AI tools that didn't exist one year ago:
ChatGPT
Whisper
GPT-3
Codex
GitHub Copilot
InstructGPT
Text-to-product
AI slides
DALLE + API
Midjourney
Stable Diffusion
Runway videos
Email AI
AI chrome extensions
Replit Ghostwriter
No-code AI app builders
Ben's bites 😉
what else?
BECOMING is a short film by Jan van IJken about the genesis of animal life. In microscopic detail, we see the 'making of' an Alpine Newt in its transparant egg from the first cell division to hatching [full video, normal speed: https://t.co/FifpFmlbt7] https://t.co/BI2ywsfLRu
Two completely different ways to influence someone on a decision:
Advisor mindset: Influence their frameworks / principles for decision making
Solver mindset: Prove to them the positive impact of making a particular decision
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Saturday was my 15 year anniversary @sequoia... one of the things I love about Sequoia is getting to learn new things from amazing people, so here are 15 lessons from 15 people over 15 years... hope you enjoy!
I was ambitious and worked hard to advance my career at Amazon and then Facebook. I thought the way to get ahead was to deliver results, then push for more responsibility and position myself for promotion. I later came to realize I had it totally backwards. Here's my story:
European starlings are exceptional mimics, including human speech. Their ability at mimicry is so great that strangers have looked in vain for the human they think they have just heard speak https://t.co/DgJcZZYEHG Stella the starling is an example: https://t.co/7XeuEp6SYk
After you write a few tests, your IDE is like, "hey, I noticed you were testing this; do you want this more general thing to hold?" and spits back a specification for you. You're not sure.
This beautiful timelapse with the Milky Way stabilized is a reminder that the Earth is spinning through space.
Captured at Crater Lake, Oregon by photographer Eric Brummel (@Brummo).