Chris Albon @chrisalbon Twitter profile

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Chris Albon

@chrisalbon

2 years

Someone at Pixar deleted all of Toy Story 2 and the backup hadn't worked for a month, and the only reason we saw that movie was b/c someone on maternity leave had a copy of it on her home computer. Her name is Galyn Susman and she is now the producer for the new Lightyear movie!

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8 months

This is still the best AI ever generated Salmon jumping in a river

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2 years

Media is like: Freelancer, $35,000/yr: “I self-funding a three month reporting trip to a warzone to capture the untold stories of the war crime victims” Columnist, $300,000/yr: “China’s foreign policy is like an egg roll”

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8 months

This meal just cost me $1,008 in San Francisco. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.

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This meal just cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.

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2 years

Test your backups, people!

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2 months

“No yapping” is a pro-level prompt engineering strat, you wouldn’t understand

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Finally found a way to read Python stack traces.

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2 years

2022: “WOW you can write a prompt and an AI will draw it!” 2028: “You want to write a prompt? First you need to hire 10-15 promptOps Engineers to build out your PromptFlow pipelines which sends promptjobs to your PromptLake from the PromptQueue using the EventPrompt stream”

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9 months

My wife just now: "What is Github?" Me: HOLY SHIT THIS IS MY MOMENT, STAY COOL CHRIS, STAY COOL. "So...."

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5 months

We need a name for ChatGPT style prose, because I swear I can identify it in the wild. It has a certain vibe. Like it was written by a golden retriever.

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2 years

Madame Treasurer commandasaurus 🦖

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2 years

"They drove the computer from her house to the studio wrapped in blankets" is now on every Pixar testing plan.

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10 months

How many tweets could you possibly read, Michael? 600?

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6 months

That coordinated quote retweet by OpenAI staff was the most impressive employee flex I’ve seen in tech.

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24 days

The problem with these types of dashboards is that they take forever to make and end up as wall art engineers need to maintain.

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every company should have a real time stats dashboard like github’s

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7 months

It is embarrassing how much this stupid fucking meme has affected my own thinking and my own mental health. So, SO many times I’ve been the left person, and someone is explaining to me why I can’t do or think something without reading every book they’ve read, received the…

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2 months

I’m 10 hours into a 12 hour flight and I genuinely think a $3500 Apple Vision Pro would be a better flight experience than a $3500 business class ticket

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1 year

I’m legit going to be sad when chatgpt isn’t free anymore

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1 year

Kubernetes but it’s 200 banks accounts with $249,999 in each one.

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2 years

The worst UX on the iPhone is every app having an in-app browser with none of your logins or preferences, and you can’t turn them off.

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11 months

Me: “I wonder how many people visited my blog. Let's find out on GA4” GA4:

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11 months

Who the fuck approved Google Analytics 4???

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1 month

The most unrealistic thing in Star Trek is that nobody realizes every time they use a teleporter it actually kills them and builds a separate person (that is a exact copy) somewhere else.

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1 month

i used to think the most unrealistic thing in star trek was the way they talked to the ship computer but damn if we didn’t leapfrog that by 400 years

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1 year

What a time to be in tech.

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10 months

It is wild to me that every country isn't hunting down every PhD in AI and being like "here is a visa, $50000, and a path to citizenship"

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8 months

I love that Excel’s solution to installing Python is to just not do it. Legends.

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1 year

If you are interested in it, here why I think you should get into AI right now. Disclaimer: If you are looking for some AI hype thread, go somewhere else.

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10 months

The page turning approach is wildly cooler than the AI writing

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10 months

Teachers: “We only accept handwritten work now because of AI” Students:

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2 years

Kenyan tea action shot

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11 months

I’m shocked there aren’t more prompt storage options. Feels like such low-hanging fruit.

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6 months

The thing nobody talks about with engineering management is this: Every 3-4 months every person experiences some sort of personal crisis. A family member dies, they have a bad illness, they get into an argument with another person at work, etc. etc. Sadly, that is just life.…

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Andrej Karpathy

@karpathy

1 year

Expectation: I need more deep learning engineers to train better models Reality: You need prompt engineers and LLM Ops (not sure what to call it (?), post-LLM above-API infra, langchain & friends) - training is centralizing into megamodels - not fully played out yet but trending

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2 months

Best decade by far. You have an assistant to answer every question, explain every line, teach you every tool, demonstrate every technique, and help with every commit privately and without complaint.

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Terrible decade to be a junior dev?

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11 months

My current personal dev setup is: Microsoft VSCode Microsoft GitHub Microsoft GitHub Copilot Microsoft ChatGPT4 What a run Microsoft has made over the last decade.

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8 months

why no-code never took off, in two sentences.

Jared Sylvester

@jsylvest

8 months

@mikpanko if you can't express what you want in words, no amount of clicking will get you the right answer if you can express it in words, it's not a big leap to express it in code

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7 months

It feels so weird to me that people talk about open source as reckless and a risk when it comes to AI model. Open source has been responsible for the last 20 years of technological revolution. Builders sharing their free knowledge to the world to benefit us all. But suddenly…

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2 years

When you die all your GitHub repos should become public and open source

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6 months

The Indian part of my Twitter feed over the last 24 hours: openai openai openai openai SHUT THE FUCK UP THE CRICKET IS ON openai

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4 months

What is the TL;DR for why all the layoffs?

