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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

9 days

pls trust I look better irl 😭

Nik Shevchenko

@kodjima33

9 days

My friend @jonxuxu just published a groundbreaking BCI paper on how to decode images from brainwaves He rented a house in SF and his team flew to create a demo and go viral They need 2 more people for the dataset. 6-8 hours of time Dm @jonxuxu if interested

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

6 months

How it started How it's going

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Jonathan Xu

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3 years

Some platforms can be used in ways not intended. Here's @azlenelza and I doing a high-five after winning a game of Codenames on @figmadesign

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Jonathan Xu

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11 months

yoo featured on @ddofinternet 🥳 now i can watch YouTube and say I’m not procrastinating

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Jonathan Xu

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1 year

Excited to share a really cool project: reconstructing video from fMRI brain scans using ViTs with temporal attention, CLIP, and stable diffusion! 🧠➡️📺 Building with the team has been awesome

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Jonathan Xu

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4 months

Day 1 of data collection! Lots of stimuli to get through

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Jonathan Xu

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9 months

woahh I just got accepted to @ZFellows_ ! thank you so much @cory for supporting my work, this means so much to me ☺️ exiting times ahead!

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

9 months

I'm thinking of building a gpu cluster in Waterloo and sharing it with irl/remote friends who need compute. Would people be interested in paying $1/ hr to use it? To offset electricity and stuff

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

2 months

Excited to share our latest work on image reconstruction! Announcing MindEye2: Shared-Subject Models Enable fMRI-To-Image with 1 Hour of Data

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

9 months

feeling very grateful 😊 Emergent Ventures just awarded me a grant to support my research in thought reconstruction!! stay tuned for exciting times ahead thanks from the bottom of my heart @tylercowen

tylercowen

@tylercowen

9 months

Emergent Ventures winners, 28th cohort: , congratulations to all!

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

1 year

isn't AI alignment super easy? just set justify-content: center or something

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

1 year

looks like the demo fair for passion projects might just happen every term 🤗

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

1 month

now I'm an LLM - long legged model

James Hill-Khurana

@jtvhk

1 month

jonathan has found a new career in modeling @jonxuxu

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

2 years

Let’s increase the “# people reading on the grass per capita” ratio at Waterloo

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Jonathan Xu

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3 months

Seen on campus

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

11 months

petition to make this the regular Canadian passport

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

9 months

🚨We already have early mind-reading tech and more people should know about it! I wrote a blog post with paper walkthroughs describing the history of the field, with @olivercameron . Hope it sparks inspiration and excitement.

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 months

picking a time on lettucemeet

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

2 years

Excited to kick off Act I of our first full term of Socratica. We're just scratching the surface of the many thoughtful, kind, and talented folk at @UWaterloo . Can't wait to see what we will do with this community of builders and creatives. Come visit if you're in the area :)

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

2 months

happy with how my poster session and oral presentation at AAAI turned out :)

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

11 months

came here and felt like i never left Waterloo - dude they have MULTIPLE Leetcode clubs lol. the grind is like continuous round but one level of hell lower

ytf goatbro 🐐

@mr_yong_tau_foo

11 months

my educational infographic on why you should hire more NUS kids!!! none of us have ever had a life so you can be guaranteed that we'll work like dogs!!! and we all want to live that american dream!!! immigrant productivity bonus!!!

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

8 months

It’s up and running! Setting up ssh, slurm, vnc. Also getting a few more 3090s in the pipeline

Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

9 months

I'm thinking of building a gpu cluster in Waterloo and sharing it with irl/remote friends who need compute. Would people be interested in paying $1/ hr to use it? To offset electricity and stuff

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 months

If you’re in Ontario and looking to get into the creative space: My friends and I hosting a weekend retreat in March! We're looking for designers, photographers, filmmakers and more.. Come with an open heart, friendliness and excitement to grow.

winter 2024 creator retreat · Luma

Wonderful humans, come join us in March for a nourishing weekend of talks, workshops and walks around the woods of Orangeville! Take a break in this haven from…

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

14 days

Bro instead of paying sf rent I could be on a cruise with unlimited food and drinks the whole time, for half the cost 🤔

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

1 year

organizing a group house for ~10 creatives, founders and researchers in Tokyo! 🎋 we're almost full, dm if you're interested in spending two weeks this March coworking and exploring cherry blossom season with kind, thoughtful and inspiring folk :)

Tokyo House | Notion

Konnichiwa! We are doing a short term co-living experience in the heart of Tokyo. Work, learn, and play together with other kind and inspiring folk.

