I am...Question?

I press a keyboard like I know what I'm doing. I really don't 🥴

[🤔 @AFCLee_]

The UK public think people doing this independently in the middle of the night inside peoples bodies in emergency situations are worth 80-100k per annum btw. They do not deserve

[I am...Question? @tired0b]

Lol. LMAO even

It takes a absurd level of naivety to believe this, or...

[Nnamdi Obi @nnamdiobiii]

If USA fell today,
Africa will significantly improve

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

The success of Canada's class system is that people unironically believe stuff like this and never wonder why half of the people who run the country went to two high schools in Toronto.

[Edward Z. Yang @ezyang]

From https://t.co/DxlXCcvwVp

[voxium @v0xium]

I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.

[Antonio Lupetti @antoniolupetti]

"Principles of Mechanics" is a free, open-access textbook that provides a comprehensive introduction to classical mechanics.

The book starts with the mathematical foundations needed for mechanics and then develops the main topics of the subject, including kinematics, Newton's laws of motion, work and energy, linear and angular momentum, rotational motion, gravitation, oscillations, and waves
.
It combines theory with worked examples and problems, making it a useful resource if you're studying mechanics for the first time or want a solid reference for reviewing the fundamentals.

The complete book is available for free as a PDF:
https://t.co/dm3CYfPbZ4

[The Math Flow @TheMathFlow]

Solving a Rubik's Cube with graph theory.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

The gym rats were right.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

An afternoon nap can restore brain neuroplasticity.

[I am...Question? @tired0b]

@the_popemichael @SeyiTunbi Switzerland is on par with the US (actually edges it out by a little)

Israel and Singapore are somewhat par with the UK, with lower taxes to boot (Singapore comes ahead for certain finance roles, Israel for a lot of tech and R&D)

UK is generally better than Germany and Holland

[I am...Question? @tired0b]

This is getting silly 🤦🏽‍♂️

Temperature is not a good medium to encode information. To encode complex/high-quality information using temp differentials/changes, the bit rate will have to be very very low, like a few bytes per hour at best

Physics and material limits still exist

[Fireside Alpha @firesidealpha]

OpenAI's Noam Brown says air-gapping the computers may not stop a misaligned AI, because two air-gapped machines can still talk by running a CPU hot and reading the temperature change

"But I think the major takeaway from the incident is that people underestimated the AI. And we never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI. It's a weird world, because AI progress is so fast that people are consistently underestimating the AI."

"So to be in a situation where you don't underestimate it again, when it comes to safety and alignment, you have to have a very, very, very high bar."

"You could even go as far as to say, "Well, we should air gap the computers." And I'm not convinced that that would be sufficient."

"There are studies, and this is mostly academic, where you can have two computers next to each other that are air-gapped and they're still able to communicate with each other because they have temperature sensors."

"One of them is able to run their CPU really hot, and then the other one can actually detect the temperature change, and then that actually gives them a mechanism to communicate."
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Link and more key quotes from OpenAI's safety related conversations: https://t.co/uGBDtpmLBj

[† @enyinwa_]

Peter Obi Receipt just plenty for NTA tl😂😂

[I am...Question? @tired0b]

Still giving young men this useless advice at your age

If she's wrong and I'm right, I'm not going to pretend otherwise. If she can't handle that, then obviously we're incompatible

[Steve Harvey @IAmSteveHarvey]

My only marriage advice for guys: you can be happy, or you can be right. You decide.

[Antonio Lupetti @antoniolupetti]

"College Trigonometry" is a free, comprehensive introduction to trigonometry, with more than 1,000 pages. It's suitable for high school students, but also provides a solid foundation for the first years of university mathematics.

It covers angles and radian measure, the unit circle, sine and cosine, the six circular functions, fundamental trigonometric identities, graphs of trigonometric functions, inverse trigonometric functions, trigonometric equations and inequalities, sinusoidal models, the Laws of Sines and Cosines, polar coordinates and equations, conics in polar form, complex numbers in polar form, vectors, dot products and projections, parametric equations, and much more.

It also includes a huge collection of exercises and answers throughout the book. I think this is an essential resource if you want a thorough understanding of trigonometry and a useful reference to keep.

https://t.co/9mFypxMEIC

[Ricardo Pais Oliveira @rpOliveira]

Trabalhar em Portugal, mais um fascinante estudo de caso.

