Umar Ashfaq

my tweets are just notes for myself

[Umar Ashfaq @notesumar]

“Motivation is an effect, not the cause, of action”

[Umar Ashfaq @notesumar]

@FedEx genuinely curious why a package from woodland CA to Mountain View CA (90 miles apart) has to make a round trip through the east coast (Richmond Hill, GA)

[Umar Ashfaq @notesumar]

“The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You’ll never be lovelier than you’re now. We’ll never be here again.” - T

[Naval @naval]

The true scarcity is attention, not time.

[Umar Ashfaq @notesumar]

better to go wrong in your own way than to go right in someone else’s way

[Umar Ashfaq @notesumar]

Any decision driven by fear is almost always a wrong decision

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"Working hard is overrated. Choosing what to work on and who to work on it with is underrated."

@naval

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

a great abstraction has the property that you can't remember how your code was structured before it was introduced

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

"Dune" author Frank Herbert on the nature of power

[Umar Ashfaq @notesumar]

Assume good intention.

Not necessarily as an accurate depiction of reality, but as a compass to guide your own speech and behavior, so you don't end up contributing to the worsening of the situation.

[Umar Ashfaq @notesumar]

@meetZaki Still waiting :)

[Umar Ashfaq @notesumar]

Not just governments but pretty much everything that exerts influence on human beings. Including, but not limited to, corporations, military, religion, social movements and so on.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The power of government grows ever stronger with each passing year

[Umar Ashfaq @notesumar]

@lexfridman @elonmusk Good quote, but pretty much opposite of what Elon posted

[Umar Ashfaq @notesumar]

@paraschopra 30min sprints with breaks in between

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

"The line between good and evil runs not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains... an un-uprooted small corner of evil." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago

When I approach conversations with people, I think about the above passage a lot. It humbles me and it gives me hope.

[Umar Ashfaq @notesumar]

@bytehood What’s the motivation?

[Umar Ashfaq @notesumar]

I love overlay ads that are unskippable! @Entrepreneur

[Umar Ashfaq @notesumar]

https://t.co/JIAMf2NYnZ

[Umar Ashfaq @notesumar]

What do you think is going to be the impact of LLMs in next 2-3 years?

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

the next 2-3 years of AI are definitively going to define the coming 2-3 decades of the world

for those in technology: you live a lifetime for a moment like this—don’t waste it; don’t be lazy

there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen.

[Umar Ashfaq @notesumar]

This sounds fun

[Richard Socher @RichardSocher]

With this much excitement and energy in the LLM space, I am fairly confident in this prediction:

Before the end of this year, there will be an open source model that is equivalent in quality to #GPT4

Then, AI researchers and the AI community will go to town and improve it.