Zack Gow

Cofounder & CTO @ orita | Data Scientist & ML Engineer | some guy on the internet

[Zack Gow @zackgow]

@ninja_maths @josh_wills Awesome visualization. Kind of looks like the United States

[Zack Gow @zackgow]

@jsuarez Margaritas sound nice

[Zack Gow @zackgow]

🔥🐴

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

millennial gamers are the best prepared generation for agentic work, they've been training for 25 years

[Zack Gow @zackgow]

Yep

[hardmaru @hardmaru]

“Why AGI Will Not Happen” @Tim_Dettmers

https://t.co/HBXAn0AJkp

This essay is worth reading. Discusses diminishing returns (and risks) of scaling. The contrast between West and East: “Winner Takes All” approach of building the biggest thing vs a long-term focus on practicality.

“The purpose of this blog post is to address what I see as very sloppy thinking, thinking that is created in an echo chamber, particularly in the Bay Area, where the same ideas amplify themselves without critical awareness. This amplification of bad ideas and thinking exuded by the rationalist and EA movements, is a big problem in shaping a beneficial future for everyone.”

“A key problem with ideas, particularly those coming from the Bay Area, is that they often live entirely in the idea space. Most people who think about AGI, superintelligence, scaling laws, and hardware improvements treat these concepts as abstract ideas that can be discussed like philosophical thought experiments. In fact, a lot of the thinking about superintelligence and AGI comes from Oxford-style philosophy. Oxford, the birthplace of effective altruism, mixed with the rationality culture from the Bay Area, gave rise to a strong distortion of how to clearly think about certain ideas.”

[Zack Gow @zackgow]

@sas_o07 @RhysSullivan I have this card and can confirm its legitimacy

[Zack Gow @zackgow]

I said it once and I’ll say it again. Claritin 24 hrs consistently only lasts for 12 hrs. @Claritin

[Zack Gow @zackgow]

The new @btbamofficial album feels like an exaggerated cartoon starring Frank Zappa

[Zack Gow @zackgow]

there's probably an entire field to be explored in making every UX into some sort of game

[Rasmus F.A. Lindman @frans__arthur]

I was talking with my bro about how he uses Claude Code, and realized he was operating the agents without a radar view.

That's just silly

[Zack Gow @zackgow]

Feynman did physics at strip clubs.
I go to concerts and answer Slack & Telegram DMs.

[Zack Gow @zackgow]

Thinking about moving to the internet

[Zack Gow @zackgow]

LLMs’ sycophantic gradients are getting out of hand

[Zack Gow @zackgow]

I’m like 95% sure the @Claritin 24 hrs really only works for 12 hrs

[Zack Gow @zackgow]

“It all starts with a manual export from Shopify”

[Zack Gow @zackgow]

@Spotify needs to enable >2x speeds on podcasts

[Zack Gow @zackgow]

Airflow 3 looks pretty good

[ARC Prize @arcprize]

Today we are announcing ARC-AGI-2, an unsaturated frontier AGI benchmark that challenges AI reasoning systems (same relative ease for humans).

Grand Prize: 85%, ~$0.42/task efficiency

Current Performance:
* Base LLMs: 0%
* Reasoning Systems: <4%

[Zack Gow @zackgow]

"surprised and not surprised" is the correct reaction

[Harrison Kinsley @Sentdex]

I am both surprised and not surprised the US Postal Service website's banner alerts are simply someone commenting and un-commenting the html.

Random indents and all.

[Zack Gow @zackgow]

It’s hard to do “stuff”

[Zack Gow @zackgow]

@Plinz The debate here is around what the "present" is