.

0:00:00 – How Caro gets people to talk
0:05:03 – Does America need a little more Moses today?
0:12:42 – Moses the young idealist
0:17:57 – Watching Moses lose power
0:24:01 – Did Moses realize he was changing?
0:27:53 – Building during the Great Depression
0:32:51 – The threats and promises of Lyndon Johnson
0:36:08 – Could Kennedy have passed Johnson’s laws?
0:41:00 – Getting a book down to one sentence
0:46:21 – All the material that never made it into the books
0:52:59 – Loneliness

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

A ‘hello world’ milestone for Project Suncatcher 🚀

After launching our prototype satellite a few weeks ago, we’ve now successfully sent a command up to orbit, booted up the TPU, ran the prompt, and received our first complete response back on earth - a haiku!

[David Gasca @gasca]

this blew my mind... i didn't know you could approach food this way

[best of léa seydoux @badpostseydoux]

Léa Seydoux tries some of the finest French and British delicacies for ELLE UK.

[Lori Berenberg @loriberenberg]

does "forward deployed" just mean you leave the house

[David Gasca @gasca]

even with the smartest model, the difference in output between a naive prompt and an amazing prompt is still enormous...

[David Gasca @gasca]

@clmt "For me, I don't see the purpose" ... I never knew one could approach food this way lol

[Google Research @GoogleResearch]

Today on the blog, learn about our new instance of a “sleep” phase in continual learning, which enables LLMs to continuously integrate new facts and enhance reasoning while mitigating catastrophic forgetting or static knowledge cutoffs.

More →https://t.co/5v9w5Pn4dw

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Genie 4 is quite an insane experience, generating game-like enviornments as you go. It isn't flawless but I can type "Neogothic brutalist city inhabited by robots and horses" & it creates one in a minute. Then I asked it to add dragons. Then a friendly otter NPC. All in realtime

[David Gasca @gasca]

@herval holy moly

[David Gasca @gasca]

@danshipper kids one day: "you mean you used to make artifacts in 2D?"

[David Gasca @gasca]

@nbaschez WHOA!

[David Gasca @gasca]

having recently used Japanese websites to book various things, I am extremely concerned about the whole country's cybersecurity...

[Patrick Ruffini @PatrickRuffini]

Hear me out

[David Gasca @gasca]

@azlenelza i love this!