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People mock VCs for valuing startups with no traction and no launch above startups with no traction but with a launch and some learning. But the VCs are systemically correct because of Monty Hall and follow-on rounds.
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I loved this horse book, great pick! Relevant tweet: https://x.com/vladtarko/status/1893516532640350695?s=46&t=MxjKGZ0xcO_edQX0W4Soig
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I’m not big into crypto, but my Twitter is full of Bybit news while Warpcast is empty, even after a search… I like Warpcast, hope it becomes better for following breaking stories
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🐋 vs 🦅 (made with #veo2 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸)
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I love this, but I think of zk-snarks having more electron-like levels of complex chemistry, and basic encryption as being more nucleus simple (e.g. periodic table less interesting than chem)
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I for one am in favor of doing a worse job managing our forests. Look at where doing a better job has gotten us!
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cardinals live in the snow anyway, so you can maintain suspension of disbelief a little longer than you can with sandpipers https://warpcast.com/airned/0x6017bd41
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sandpiper building a snowman 🤯 #Veo2
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lol, #Veo2 prompted by the infamous dril corncob tweet, raw
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Want a python snapshot testing library that lets you cache the results of genAI, and build other tests on top of that? pytest-selfie and selfie-lib 1.0 released today! https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1hfwri1/selfielib_snapshot_testing_and_cachingmemoization/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
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Sora’s blend is pretty good…
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…so I specified in every shot what shade of white or yellow each person was to make the meme work, and it added black people on its own while angry white people turn into corncobs (full prompt in next post)
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0s: Two white adult friends sit comfortably on a plush, beige couch. They are chuckling heartily, seemingly amused by a situation unfolding in front of them. The room is well-lit and cozy, with a coffee table. 2s: In front of the two friends stands an angry pale white man. "I'm not owned!" he shouts. 3s: The two white friends on the couch laugh even harder. 4s: "I'm not owned!" the standing angry man shouts again. His pale skin morphs into yellow. 5s: The two white friends on the couch laugh even louder, pointing at the angry yellow man, clearly entertained by the bizarre scene. 7s: The standing angry yellow man's expression grows even more intense, and he yells wordlessly as his skin transforms into a texture resembling corn kernels. Finally, he transforms completely into a corn-like figure. 8s: The happy white friends laugh harder than ever, with a small regular corncob in front of them.
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I tried to make my favorite dril meme in Sora, but characters kept turning yellow at the wrong time…
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I’m a big fan of MDX. It’s a markdown syntax for react. What’s nice about it is that you can author and insert any react component anywhere, and the rest of the time it’s just regular markdown. Lower friction to integrate cool widgets, best integration path for goodies from Claude Artifacts and the like. Here’s one I maintain: https://github.com/diffplug/gitfromscratch
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https://a.co/d/ee3DIAc
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Second half was a little weaker, but not bad. One thing it kinda hinted at that I’m a fan of are “eddies” in the hero’s journey - places which are stuck in some ignorant state because people don’t want to / structurally can’t return to. Like kindergarten for instance - full of ignorant buffoons. But when one of them leaves and learns something, they don’t come back to kindergarten to spread the wisdom - they don’t want to and the kids actually can’t usefully hear it anyway. So you just abandon them and let some poor teacher and life deal with them - I have no better suggestion! But there are aspects of all adult life that work this same way, and the movie kinda points at one of them.
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Just watched “the wild robot”. Dall-E + Iron Giant + Paddington + motherhood. I *loved* the first half, which is an excellent portrayal of a “helpful assistant” AI ending up in a totally out-of-distribution environment which forces it to undergo a kicking-and-screaming socialized -> self-authoring transition.
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I was with my wife on a college campus (unusual for us) and we overheard a student say “chat, is this real?” It caught my attention and I tried to explain who “chat” was to my wife (blessedly offline), and realized I’m not quite sure who chat is, lol. Sort of a referent to “we the group, but amongst a larger group”? The pronoun of choice for “we” in the context of a dark forest?
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