Thomas Morton

I study how we plan sentences | UCSD Psych PhD | UMass Linguistics c/o '22

[Thomas Morton @ThomasMortonG]

A new aesthetic: the white flickering on a camera when exposed to dangerous levels of radiation

[Lokki @tweetbylokki]

So close now. A new aesthetic standard, dropping this week.

[Thomas Morton @ThomasMortonG]

If I opened an application, it asked me two questions and then started running commands unprompted I think I’d toss that so quickly out the window.

[John Bai @johnbai]

We shipped an improved onboarding experience for Cursor.
Making the cold start more approachable and personalized, especially for the less technical, was something I was eager to work on even before I joined.

[Thomas Morton @ThomasMortonG]

Death of a salesman character here

[Ben Horne 🇺🇸 @benjamin_horne]

This developing story about Dario's failed communications with the White House confirms everything I've ever believed about the enormous power of the Sales Chad.

You can be the smartest, most hard working, well-meaning guy around, but if you can't get people to like you, it's all for nothing.

When the time comes to send one of your own to meet inside the Halls of Power, you don't send the Geek Squad. You must send the affable, beer-drinking, golf-loving Sales Chad.

It literally doesn't matter if he understands the product half as well as everyone else. You send him. It's what he was put on Earth to do.

[Geoffrey Irving @geoffreyirving]

We are starting a new, nonprofit alignment organization, ⊢ Sequent Research, bringing together researchers previously on UK AISI’s Alignment Team, Timaeus, and elsewhere to research how to align superintelligence. We are hiring! 🧵

[Stella Biderman @BlancheMinerva]

In film, "we'll fix it in post" is what you say when something went wrong on set and you don't want to redo it. AI research has made it our entire methodology: train the model, then patch whatever comes out. Our new ICML oral argues this can't be the basis of a science of AI. 🧵

[Thomas Morton @ThomasMortonG]

People want to live like an Halo Reach: Forge map

[TB1Kinobe™️🇺🇸 @TB1Kinobe]

This should be the average American home

[Thomas Morton @ThomasMortonG]

"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."

[tldraw @tldraw]

claude draws dario

[Ariel @ArielKwiat]

Atrocious take, and I understand now why some of the old school RL people refuse to interact with LLM people.

"Who cares about the theory and the entire underlying body of work, just do the one simple instantiation that I use, nothing else is important."

[Sauers @Sauers_]

they're calling it Claude Code sensory enrichment

[Thomas Morton @ThomasMortonG]

@cap_violet I love skim on macOS! Sneaky deep toolset, I’d say the best performance, invert colors mode!

[Cairo Smith @cairoasmith]

There's a common misconception that Brutalist buildings were unpainted, but thanks to microscopic analysis of the exteriors we can now recreate what they looked like in their prime.

[Thomas Morton @ThomasMortonG]

@jsuarez Yes we gan gan! https://t.co/YLHxnheIo7

[Gašper Beguš @begusgasper]

The paper:

https://t.co/ThpTSZye1N

[FranceNews24 @FranceNews24]

📹 VIDÉO - #Insolite : Pendant la coupe des griffes, une marmotte semble avoir déjà accepté son destin… tandis que l’autre panique à chaque coup de coupe. Une scène aussi drôle que totalement théâtrale.

[Thomas Morton @ThomasMortonG]

@snoopy_dot_jpg If you use the new no flicker mode, copy pasting is now handled internally and much better overall

[Max Kozlov @maxdkozlov]

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is closing its social sciences directorate. Staff will be transferred elsewhere in NSF, and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be kept.

W/ @dangaristo for @Nature

https://t.co/Lakcl0oLYa

[Domino's Pizza UK @Dominos_UK]

remake now

[Thomas Morton @ThomasMortonG]

I find it funny when people say ‘see, A.I. can make art’ it’s like saying, ‘See, a camera can make art’ and we’re skipping over that art was never about the medium but about human intentionality and experience.

[UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance @FalconryFinance]

the shape store

[tomie @tomieinlove]

They trained an LLM on data from only 1800 to 1875, and it’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever read.

[respectful huff @alexqarbuckle]

don’t know why but the red gloves make him look like a character in a Kojima game. Ping Pongman