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I've been keeping my phone on silent wow, that's a killer feature.

@immersion_kit I'm unable to manage my subscription

Introducing Helix, our newest AI that thinks like a human To bring robots into homes, we need a step change in capabilities Helix can generalize to any household item 🧵

Expected remaining lifespan - decreases with age for a normal distribution (e.g. humans) - remains constant for an exponential distribution (e.g. radioactive decay) - increases for a Pareto distribution (Lindy effect, e.g. companies) chatgpt.com/canvas/shared/…

Two things that make it hard to recommend books: (1) It needs to be the right time in your life for that book. (2) The books we enjoy retrospectively are not always the books we enjoy in the moment.

i regret to inform everyone that working out does in fact make you feel better

CMA slows aging frontiersin.org/journals/aging…

network? More like net-DOESNT-work

Introducing Genie 2: our AI model that can create an endless variety of playable 3D worlds - all from a single image. 🖼️ These types of large-scale foundation world models could enable future agents to be trained and evaluated in an endless number of virtual environments. → goo.gle/4f48y2e

Life pro tip: you can draw any line you want through a scatter plot, they're not checking this

Thanks, Clippy.

By 2026 they'll be 2 jobs. HVAC technician and YC founder. Everything else will be done by computers and the HVAC technicians will have higher average annualized revenue.

everybody talking about some election. but nobody talking about how cluttered the JAVASCRIPT.

For my British and European friends who are "shocked" and "surprised", here are 10 reasons you didn't see this coming. Read this short post and then read the replies from our American friends who will confirm what I'm saying. 1. Americans love their country and want it to be the best in the world. America is a nation of people who conquered a continent. They love strength. They love winning. Any leader who appeals to that has an automatic advantage. 2. Unlike Europeans, Americans have not accepted managed decline. They don't have Net Zero here, they believe in producing their own energy and making it as cheap as possible because they know that their prosperity depends on it. 3. Prices for most basic goods in the US have increased rapidly and are sky high. What the official statistics say about inflation and the reality of people's lives are not the same. 4. Unlike you, Americans do not believe in socialism. They believe in meritocracy. They don't care about the super rich being super rich because they know that they live in a country where being super rich is available to anyone with the talent and drive to make it. They don't resent success, they celebrate it. 5. Americans are the most pro-immigration people in the world. Read that again. Seriously, read it again. Americans love an immigrant success story. They want more talented immigrants to come to America. But they refuse to accept people coming illegally. They believe in having a border. 6. Americans are sensitive about racial issues and their country's imperfect history. They believe that those who are disadvantaged by the circumstances of their birth should be given the opportunity to succeed. What they reject, however, is the idea that in order to address the errors of the past new errors must be made. DEI is racist. They know it and they reject it precisely because they are not racist. 7. Americans are the most philosemitic nation on earth. October 7 and the pro-Hamas left's reaction shocked them to their very core because, among other things, they remember what 9/11 was like and they know jihad when they see it. 8. Americans are extremely practical people. They care about what works, not what sounds good. In Europe, we produce great writers and intellectuals. In America they produce (and attract) great engineers, businessmen and investors. Because of this, they care less about Trump's rhetoric than you do and more about his policies than you do. 9. Americans are deeply optimistic people. They hate negativity. The woke view of American history as a series of evils for which they must eternally apologise is utterly abhorrent to them. They believe in moving forward together, not endlessly obsessing about the past. 10. America is a country whose founding story is one of resistance to government overreach. They loathe unnecessary restrictions, regulations and control. They understand that freedom comes with the price of self-reliance and they pay it gladly.

Among Trump voters, the economy was cited as the top motivating issue in exit polls. By many conventional metrics focused on the business cycle, the economy is doing fine. But that doesn't mean those voters are wrong. I don't think either the media (doing the exit polling) or the voters themselves have the language to say it, but I believe the real problem is cross-sectoral productive inequality. We have regulated so many sectors into low or even negative TFP growth. How can you have a chart like the one below and not expect people to get disaffected? Think of the regional inequality it implies. Outside of the small but growing supply-side/abundance/progress movement, which includes members of both parties, Democrats have been completely complacent about this. We have major problems in our economy. Hospitals are 20 percent less productive than they were 35 years ago, even with all the new tech we've brought online. We've had a million-fold reduction in the cost of compute, but most sectors are growing less than 1 percent per year in productivity. We're strangling them. And a lot of Democrats thought the last four years was a good time to push woke causes. To side with Hamas. To add indigenous knowledge to NEPA reviews. I expect that the Trump administration will embark on a massive deregulatory push. This is completely necessary. It's up to Democrats to decide how they will respond, but frankly, I think you should go along with it.

the average offline person lives a life so full of bliss that most of us can’t even fathom

Opening up twitter this morning to read all the hot takes from people who know exactly what happened and why

The Galton Board demonstrates the Central Limit Theorem by showing how steel balls, as they pass through levels of branching paths, consistently form a bell curve distribution. This illustrates how random processes tend to cluster around the average.

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable." microsoft.com/en-us/research…

It's one thing to think in theory about the threshold of "how much safer would self driving have to be bla bla bla" It's another thing to start viscerally feeling the danger of random human drivers, because you've experienced the alternative