Nikhil Kumar

Building the OS for autonomous creation | Thinking about AI, creation, governance, and what work looks like next | Asking the questions nobody is asking yet

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MIT trained a climate AI on made-up emissions scenarios full of sudden jumps instead of realistic futures. It handled situations it hadn't seen better than the usual approach, and it needs the big slow climate model run once instead of 6 to 8 times.

https://t.co/d3x0zXTvb2

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21.6k players have played this since its launch...pretty insane...never expected this would blow up.

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I turned Hokusai's Great Wave into a game you can ride through.
It opens as the painting. Press Ride, and the camera flies out of the print onto a coastal road. Built with Fable 5.2 + Three.js.
No 3D models, no image assets, no audio files. Every wave, fox and firework is code. Have a Japanese costal cycle ride : https://t.co/jHyYGBCq4l

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If your Google Business profile still says "Services" with nothing under it, fill it in. List every service by name, the way customers would say it. Google and AI assistants both read that list to decide who to show for a search.

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Free way to see if AI search knows your business: ask ChatGPT "best [your service] in [your city]" and "what do people say about [your business]". If it gets your hours, services or reviews wrong, that's what it's telling customers too. Fix the sources, not the AI.

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Sent cold emails to 30 local businesses today. A lawn care guy replied within 15 minutes, not to buy, just to give me a tip on my pitch. Still the most useful reply I've had all month.

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Unpopular opinion:
most people don't need a better AI tool. They need to stop opening 6 of them and actually finish one thing with the one they already have.

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Question for people running AI agents in the background on real work.
How do you check what they did without basically redoing it yourself?

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How I explain AI search to café and hotel owners. When ChatGPT recommends a place, it leans a lot on what the rest of the web says about you, mostly reviews and local guides. Your own website is just one voice in that.

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Started a fresh email domain for outreach this week. It sends 10 a day to begin with and only climbs toward 50 over the next few weeks. Slow, but after the blocks I hit on the old one I'm not rushing it.

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When a prompt isn't landing, I stop rewriting it and ask the AI what it would need to know to do this well.
It usually points out something obvious I forgot to mention.

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CSIRO researchers in Australia rebuilt the 2019 black hole image from the original telescope data with their own AI method. It wasn't told what a black hole looks like and still found almost the same ring. Nice to see science double check itself.

https://t.co/Su2ZauYlMg

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Simple way to think about why chatbots make stuff up sometimes. They work by predicting the most likely next words. Nothing in that step checks whether it's true, so a wrong answer comes out sounding just as confident as a right one.

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Small change in my cold email setup: every address gets checked before it's allowed into a send queue now. Bounces and spam blocks were starting to hurt the domain. Boring step, but it's the last one I'd cut.

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Before I hand AI a long task I ask it to repeat back what it thinks I want in two sentences. If those two sentences are off, I just probably saved myself a full redo.

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ChatGPT now lets businesses claim their profile, a bit like Google Business Profile. Verify you own it and you can fix your description, website and policies. It doesn't promise better placement, but if ChatGPT has your details wrong, this is the fix.

https://t.co/syQfSya374

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Astronomers found a red giant being tugged around by something they can't see. Best guess is a neutron star at about 2.2 times the sun's mass, way heavier than the usual 1.4. Or a tiny black hole. They might never know which.

https://t.co/GM0obrHHy3

[Nikhil Kumar @nickssbuilds]

I turned Hokusai's Great Wave into a game you can ride through.
It opens as the painting. Press Ride, and the camera flies out of the print onto a coastal road. Built with Fable 5.2 + Three.js.
No 3D models, no image assets, no audio files. Every wave, fox and firework is code. Have a Japanese costal cycle ride : https://t.co/jHyYGBCq4l

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Anthropic is letting Claude join Google Meet calls as a visible participant. It can start drafting the plan while people are still talking, then leave the notes in claude ai after. Beta for Team and Enterprise.

https://t.co/9yAQ6487jE

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Made a quick explainer: on Nov 18, Voyager 1 hits one light-day from Earth. A signal we send takes 24 hours to reach it. Launched in 1977 and still talking to us. Source: NASA

[Nikhil Kumar @nickssbuilds]

I turned Hokusai's Great Wave into a game you can ride through.
It opens as the painting. Press Ride, and the camera flies out of the print onto a coastal road. Built with Fable 5.2 + Three.js.
No 3D models, no image assets, no audio files. Every wave, fox and firework is code. Have a Japanese costal cycle ride : https://t.co/jHyYGBCq4l