awenna

do not remain nameless to yourself

[awenna @positrontachyon]

@noampomsky love this

[Will Kinney @WKCosmo]

@mufcheisenbergP @vrundasays_ Liking what you do is worth a lot of money.

[NASA @NASA]

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

[divenire @divya_venn]

You need to ritualize your courage. Take it from me nothing is easier than sitting at home infinitely preparing for some hypothetical future battlefield. Ask people boldly for everything you want and watch their faces closely, see where they hesitate, where they lose interest, where they half-smile with pity. Let people reveal their preferences and reject the fruits of your labor.

You will learn more from a single humiliation than you will from weeks spent examining yourself to prevent it.

[Henrik Karlsson @phokarlsson]

Said this to a friend but it applies to many:
I think you have a good guess what you should be doing, and there is no need to overthink it. Just decided that for the next 3 months you will execute on your inkling. After that, you can evaluate if you want to try something different. Course correcting too often than eats your bandwidth.
A good line by Gwern on this, too:
"The average of many good plans is often a bad plan, and a bad plan followed to the end is often more informative than switching at every timestep between many good plans."

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

It’s never too late to learn physics!

[awenna @positrontachyon]

@vimal8rathore @SuperKalam_ This is great!

[scott 🌞 @scottdomes]

part of the fun of life is learning universal patterns like "what you resist persists" or "you can't directly pursue happiness" and then constantly forgetting them on a day-to-day basis and wondering why you're frustrated

[awenna @positrontachyon]

@ftlsid congratulations! such a win

[awenna @positrontachyon]

@adigunturu @Freya_Wyy @nandizhang_ @rubaiat @ryosuzk this is wonderful!

[awenna @positrontachyon]

@ftlsid sounds like a life truly worth living. thanks for the reminder

[ftlsid @ftlsid]

new note

[Phi Hoang @apostraphi]

Keep your eyes on your own path. That's where the magic happens.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

⚡️ Excited to share that I am starting an AI+Education company called Eureka Labs.
The announcement:

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We are Eureka Labs and we are building a new kind of school that is AI native.

How can we approach an ideal experience for learning something new? For example, in the case of physics one could imagine working through very high quality course materials together with Feynman, who is there to guide you every step of the way. Unfortunately, subject matter experts who are deeply passionate, great at teaching, infinitely patient and fluent in all of the world's languages are also very scarce and cannot personally tutor all 8 billion of us on demand.

However, with recent progress in generative AI, this learning experience feels tractable. The teacher still designs the course materials, but they are supported, leveraged and scaled with an AI Teaching Assistant who is optimized to help guide the students through them. This Teacher + AI symbiosis could run an entire curriculum of courses on a common platform. If we are successful, it will be easy for anyone to learn anything, expanding education in both reach (a large number of people learning something) and extent (any one person learning a large amount of subjects, beyond what may be possible today unassisted).

Our first product will be the world's obviously best AI course, LLM101n. This is an undergraduate-level class that guides the student through training their own AI, very similar to a smaller version of the AI Teaching Assistant itself. The course materials will be available online, but we also plan to run both digital and physical cohorts of people going through it together.

Today, we are heads down building LLM101n, but we look forward to a future where AI is a key technology for increasing human potential. What would you like to learn?
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@EurekaLabsAI is the culmination of my passion in both AI and education over ~2 decades. My interest in education took me from YouTube tutorials on Rubik's cubes to starting CS231n at Stanford, to my more recent Zero-to-Hero AI series. While my work in AI took me from academic research at Stanford to real-world products at Tesla and AGI research at OpenAI. All of my work combining the two so far has only been part-time, as side quests to my "real job", so I am quite excited to dive in and build something great, professionally and full-time.

It's still early days but I wanted to announce the company so that I can build publicly instead of keeping a secret that isn't. Outbound links with a bit more info in the reply!

[awenna @positrontachyon]

@paraschopra thank you :)

[awenna @positrontachyon]

still not sure if I'm absolutely crazy for planning to go back to school to study physics, but maybe some things just need to be seen through

[Paul Graham @paulg]

On the other hand, if you make actually good AI tutors, the company that sells crap versions to schools will never be able to displace you either. So if it were me, I'd just try to make the best thing. Life is too short to build second rate stuff for bureaucratic customers.

[0xDesigner @0xDesigner]

in what fucking world can i text prompt a hollywood-level, blockbuster movie-like scene but i can't prompt a simple ui mockup?

ai was supposed to take MY job not christopher nolan's why am i still working

[Jason Yuan @jasonyuan]

end of year reflections 10x’d by dot from @newcomputer