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

1 year

slowly becoming a 10x developer

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

1 year

socraticasa turned out well! 12 folks came together this weekend to talk meta-life, values mapping, nourishing work, and topics explored too infrequently in work and school. the secret sauce was 5-min powerpoints and a very big scroll of paper 📜 more events soon!

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

1 year

Researchers can now take brain recordings and reconstruct what we see, to an impressive level of accuracy. Masked brain modeling on fMRI scans + diffusion image generation goes a long way! we’re living in science fiction 🤯

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

4 months

Day 2: All the friends are finally pulling through - grad student says we're making the lab the most alive its ever been. Collected 26k stimuli through 4 sessions today

Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

4 months

Day 1 of data collection! Lots of stimuli to get through

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

2 years

I sometimes forget that college offers an overwhelming amount of resources for intellectual pursuits. The problem is that a lot of the programming is forced upon me and leaves me with no space to learn out of innate curiosity. Time to transfer schools/programs

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

1 month

Wohoo the folks at CVPR like what we cook 🥘

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

1 year

So grateful to share that I’ll be working on Mind-Vis 2 with this team! Dreams do come true 😊

Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

1 year

Researchers can now take brain recordings and reconstruct what we see, to an impressive level of accuracy. Masked brain modeling on fMRI scans + diffusion image generation goes a long way! we’re living in science fiction 🤯

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

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It begins..

Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

9 months

I'm thinking of building a gpu cluster in Waterloo and sharing it with irl/remote friends who need compute. Would people be interested in paying $1/ hr to use it? To offset electricity and stuff

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 years

Just attempted a technical interview in Chinese - I couldn't understand the interviewers' technical vocab and they could barely understand my broken phrases I thought I bombed it until they sent an offer because they were impressed I was able to communicate as a foreigner 😅

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 years

I recently started reading while commuting; those 20 minute stints added up and I finished a book in a week! 10/10 would miss my stop again

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

16 days

hey @hackwithtrees is there an eta on the travel reimbursements you agreed to process? Our messages since February were ignored and now the event slack is deleted 😬

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 years

Immersive language learning experiment part 2: - interactive subtitles - any language sign interaction/translation - automatic definitions 🔊on!

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

2 years

Image generation from text prompt: "a steampunk space battle next to saturn, digital art" The future of AI powered creativity is coming fast🤯 Comment some prompts and I'll generate a few! #dalle2

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

4 years

jeez Bezos must have went to a lot of hackathons to get so many AWS credits

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

2 years

doing our part to make more outdoor poetry readings

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 months

🚨Sci-fi alert: NeuralDiffuser by Haoyu Li et al has achieved even better brain to image results! Insane fMRI image reconstruction quality. If this could be reproduced/code made available it would be huge

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 years

Alright I'm gonna live in SF for the next bit. Life is a ride✌️🤞

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 years

The immersive video project is now live! Featuring: Translated signs, video snippets, collection building, interactive captions, and more to come. We just launched on and would love if you could try it out!

Polygon Video - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt

Polygon is an interactive video player for language learning. Click on text and closed captions in the video to translate them, upload your own videos, save to your library, and accumulate snippets...

www.producthunt.com

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 years

The way someone approaches the mundane aspects in life reveals a lot about their value systems

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 years

Language learning should be painless and immersive. Made a custom video player that lets you interact with language content in real places - ft a walking tour I recorded in Taiwan! 🔊

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

9 months

*gasp* keeping up with frontend dev feels like treading water finally updated my senile website so it stops being boomer: - NodeJs 16 -> 18 - NextJs 9 -> 13 - Ant Design 4 -> 5 - MDX, styled components, Prisma now it has fancy things like analytics, SSR, dynamic themes woo

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

8 months

Two years ago, @haardikkk , @lenopix1 , @RyanOuyang_ and I co-founded @iyk_app . We built out the first version in NYC and demo’d in Miami. Amazing to see how far that experiment has come!

