Teej

Cling tight to your sense of humor. You will need it every day. - T. E. Lawrence.

[Teej @teajay04]

@__paleologo Same experience, tried to solve a research problem that I've been working on for a few months and nothing useful other than rediscovering, restating, overstating and so on.
But LLMs are still useful.

[Teej @teajay04]

Looking back it’s obvious that this is a symptom of non-doers being in charge. People who don’t understand that you don’t need a why and even if you have one it’s probably a figment of your imagination

[nandu @gatha_writes]

re: the US uni admissions essay. it really strikes me on how at every single level of US academia you’re expected to curate a “narrative”. it’s not enough u want to research this strain of fungi. you need to have some weird community connection to it.

[Teej @teajay04]

Enemies to lovers but in reverse

[Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo) @__paleologo]

Two related, complementary sayings that are on my mind all the time:

Buffett: "If you get a few big things right, you can afford to get many small things wrong."

Jobs: "The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do."

[Teej @teajay04]

@CosmicSkeptic I don't think you understand what emergence is.
I recommend @sean_a_mcclure 's Discovered Not Designed. Will expose you to new ideas.
https://t.co/SFy6twH42k

[Teej @teajay04]

@AlexMonahaqyrt People have different utility functions. Not necessarily stupid.

[Teej @teajay04]

@eigensteve Amazing! Thanks for all the work you put into this.

[Teej @teajay04]

@sean_a_mcclure "enough, just do it"

[Teej @teajay04]

For many years now (before AI), we've had writers producing slop (polish no substance). After AI they want to produce no polish no substance and it is valuable because it is supposedly 'authentic' with imperfections that come with the human voice.
And still, no substance.

[Sean McClure @sean_a_mcclure]

https://t.co/g9smstVh5e

[Teej @teajay04]

Anthropic bragged about how none of its engineers really code anymore and that they’re closing the loop and now their product is just plain garbage.

[Teej @teajay04]

@egregiumm @MasonKamb Yes but one can hope

[Teej @teajay04]

Like Tony Soprano, I think he looks better heavier. To each their own though

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

No, to answer comments, no Ozempick!
Just 2) cycling, 3) rucking, 4) sort of calisthenics (isometrics & TRX) & 5) Olympic presses.

Plus red wine, white wine, rosé wine, arak, mastikha liqor, Armenian brandy, prosecco, squid ink, liver pâté, and a lot of Turkish coffee.

[Teej @teajay04]

@sean_a_mcclure People with exposure to proof based math usually understand

[Teej @teajay04]

At french cafe, I am the only male here. Many beautiful women of all ages

[Teej @teajay04]

One problem with an ethnic name people are unfamiliar with is that at a cafe you’re never quite sure if they’re calling for you or not. Attempts have enough variance for you to jump every time.

[Teej @teajay04]

Underrated aspect of the AI backlash Hank green is facing is most people's understanding of AI is limited by how dogshit Gemini is and Google's insistence on using it for every search. Of course they think it hallucinates everything and merely summarizes reddit.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Original tweet deleted...you can still see it here along with a post on how I'm changing things going forward.

https://t.co/Ixfcxv0XTF

[Teej @teajay04]

@amitisinvesting Black swan for turkey is not black swan for farmer @nntaleb

[Teej @teajay04]

@__paleologo I think they committed to a bit, and if they abandoned it they'd look silly, perhaps even admitting to be disingenuous. So they're going all in. They did this to themselves

[Teej @teajay04]

@sean_a_mcclure @jon_stewartmill Is it not interesting that many who support capitalism deny evolution and many who accept evolution want to do away with capitalism?

[Teej @teajay04]

@AgustinLebron3 Favorite technical books?