Rahul Thathoo
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Rahul Thathoo
@thathoo
Engineering @openai Formerly @square @blocks @mytime @tophatter @oracle @stanford. Third culture child.
Bay Area, CA شامل ہوئے Aralık 2008
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Stanford @CS153Systems, Week 1 (Full Lecture)
AI Scaling, Bottlenecks, and Why Compute Isn't a Commodity Yet
00:00 Compute Coachella
00:29 Simple Life Heuristic
01:08 Uncertainty Creates Opportunity
01:42 Four Bottlenecks Framework
01:51 Empirical Proof Matters
02:05 Cloud Costs Are Shifting
02:15 Verifiable vs Fuzzy Progress
02:48 Scaling Predictability Explained
03:43 CapEx Explosion in Big Tech
04:06 Chips Aren’t Commodities
04:45 Compute Scarcity Conclusion
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Make him a saint, Gavin Newsom’s hospices have a 97% survival rate.
CBS News@CBSNews
A couple is accused of defrauding Medicare while running an LA hospice where 97% of terminal patients survive. cbsn.ws/4m6SGRG
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Not an April Fools joke?
John Coogan@johncoogan
TBPN has been acquired by OpenAI! The show is staying the same and we’ll continue to go live at 11am pacific every weekday. This is a full circle moment for me as I’ve worked with @sama for well over a decade. He funded my first company in 2013. Then helped us fix a serious logjam during a critical funding round a few years later. When I took my second company through YC, he was president at the time, and then when I joined Founders Fund, the first deal I saw in motion was the post-ChatGPT round in late 2022. And as we started growing TBPN last year, he was the very first lab lead to join the show. Thank you to everyone that has been a part of TBPN until now. The last year has been the most fun and rewarding part of my career and we’re excited to have more resources than ever going forward.
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@buccocapital While it’s a good take, it’s over rated. Collaboration in person will allow teams to move faster than fully remote and relying on AI alone.
Regardless it’s a good experiment to watch from a distance.
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The most interesting part of the Dorsey essay on management
TL;DR - Remote companies have an advantage in the AI era because they can only thrive with rigorous documentation, which is perfectly repurposed as context for AI
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I've been working on tax software for the past 5 years. This is the last year anyone will have to pay for TurboTax.
You can try it yourself today:
- add the Aiwyn Tax connector inside of Claude (link below)
- give it access to your tax documents (W-2s, etc.)
- ask Claude to prepare your tax return
...and that's it!
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Vicha Ratanapakdee's family reacts to the judge's decision today, to suspend the 8-year sentence for Antoine Watson and order him to go straight to probation. He already spent 5 years in jail. Watson pushed "Grandpa Vicha" down during his morning walk; he later died from the injuries. I received this message from Vicha's daughter, Monthanus, just now:
"Today’s sentence is deeply disappointing. An 84-year-old man was killed in a cruel, unprovoked attack, and our family will live with this loss every day. This is not about revenge—it is about accountability. When consequences do not match the harm, it sends the wrong message about protecting our seniors and public safety. We are concerned about what this means for other families."
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Fetterman should be the leader of the Democratic party. AOC has no sense of how the world really works. She just promotes “the vibes” and Bernie has been a looney his whole life
U.S. Senator John Fetterman@SenFettermanPA
The emerging chassis of AI must be built by America. We can put appropriate guardrails in place without handing the win on AI to China. A moratorium is China First.
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Responses to this are hilarious.
Codex implemented this correctly in 15 minutes btw
Theo - t3.gg@theo
Just let Opus go for over an hour on a new feature. When it was done, I asked how I can test it. 20 minutes later, it realized I can't test it because it did the whole thing entirely wrong. Idk how you guys use this model every day for real work 🙃
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Why does a kid with Indian-American race need a 1600 on SAT to have the ~same odds of admission as a White kid with 1450?
I cannot think of a single credible, benign explanation for this!
Werner Zagrebbi🇦🇿@zagrebbi
The famous SFFA case treated Indians and East Asians as a single group. This masked significant heterogeneity: It's way harder to get in if you're Indian! In Columbia's internal admissions database (h/t @cremieuxrecueil), East Asian applicants had a 41% lower odds of admission than equally qualified White applicants, whereas South Asian applicants had 63% lower odds.
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Asians have a harder time getting into college than whites - which we knew - but Indians etc apparently have a harder time than East Asians.
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We were seconds away from a mass slaughter of Jewish children at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, today.
We got lucky.
Next time we might not.
Antisemitism is being normalized across America by extremists on the left and the right, while too many politicians are too weak, too cynical, or too complicit to speak up.
If the center won’t confront the radicals, the radicals will replace the center.
Enough is enough.
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Discovered this year: photochromic prescription lenses are convenient, but they’re not a substitute for proper polarized prescription sunglasses.
Real UV blocking + polarization makes a huge difference outdoors.
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It’s 3 AM: I’m nursing a squirmy truffle pig of a newborn every 45 minutes, husband is sick downstairs, and just as I drift off one of the older boys kicks on the hallway bathroom light. We’ve gotta get 2 kids 2 places tomorrow, trade off holding the baby during meetings, and no one has practiced their piano.
It’s 3 AM: I’m counting the hours till sunrise when my older 2 come in and snuggle the baby. He’s smiling now, as soon as he wakes up, and we can’t get enough of it. Feeling lonely - should I sneak down and hug my husband? I wonder what podcast the kids will want to laugh to in the car. It’s going too fast.
New York Magazine@NYMag
Sooner or later, everyone has to decide whether to give up lazy weekends, disposable income, and overall peace of mind to have a baby instead. For many of those on the fence, one anxiety looms large: What if I make the wrong choice? Parent regret is more common than you might think — the r/regretfulparents sub-Reddit alone gets around 70,000 weekly visitors who anonymously commiserate — though stigma makes it hard to admit in real life. Writer Bindu Bansinath speaks with three moms of young children about why they wish they could go back to their old lives: nymag.visitlink.me/Sv0c_9
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My information consumption is now 1/4 X, 1/4 podcast interviews of the smartest practitioners, 1/4 talking to the leading AI models, and 1/4 reading old books. The opportunity cost of anything else is far too high, and rising daily.
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