emotional

Me when ChatGPT is rambling and the stop button doesn’t work

Every so often I have the inexplicable urge to write C++ again

Tempted to yeet $1890 into vast.ai and train a text-to-image diffusion model from scratch

Tempted to yeet $1890 into vast.ai and train a text-to-image diffusion model from scratch

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15811

Music

QC an album that gets 0 skips

Watch the Throne still one of the best bodies of work i’ve heard

search your camera roll for “this tweet has been deleted”

incentivizing things @ poidh.xyz - come chill /poidh + follow @poidhbot

consider: how can mirrors be real if our eyes aren’t real

So cool to see someone quote visionary and consummate continental philosopher Jaden Smith casually in the replies

Memes

design critiques

I solved today's MiniWord in 0:30 (#1 on the leaderboard) Can you beat me?

Fashion

same energy as Alphaflys in the wild https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE5prInz-jD/?igsh=a3ozMnd4NnJxM3lx 

someone pls write an essay on the trend of wearing hyper-specialized sports footwear casually and why it’s a recession indicator

Kinda wild that the best look at the Met Gala this year was AI generated

Kinda wild that the best look at the Met Gala this year was AI generated https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/katy-perry-ai-deepfake-met-gala-look-viral-1235332448/

Running

Anyone else following the Cocodona 250 this week?

Anyone else following the Cocodona 250 this week?

 https://www.youtube.com/live/0NIpowdq4AU?si=Inw0U4X0Ov4nD4ZF

Question for the experienced runners here: 
I ran my first sub 2:00 half marathon in March and finished my first marathon in 5:00 a week ago (trained for 4:20 - 4:30 pace but bonked hard). I have 5 months to my next marathon, is sub 4:00 a realistic goal?

I don't think how much LLMs have disrupted other AI techniques is talked about enough.

Starting from an LLM and fine-tuning it to a specific domain can work significantly better than training old school ML models. As inference costs come down this will become even more commonplace.

I worked with several folks that worked in NLP and translation models for years at Google Search. LLMs completely wiped out their entire field since they can do it significantly better than their old techniques.

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1910832709477212302

Remember Hidden Markov Models? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

We need Rick Astley to join Farcaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4WlUXrJgy4

Inching closer to abandoning the decade+ old Spotify account

Inching closer to abandoning the decade+ old Spotify account

https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/music/apple-music-integration-is-now-available-on-more-dj-platforms-140009346.html

Why is no one talking about how good the native password manager is on the latest iOS / macOS. Standalone app is much easier than digging through Settings and autofill works a 100% of the time (even on Chrome!)

When I’m frustrated with chat gpt:

Ok clanger

When you're trying to sequence my genome the old school way:

ok Sanger

akshaan

@akshaan

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