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3 months

Best technical podcasts on ML? i.e. discussion of papers and technicals rather than business and products

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1 year

No hype, I am genuinely a 2-3x faster coder with the help of ChatGPT.

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6 months

Every tech CEO right now: “If I post that I love my team, how many will publicly send love back”

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@chrisalbon

8 months

The take home exam is just a 5m row CSV with a single random comma deleted.

Bojan Tunguz

@tunguz

8 months

Being able to handle messed up CSV files is actually one of the best screenings for Data Science roles tbh.

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5 months

HE DID IT. @karpathy FUCKING DID IT.

[1hr Talk] Intro to Large Language Models

This is a 1 hour general-audience introduction to Large Language Models: the core technical component behind systems like ChatGPT, Claude, and Bard. What the...

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6 months

As soon as I heard the news, my literal first thought was “I hope this means @karpathy will have more time to make YouTube videos”

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5 months

@zackbeauchamp New Hampshire is loyalist?! Please. New Hampshire would be fighting a 4 front war in all directions.

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7 months

On this day 30 years ago, calculus was discovered.

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5 months

when you don’t pay your AWS bill

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5 months

woah

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10 months

What is "the right way" to install Python on a new M2 MacBook? I assume it isn't the system Python3 right? Maybe Homebrew?

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1 year

Fuck it everyone start a blog. We are bringing back 2006.

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3 months

This literature review I'm reading breaks down the entire thing as a tree!

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9 months

A mistake I see WAY too many times is hiring some expensive ML expert before having the infrastructure there to support them. Then they spin their wheels being their own data engineer, data scientist, MLOps engineer, etc. etc. until they quit because they aren't training models.

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6 months

As soon as I heard the news, my literal first thought was “I hope this means @karpathy will have more time to make YouTube videos”

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10 months

installing python

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10 months

The Zen of Python says "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it"... Where does this fall on its face?

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6 months

“He’s really a nice dude” Alright fuck it. are free for the next 24 hours. Coupon code: LOCALLLAMA

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3 months

~12 years ago there was an app I used to save journal articles. I put in a ton of hours organizing my collection. Then Yahoo bought them. The founders no doubt cheered their great fortune… and I lost everything. If you want something to last a very long time, files over apps.

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File over app File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom. File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all…

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6 months

the data engineer

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"We have a solid AI team of. 𝟮𝟱 𝗠𝗟 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀... and 𝟭 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿" -- the client said

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6 months

Python is the second best tool for everything.

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2 months

Your goal isn’t to code. Your goal is to build. If EDM music makes you build faster, listen to EDM. If AI makes you build faster, use AI. Being a great coder + AI will make you build 1000x faster than not being able to code + AI.

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1 year

Personally, I think AI will lead to more software engineering jobs, not less. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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7 months

I love Obsidian. It is my second brain. And instead of some proprietary database waiting to be turned off when a FAANG buys the startup, everything is saved as markdown files and folders on your local machine.

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this new piece in @FastCompany does a nice job capturing the landscape of @obsdmd — though I'll say we're proudly not a cult

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2 years

I’ve been tinkering with AI writing tools and here is my biggest takeaways: 1. Amount of low quality content used to flood Google results and drive ad impressions will approach infinity. 2. Internet users will flock to where the humans are. Wikipedia, Reddit, Quora, etc.

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3 months

Everything I have is bc I self-studied my ass off, for over a decade. And I am studying in 2024 more than ever. If you think you are too good to be a student, I am going to lap you. This is my bag. And the journal article I carry around to read when I have a few minutes.

𝕝𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖 𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕜𝕖𝕤

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unfortunately not satire

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2 years

What are the best ML *books* to come out in the last three years? They can be code-focused, theory-focused, whatever, but they have to be books.

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1 year

I’m drawing new machine learning flashcards every day. This is the new style because iPad drawing is easier than actual pen and paper (draw-to-product per card is seconds vs an hour) Thoughts or feedback?

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1 year

There are only two styles of Python programming for data science: 1. Spend 10 minutes writing the code and then have it run for four hours. 2. Spend four hours trying to make the code work with multiprocessing then run it for 10 minutes.

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2 years

The most under appreciated story in tech is how Kenya's digital currency, Mpesa, has become the de facto form of payment for almost everything, from $0.50 in fruit to your rent payment. It is what crypto wants to be but without the blockchain.

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Do you use your @Visa card anymore in Kenya? I have swiped my card less than 10 times in Kenya the last 1 year. I pay 99% of my bills via Mpesa.

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6 months

A lot of engineering managers become effectively non-technical too early in their careers, and then they are left in this vulnerable middle ground where they don't have enough management experience to be in senior leadership but not enough software engineering skill to be an IC.

