Arifin

Amateur Physicist, Astronomer, Farmer. @arifindobson 🌌

[Arifin @widobsono]

Introducing, Weird Ideas Collections Thread.

[Marc Seitz — oss/acc @mfts0]

I made a bet with my wife 👀

Open-source DocSend is possible using only ▲ @Vercel Storage.

◆ Postgres for users and links
◆ Blob for files
◆ KV for link analytics

👉 If this tweet get 50 likes, I get to build it on the weekend instead of cleaning the house.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Gemini Nano Banana Pro can solve exam questions *in* the exam page image. With doodles, diagrams, all that.

ChatGPT thinks these solutions are all correct except Se_2P_2 should be "diselenium diphosphide" and a spelling mistake (should be "thiocyanic acid" not "thoicyanic")

:O

[Arifin @widobsono]

@Noseyi_noVibez @grok 🍊🍊

[ELON CLIPS @ElonClipsX]

Tom Mueller on SpaceX's early days: “If people were negative, they were not in the next meeting.”

“Elon was technically very strong, even though he was just learning about rockets. The one thing I noticed, if people were negative, they were not in the next meeting. He said, a company is a bunch of vectors. Each person is a vector and they need to point in the direction that you want to go. Bureaucracy and office politics and low morale, it's almost random vectors. He was always about making all the vectors which are all the employees pointing in the right direction. Forward, moving forward.”

From BBC's documentary The Elon Musk Show, 2022

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

# on shortification of "learning"

There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are learning (but actually they are just having fun). The people creating this content also enjoy it because fun has a much larger audience, fame and revenue. But as far as learning goes, this is a trap. This content is an epsilon away from watching the Bachelorette. It's like snacking on those "Garden Veggie Straws", which feel like you're eating healthy vegetables until you look at the ingredients.

Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort. It should look a lot less like that "10 minute full body" workout from your local digital media creator and a lot more like a serious session at the gym. You want the mental equivalent of sweating. It's not that the quickie doesn't do anything, it's just that it is wildly suboptimal if you actually care to learn.

I find it helpful to explicitly declare your intent up front as a sharp, binary variable in your mind. If you are consuming content: are you trying to be entertained or are you trying to learn? And if you are creating content: are you trying to entertain or are you trying to teach? You'll go down a different path in each case. Attempts to seek the stuff in between actually clamp to zero.

So for those who actually want to learn. Unless you are trying to learn something narrow and specific, close those tabs with quick blog posts. Close those tabs of "Learn XYZ in 10 minutes". Consider the opportunity cost of snacking and seek the meal - the textbooks, docs, papers, manuals, longform. Allocate a 4 hour window. Don't just read, take notes, re-read, re-phrase, process, manipulate, learn.

And for those actually trying to educate, please consider writing/recording longform, designed for someone to get "sweaty", especially in today's era of quantity over quality. Give someone a real workout. This is what I aspire to in my own educational work too. My audience will decrease. The ones that remain might not even like it. But at least we'll learn something.

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

The @karpathy interview

0:00:00 – AGI is still a decade away
0:30:33 – LLM cognitive deficits
0:40:53 – RL is terrible
0:50:26 – How do humans learn?
1:07:13 – AGI will blend into 2% GDP growth
1:18:24 – ASI
1:33:38 – Evolution of intelligence & culture
1:43:43 - Why self driving took so long
1:57:08 - Future of education

Look up Dwarkesh Podcast on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc. Enjoy!

[Arifin @widobsono]

@yousef_ki1 .

[Arifin @widobsono]

Timeskip ✨

[Arifin @widobsono]

@AutomaApp Superb tools, so amazing.

[Hasan Rashid @hasanrashid_]

Do you know?

The Mercator projection is a popular map projection that has been widely used for centuries.

However, it also has a significant drawback. Landmasses near the poles appear much larger than they actually are, while those near the equator appear smaller. This is due to the way the projection stretches the map along the latitude lines.

Here is the actual size illustration:

📷Jakub Nowosad

[Arifin @widobsono]

@curiosityonx Imagine space travel, having these booster come and go, just like busses and airplanes.

[Vicario Reinaldo @vicarioreinaldo]

Perspektif baru yang mengubah pandangan gue tentang karir:

[sky @skydotcs]

this helped me adjust my learning approach

was super lost in my ml class but took the time to revise the math, my mind can understand the content better now

thanks @lelouchdaily

[Bayt Al Fann @BaytAlFann]

11/ The camera we use to capture life’s finest moments would not have existed had it not been for Ibn Haytham’s revolutionary research. Prior to Ibn Haytham, many great thinkers wrote extensively and elaborated on the visual theories that were present but no real groundbreaking progress was made.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

If you ever get lost in the Milky Way galaxy, this is your map to get back to EARTH.

[George Mack @george__mack]

The most under discussed immigration policy:

A lesson from Lee Kuan Yew

[Hubble @NASAHubble]

Two incredible views of two galaxies from two telescopes!

Hubble previously studied Arp 142, also known as the Penguin and the Egg. For the second science anniversary of @NASAWebb, infrared observations shine new light on this interacting galaxy pair. ⬇️

[Ad Professor @The_AdProfessor]

The 20 funniest ads of all time:

1. Bible App

[Masculine Path @masculinepath04]

8 years ago, Jensen Huang hand delivered to OpenAI, the first AI-focussed GPU made by Nvidia.

This moment marks the end of Intel's dominance.
It wasn't luck, it was deeper.

Jensen has said publicly that Nvidia 'did it' by religiously following 4 core values 👇🏻