Adriana Catalina Vazquez Ortiz

Every day starts with the full arc of joy and despair. The commencement of the morning coffee, and then its end.

@thephysicsgirl So sorry for your loss Dianna. These pics are beautiful. Hope you always remember him smiling like that 🫶

Two days ago, my dad William “Bill” Cowern passed away somewhat unexpectedly. I flew last minute to Hawaii to be with him and my family for his last days. I feel incredibly lucky to be healthy enough I could finally see him after years of missing him. My dad was joking, and swearing, and crying until his last moments. You asked how he was doing and he replied with a smile, “I’m dyin’ here!” His humor and warmth were a gift he gave until the very end. Some of you might know my dad from my videos talking about getting hit by lightning (twice!) or interrupting our filming to ask me why his PDF was printing small. (Holiday time was always dad tech support time.) But I knew him as a 6’3 gentle giant. He gave the biggest bear hugs as he welcomed anyone and everyone into his home, and into his life. He was curious about people and the universe. He’s the reason I love science, math, qnd scifi. He’s the reason I’m curious about the world. He was a Vietnam war helicopter pilot in the Marines. But much of the island of Kauai (where I grew up) knew him as “The Tree Man.” He was a tree farmer, and true tree lover his whole life. He could talk to you endlessly, and humorously slowly, about trees, vitamin D, Larry Bird, or one of his many other obsessions. He just loved to share. He shared his knowledge, his kindness, his stories, and his warm love with everyone. I will miss him every day. He was the reason I went into science communication. I hope even half of his warmth and greatness lives on through me, my 4 wonderful siblings, and my amazing mom. I love you forever, Dad. 🖤💔🖤

I think cases of LLM-overuse can happen because it's easy to optimize for perceived enjoyment rather than time-to-solution while working. Me pressing tab in cursor for 5 hours instead of debugging for 1:

@AmandaAskell @bratwebb Just started tracking my protein intake as well (lacto-pescetarian here) & was shocked to learn the 50g daily value on nutrition labels is way below optimal for active people! *reading this thread while sipping coffee with 1st phorm vegan powder.

@bratwebb I'm mostly lacto vegetarian so tracking my protein made me realize that my default protein intake is tiny, so I think it feels like much more of a jump. But maybe I need less than I think.

I knew strength training would be hard because lifting heavy things is hard. But it also seems to involve eating protein like it's a part time job. If any seasoned people have tips for beginners, I'd love to know them!

@henrythe9ths AI Guide

There's a shocking fact about AI that nobody tells you: You can catch up to the public AI research frontier in just 2 weeks. Yes, really. I've built a $150M annual revenue startup over the last 8 years and If I were to start a company today, I’d drop everything and go all-in on AI. But like many busy software builders, I felt lost—overwhelmed by the noisy, crowded and fast-moving modern AI landscape. And I wasn’t alone. So I spent my entire holiday diving deep into AI research—reading 30+ papers, watching hours of lectures, analyzing trends, and catching up to the research frontier. ✨ Here’s what I learned: - You don’t need months (or years) to catch up. - You don’t need a PhD or decades of ML experience. - You need fewer than 20 papers and 2 weeks to understand the major breakthroughs shaping AI today. It's because the technology is extremely nascent and most techniques that came before are no longer relevant: - ChatGPT is barely 2 years old and Transformers are only 7 years old. - Most game-changing discoveries happened within the last 4 years, driven by a few breakthrough ideas, scaling laws, and efficient matrix multiplication. The biggest secret? Many groundbreaking AI papers with thousands of citations are surprisingly simple and applied, like adding "let's think step by step" to the prompt, or simply asking the LLM over and over again to improve its answer (Self-Refine). I realized there are tons of founders and builders in the same boat—wanting to dive deeper into AI but unsure where to start. I've created an essential AI Guide that helped me catch up, in just 2 weeks, to the frontier of public AI research to figure out where the next opportunities and gaps were: - Curated list of only the most important papers - Simple explanations of key concepts - Clear pathway to understanding the frontier of modern AI It’s perfect for: - Founders expanding into AI - Builders wanting to innovate at the frontier of AI - Investors looking to separate the signal from the noise 👇 Want the full guide? - Like and Share this post - Comment "AI Guide" - I'll send you the complete guide (ps, I’m also teaming up with @VishalVasishth, co-founder of @obviousvc with @ev (focused on large-scale societal impact companies like Twitter, Medium, Beyond Meat), to host a small meetup to discuss what's working and needs to be solved in the AI stack in SF. Message me if you're interested)

@moritzkremb builder

I'm hosting a free masterclass for AI coding beginners tomorrow! We'll cover: - Which AI builder tools to use - How to build a custom chrome extension entirely with AI - How to build a simple SaaS web application - Q&A Comment "builder" and I'll DM you the access link

@Appyg99 This issue should get more attention. Legal immigration for the world’s top talent has been and should continue to be one of America’s biggest strengths. But the legal immigration system needs fixing.

This is wild. Nvidia just casually dropped 70B model that beats GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. And it's open source. Here's how to try it for free:

Join the MIT AI Build Week for a hackathon focused on Generative Voice AI solutions! 10/18-10/20 at MIT, teams will tackle challenges in enhancing customer service w/ultra-realistic voice technologies. Prizes include $1,000, $25,000 of API credit. Apply: tinyurl.com/3bwen7w5

@snikolov Huge congrats Stan!! 🥳🥳🥳

we won the Nobel Prize for AlphaFold can't believe it

AI-powered medical devices are rapidly advancing, with over 500 FDA clearances since 1997. Explore how #AI is transforming #healthcare and driving innovation in the #medtech industry. medtechdive.com/news/fda-ai-me…

Bonjour! Good day to play with @fal_ai_data models fal.ai

@MIT @mitclubny @MITClubDC @MITEECS

We're bringing the MIT AI Conference to NYC on Oct 26! 💡 Speakers include Ethan Mollick, Brad Porter, Aditi Gokhale and leaders from Spotify, Databricks and more. Plus, don’t miss the Voice AI Hackathon and workshops! 🎟️ Discounts available thru 10/8 lu.ma/mitai2024

At long last, she’s here! Please meet Leena Mo, CEO. A few years ago I was asked to speak to my daughter’s class about what I do for a living–and I could not find a single children’s book about entrepreneurship, let alone one with a young girl as a protagonist. I vowed then and there to write that book myself, because I want my kids to grow up in a world where being a CEO or investor (especially as a woman of color) is normalized. You can’t be it if you can’t see it. Leena Mo is available for pre-order now, and will be published by @SimonKIDS this fall! Amazon link to pre-order 👇🏼 amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS…

The SOSV Climate Tech Summit (Oct. 14-18) is free. Join top investors, founders, technologists, researchers, and policymakers working on the frontier of climate tech. If you are a climate founder or investor, consider joining the VC-Founder matchup. sosvclimatetech.com

@NYPLRecommends modern day bukowski? would love a poetry book rec.

Salutations! Do you need a book recommendation? We're here to help! For the next hour, tell us a book you enjoyed (and why if you can), and we'll suggest something new for you.

17 equations that changed the world

Live-streaming now! youtube.com/live/v8HWt9g4L…

Please, we are 129 years old #NoCutsToLibraries