madsci

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if you’re an early stage founder that wants to be around other founders, dm me. (emphasis on folks already shipping product, even if to just a few users)

newest member of @madscisf

for years, i’ve had the privilege of being on the design team for visionOS. “here’s to the crazy ones”

whose the most legit underrated ML builder you know? don't need a fancy job or school or leetcode just ships fast, obsessed with ML, joy to be around tag them. will pay 5k USD if we hire at @BananaDev_

an expressive synth, anti aging software, a flight check in bot, short films, a space bar, and so much more! loved the range of creativity from everyone’s demos and excited to see what people build next ✨

1970s: Let's scare the heck out of people about nuclear energy, so that instead of zero-emission power plants we'll use lung-darkening, climate-warming coal and oil plants, killing millions in the process. 2020s: Let's scare the heck out of people about AI, so that instead of amplifying human intelligence and solving the world's biggest problems, we'll make sure progress slows down to a crawl.

🔥 so many amazing projects tn!

Late nights @madscisf

tomorrow night @ madsci:

we are going to start hosting a weekly AI night to work on prototypes, exchange ideas, and talk through hopes/fears follow/dm for an invite 👀

I’m scared of AGI. It's confusing how people can be so dismissive of the risks. I’m an investor in two AGI companies and friends with dozens of researchers working at DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Brain. Almost all of them are worried. 🧵

Just made a handy tool to use #GPT4 on macOS! Select text, right click (or keyboard shortcut), & a pop-up window appears for quick commands.🪄✨ Summarize, translate, reformat, debug -- without switching apps. Meet Lookie⬇️

Ravi Vakil has some striking advice for grad students on learning and research here: math.stanford.edu/~vakil/potenti… I particularly like this bit, on non-linear tendrils of understanding.

Late nights at @madscisf

New @madscisf logo. Have you seen it? (Close to Alamo Square)

mad scientist vibes 💅

twitter influencers went from "the world must be decentralized" to betting everything on a single company's API over night

"There's a whole generation of app developers who've only ever known the cloud, which separates them from appreciating the direct advances in hardware considerably. As companies start redoing the math on cloud, developers might care about metal again." world.hey.com/dhh/hardware-i…