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A bit over two years ago, I was debating whether or not I should go back to online school. I’d already been on an 8 month break, and was feeling a bit lost after some jumbled freelancing. Since then, it’s been a wild ride. Today, I’m excited to announce that @iyk_app has raised…

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Jonathan Xu

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9 months

Goodbye Singapore and @MNNDL_Lab wow time flies 🛫

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

1 month

publishing house go brr: our paper is now on AAAI🥳 check it out:

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 years

Excited to finally release -- listen to live generated songs powered by @OpenAI 's deep neural net with friends on Discord 🎶

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Jonathan Xu

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1 year

Waterloo got 🪿 but NUS got 🐓

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Jonathan Xu

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1 month

@socraticainfo memories stored in L1 cache

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

2 years

My first sculpture project 🗿 The biggest lesson on art intervention: your sculpture should interact with the environment. If it looks the same everywhere then you’ve failed to make an engaging piece

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Jonathan Xu

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4 months

Bringing this on my next glamping trip

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 years

Have you ever bought an Apple Watch with an Apple Watch

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

2 months

cluster is no longer storage poor 💾

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 months

it begins

OpenAI

@OpenAI

3 months

Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model. Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions. Prompt: “Beautiful, snowy…

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

1 year

It’s easy to lose yourself amongst rat races in college. It’s hard to develop the wisdom and zest crucial to a meaningful and happy life. On April 7-9 I’ll be hosting a retreat for sharing, learning, and candid reflection. Apply if you’re in Waterloo!

Socraticasa: EOT Retreat · Luma

Join for a transformative and nourishing weekend at our first overnight retreat! Share, learn, and bond with kind and thoughtful peers at Socratica. This…

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

9 months

hardware is probably going to look like: - amd threadripper pro, 16 cores - 500gb of ram, upgradable to 2tb - 2tb ssd, upgradable to 6tb+ - 20 tb hard disk storage, upgradable to 200tb+ - 2 nvidia 3090 gpus, upgradable to 7 gpus

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

4 years

I think I'm pretty good at knowing what stocks I should've bought

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 years

One week in and I'm convinced New York is the best city to live in. The sheer amount and diversity of people, ideas, culture and opportunities is orders of magnitude greater than anything I've seen before. Come to NY 🗽

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

2 years

in ny from 15-28 if friends wanna meet :)

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

8 months

I’ll be in Boston from the 9 to the 16, happy to see any existing/soon-to-be friends in the area :)

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

9 months

my setup idea: try to cover up as much of the sad cubicle colors with new! and exciting!! papers

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

6 years

Had a blast at loo with the coolest team I could hope for. (Also top 10!) Thanks to @HackTheNorth organizers for the ❤️ that made this possible. 📸 Brian and his pixel

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

7 months

Now we can do real time image reconstruction! Crazy stuff 🤯

AI at Meta

@AIatMeta

7 months

Today we're sharing new research that brings us one step closer to real-time decoding of image perception from brain activity. Using MEG, this AI system can decode the unfolding of visual representations in the brain with an unprecedented temporal resolution. More details ⬇️

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Jonathan Xu

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6 months

Thank you @ansonyuu @jossmurphyy @hud_zah and team for leading and pulling off the most warm and inspiring symposium yet! @Socraticainfo has come a long way since the days we struggled to stay running when we couldn’t sneak into lecture rooms anymore

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

9 months

below the 9 layers of hell there is a special place where you have to manually label your own dataset I’ve looked at over 30k rows 😭

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

1 year

Recipes be like 0. Preheat the oven to 450F 1. Measure 1 cup of water 2. Season with salt and pepper 3. Bake water for 10-50 minutes 4. Season with salt and pepper 5. Set aside 6. Season with salt and pepper 7. Season with salt and pepper, and then serve

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 years

Wow, the authentic and warm interactions when having people over for dinner >> official networking. Will be doing more of these to meet people

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Jonathan Xu

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1 month

dinner's on me babe i'll cook up a dataset for us tn

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Jonathan Xu

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1 year

@HowardHalim and I made Solace, a multiplayer space to be mindful online. Turn on your speakers and enjoy the poetry: Code:

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Jonathan Xu

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3 years

my youtube channel is enjoying some hockey stick growth - if the hockey stick is broken in many places

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 years

Broke: I want to pick your brain Woke: I wish to give you a lobotomy

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 months

does anyone know where their code is? they claim SOTA results but only describe the EEG encoder as a black box. it's been almost 8 months and no update..