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10 months

Training a multi-layer RNN on a 3090, 1080TI, and MacBook M2 Max: 3090: ~86 seconds per epoch 1080TI: 325 seconds per epoch MacBook M2 Max: 270 seconds per epoch

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6 months

What following AI feels like right now

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1 year

The window is open right now. But it won't always be open. So if you are interested, start playing around, talking to people, reading about what people build, etc. It will set you up in a really good spot for the next decade.

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1 year

Them: "What did you accomplish today?" Me: "Well, the 'f' in the f-string was INSIDE the quotes instead of outside. So that was like... two hours."

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7 months

VSCode's killer feature is the remote development mode. ssh into another box and develop like it is local. Until Zed has that, I don't want to switch

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2 months

My favorite part of Devin is that even our most advanced programming AI debugs using print statements.

Cognition

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Today we're excited to introduce Devin, the first AI software engineer. Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork. Devin is…

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"Eventually you will just explain what you want and an AI coder will do it" BRO if I could explain what I wanted I'd be done already

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3 months

omg there is a paper

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@chrisalbon It’s a binary classification problem

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2 months

My pride and joy right here.

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2 years

What if the real crypto was the money we lost along the way?

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2 years

What are your favorite machine learning blogs or newsletters?

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@chrisalbon

2 months

Bay Area: where a keynote on hardware fills a hockey stadium.

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What is this a rock concert? No it’s the Jensen Huang keynote at ⁦ @nvidia ’s⁩ #GTC24 . Wow, what a difference a few years makes!

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1 year

TL;DR when a new thing comes along, there is a window of time where nobody is an expert. There are only people interested in it, playing around with it, and talking with each other. But eventually the thing matures and the window closes. After barriers to entry are much higher.

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2 years

Whenever someone tweets about imposter syndrome they always have a bio like “MA Compsci Stanford. PhD Compsci Stanford. Kaggle Quadruple Grandmaster. Xoogler. Created PyTorch”

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10 months

me rn

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2 months

Fuck this. Build things, share the data, release the code.

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1 year

Right now we are living in a third window: LLMs/generative AI. Nobody is an expert, nobody has a decade of experience in LLMOps. Nobody has 10,000 hours experience writing prompts. The barriers to entry are super low. The window is wide open. BUT THIS WON'T ALWAYS BE TRUE.

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1 year

Entire books have explained this concept in worse ways.

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In linear regression, the observations (dots) are assumed to be the result of random deviations (strings) from an underlying relationship (stick). A simple but highly visual practical implementation of the "line of best fit" [more: ]

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During my PhD I used JSTOR. One time I got in serious trouble for downloading too many articles. And these days I'd love to use social science research to inform my work in tech... except I don't have the money for journal access. You will never convince me that arXiv is bad.

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7 months

Where are the people who are actually finetuning models hanging out online? I have a bunch of super specific questions as I work on some stuff and I can't find the place people are talking about them (i.e. the StackOverflow, Reddit, etc)

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5 months

We might have cured lupus. Maybe the real floaty rock was a reminder about the power of science.

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1 year

Sebastian's course is to 2023 what Andrew Ng's course was to 2016

Sebastian Raschka

@rasbt

1 year

Wondering what I've been up to lately? I'm excited to share my new free course: Deep Learning Fundamentals -- Learning Deep Learning Using a Modern Open Source Stack! I hope you’ll find it useful! Check it out here: 👉 Let me know what you think!

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“LLM should be transparent, open source, accessible for everyone, and require $250,000 in lawyer fees to prepare the application for a government license” seems like such a weird position to me. The only people that helps are big corps that can afford the lawyers.

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3 months

The fucking duck just murdered two people.

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"a giant duck walks through the streets in Boston" Video generated by Sora

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5 months

What the hell ever happened to Scala?

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2 years

Prediction: The ability of an individual to generate millions or billions of plausible images, videos, and posts using AI is going to be *the* existential threat to social media. Increases the noise without increasing the signal.

François Chollet

@fchollet

2 years

If you think image/video generation is big today, just wait 1-2 years. It's going to be *big*

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4 months

The appeal of e/acc and tech optimism for most ppl isn’t that we are star children only limited by the laws of physics blah blah It’s that we’ve been told every day since like 2015 that everything is bad, tech is bad, and you should feel bad. And suddenly people are like, fuck…

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1 year

Elon, please print your last 30 days of code and see me in my office.

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29 days

I've had a beer, so this is my hot take: I love technical interviews. Technical interviews let that second gen immigrant kid who didn't do Comp Sci at Stanford or MIT compete with those that did on merit alone. Send me the CoderPad link and let's fucking go.

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8 months

The real AI list is @karpathy and like 99 anime anon high schoolers grinding away at wild ideas.

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4 months

Activation functions as Pokémon ReLu

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1 year

I will never work for a CEO who publicly shits all over employees. There are better places to do hard work.

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6 months

My pride and joy right here.

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7 months

Imagine if pandas was closed source. Or Python required an annual $499 license. That is what you are asking for. Fuck that. Build in the open. Share what you make. Stand on the shoulders of the giants who committed code before you.

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