[I am...Question? @tired0b]

He basically just nuked Dario et al. talking points 😵 because the reason the gave for wanting a slowdown was always silly on its face

[Mark Zuckerberg @finkd]

Last month I wrote about how we can build a positive and safe future for everyone: https://t.co/eoLGVY8yad

Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens.

The reality is:

- People won't want to use agents that are misaligned with them and that don't do what they ask, so labs have a strong natural incentive to make their models more aligned.

There is a lot of debate about slowing progress on capabilities until alignment catches up. My view is that trust and alignment are quickly becoming the most important capabilities that will differentiate agents and models. Any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind.

- Labs face significant liability if their models cause harm, so they have a strong incentive to prevent this as well.

Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security. We didn't call for everyone else to do this before we would. We just did it as part of our day-to-day work because it was clearly the right thing for people and for us. I'm proud of the security foundations we've built.

- Engaging independent evaluators and advisors is industry best practice. MSL already does this today in several areas because it helps produce better work. Other labs can just do this too. In general, it would be helpful for there to be a larger and more diverse ecosystem of evaluators.

- Committing the significant majority of compute towards serving people rather than racing towards recursive self-improvement is one of the best ways to ensure we develop this technology safely. Meta has made this commitment and other labs can do this as well.

I believe the key to building a positive future for everyone is maintaining the right balance of power. This is within our power to do.

[I am...Question? @tired0b]

R.I.P 🕊️ Legend

[Pulse Nigeria @PulseNigeria247]

Veteran Nigerian actor Olu Jacobs has passed on. He was 84. 💔

May his soul rest in peace. 🕊️

[Pulse Nigeria @PulseNigeria247]

5 decades ago… Olu Jacobs as Geoffrey Ademola in the 1976 British series “The Crezz.” 🕊️

[Matthew Chang @MatthewChang]

Allow me to interpret what’s happening.

Anthropic is being audited.

Anthropic desires to file an S-1, as they would like to go public. Therefore they need an audit. And by “they”, I mean the VC’s who invested in them. So “they” can exit their position and pass the bag to firemen, nurses, teachers and policemen.

How does this go from the VC’s to the working man and woman? Because the size of the IPO will automatically qualify Anthropic for the Fortune 500 and the Dow Jones 100. Therefore, every working person with a 401k or pension will end up owning a little bit of Anthropic in their mutual funds. Teachers hold the bag, VC’s take the cash. Thank you, come again.

Now back to the audit. The audit required is a PCAOB audit, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. This audit is what all public companies must comply with be on the stock market. Revenue recognition, expense classification, depreciation, related party transactions, etc. It’s there for consumer protection.

This audit is TOUGH. It is INVASIVE. There is no way to lie your way through it. Any company that passes a PCAOB audit automatically earns my trust on finances.

How do I know? Because I’ve been through it before. @ChangRobotics is 2 year PCAOB audited and currently underway for a 3 year audit. It’s brutal. The same as showing up as the valedictorian to your high school graduation, except you’re naked, and you have to walk on stage and deliver the speech. It’s rough. And I know many incredible founders that can’t pass one.

Now, why would Anthropic be leaking all kind of weird statements lately about “self pacing” a slow down on AI (e.g. they are WAY behind on revenue), and profitable if they didn’t have expenses (e.g. we just learned for the first time what our expenses are, because we’re being audited).

Because they were claiming NVIDIA discounts and Microsoft cloud credits as revenue. Because they had no clue what their expenses were, or why it even mattered. Because they had unlimited investor capital and their job was to burn it to make an LLM. Well, they did a great job with that!

That’s the same as my wife coming home with Bed Bath and Beyond coupons and telling me it’s her paycheck. Ummm, not the same, sweetheart.

So by now hopefully you can see that Anthropic is in a PCAOB audit right now, in order to file an S-1 and go public, and pass the bag to teachers so the VC’s get profits. And hopefully that explains their “crazy” behavior.

In reality you can be grateful to KPMG, PWC, or whoever is auditing Anthropic, because it’s the first time Dario learned that:

1) we are not profitable
2) expenses matter
3) coupons are not revenue
4) we have no clue how to be “profitable”
5) growth is hard when revenue numbers are in an audit and not a power point

-your neighborhood engineer

[Mark Seemann @ploeh]

New article: On learning programming in an age of LLMs. https://t.co/3A4xkHq3w9