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@SFF1 I'm looking for an enthusiast to give an F1 engineering talk in SF at 8pm THIS SUNDAY (May 17). Aerodynamics, suspension geometry, active suspension, tire science/degradation management, brake-by-wire, cooling, etc. Could you DM me any recs/pointers? Thank you! :-)

SF & Oakland: a few friends and I wrote a voting tool as a side project. See 65+ voter guides in one place at openballot.app and go vote on June 2nd! Primaries get less attention than general elections, but in California they're often the election that matters most.

My team in GDM Frontier AI is hiring (Mountain View). If you're a researcher interested full duplex modeling, multimodal LLMs (Gemini), modality gap, joint speech/text modeling, PGMs, streamable generative models, and representation learning for language modeling -- DM me!

@prasanna Haha sick burn!

The All In Podcast: where the aspirationally mediocre go to feel wealth-adjacent for 90 minutes and call it personal growth. I remember in Seattle, a junior engineer at MSFT told me she wanted to be a VC. Then she started raving about the All In Podcast. I asked if she had built anything. Nope. Just wanted to be like Chamath. There’s signal when people tell you they listen to it. Just not the kind they think.

Wow, google open source some tts models github.com/google/sequenc…

Eric is the powerhouse that got RNN-based TTS models to generalize to utterance lengths not seen in training via Dynamic Convolution Attention (DCA). Now he's at it again with Transformer-based models, using interpolated relative position biases in a novel alignment mechanism 💪

@alixro (I'm a community-mate of Brady and Firen's. Would love to have you over to meet London Breed Wednesday evening. Would be a huge thrill to meet you -- DM me if you're free?)

My voter guide is live! I’ve spent hours breaking down the California ballot measures so you don’t have to. Whether you agree with me or not, I hope it helps you make informed choices. votealix.com/2024/10/03/ali… #election #californiaballot #propositions

@alixro Alix, I've been a huge fan of your guide for a long time! We'd love you to add it to @OpenBallotApp so your voter guide can be discoverable by everyone on the platform. It's still a beta, but we'd also love your feedback!

Want a more bike-friendly SF? 🚲 Check out @sfbike's voter guide on OpenBallot along with 40+ others to help shape the city's future! 🗳️🌉 openballot.app/guides/9cba2a3…

We're thrilled to open sign-ups for OpenBallot in time for the November San Francisco election! See 40+ voter guides in one place, and use our tool to fill out your ballot. You can keep it private or share with friends: openballot.app/guides

@CorleyTwin2 @estcla Other recs from that epoch of my life: Ishiguro's _Remains of the Day_, Lanchester's _Debt to Pleasure_, Banville's _The Sea_, ...

@estcla @daisystanton So I’m reading Lolita, going through the preface hoping to have my question answered, which is “Why did he write this?”

I groped for some secret outlet only to discover that the prison of time is spherical and without exits. —Nabokov

@CorleyTwin2 @estcla He was a provocateur? That aside, it's an absolute masterpiece -- "a love affair with the English language" (his own words). I read it 6 times in my twenties...

I'm hosting Astral Codex X's San Francisco ballot party on October 19. Come join our engaging discussion: lu.ma/0ufpys63

Very excited to share a side project that we're launching in time for the November election: openballot.app

We're excited to announce the @ClimateChangeAI Summer School 2024!☀️ Are you an #AI expert who wants to tackle #ClimateChange? Are you a #climate expert trying to use #ML in your work? Are you curious about the topic? Apply & register now! Learn more👉climatechange.ai/events/summer_…

Yes, the mic is always on for the duration. Not for the surveillance faint of heart :-)

DALLE-3 release reminds me of a captivating dinner party art piece I've wanted to build: in-home ASR device -> bit of prompt finessing -> parallel text streams to DALLE-X -> 1-best displayed on a 77" 4k QLED. Result is artistic rendering of conversation on ~30s refresh.

If you haven't listened to Lex's June 30 interview with George Hotz (and especially if you think you hate Hotz), do. It was very good and very entertaining. I recommend audio over video: lexfridman.com/george-hotz-3-…

@DanielleFong @Noahpinion @ArmandDoma @DanielleFong could you say more about what you mean by "different entities"? (Genuinely curious and unsure!)

@Noahpinion @ArmandDoma these are different entities, and prop 13 should go away anyway

I'm sorry, but real estate investing is risky, and risk means having to bear losses when they occur.