Tony Wuersch

Climb hills.
Be a plug, not a socket.

Never put down to conspiracy
what can be explained
by fear.

Teaching is dope dealing.

[Tony Wuersch @twersh]

Ghouls buy art. Then they tweet about it. No ghouls, no art. No ghouls.

[Tony Wuersch @twersh]

@simon_schama @Baddiel Lipset and Rabb in the 1990s (Jews and the American Scene) discussed how to count Jews via various proxies, even though Jews are not directly counted in the census. So the NYT could have done that, in an already considered manner.

[Linas Beliūnas @linasbeliunas]

Instead of watching 1 hour of Netflix tonight, watch this ex-Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean’s lecture. It’s the clearest explanation I’ve seen of the full AI engineering stack - from building LLMs from scratch all the way to one human coordinating 100 agents.

The best part is that it’s useful whether you’ve never touched a model or you’ve been shipping agent systems every day for the past year.

Bookmark it & watch the whole lecture this weekend, because it might end up being the most valuable thing you learn all week.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The shocking thing is that you do not need a full ECG; you can detect it on Lead 1, that is on an Apple Watch or a similar device.

[Tony Wuersch @twersh]

Graft has become more honest over time. Courts and other review organizations have to triage their backlogs somehow. No one who didn't ask for it wants to be tied to a review treadmill for the rest of their career.

[Tony Wuersch @twersh]

@hendrycks a summary: wishful thinking can save us. But where does that leave critique that's not foam-wrapped? to be foam-wrapped ... but by whom?

[Jane Coaston 🏔️ @janecoaston]

the golden rule of culture wars: if you can be mad in either direction, it's a culture war issue.

[DHH @dhh]

Designers have been granted prototyping super powers with AI, but the models are still not good enough to consistently one-shot implementations you'd want to merge to master on large, critical applications like Basecamp without programmer review (or even reimplementation!).

[AshleY @Aku_700]

@ScottAdamsSays RIP 🪦

[Alice Evans @_alice_evans]

When I was 16-17, the place to party was my mother’s garage.

We sat on white plastic chairs, drinking beers & Smirnoff ice, drew silly messages upstairs in glow-chalk, and around the back couples kissed 💋

[Tony Wuersch @twersh]

An amazing mutual interview! Gretchen Morgenson and Steve Eisman on the housing market disasters of the 2000s. https://t.co/lnmjgsOV2W

[Tony Wuersch @twersh]

An excellent series on USSR economics, by Adam Tooze, starting with Vladimir Lenin. https://t.co/Kssp1rDa4j

[Tony Wuersch @twersh]

@BrankoMilan I've found "Kant: A Revolution in Thinking" by Marcus Willaschek an amazing palate cleanser.

[Tony Wuersch @twersh]

Andrew's talk is a perfect extension of "correlation equals causation" fantasy. If genes were the correlate, applied eugenics would be the cure. A response could be that, just as focused criticism need not be abuse, firm discernment need not be feminization. OTOH, no one seems to be turning their back on unfocused criticism, random discernment, and the deployment of verbal Uzis.

[Tony Wuersch @twersh]

@default_friend It's your choice what to communicate, and then learn from the reaction. To me, it shows a retro Lana del Rey continuity and also a sympathetic reflection of modern day anxiety, which (from what little I read) is core to fan fiction. A pre-pandemic 2010s vibe ...

[Adrian Vermeule @Vermeullarmine]

@RandolphPa82197 https://t.co/R93kV6FU2g

[Tony Wuersch @twersh]

@patrickc @danintheory The autobio of Saunders Mac Lane is a good mix of travel, bio of associates, and mathematics, fwiw.

[Tony Wuersch @twersh]

@ShriramKMurthi Might be a little like programming. People already get good at programming pre-college, or they avoid it. If the latter, college doesn't offer to remediate their gaps. And influencers won't recommend those majors that their audience thinks are too big leaps to do.

[Tony Wuersch @twersh]

An excellent podcast episode, interviewing Cecilia Heyes, author of Cognitive Gadgets. https://t.co/csAQ407mAL

[Tony Wuersch @twersh]

It's time for philanthropists to fund a Museum of Corruption.

[Peter Doocy @pdoocy]

I have some unique insight on President Biden, having dedicated six years of my life to covering him. If you are wondering why nobody asked about his mental fitness, and why nobody asked if White House staffers were covering up his decline… then you weren’t paying attention.

Here are 7 times I did just that.