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@_akhaliq

9 months

Seeing through the Brain: Image Reconstruction of Visual Perception from Human Brain Signals paper page: Seeing is believing, however, the underlying mechanism of how human visual perceptions are intertwined with our cognitions is still a mystery. Thanks…

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

2 years

Neo genuinely cares about the growth and wellbeing of student engineers, I’d highly recommend!

Ali Partovi

@apartovi

2 years

Future founders: Apply to become a Neo Scholar. We've just opened applications for @Neo Scholars, our program to help America's most promising junior engineers become future tech leaders. (1/9)

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Jonathan Xu

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3 years

tfw you have to pay lawyers a consultation fee just to know how much money you have to pay them

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Jonathan Xu

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4 years

Trying my best to make personal goals that don't care about society's definition of success😤

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

4 years

Now that uoft is cancelled Waterloo might just be the #1 engineering school in Canada 🤔

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

4 years

Excited to launch a grocery-tech startup on @ProductHunt , with the help of @mozillabuilders ! It's the best way to get fresh groceries at true cost, while supporting local farmers and the community. Would love to hear what you guys think! #startups

Product Hunt 😸

@ProductHunt

4 years

A new way to buy directly from local farmers and save money 👩‍🌾

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

1 year

A General Introduction to the Great Books and to a Liberal Education, 1959

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

2 years

yo Netflix is missing out on a prime opportunity to distribute quality lectures... imagine a Coursera but with a high production value, covering overlooked topics in an entertaining way

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2 years

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Jonathan Xu

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2 years

VCs Battleship 🤝 “Let’s keep each other on our radars”

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

6 months

Are they gonna have to pay $20 to use chatgpt now

Greg Brockman

@gdb

6 months

Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today. Let us first say thank you to all the incredible people who we have worked with at OpenAI, our customers, our investors, and all of those who have been reaching out. We too are still trying to figure out exactly…

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

2 years

Maybe the world news we see these days is just a ploy by big therapy

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 years

There is no dark magic more arcane than those webpack configs that fix some niche library/framework issue

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

9 months

the $1 is for each hour of gpu you use, everything else like storage and cpu is probably gonna be pennies on the dollar or less

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

4 years

Had a quality 36 hours learning and building at #ETHDenver ! Shoutout to my amazing team @RyanOuyang_ @haardikkk Jason Du who made it such an amazing weekend! Thanks to the MVPs at @HomeDepot who gave us the scrap board for free

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 years

Chinese typography is really underrated - there’s so many different ways to express the same word in different strokes and lines. Unique interpretations of how a meaning “looks”

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

1 year

conversation ai might actually be that reverse dictionary I've always been looking for 🤯

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 years

love the new gcal export to dna feature 👀

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 years

It seems that libraries are still mostly using the Dewey Decimal System (from the 1850s!) to label books. Are there better ways of organizing for organic engagement, like a bookstore? Maybe we can have cross-discipline collections that complement each other?

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 years

Wait why do we call it lunch but not brinner

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 years

Definitely think this was one of the times in my life when I was learning the fastest 😊

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

2 months

It was an honor working with @humanscotti , @mihirneal , @kadirtorrico , @ReeseKneeland , @conscioustahoe , @iScienceLuvr and everyone at @StabilityAI and @MedARC_AI <3

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

2 years

I better catch Santa coming down the chimney this time, we’re so overdue for a fireside chat

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

2 months

A single fMRI session to gather 1 hour of training data is sufficient to get state of the art reconstructions. This allows for BCIs that can adapt quickly to new users.. There are many more promising approaches to continue to decrease finetuning time such as active learning.

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

3 years

Behold the true Discord mafia: r/ #wallstreetbets maxed out the server cap of 250000 while pushing #GME to 350 Look forward to interesting times ahead, with 3M and counting Redditors making retail investing a meme again

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Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

4 years

i hope i'll never become a zip tie (someone who takes but never gives)

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Jonathan Xu

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3 years

to whoever set the Manhattan food prices: please lower them thanks

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