Johnny Ramsdell

Whether you're a friend short, or your friend is "playing-from-home". the #Catan #Robot is here to increase participation in your favorite board game. Made on #Snapmaker. More on the build here: uvm.edu/~jramsdel

Adding and expanding is easy. Compressing and subtracting is more difficult and more valuable. ...I think.

Hiring an Applied Biomechanics Engineer to join our exceptional (and exceptionally dedicated) Performance Technology & Biomechanics team at the Mets. If you’re humble, have an exceptional work ethic, real experience interacting with athletes, and strong technical skills, then I encourage you to apply. LGM! sterlingmets.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Mets/job/Citi-…

The only thing that matters in consumer software is velocity of shipping. You will regularly be wrong about what people want: no one is a perfect psychologist. But if you are out at the frontlines with concepts everyday, your team will have their finger on the pulse of users and know where to add fuel.

what if the AI creates/enables/unlocks new higher-paying jobs? by trying to prevent organizational evolution due to technology, you are limiting technology’s ability to create more value for workers. if you had done this with the emergence of the tractor to protect loss of jobs on farms, we’d have very expensive food, no industrial revolution, and a shitty standard of living for workers. if you had done this with the emergence of the automobile, we’d have lost the economic explosion that arose from highways, lower cost transportation, and countless networked industries. if you had done this with the emergence of the computer and the internet, your entire district would still be based on an economy of oranges and plums. humanity’s ability to compete, organize, and carry itself forward is a magical miracle. in every truly free society, tech evolution has improved the lives of absolutely everyone. in every society where a government stood up to create barriers and gates to tech evolution in the name of “workers rights”, standards of living went into a freefall. your view is luddite at best and authoritarian at its heart. limiting freedom of choice, controlling the rights of workers and capital providers, is the core activity of socialism and will cause unbelievable unintended damage. well-intentiined, sure, but examining the consequences and n-th order effects, it’s clear how this model deeply harms workers, employment standards, wage growth etc. i urge you to deeply study the social and economic history of technology evolutions, speak to folks in your district, and avoid the socialist trap the Dem party seems to be swirling into…

To push self-driving into situations wilder than reality, we built a neural network world simulator that can create entirely synthetic worlds for the Tesla to drive in. Video below is fully generated & not a real video

@adcock_brett Incredible @adcock_brett , when do we start training them to throw a baseball??

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At the @Mets , we’re hiring a Software Engineer, Baseball Systems with an emphasis on frontend development for mobile and web. Come join us to help build impactful baseball products. Listing below! sterlingmets.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Mets/det…

