yogeba

@nntaleb Taleb Core

No.

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

Rather than trusting explanations in proportion to their predictive power, we tend to trust stories in proportion to their psychological appeal.

fun 🤝 friendships

Truth is independent. Lies are dependent.

@chatgpt21 Robots digging rare materials from asteroids to build space stations > Robots as front desk assistants

Beautiful demo today from figure. It’s truly starting to look like this might be a reality soon

@zachpogrob All the best

The 'social network' of Strava will be a blip in the history of fitness Where are you reading this tweet, right now? IG/X are the real social networks A running/tracking app should be so much more, something greater, something else Aura will be that something else

city life has a shelf life

Recently read, Ammunition v/s barrels concept in team mates. some team-mates do as directed, ammunition. others do, they're barrels. the throughput of each team increases with the number of barrels

You are not your ego. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are the information encoded in your genes. You are the energy in your atoms.

you cannot be anywhere else than here

One of the skills that separates them is their rate & autonomy of debugging (information-gathering & problem-solving) Essentially using search, ai, twitter, youtube

Top tier students from any tier colleges > any tier students from top tier colleges

In 1994, Rolling Stone asked Steve Jobs about the internet. Interesting answer. He didn’t actually want to make any predictions: “I don’t think of the world that way. I’m a tool builder.”

@stats_feed Anti fragile

What is the best book you have ever read?

British Satire

@GeminiApp it would be useful if you could create google docs too

> be me, NVIDIA in 2006 > making GPUs so gamers can play World of Warcraft in HD > Jensen Huang has a vision > "what if we made them do... math?" > entire boardroom thinks he's finally lost it > create CUDA > a software prison so elegant, academics will volunteer to be inmates > gamers are confused. "Will this make Crysis run faster?" > Jensen: "...no :)" > fast forward to 2012 > AI researchers, hopped up on adderall and free pizza, discover they need a shitload of matrix multiplication to make cat pictures > their Intel Xeons are crying, smoking, and filing for divorce > they discover CUDA > "holy shit this math thing you made is perfect" > the entire field of AI becomes a subsidiary of a company known for making Fortnite run better > we see this and our eyes turn into dollar signs > decide the prison needs better amenities > invent Tensor Cores > "what if part of the chip did ONLY the AI math, but did it at ludicrous speed?" > it's like adding a nitro booster to a Honda Civic specifically for going to the grocery store > AMD's competing card is over there trying to do the same math with a abacus and hope > because researchers are so lazy they can't be trusted to write a for-loop > just give them a big red "MAKE AI" button that runs our code > create cuDNN > bake it directly into TensorFlow and PyTorch > ecosystem lock-in is complete. We own the land, the factory, and the souls of the workers. > a bunch of hippies from a thing called "OpenAI" call > they want to build AGI or something > they need compute > roll up to their office, which is probably a converted garage, with the world's first DGX-1 > it's like the monolith from Space Odyssey > I tell them it has 8 GPUs connected by NVLink, so they can gossip like schoolgirls at light speed > they ask what it does > "It does AI, idiots. Just plug it in." > they sign the papers. > But we're not done. The prison needs a better yard. > See them trying to connect our beautiful DGX boxes with CAT-5 cables > embarrassing. > Acquire Mellanox for their InfiniBand tech > Now the nervous system connecting the GPUs is also ours > NVSwitch makes an entire rack of GPUs hold hands so tight they become one colossal mega-brain > Meanwhile, in a dimly lit basement in Santa Clara... AMD > They drop a new GPU. "The AMD Instinct MI300X! We have more theoretical FLOPs!" > "Better Benchmark performance." > One brave researcher tries to use it. > spends 6 weeks trying to install ROCm, their knock-off wish.com version of CUDA > gets 400 errors, a kernel panic, and divorce papers from his wife > he finally gets a model to run at half the promised speed > The benchmark was for a matrix size of 1x1 > He throws the card in the trash and buys an NVIDIA H100 on the company card. The cost is irrelevant. > Sanity is priceless. > Jensen takes the stage. The leather jacket has its own gravitational pull. Unleashes the GB200 NVL72 > 72 GPUs and 36 Grace CPUs in a single NVLink domain with 130 TB/s of bandwidth > the GPUs share thoughts before they even have them. > 2025 > AMD comes out with their "rack scale" solution, the MI355X 128-GPU rack > It's just 16 groups of 8 GPUs duct-taped together with Ethernet > A scale out clown car > We announce Rubin CPX GPU enabling cheaper prefill during inference > saving $$$$ > it's the ultimate vendor lock-in > every other chip designer sees this and has to throw their architecture in the trash and go back to the drawing board > All hail the leather-clad prophet.

@visakanv it's default

@yogebaa yea- been wondering lately how inescapable this is and to what degree

been noticing: 1. people who like someone will often project desirable qualities onto their mannerisms and features 2. opposite of (1) also true, people who dislike someone will project detestable qualities on them 3. in both cases this often feels/seems to them “objective”