Benjamin Pan

engineer, businessman
時間是幻覺，創造乃對抗熵增的唯一手段。
time is delusion, building things is the sole means to defy the entropy increase.

[Jon Hartley @Jon_Hartley_]

On why he is retiring from academia: "It just didn't make sense to me to keep on puttering around, doing all this work, spending years to write papers that no one cared about when I had other ways of getting my ideas out. And really my interests were elsewhere. I didn't get any thrill. It'd be one thing. If I got a thrill from publishing, if I loved the act of publishing, and it made me feel great to see my nature in some journal, then it would be different. But I never cared about that. I just liked answering the problems and I realized there were better ways, there were better venues for me to answer your problem. And so really the question is, why am I retiring now? The question I should ask myself is why didn't I retire a long time ago? It made no sense. I've just been, I've thought, I've known for years, it's the wrong place for me to be. And it just took me a long time to figure out how to extricate myself from academics. And I'm so glad I'm doing it. It's good for everyone. It doesn't make any sense to, it feels to me awful to be in a place where I'm not excited and where I'm not contributing materially. So, for me, it feels like a breath of fresh air to be saying, "Hey, I'm not going to be an academic anymore. I'm going to be doing what I really love to do.""

[Benjamin Pan @panmingming]

Jack Kilby :

“Pick something you’re interested in—and go as far as you can with it.”

https://t.co/2qkgayKDT5

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🎯

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The Moon base will be even more epic

[Benjamin Pan @panmingming]

AI接入的信息库、数据库的确庞大。
但人的价值还在。

特别是指挥官、统御者的角色，因为古代到近现代，这些人都处于优质信息汇集的中枢。

几千年来，这些人的作用和价值是什么？

代入角色，四面八方信息汇集，你现在要做决定：
1.要不要启动一项大型水利工程？
2.要不要和邻国建立贸易关系？
...

[clem 🤗 @ClementDelangue]

Banning open-source AI would hurt defenders 10x more than attackers, which would make the world 10x more dangerous and this is a good example why!

[Benjamin Pan @panmingming]

"You may *feel* like it is because of something you've read. But it isn't."

Theory of Knowledge 101, how do we "know" what we claim to know.

[Kevin S. Xu @kevinsxu]

As of today's America, an AI model's output or chain of thought is not copyrighted nor treated as trade secrets.

So it is not IP.

You may *feel* like it is because of something you've read. But it isn't.

Thus, alleging distillation as "IP theft" is not a serious legal argument. It is a political and lobbying talking point masquerading as a legal argument.

The one pillar about America I respect and cherish the most is our independent, self-correcting legal system. It isn't perfect. It doesn't get everything right. But it employs a rigorous process that tries to be immune to lobbying, political pressure, and "feelings", in order to deliver impartial and fair judgments, if not immediately, at least eventually.

You may not *feel* like a rectangle should get an IP patent either. But it did (Apple for the iPhone, patent no. D618,677)

Laws are laws. Until they are, they aren't. Until they aren't, they are.

[Benjamin Pan @panmingming]

@amy______lin26 Spcx valuation is going to soar in 3 or 5 years, releative to Artemis program by NASA. Spacex has skin in the game. Furthermore, the space internet is expanding championed by Starlink affiliated to SpaceX.

Have to know more about the stakeholders of SpaceX if investing in it.

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

At its peak, Sun Microsystems was valued at 205B (394B if inflation adjusted). Sold software in enterprise servers. Got disrupted by Linux, x86, and commodity hardware. Ended up selling to Oracle for 7.4B, losing 96% of its value.

Open source models running on local hardware can have a similar impact given what’s going on.

[DigiKey @digikey]

100 years ago today, Dr. Robert Goddard, widely known as the "Father of Modern Rocketry" launched the first liquid-fuel rocket.

Read more here: https://t.co/sXp8ecCxnC

#GoddardDay #onthisday #NASA

[Maye Musk @mayemusk]

It wasn’t an ad. Approximately 1993, the University of Pennsylvania asked parents to send them baby photos and a message for their child. It has aged well.😊

[Benjamin Pan @panmingming]

多数自媒体博主对宏观经济状况的言论，都是垃圾。
基本预设默认是存量争夺和零和博弈。

世界的希望在于那些创造增量的企业家、工程师和发明家。

一个新产业的创造，将带来就业和百亿、千亿甚至数万亿的新财富增量。

当然新产业不是以一般劳动力为中心的。你得把基础数学/物理/计算机/英语学好。

[Benjamin Pan @panmingming]

Laser Focus on the most difficult, gruelling and challenging task.

No easy posts like commenting on bullshits by bullshitters.

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[Benjamin Pan @panmingming]

some people building things, building brands, proud of what they are building.

others proud of what they are buying

these two kind of people are living in different worlds of opinions.

[Benjamin Pan @panmingming]

Paul Graham once said: “Sam Altman has it. You could parachute him into an island full of cannibals and come back in 5 years and he'd be the king.”

now, sam creeps into the APPLE island... will he become the king?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Apple just sued OpenAI, and the wildest part is how they got caught: one candidate screenshotted confidential Apple files on his Apple work laptop hours before his OpenAI interview. Apple reads its own server logs. The recruiting pipeline generated its own evidence trail.

The complaint says OpenAI's hardware chief Tang Tan, a 24-year Apple veteran, directed candidates still employed at Apple to bring "actual parts" (batteries, logic boards) to interviews for show and tell sessions. One candidate was surprised, saying he didn't even know you could take those out of the office.

Apple also alleges Tan circulated an internal Apple offboarding document to coach new hires on dodging exit security checks, and that a departing engineer kept his Apple laptop, found a bug that still gave him access to Apple's cloud storage, and downloaded dozens of confidential hardware files after joining OpenAI.

Then the supplier: OpenAI allegedly got one of Apple's manufacturing partners to demonstrate a proprietary metal finishing technique by letting the partner believe Apple had approved it.

Over 400 former Apple employees now work at OpenAI. Apple says it flagged all of this to OpenAI in February and never got a response. Five months later, it filed.

The ask reveals the strategy. Apple wants an injunction barring OpenAI from using the secrets, the return of every file, and full discovery into io, right as OpenAI preps its first device launch and an IPO. If a judge grants it, OpenAI may have to prove the device was built clean, component by component, before it ships.

The device was supposed to run on the world's best hardware talent. Now its bill of materials is evidence.

[Matt Teixeira @matt_teeixeira]

This guy created an OS at 21 without any Claude or Codex. How?

[Benjamin Pan @panmingming]

Bitter truth:

Anthropic perfectly exemplifies Thomas Sowell's foundational insight that politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

[D HOPE @HopeD81969]

@GadSaad Love this man!🕊️

[Benjamin Pan @panmingming]

Architects, engineers, and seismology experts point to several common factors behind Chile’s resilience:

strict building codes,
rigorous enforcement, and
construction systems specifically designed to absorb seismic energy.

https://t.co/up4ZdOMLA5

[Benjamin Pan @panmingming]

What the 5% venture capitalists look like?

[Max Gazor @maxgazor]

Pause to consider who you listen to for advice.

https://t.co/2uC2qE45M2

[Benjamin Pan @panmingming]

That's my question also.
Irony.

1. 号称最强大AI模型、能识别和修补安全漏洞的公司，声称它被技术落后于它的别国公司“蒸馏”“提取”。

2.极不尊重知识产权、非法盗用大量著作作为训练数据集、在著作权侵权集体诉讼中输了的公司，指控别的大模型公司侵犯知识产权。

这就很反讽。

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

COMPANY BUILT ON IP THEFT RAGES AGAINST THEFT OF ITS OWN IP