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[Sara Hooker @sarahookr]

This is actually more a side-effect of the death of pretraining.

As transformers saturate, most pretraining results are tweaking data recipes, not massive stepwise changes in performance.

Turns focus to innovation in postraining and test time compute. This is good for competition, since pretraining concentrated resources in a few labs.

[jayantnarayan @jayantnarayan]

@sarahookr @adaption_ai Congratulations @sarahookr!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Sara Hooker @sarahookr]

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

Carl Sagan

Time is the most important resource we have. Work on something that could move humanity, work with people you respect + don't forget to find someone you love along the way.

[jayantnarayan @jayantnarayan]

@sarahookr Exactly my thoughts when I had arrived in NYC - I was like, what’s this flavored paper we are eating.

[Paul Triolo @pstAsiatech]

China is winning the humanoid robot race while Tesla’s Optimus lags

Chinese companies control 90% of the humanoid robot market, dominating the technology that will reshape manufacturing and labor. The West is barely competing. https://t.co/iD0X7nWJpg

[Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket]

We really need Pakistan to decide soon upon their participation in the T20 WC.

We are ready to take off as soon as they pull out on 2nd Feb, but the flight schedule is a logistical nightmare to get us to Colombo in good time for 7th Feb.

Our opening bat is an insomniac!

[jayantnarayan @jayantnarayan]

Great write-up with the caveat that some people work with constraints and limits (economic, social, psychological and others) and might be in an under (or lesser) privileged position (that being a packed term). For others - a solid yet not rocket science framework to reflect upon

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

https://t.co/7l7Jef99QZ

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

https://t.co/jB6DD34S1D

[Andrei Jikh @andreijikh]

This explains everything I haven’t been able to put into words about the world and how it feels from a financial standpoint.

[jayantnarayan @jayantnarayan]

And just like that, a young, bright life is lost. That too, the son of a service man. While we are busy politicizing events in our neighboring country (which are absolutely horrendous!), our own house is on fire. Xmas celebration disruptions and now this.

[HindolSengupta @HindolSengupta]

I am not usually very emotional, but I felt tears prick the corners of my eyes when I read this. I am sorry to say this but this is bestial. The NE is more integrated than ever and the people who did this need the harshest punishment. This is truly macabre and hurts our soul.

[Min Choi @minchoi]

NVIDIA + Stanford just dropped NitroGen

"plays-any-game" AI trained on 40,000 hours of gameplay across 1,000+ games.

They're releasing the dataset + model weights. 👇

[Bloomberg @business]

No texting. No visitors. No escape. She was caught in India’s new digital nightmare. https://t.co/DGikTDgvVp

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

😂😂

[UN Development @UNDP]

“The world is changing fast, and our partners are changing with it. Development must change too.”

Today, @alexanderdecroo begins his role as our new Administrator.

Welcome to UNDP!

https://t.co/i8my2GBFHP

[IPUparliament @IPUparliament]

This week,2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣+ #MPs are expected to attend the #IPU, @MYParlimen🇲🇾, CPA + @UNDP Conference on The Role of Parliament in Shaping the Future of Responsible #AI to consider how AI is impacting jobs, government services, healthcare, and the environment.

➡️https://t.co/J4j27QyHKb

[Bloomberg @business]

China plans to more than double its energy storage capacity in the next two years to further accelerate the deployment of renewables. https://t.co/uJ8FAc34Ze

[IndiaToday @IndiaToday]

Heavy rains have brought Delhi-NCR to its knees. Chaos unfolds in the national capital exposing the city's crippled infrastructure.

@SnehaMordani and @Tweets_Amit share ground reports

#Delhi #Yamuna #Flood #Rainfall #Super6 |
@Akshita_N

[jayantnarayan @jayantnarayan]

@UberIN_Support @dkhos FYA

[jayantnarayan @jayantnarayan]

@Uber_India Paid for a premier trip in Bangalore to the airport, this is the car I got. When I asked for a partial refund, Uber customer support said “no price adjustment as what you paid was within range”. Within range to pick up an infection in a filthy car?

[jayantnarayan @jayantnarayan]

@UberIN_Support @UberIN_Support Actually you aren’t sorry so save that FALSE apology. I am glad at least it’s out in the open that customers can expect Uber to provide terrible service and then not compensate :) Also - premier is clearly just price inflation without accompanying service quality.