Andrew Harvey

@yacineMTB ML fundamentally lives or dies based on data, so anyone doing ML is a data guy… or should be if they take their role seriously.

Every time someone tells me they're in post training I just shake my head and say "another data guy" under my breath

@seanilling This had 1980’s “Just Say No” vibes.

I implore people to just take a beat before hitting send on that tweet

@texasrunnerDFW Especially when you consider the additional 25% of the purchase price on renovations and interest rates. Having a family does tilt more in favor of owning, but if you have no kids, it’s harder to justify.

People think this is an uncommon situation but it is increasingly quite common, especially in HCOL metros

@gabriel1 And must people are using the sub-par models. They have no idea.

we're reached a point where AIs effect on GDP is significantly more bottlenecked on people understanding how to push it to it's limits than model intelligence at best, people outside tech and sf use it as a fancy information lookup tool or automated reviewing

@dankrad I wonder this after I get a poor night’s sleep. Gears grinding on gears.

Does your brain get quantized when you're tired?

@samswoora @paularambles Accelerando vibes. Fight lawsuits with lawsuits in a matter of minutes

I dont think we understand what two people fighting each other with 1 billion tokens a minute will look like. Small property disputes will look like megacap antitrust lawsuits

@SMB_Attorney There are 8 billion people on this planet. It stands to reason there will be those who have flipped heads 30 times in a row.

I graduated high school with a 2.5 GPA and was a late bloomer before making it to Duke Law and Kirkland. I’m not saying give up. But if you think there aren’t people who’ve excelled their whole lives and are miles ahead that you’ll never catch, you’re kidding yourself.

@signulll On my timeline everyone is hating on Anthropic and lauding OpenAI. Maybe the X algorithm.

there is a very very simple reason why openai gets clowned on x now (even reddit) & why they lost a ton of public support at least with the closest power audiences. they face more negative press & vibes than any other ai company today. why? - it is not because of their product execution or execution in general. - it is not because of the owner of this platform. - it is not because of the transition from non profit to profit. - it is not because ppl are afraid of ai or job loss. - it is not because of their communication strategy or lack of potential strategy in general. - it is not because of their acquisitions. - it is not because of the lawsuits. - it is not because of their relationship deterioration with microsoft or apple. - it is certainly not because of the personality of sam altman. - it is not because of the endless drama on the personnel or the founders attempted coup. if you understand the mechanics of culture, you figure it out rather quickly. & it’s only one word. can you guess what it is?

@FlexibleDemeanr @OfficialLoganK The problem is usually getting permission, privacy concerns and how to apply quality control at scale. If physical spaces or capture apparatus is required, now you have to deal with procurement and location arrangements. Lots of pain, and why synthetic data is so attractive

@OfficialLoganK I was always confused by people saying early on saying training data was going to be a bottleneck. It's so obvious that training data is literally all around us and AI can even create it's own novel training data just like people and other systems do

it’s surprising to me how many people seem to not understand that great models are built with super high quality curated data finding novel ways to create / get this data is a huge edge

That wonderful feeling of: Kicking off a training run Friday night so you can spend the weekend playing in the sunshine.

@xmjEE @StefanFSchubert Basically, it only matters if you make it matter to yourself. At that point it starts exerting a downward gravitational pull on your psyche. Those who shrug off those pretensions and anxieties just get on with the task at hand and waste less energy.

@xmjEE @StefanFSchubert I had no idea if this until my freshers week and fellow students were grumbling they didn’t get into their first pick. Dude - you are at Cambridge! Who cares!

Yeah, same with Oxford and Cambridge. Huge intra-university quality differences. The top unis are top thanks to a big fraction of top people being there, not thanks to a big fraction of people there being top.

@paularambles 😞 would she have had the same success if she had lived pay-check to pay-check stacking shelves in a supermarket? For artists it increasingly seems like pay-to-play. You need money to create opportunities.

my favorite tove lo fact is that her father founded one of europe’s biggest fintech startups that was then acquired by paypal

@randomrecruiter I think it comes down to a choice: Do I take care of myself? Do I surround myself with energetic, can-do people? Am I working on things I find meaningful?

@randomrecruiter Just a number. I once worked with a guy who looked 40. He did not take care of his body, he moved through each day with a dour expression on his face. It blew my mind to learn he was only 29. Conversely, I now work with 40+ year olds who have the same energy as 30.

How it feels to turn 30 in tech

@AutismCapital @Good_Tweet_USA @grok what’s wrong with Theo Von?

@Good_Tweet_USA This was the most fun Theo had in a long time. You could tell he needed some Duncan. Theo is his worst enemy man. Chronically online and it comes out in his behavior. The things he says. He's living in anxiety. It's sad. He's too sensitive to consume as much internet as he does.

This was actually a really entertaining podcast. Theo and Duncan have beautiful mindless banter. If you want some good enjoyable retarded fun this is a good one.

@abacaj @andrey_kurenkov I no longer type git commands

@DadInvest Does being scared have any utility? Just enjoy your weekend 🍺

I’m so scared about my future in a more Pessimistic way than I’ve ever been before, but I hope we crush it. As always.

@SemiAnalysis_ In the short term, they are just running out of money. Long term, maybe different if they get the cost per token down.

QUESTION MARK: One of Elon’s companies has limited employee token usage to just $200 per week, while another Elon company is saying everyone will use so much AI that we’ll need space data centers because Earth will run out of power, plus TeraFabs to produce a terawatt of chips per year. How does this even make sense?

@Aaronontheweb @steipete The Zig creator said in a rather sneering way that the Bun dude had big “beginner energy”. Kinda patronising. The latter is now making generational wealth at Anthropic, so I guess it doesn’t matter now.

Against my will, I have been forced to learn about the Bun / Zig drama. Here's my understanding: - Bun == thing that crashes OpenCode & Claude Code - Rust == artisanal programming language for furries - Zig == even more artisanal programming language for devs who think Rust is too mainstream - Anthropic acquires Bun because machine god says so - Bun uses machine god to rewrite from Zig to Rust - Zig creator accuses Bun of selling out, going mainstream, or something - Bun still crashes Claude Code and Open Code