Enrico Bertini

I started a newsletter. Here is why. Wish me luck! @FILWD filwd.substack.com/p/im-back?r=38…

@junkcharts Let's redesign it!!! The initial intent is a very relevant and good one!!!!

Still figuring out this #dataviz, what is it telling us? #junkcharts: junkcharts.com/decluttering-c…

@davidbau Does this implicitly mean that any other AI company that decides to work with the government will enable it to use it for mass surveillance?

Those of us who work in AI in the US today should take a moment to think today. Do not get distracted by the circus. Instead, let us pause to think carefully about our freedoms, our rights, and our responsibilities as citizens and professionals. It is a deadly serious moment.

@pmddomingos Yes!

I hate the idea of churning out research papers by the dozen. A research paper should be a work of art.

@ScottAdamsSays Rest in peace, brother. May God accept you in heaven.

A Final Message From Scott Adams

@ValerioCapraro Drawing causal conclusions from observational data using constructs that are so hard to measure. I am sympathetic to the results, but it looks like really, really wild speculation to me.

Fascinating paper just published in Science. The authors analyze the career trajectories of top performers across multiple domains, including Nobel laureates, elite chess players, Olympic gold medalists, and more. Their central finding challenges a common belief. Intensive, single-discipline training at a young age does confer an early advantage, but this advantage fades over time. By contrast, individuals exposed to multidisciplinary practice early in life tend to start more slowly. Yet, over the long run, they are more likely to reach world-class performance, eventually overtaking early specialists, who often plateau just below the very top. An important reminder that breadth early on can be a powerful investment in long-term excellence. Link to the paper in the first reply.

@chrisman It is!

@FILWD No, sounds amazing though

Nothing in life is as good as going to church with my family on Sunday mornings. Highly recommend.

@JessicaHullman Why does one need to have 50 papers from their team? What's the ultimate purpose?

Trying to imagine a world in which I willingly put my name on papers I've barely read. I really can't. Even a few sloppy sentencesn in a paper I'm on sticks with me. When PIs stop believing the devil is in the details, some aspect of research conscience has been lost

@nakedpastor Sorry to hear ❤️

My dad died today.

@peterrhague @DGartifact It is good. You need to be in the driver's seat and accept to take responsibility for the outcome while also involving her in the decisions.

@DGartifact Why? Why isn’t actually solving problems together good?

Wife: <problem> Me: <solution>? Wife: I don’t want <solution>! How do you get past this dynamic?

@peterrhague By actually solving the problem while keeping her in the loop.

@normonics Too complicated.

What if -- and hear me out here -- what if you chose to "follow" certain people, and you'd see their tweets on your feed And then you could ALSO choose to broadcast tweets you come across to those who follow you, as a way to amplify certain high-quality content

What we can measure vs what we should measure @FILWD #numbersense: junkcharts.com/can-measure-vs…

@chrisman Can't argue with that!

Trying to persuade the 11yo to drop out of 6th grade and return to homeschool. He agrees school is a colossal waste of his time and potential. However, he makes the following (admittedly strong) counterpoint: It has girls.

That's the Italian way of cooking.

@dhh @NellieBowles Wow, the backfire! Looks like a recurring theme!!!

Kicked out by the scolds, built a new venture from scratch, and now back to rule one of the mainstream bastions of news. Love to see it. Oh, and Free Press' TGIF by @NellieBowles was a beacon of sanity through some dark years. Bravo 👏

@davidbau In principle, I agree, but I don't know how we can escape (at least temporary) monopolies. The winner-takes-all dynamics seem to be always there. We had one Microsoft, one Google, two (or maybe three) social media, etc. AI, at least, already has a few players.

@FILWD On (3) I think we face the same choice in AI, in the long run we want informative AI (more than pleasing AI), but RLHF etc risks getting stuck in the pleasure trap. I worry about monopoly dynamics here making it hard for the marketplace to escape the locally optimal trap.

Three honest questions. (1) do you think that online social networks have broken democracy? (2) do you think it was inevitable that it happened this way, or was it an accident of technology? (3) and do we think that AI will make things better or worse?

@JeremyTate41 I don't have any regrets in my life so far, but if I had to come up with one, it would be that I had only 3 children. You look amazing!

Get married. Have children. Build a legacy. Pass down your values. Pursue the eternal. Seek true joy.

This is such good advice!

True.