Brian Paul

@pmarca "Counterfactual Regret." 😉

We need a name for “I really should be spending all my time talking to AI, but I’m not”. AI pre-psychosis? Or is it just AI psychosis? Asking for a, well, you know…

@gdb I stopped coding in Perl sometime in the late 90's - I was very amused to see codex leaning on Perl in the shell and note that Claude Code seems to lean heavily on node, at least on my laptop.

codex's shell-fu is incredible to behold and learn from

I asked Alexa to play “Pets” by Porno for Pyros as a joke to my 10 year old about AI overlords continuing to care for us after the singularity. Alexa literally bleeped the word “porno” in it’s own affirmative response that it was playing the song. The irony.

@R0BC4T @carl_feynman @sarah_cone There’s a whole other fascinating story here about why one would do what you just said right? Do tell! This entire thread is a gold mine. Sensors, who knew?

@carl_feynman @sarah_cone Do you know if they are still making these 3-electrode Clark cells? I deploy Clark cell oxygen sensors on ocean moorings and we have a terrible problem with sensor drift when they get covered with barnacles etc. What a great idea!

My dad (Richard Feynman) had a side hustle doing industrial consulting. He'd spend a few hours visiting a company, talking to the engineers, looking at stuff, and then maybe have a good suggestion. Sometimes he would bring his son along. I only recall one of his suggestions, but it made the company he was consulting for way better off, so I guess his exorbitant consulting fees were worth it. We could have been wealthier if he had done it systematically, but he didn't want to be organized about looking for jobs, so it just happened when someone asked.

It's here! mmhmm 3.0 is the best way to present and record yourself on video. Our latest release is all about giving you the tools you need to stand out and be more persuasive on camera.

@andybudd How did I miss Hawk the Slayer?! Also I wonder that you omitted "The Sword and The Sorcerer" - mayhap your final filter is non-obvious to me.

Which movie was the best?

HR and compliance teams use way too many tools. And there’s (kind of) a good reason for that. Mini 🧵:

Watching a video about adv in robotics: It came to me that we give these devices placid, confidence inspiring voices. We should make them sound like caffeinated six year olds running with scissors. Human injury would drop dramatically based purely on instinctual caution. I❤️🤖

@PloegMe @plibin @nosretep Gastric.

@plibin @nosretep Which one is this?

Ima start using the 🫥 emoji to mean surveillance balloon.

The flip side is that you are in an echo-chamber. At some point you have to move away from ChatGPT for the quality and merit of your efforts to improve. It can feel like progress even as it exceeds the threshold of diminishing return. A fine line between tool and crutch? 3/3

This isn't free dopamine. Although ChatGPT nails it sometimes the outputs aren't generally of mind-blowing quality but it does provide an opportunity to invest that deferred cognitive load in a far more focused and engaging (to you ⚠️) direction. 2/3

I've been playing with #ChatGPT lately (like so many others.) The thing I've been concentrating on is how it can accelerate you from 'Cold Start' to 'Warm Start' on something (brainstorming, research, etc.) with far less cognitive load than doing so 'alone.' 1/3

@books_beaches @PresNav @MrPotatoHead_SJ And with that we are straight to the top of the gift idea list.

@PresNav @MrPotatoHead_SJ 🤣 probably!

@TLAlexander I can't tell from the images but I'm assuming no protective gear (respirator, eye cover) ?

image captions: two images during a heavy smoke day from wildfires. the scene has a heavy dark orange cast, it looks like mars. there are farm workers working in a field with a hill in the distance, with deep orange skies visible.

Farm workers in a field in Moss Beach CA at 3pm. #CaliforniaFires #BayAreaFires #orangesky

@HustleFundVC @ericbahn @janelspilker @mmhmmapp 👆😀

Founders: Don't pitch with a deck. Why? Not only can you engage better with the VC but you'll level the playing field. Catch the full #UncappedNotes episode from @ericbahn + @janelspilker ➡️ youtu.be/C7I7YrU6b4A Next week: Ep 04, Part 2: how to run your pitch meeting 💥

I've enjoyed working with this team, Congrats!

Introducing mmhmm for web: Built for the out-of-office work lifestyle. #madewithmmhmm

@iamharaldur Do you feel a sense of relief when the Next Terrible Thing to Happen, finally occurs? Greetings fellow traveller. It can take a long time and a lot of work to shake that off. #WorkinProgress

@plibin Maybe we’re saying the same thing: Perhaps we call them heroes to justify their suffering and forgive ourselves?

When we start talking about a segment of society as heroes, we start treating them worse: veterans after Gulf War 1, first responders after 9/11, health care and frontline workers after covid. We desire our heroes to suffer. Be careful if your industry becomes suddenly heroic.

Well, @maryspender & Josh Turner, this is quite, quite good. 😯 youtube.com/watch?v=PcVJru…