Eric Chen

@wesyang what's a word to describe research that doesn't exist but also does not need to exist cuz you'd be an idiot to think we need to research it to understand its effects

SF public schools finally ends its 12-year experiment in removing the option of taking algebra in the eighth grade in pursuit of racial equity. Every retarded left-wing nostrum that has no possibility of working gets a decade+ of runway before we have enough studies to prove that the thing that could never work didn't work. The key problem of public policy must be how to shut down this pipeline, which begins by mass defunding of corrupted academic programs and NGO's.

@vitrupo i mean if the entity is good enough to do the work itself why can't it define the problem itself as well?

Eric Schmidt says the 10x advantage is no longer execution. It is defining what counts as success. A programmer writes a spec and an evaluation function, runs it at 7pm, and wakes up to what was invented overnight. The advantage now belongs to whoever can specify the problem precisely. The rest will be automated.

@Noahpinion the trucker delivers me my amazon packages but all terrence tao can do is find me the next negative prime number

Everyone talking about AI job displacement was always so focused on the working class. They thought only the highest-IQ people would still be valuable. But it turned out mathematicians got replaced long before truckers did.

@karpathy Typical conversation: "steps to make gimbap" "As a software engineer, you might want to think of the rice and seaweed as a 'Docker container' for the rest of the ingredients..."

One common issue with personalization in all LLMs is how distracting memory seems to be for the models. A single question from 2 months ago about some topic can keep coming up as some kind of a deep interest of mine with undue mentions in perpetuity. Some kind of trying too hard.

"the low-income Chinatown auntie who is only half-fluent in English and dreams of sending her kids to a public magnet school is guilty of white-adjacency, but the American-born Stanford-educated Asian woman who works at The New York Times is not." salieriredemption.substack.com/p/start-asian-…

@rohanpaul_ai no wonder my grades improved during covid

Interesting findings from this study. 🤔😄 Attractive female students no longer earned higher grades when classes moved online during COVID-19. "When education is in-person, attractive students receive higher grades in non-quantitative subjects, in which teachers tend to interact more with students compared to quantitative courses. This finding holds both for males and females." A Swedish university study found that attractive female students got higher grades in subjective, non-quantitative courses during in-person teaching, but that edge vanished when classes moved online, while the male beauty premium stayed. 307 students across 5 cohorts were rated for attractiveness by 74 independent judges, and the pandemic created a natural split where the same kinds of courses were taught first face-to-face and then remotely. That matters because quantitative courses are graded mostly by exams, while non-quantitative courses leave more room for teacher judgment, so when female students lost the premium only after visibility dropped, the most likely explanation was not skill but the halo effect, where appearance quietly gets mistaken for ability. i.e. when evaluation becomes more anonymous and less face-driven, grades look more like performance and less like perception. My read is that this is less a story about beauty than about how fragile “objective” grading becomes once human impression enters the room. --- techfixated .com/attractive-female-students-got-better-grades-until-classes-went-online/

@Yuchenj_UW Agreed. Then we can half again and replace half with AI and again and again til we have a half Zuck leading the company

Meta laying off 20% after Block cut 50% is just the beginning. More companies will realize: cut 50% of the org, arm the remaining 50% with AI, and you get higher productivity at lower cost. In big companies, hierarchy kills velocity. Even if AI makes engineers 3x faster, most of their time still goes to meetings and alignment. The AI era favors small, ruthless, fast human teams backed by armies of AI agents.

@grx_xce @JFPuget you could also try a bunch of samples across time to guesstimate network noise

@JFPuget In theory yes, but I guess timing can be drown out by network / etc. in theory, theory and practice should be the same, but in practice maybe not

here's a pretty cool attack Python != string comparison returns True as soon as it finds the first mismatched character so you can brute-force the key one char at a time by guessing in alpha order and keeping the combo with the longest response time that means a 32-char key takes ~32×256 attempts (instead of 256^32) tldr don't == secrets

@TomFoins My friend and I bought two decks of cards and we checked them and they’re the same so this guy is wrong

My boring conspiracy theory is that this simply cannot be true and it's just nobody has been arsed to check 👍🏻

@FangYi11101 prob just told him to write some shite for the background. probably didn't expect nerds to actually look at it

Isn’t he supposed to be some kind of hotshot quant trader? Why is he doing OLS on a whiteboard?

@GMIgorSmirnov hold the 10 cent coin you'll win from getting second in the tournament

I'm tired of pretending... What's this for?

People easily confuse love with "romance" or "like" or "feel affection toward." I "love" my parents even when we're screaming fighting at each other, but in the moment I absolutely do not like them. But if a robber points a gun at them halfway through our fight I'm taking the bullet.

I’ve noticed this new gen take on love in recent years. Do you think people in successful marriages love each other 100% of that time? A committed relationship involves finding new ways to re-ignite love and persevere through those times. It takes effort from both sides (imo)

@SteveStuWill pretty cool, there's probably a lot of untapped research you can do using some language analysis on Reddit

The evolution of relationship advice on Reddit. [Link below.]

@janniksin @DjokerNole RG this year 💪

Not my day, but I gave everything. Congrats to @DjokerNole it’s always an honour to share the court with you. Thanks to everyone for all the support over the last two weeks. The work continues. See you soon again 🙏🏻

carlos probably got his parlay in

@coffeebreak_YT just saying whoever uploaded your info to akinator must've been exposed by you

GOLIATH VENTURES. IF YOU'RE A CLIENT OR INVESTOR, REACH OUT.

@eliqiann diet vodka?

not a casino, not an exchange, but a secret third thing

@JonnyRoot_ Some people really are shameless

A liberal reporter at the Australian Open keeps baiting American tennis players to bash Trump, conservatives, & ICE… Taylor Fritz was visibly irritated with the questioning saying, “Whatever I say will be put into a headline & taken out of context”

@Google @GeminiApp @ThePrincetonRev This is great but now, students use AI to study for the SAT use AI to answer the SAT and use AI to do all the auxiliary work at school that would prepare them for the SAT so in the end does any of this matter

We’re launching full-length, on demand practice exams for standardized tests in @GeminiApp, starting with the SAT, available now at no cost. Practice SATs are grounded in rigorously vetted content in partnership with @ThePrincetonRev, and Gemini will provide immediate feedback highlighting where you excelled and where you might need to study more. To try it out, tell Gemini, “I want to take a practice SAT test.”