Rahul Balakavi

[Rahul Balakavi @rahulbmv]

Have to admit that I have seen my fair share of these. This was a much harder problem than originally imagined, but we eventually brought down reversals to less than 1%.

[AmpUp AI @AmpUpAi]

@genspark_ai gave AI a real lemonade stand and told it to roleplay the lemonade seller. When someone walked up and asked for a lemonade, the AI decided to play a customer instead 😂😂

That too a customer who had a dream where a pineapple was her life coach?? 😂

For better roleplays, try out AmpUp ;)

[Naval @naval]

When software was expensive - thin, horizontal, best-of-breed software stacks extracted rents across every business.

Now that software is cheap - value moves to vertically integrated businesses that deliver opinionated end-to-end experiences.

[AmpUp AI @AmpUpAi]

https://t.co/PknleKjS8s

[The Data Guy @DataGuyRedux]

This is the same amount of water, which will produce 38kgs of Sugar.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

https://t.co/Lb6T42n5jl

[Rahul Balakavi @rahulbmv]

@SumitM_X if its 1 in a million request then this is likely due to an incorrect sql
query, where the code uses RLS unaware db session, assuming the codebase uses something llike sqlalchemy. 1 in a million query could be a failing fga request that is not handled well

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

this is gold

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Seneca, 1,976 years ago, and yet

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

Nietzsche describes 3 modern vices

[Ryan Els @RyanEls4]

Garbage collection 🗑️🤣

[Harrison Chase @hwchase17]

You can find the full blog here: https://t.co/45zkBcUphn

You can find a spreadsheet comparing agent frameworks here: https://t.co/iqeT45kRqY

I tried to be as specific and nuanced as possible. I would love any feedback!

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

always improving my protocol

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

Nietzsche asking the hard questions

[madison @dearmadisonblue]

Pāṇini created a revolution in the domain of grammar..by publishing..Aṣṭādhyāyī, “The Eight Chapters”..around 500 BCE..Pāṇini’s book is generally described as a “grammar,”..“a derivational word-generating device… It derives an infinite number of correct Sanskrit words”

[Jeremy Howard @jeremyphoward]

I'll get straight to the point.

We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT.

Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff.

It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵

[anu @anuatluru]

this is why smart people are great at giving advice but not taking it.