Today was my last day at xAI, the company that I helped start with Elon Musk in 2023. I still remember the day I first met Elon, we talked for hours about AI and what the future might hold. We both felt that a new AI company with a different kind of mission was needed. Building AI that advances humanity has been my lifelong dream. My parents left the Russian Federation after the collapse of the USSR in search of a better life for their kids. Life wasn’t always easy as immigrants. Despite the hardships, my parents believed that human values were priceless: values like courage, compassion, curiosity for understanding the world. As a child, I admired scientists like Richard Feynman and Max Planck, who relentlessly pushed the frontiers of physics in order to understand the universe. As a particle physics PhD student at CERN I was excited to contribute to that mission. But the search for new physics was getting harder and harder, requiring bigger and bigger colliders, while new discoveries kept getting fewer. So I began to wonder if superintelligence, not larger colliders, could be the key to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. Could AI develop a consistent theory of quantum gravity? Could AI prove the Riemann hypothesis? In early 2023 I became convinced that we were getting close to a recipe for superintelligence. I saw the writing on the wall: very soon AI could reason beyond the level of humans. How could we ensure that this technology is used for good? Elon had warned of the dangers of powerful AI for years. Elon and I realized that we had a shared vision of AI used to benefit humanity, thus we recruited more like minded engineers and set off to build xAI. The early days of xAI were not easy. Naysayers told us that we arrived too late to the game, so starting a top AI company from scratch would be impossible. But we believed we could do the impossible. Starting a company from zero required lots of hands-on work. In the beginning I built many of the foundational tools used at the company to launch and manage training jobs. I later oversaw much of the engineering at the company, including Infrastructure, Product and Applied AI projects. xAI’s people are deeply dedicated. Through blood sweat and tears, our team’s blistering velocity built the Memphis supercluster, and shipped frontier models faster than any company in history. I learned 2 priceless lessons from Elon: #1 be fearless in rolling up your sleeves to personally dig into technical problems, #2 have a maniacal sense of urgency. xAI executes at ludicrous speed. Industry veterans told us that building the Memphis supercluster in 120 days would be impossible. But we believed we could do the impossible. Our goal was to get our training setup running at scale on the Memphis cluster ASAP. Towards the end of our 120 day deadline, we were riddled with mysterious issues with communicating over RDMA between the machines. Elon decided to fly to the datacenter, and we followed. Our infra team landed in Memphis in the middle of the night and got straight to work. After pouring through tens of thousands of lines of lspci output we finally identified a wrong BIOS setting, the root of the problem. Elon was there with us until late into the night. When the training run finally worked, Elon posted our triumph at “4:20am” causing us to laugh out loud. I will never forget the rush of adrenaline that night, and the emotional bonds that we were all in this together. We went to bed feeling like we were living through the most exhilarating time of our lives. I have enormous love for the whole family at xAI. Our team is truly special - you’re the most dedicated people I’ve ever worked with. Catching up to the frontier this quickly hasn’t been easy. It was made possible by everyone’s diehard grit and team spirit. Thank you to every single person who joined me on this adventure. I want to honor your contributions, your time, your sacrifices, which are never easy. I will always remember working together far into the nights and burning the midnight oil. I will never forget the sacrifices and contributions you’ve made. As I drive away today, I feel like a proud parent, driving away after sending their kid away to college. My heart is brimming with tears of joy, rooting for the company as it grows and matures. As I'm heading towards my next chapter, I’m inspired by how my parents immigrated to seek a better world for their children. Recently I had dinner with Max Tegmark, founder of the Future of Life Institute. He showed me a photo of his young sons, and asked me “how can we build AI safely to ensure that our children can flourish?” I was deeply moved by his question. Earlier in my career, I was a technical lead for DeepMind's Alphastar StarCraft agent, and I got to see how powerful reinforcement learning is when scaled up. As frontier models become more agentic over longer horizons and a wider range of tasks, they will take on more and more powerful capabilities, which will make it critical to study and advance AI safety. I want to continue on my mission to bring about AI that’s safe and beneficial to humanity. I’m announcing the launch of Babuschkin Ventures, which supports AI safety research and backs startups in AI and agentic systems that advance humanity and unlock the mysteries of our universe. Please reach out at ventures@babuschk.in if you want to chat. The singularity is near, but humanity’s future is bright!

An incredibly rare melanistic, black deer spotted in the forest of the Barycz Valley, Poland.

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Comment with a video of a moment in which FSD Supervised blew your mind

Great opportunity

The MIOB Lab is recruiting a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering to work on a project developing a new modeling framework for subject-specific-finite element analysis! #post48775" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">biomch-l.isbweb.org/forum/biomch-l…

I am looking for a highly motivated, hard-working, and adaptable individual to join a world-class biomechanics team with the NY Mets. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, love problem-solving, and want to help the Mets win games, apply now! sterlingmets.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Mets/job…

@TheGregYang @xai Something that allows me to scroll through X without using my hands. I want X on in the background.

what should @xai ship in 2025? wrong answers only

@Tesla @Tesla This is how my parents reacted to FSD

A robotaxi future is closer than you probably think

@bryan_johnson KNN can make quite accurate predictions

It’s amazing how culture shapes your identity, beliefs, and norms, yet you experience it as free will and uniquely your own.

@tunguz Also, it is a decent path for Persians to get green cards 💚

I generally agree that if your goal is to learn, build skills, or gain credibility, there are more efficient and cost-effective ways than pursuing a Ph.D. However, if your true objective is to push the boundaries of human consciousness, I see value in the Ph.D. as an experimentalist. In that realm, I don’t see how an LLM could serve as a replacement.

Here is my advice, and I can’t be any more forceful about it: if you are considering joining a PhD program - DON’T!!!

@Sadegh9877 GPT must have known @cursor_ai was writing my code for me

@johnramsdell18 Brother you’re missing the mouse.

For those who have requested: "chatgpt create an image of what my life looks like." Does anyone have an image that doesn't show themselves behind a computer???