Abel Wan

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true

[Marc Randolph @marcrandolph]

By being courageous enough to state the difficult truth, the most important reputation that you will preserve is your own.

[Abel Wan @greatabel]

和中国35岁危机异曲同工

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Was trying to help a guy I don’t know find a job in tech. Reached out to a friend and explained the basics. My friend, senior level at a tech company, said, “Let me guess — white male over 40?” Yup. My friend was telling me how American tech companies have shut out that group.

[Abel Wan @greatabel]

未来很多擦边博主很可能失业

[Abel Wan @greatabel]

完全过分担心，顶多拿来推理，不会推倒重来给华为趟雷搞推理，这个新闻能出来就是一种交代

[Mark Kretschmann @mark_k]

DeepSeek is getting help from Huawei to speed up DeepSeek R2 development

[Abel Wan @greatabel]

深度和流行 有时候难以兼得

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

J.R.R. Tolkien hated Disney and knew they'd ruin any story they touched.

In a letter, he called Walt Disney "hopelessly corrupted", and later insisted that his studio never be allowed to adapt his own works.

Why? Tolkien's storytelling philosophy was profoundly different...

In 1937, two landmark works of fantasy appeared within months of each other. The first was The Hobbit, a children's book written by an Oxford professor who had spent decades immersed in the legends and languages of Europe. The second was Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated film and a commercial triumph that changed cinema forever.

J.R.R. Tolkien viewed the film with his friend C.S. Lewis, but was far from impressed. He blasted Disney in private letters, and resented how he took folkloric material and stripped it of its spiritual depth.

Tolkien's dismissal of Disney reflected a very deep philosophical divide between the two creatives, one which still influences how stories are told today.

In this article, we explore these two conflicting perspectives — and discover why it was that Tolkien hated Disney…
https://t.co/dp75c5BIpg

[Abel Wan @greatabel]

开始是搜索经常抽风，接着是前几天“已发送消息”无法编辑复制，现在是图片不能理解了……chatgpt plus的服务可用性越来越一言难尽，公司状态还是可以见微知著的

[Abel Wan @greatabel]

魔鬼在细节，但一般魔鬼从不打广告

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

@HominLuo Yeah, and I often had to read very carefully about their footnotes!

Me: ok, this chip has doubled the FLOPs
footnote: with sparsity

why do you do this to me, nvidia????

[Abel Wan @greatabel]

启用稀疏性可提升性能，嗯对于企业而言，nv只是硬件，我们不可能运行nv的模型，得hg/模型提供商都支持好了才真正有意义

[the tiny corp @__tinygrad__]

@RobbieJ377 @unusual_whales "FP4 AI compute" <-- FAKE!

tinybox measures in FP16, divide by 4. Also, is NVIDIA pulling a sparsity scam here?

It's either 250 TFLOPS or 125 TFLOPS. Stop falling for hype.

[Abel Wan @greatabel]

🇺🇸 和🇨🇳在“确定”可以搞定的事上“比卷”，我只能“呵呵”

[near @nearcyan]

DeepSeek built this in an export-restricted cave with a pile of h800s

[Abel Wan @greatabel]

可识别中文，但输出依然是英文，这就限制啦场景

[Gemini Notebook @Gemini_Notebook]

Hi all 👋 We’re here to bring you product updates, a little behind-the-scenes magic, and connect with the growing NotebookLM community. Excited to be here! https://t.co/0KSW3bCsuJ

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

Intelligence is the ability to make more complicated mistakes

[Abel Wan @greatabel]

https://t.co/cWuzkPAyGi

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

ELON: I ENSURE GREAT ENGINEERS CAN FLOURISH AT MY COMPANIES

“I consider one of my core responsibilities in running companies to have an environment where great engineers can flourish.

And I think in a lot of companies, maybe most companies, if somebody is a really talented, driven engineer, their talents are suppressed.

At some of the companies, engineering talent is suppressed in a way that is maybe not obviously bad, but where it's just so comfortable, and you're paid so much money, but the output you actually have to produce is so low that it's like a honey trap.

They don't necessarily seem like bad places for engineers, but you have to say, a good engineer went in and what did they get out? 

The output of that engineering talent seems very low.

Tesla is not a honey trap.

We're demanding.

You're going to get a lot of shit done.

And it's going to be really cool, and it's not going to be easy.

But if you are a super-talented engineer, your talents will be used, I think, to a greater degree than anywhere else.

SpaceX is also that way.”

Source: Tesla AI Day, September 2022

[CatFly @imyouhu]

Azure OpenAI was restricted in CN area from July. Now this region is not available for Azure OpenAI models development.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

#FreePavel

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

⚡️ Excited to share that I am starting an AI+Education company called Eureka Labs.
The announcement:

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We are Eureka Labs and we are building a new kind of school that is AI native.

How can we approach an ideal experience for learning something new? For example, in the case of physics one could imagine working through very high quality course materials together with Feynman, who is there to guide you every step of the way. Unfortunately, subject matter experts who are deeply passionate, great at teaching, infinitely patient and fluent in all of the world's languages are also very scarce and cannot personally tutor all 8 billion of us on demand.

However, with recent progress in generative AI, this learning experience feels tractable. The teacher still designs the course materials, but they are supported, leveraged and scaled with an AI Teaching Assistant who is optimized to help guide the students through them. This Teacher + AI symbiosis could run an entire curriculum of courses on a common platform. If we are successful, it will be easy for anyone to learn anything, expanding education in both reach (a large number of people learning something) and extent (any one person learning a large amount of subjects, beyond what may be possible today unassisted).

Our first product will be the world's obviously best AI course, LLM101n. This is an undergraduate-level class that guides the student through training their own AI, very similar to a smaller version of the AI Teaching Assistant itself. The course materials will be available online, but we also plan to run both digital and physical cohorts of people going through it together.

Today, we are heads down building LLM101n, but we look forward to a future where AI is a key technology for increasing human potential. What would you like to learn?
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@EurekaLabsAI is the culmination of my passion in both AI and education over ~2 decades. My interest in education took me from YouTube tutorials on Rubik's cubes to starting CS231n at Stanford, to my more recent Zero-to-Hero AI series. While my work in AI took me from academic research at Stanford to real-world products at Tesla and AGI research at OpenAI. All of my work combining the two so far has only been part-time, as side quests to my "real job", so I am quite excited to dive in and build something great, professionally and full-time.

It's still early days but I wanted to announce the company so that I can build publicly instead of keeping a secret that isn't. Outbound links with a bit more info in the reply!

[Abel Wan @greatabel]

现在"推荐为你”突然倒入了太多奶头乐

[Joshua Achiam @jachiam0]

The really disappointing thing about modern Twitter is that the "For you" feed is filled with Facebook-tier garbage. I used to get an interesting blend of smart chatter from experts, professionals, and obsessive weirdos. Now it's bland, gross, and often racist.

[Nooan @nooan_art]

RIP Akira Toriyama🙏🏻💔

Thank you for creating dreams in all children! 🧡

[联合国教科文组织 @UNESCO_chinese]

#历史上的今天
1995年10月4日，新世纪福音战士EVA首次播出。
它是20世纪90年代最负盛名的日本动画之一。