Patrick Despres-Gallagher

human | partial to curiosity & natural light | believes in magic

[Patrick Despres-Gallagher @pingpdg]

@pmarca interesting about context hoarding.

sovereign AI may end up being at individual rather than firm level in the end.

[Patrick Despres-Gallagher @pingpdg]

@jonchu @BarrAlexandra that's not the reason it's a stupid question

[Patrick Despres-Gallagher @pingpdg]

@AlexPallNY hope you remove this constraint someday. get the LP dynamics and past performance, but it is insane that you are not allowed to invest in consumer out of your fund given massive advantage.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[Patrick Despres-Gallagher @pingpdg]

@quxiaoyin 1. agree, but plenty of other risks with hosting chinese models at all
2. yes, dumb
3. 100x cheaper is possible, or close to it

send them @blackboxai

[Kenny Boatright Jr. @boatright_jr]

@greg16676935420 We played 36 minutes a man down and still beat two countries.

[Patrick Despres-Gallagher @pingpdg]

the more you understand the current limitations of technology, the more amazed you will become with humanity

[Patrick Despres-Gallagher @pingpdg]

@brian_armstrong using https://t.co/lXGzJ7Mumv to do this automatically at our company

[Patrick Despres-Gallagher @pingpdg]

@levie now using https://t.co/lXGzJ7Mumv to do this automatically at our firm with an api call

[Patrick Despres-Gallagher @pingpdg]

@markletree @coinbase why did you decide to build vs. buy here?

[Michael Mathes @MichaelMathes]

“England historically has struggled here in Massachusetts”
— #WorldCup announcer on Fox
👀

[Patrick Despres-Gallagher @pingpdg]

@AnjneyMidha this is correct

[Patrick Despres-Gallagher @pingpdg]

@PrimalNick sorry to hear about your dad nick

[Patrick Despres-Gallagher @pingpdg]

@jasonryanmd brother, wouldn't it be better if we became less alarmed as a society when we find mostly benign lesions than panicked every time we find cancerous tumors, often too late?

false positives do not seem like a bad thing if we learn to adjust mindset to continual prevention

[Patrick Despres-Gallagher @pingpdg]

novel technology requires advances in physics, math, or biology

human advancement requires courageous individuals that change our collective understanding of what is possible

the latter is far rarer than the former

[Midjourney @midjourney]

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

[Patrick Despres-Gallagher @pingpdg]

@CamiloBAcosta incorrect

[Patrick Despres-Gallagher @pingpdg]

@pmarca they call it 5D chess, we call it survival.

[Patrick Despres-Gallagher @pingpdg]

@maattttbrown @SFGate can I get a list of the names of students who stayed? would love to hire some of them

[ol’ stocky ⛳️ @oldstocky]

Maybe the secret to having a good life is realizing how good it already is

[Patrick Despres-Gallagher @pingpdg]

sf police officer in patrol car came over loud speaker to call out an elderly man crossing the street. trouble?

instead, the man hurried over to fist bump the officer through the window with joy.

hard to explain to people who weren't in sf in 2020 how different it feels.