Noah Picard

community, environment, kind systems 🌿 now: exploring. before: CTO @FormallyTeam, ML @Nextdoor, Interact fellow, RDV scholar, KP fellow.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New Anthropic research: Natural Language Autoencoders.

Models like Claude talk in words but think in numbers. The numbers—called activations—encode Claude’s thoughts, but not in a language we can read.

Here, we train Claude to translate its activations into human-readable text.

[Noah Picard @noahapicard]

Guess who got VIP access to the "Promote Elon's Tweets" experiment group! 👀

(I follow 327 people. This is my For You feed today)

[Richard Ngo @RichardMCNgo]

Ongoing thread of unusual party ideas I've heard lately (some great, some terrible).

100 beers of solitude: the party starts with 100 beers on a table in the middle of the room, and nobody is allowed to talk until all of them are finished.

[The Commons @thesfcommons]

Today we're officially announcing and opening applications to Campus 🏛️

1/ A “school” for the soul, intellect, and inner-child:

🔭community-created curriculum exploring our curiosities
🌱 50+ circles, salons, juntos and extracurriculars
🤓 "nerd prom" at end of the qtr

[Nix 🕊 @startingfromnix]

1/ I have a working theory of a meaningful life that is centered on 2 main axis:

Effort and Earnestness

You need high effort and high earnestness to feel challenged + purpose-driven - the optimal state of being.

When these 2 are met, the experience is 'flow' or autotelic.

[Olivia Lanes @Liv_Lanes]

Want to understand why the physics Nobel awarded today is such a big deal?

Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger were awarded the Nobel prize today for groundbreaking work in quantum technologies (1/?)

[Patricia Mou @patriciamou_]

starting an ongoing thread of my favorite 3rd spaces or "community living rooms" in San Francisco 🛋️

📍Arcana - a bar x plant shop in the mission that hosts a line-up of local musicians.

[Mark Tenenholtz @marktenenholtz]

DALLE-2 was paywall-released recently by an extremely well-funded company.

Just yesterday, a group of independent researchers released their own model (Stable Diffusion) that you can use in a few lines of code for FREE.

The speed of the ML research community is insane 🤯

[The Commons @thesfcommons]

1) Last night we officially had our soft launch for founding members of The Commons!✨

We may be a physical space yes, but what we really are is a container for humans w/ shared values of playful curiosity, kindness, and earnestness towards exploring their inner-outer worlds 🔭

[Noah Picard @noahapicard]

@MarielRosic I have a copy of Pain Studies I can lend! https://t.co/YGdArZoN63

[Riana 🥭 @rianalynn]

Love is a type of generational wealth we don’t pursue enough.

We keep trying to own more, make more, travel more but we need to love more and better than our parents and their parents.

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

We have 3 space dimensions but only one dimension of time. Why is there just one time? What would happen if there were more time dimensions?

A short 🧵that requires some math. (You can probably follow w/o math as well) 1/16

[juan @juanbuis]

it’s incredible how reading this feels like finally unlocking 100% of your brain

(via @christophepas)

["Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @BretDevereaux]

How exactly diversity is strength: a 🧵.

The ideology of xenophobic extremism in the USA is back in the discourse for terrible reasons and I want to address one part of it - the idea that diversity is weakness - from the perspective of a military historian. 1/

[Noah Picard @noahapicard]

@michelleefang 👋

[Noah Picard @noahapicard]

Such an exciting community project by some amazing people 🤩 Help them out!

[The Commons @thesfcommons]

🚨 We’re excited to share that we’ve found a space for The Commons!

ft. a co-working space, philosophy salon space, communal library, cafe, meditation studio, and lots of cozy reading nooks.

We need your help in securing the space!

👉https://t.co/EWgVW7qxPM

🧵on our vision

[The Commons @thesfcommons]

🚨 We’re excited to share that we’ve found a space for The Commons!

ft. a co-working space, philosophy salon space, communal library, cafe, meditation studio, and lots of cozy reading nooks.

We need your help in securing the space!

👉https://t.co/EWgVW7qxPM

🧵on our vision

[Noah Picard @noahapicard]

@jemgold_ Still remember getting sent this back in the day - was totally inspiring

[humphrey ✨ @hoctopi]

Any (especially Black) data scientists down to help with a small research project to support the reparations effort in SF?

((Signal boost appreciated! ✨))