lnstadrum

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

@PR0GRAMMERHUM0R Do we count here all these graduates that cannot land a job in tech?

haveYouMetAnyone

Are these numbers accurate? 🤔

@levelsio @DanielLockyer @zachpogrob Is it some place you actually know? Is it in Portugal ?.. 🤔

@DanielLockyer @zachpogrob Robbed 5 times Stabbed 2 times

Hot hill reps

Have you ever written "thank you" to an LLM? Or do you find it somewhat embarrassing?

Really cool When they trained GPT3 they had loss spikes because they scraped from a subreddit of microwave noises That training batch was literally text like "mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm"

Listen. Very. Carefully.

@gabriberton It's alright. Let's resolve this double negation simply into "language models".

PS I apologize to the world for saying "small large language models"

@theepicmap Those are billionaires in local currencies, right?

Billionaires per country in Europe (2026) 🗺️ By Europe Magazine

Excuse me?!

@thechosenberg @lexfridman, please comment on this one.

MIT pays that guy?

@ensgianteth @ylecun @CryptoVonDoom @Ph_Aghion @erikbryn Both the computer and the internet did augment human capabilities and enabled automation of numerous processes often done by hand before they became ubiquitous.

This isn’t like the computer or the internet. Those were tools that augmented human capabilities. AI is super-capable autonomous intelligence—systems that can reason, plan, and act independently at human or super-human levels. That’s a fundamentally different kind of technological progress.

Dario is wrong. He knows absolutely nothing about the effects of technological revolutions on the labor market. Don't listen to him, Sam, Yoshua, Geoff, or me on this topic. Listen to economists who have spent their career studying this, like @Ph_Aghion , @erikbryn , @DAcemogluMIT , @amcafee , @davidautor

@miniapeur Neither do I after my PhD. I am a reveal.js fan these days.

Bro not using beamer

43 years ago, at 41,000 feet in the air, a brand new passenger plane carrying 69 people went completely silent. Both engines died at the exact same time. The massive jet had just run out of fuel mid-flight. The reason was a simple math mistake caused by a confusing transition. Canada was right in the middle of switching to the metric system. This specific plane was the very first one in the airline's fleet to use kilograms. The ground crew was still used to the old system. They calculated the fuel weight in pounds. The plane took off with less than half the fuel it needed to make the trip. What happened next should not have been survivable. The captain happened to fly small, unpowered gliders as a hobby. He had to do something no one had ever done with a commercial jet. He flew the heavy, powerless plane like a giant paper airplane toward an old abandoned military runway his co-pilot remembered. Neither of them knew the old base had been turned into a public car track. Neither of them knew there was a family racing event happening right on the asphalt that afternoon. Go-karts, cars, and kids on bicycles were directly in their path. The plane came down completely silently. There was no loud engine noise to warn the people below. The pilot forced the plane to drop out of the sky sideways just to slow it down. He came in fast. The front wheels collapsed when they hit the runway. The nose of the plane scraped across the concrete, throwing sparks everywhere until the huge jet skidded to a halt. The back end was sticking three stories up in the air. Nobody on the ground was hit. Every single one of the 69 people on board walked away. When airlines later put other pilots in simulators to try and copy the landing, every single one of them crashed. The plane was repaired and flew for another 25 years.

so... I audited Garry's website after he bragged about 37K LOC/day and a 72-day shipping streak. here's what 78,400 lines of AI slop code actually looks like in production. a single homepage load of garryslist.org downloads 6.42 MB across 169 requests. for a newsletter-blog-thingy. 1/9🧵

@OrwellNGoode @MerriamWebster, could you please help us here?

200 helium containers are stranded in the Persian Gulf right now. Each one holds 41,000 liters cooled to -269°C. The containers have no refrigeration. No compressor, no cooling loop. Insulation is all that stands between the cargo and ambient heat, and it buys 35 to 48 days. After that, the liquid boils, the pressure valve opens, and the helium vents to atmosphere. Re-liquefying it requires a specialized plant. Most ports do not have one. Qatar's North Field supplied 33% of the world's helium as a byproduct of cryogenic separation at its LNG plants. On March 2, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. Spot prices surged 70 to 100 percent. EUV lithography requires 99.9999% purity helium for wafer cooling and no current substitute exists. The fifth helium shortage since 2006 has just begun.

@LeoDaVinciWave The guy was actually that small he needed stairs in the bath.

Napoleon Bonaparte’s private bathroom at Villa Pisani, Italy.

What the heck is Microsoft Entourage?!

@Sosowski SO is rather somewhat emotional dramatic docs than a frontend. Docs criticizing you for your incompetence and stupidity.

Stackoverflow is the best ffmpeg frontend