@noisesharpen The fundamentals are timeless. It's much more difficult to understand the state of the art when one doesn't know the first-principles.
English
Charles Weill
3.5K posts
Charles Weill
@weill
agentmaxxing | ex-{ @xAI, YC W23, @GoogleAI, @Cornell }
San Francisco, CA Katılım Aralık 2018
403 Takip Edilen11.5K Takipçiler
Every company will be recursively self-improving.
Y Combinator@ycombinator
In a recent batch talk, YC General Partner @t_blom broke down how to build a self-improving, AI-native company. He walks through how to create recursive, self-improving AI loops, and why founders who get this right will run companies that improve while they sleep. 00:00 — Companies Are Roman Legions 00:54 — Copilots Are the Wrong Mental Model 01:55 — Extract the Domain Knowledge 02:24 — The Recursive Self-Improving Loop 04:12 — The Holy Shit Moment at YC 05:50 — Self-Optimizing Product and Support Loops 06:29 — Burn Tokens, Not Headcount 07:23 — Middle Management Is Over 08:05 — Make Everything Legible to AI 09:40 — Regenerating the YC User Manual 11:19 — Software Is Ephemeral, Context Is Valuable 12:18 — Where Humans Still Matter
English
Great read for a most up-to-date survey of RL from Kevin Murphy of DeepMind.
tiplur-bilrex@tiplur_bilrex
@weill This is presumably more superficial but I found it helpful for understanding popular RL algorithms: arxiv.org/pdf/2412.05265
English
@weill This is presumably more superficial but I found it helpful for understanding popular RL algorithms:
arxiv.org/pdf/2412.05265
English
Today, I'm excited to share that I've started a company and closed an oversubscribed seed round.
Space has a labor shortage, and a growing surplus of science that we can’t afford not to do. Our astronauts’ time costs $130,000 an hour, and almost all of it goes to keeping them alive. The science happens in the margins. The bottleneck in orbit is not rockets, but labor.
General Astronautics will build and scale orbital manufacturing factories, starting with industrial robotics. This is the unlock to new pharmaceuticals, new materials, and new planets.
More on my thesis for humanity: generalastro.com
If this excites you, we are hiring. Come find us: careers.generalastro.com
English
The startup vibes in SF are immaculate (sorry NYC)
Jared Friedman@snowmaker
If you're wondering if you should move to SF, watch this video.
English
i get some anxiety not using the smartest-available model/settings.
but sometimes i dont mind if it's really slow.
i wonder if we should focus more on a price/speed tradeoff relative to a price/intelligence tradeoff.
English
@stanfordnlp @tatsu_hashimoto @percyliang Excellent material. The 2025 lectures are already long for anyone who wants to speed ahead on the content
English
Many roughly know how a transformer works
To REALLY understand modern neural LMs—MoEs, GPU tiling, kernels, RLHF, data—you need CS336
By @tatsu_hashimoto, @percyliang
The 2026 edition appears on yt with ~2 weeks delay
youtube.com/playlist?list=…
Materials
cs336.stanford.edu
English
Who is starting AI -native hedge funds in SF/Bay area? I’m looking to meet some founders
English
Who else is thinking about building a neolab around prediction markets?
English
My agents have been writing go non-stop for the last 2 months
10/10 best programming language for agents
The only 3rd party package you need is golangci-lint to make agents avoid 99.9% of dumb mistakes
flowstate@k_flowstate
banger articles you should read
English
YC has never cared about your age.
Telling yourself you're too old for YC is the most expensive lie in startups.
They care about your idea, your traction, and whether you can move fast.
The "young founder" myth exists because the media covers Zuckerberg, not the 42-year-old who just built a $50M ARR company out of batch.
Your Github and your growth curve don't have a birthday.
English
What percentage of codex users run out of codex weekly quota on the 20x Max plan?
I have to wait until tomorrow afternoon for it to reset 💀
cc @thsottiaux
English
if you’re a founder in SF who loves poker
and want to meet other cracked founders in the city
come to the @slashapp office poker night hosted by @jacob_bulbulia and me on May 16th
professional dealers, food + drinks on us
Let me know if interested
English