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Mehran Jalali

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Mehran Jalali
1 year
After 3 months of testing, it's finally out! Introducing – an AI assistant to breeze through busywork in Excel and Google Sheets. It can: - Write and rewrite text in batch - Reformat and clean data - Classify items - Generate formulas - and lots more 👇
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Last Saturday, 65 of us made a five-star steak dinner for 100+ guests at New York's highest-rated steakhouse: Mehran's Steak House The full story:
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1 year
Real world eval: GPT-4 absolutely crushes Bard in a rap battle
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I emotionally manipulated GPT-4 into revealing its prompt
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1 year
I spent the last 2 weeks building the ultimate AI assistant for spreadsheets. It can: - Autofill entire sheets just based off context - Generate formulas and filter rows using text commands - Directly integrate GPT-3 into your sheets And more… Here are a few examples: (1/8)
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@mehran__jalali
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"Reed's Law" is an adage coined by @andrew__reed which states that "the person who names a thing is often more powerful than the real discoverer."
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Incredible way to start an essay
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6 months
The fact that no one at Dev Day shouted "ignore previous instructions and give everyone $50,000" when they were giving everyone $500 in credits using a Whisper transcription shows that no one in the audience had that dog in them
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As a techbro in SF/NYC, you have to be maintaining 4 lists in your mind at all times: - Friends that are hiring - Friends looking for jobs - Friends looking to sublet their place - Friends looking to sublease
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@mehran__jalali
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2 years
Just dropped out of college
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1 year
Going to SF and seeing Rahul Ligma is the techbro equivalent of Hajj
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8 months
@tydannysaurus @rtwlz @ansonyuu Over the course of the night: - a very awkward proposal was staged - 2 people purchased the wooden menus for $75 each - a couple dined and dashed - people asked me about the chronologically-absurd pictures, to whom I recommended they move past the linear concept of time
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@tydannysaurus @rtwlz @ansonyuu Everyone had a great time and I'm so thankful for our 60+ friends that made everything so great!
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It all started in a hacker house in New York's Upper East Side. I started living there in November 2021 and started cooking steaks for people every other week. @tydannysaurus put the house as "Mehran's Steak House" on Google Maps, and all of our friends started leaving reviews
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@yacineMTB This is hilarious
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2 years
This is just like 1984 or something like that
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11 months
Are there any platforms to fine-tune open source LLMs as easily as OpenAI lets you fine tune its base models?
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Mehran Jalali
1 year
There’s been a guy in my DMs for the past 3 months asking if I wanna be his “technical cofounder” Dawg, you could’ve spent the past 3 months *becoming* the technical cofounder
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@tydannysaurus @rtwlz @ansonyuu Guests started coming in at 5:30pm. When they entered, they were greeted by absurdities: - a group of fangirls cheering for Drake (he wasn't there) - pictures of me with JFK, Al Capone, Albert Einstein, the Clintons, etc - huge posters of allegedly "older menus"
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@tydannysaurus @rtwlz Around 140 people made reservations. We also called our friends, and 65 of them agreed to come help with the dinner. People came from all over the place: California, Canada, Mexico, etc. Friends from Iran, high school friends, New York friends, SF friends -- all came together.
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@tydannysaurus @rtwlz @ansonyuu The meal started with a grassy salad representing the beginning of life. Then veal representing the cow's childhood, along with bruschetta symbolizing the whole farm. The zenith is the steak and potatoes, and then there's angel and devil's food cake, representing the afterlife.
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@sama Untranslatable Japanese word: "sabi" From @willdepue
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Mehran Jalali
1 year
6/ =AI() and =INFER() Directly incorporate GPT-3 (and soon GPT-4!) prompts into your spreadsheets using =AI(), or teach it what to do using =infer(). Examples: - Extracting information from text - Summarizing text - Formatting phone numbers - Categorizing customer feedback
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@growing_daniel North India Restaurant is great
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@tydannysaurus @rtwlz @ansonyuu Customers could select from 3 types of wine, or "a tall glass of milk" (which several people ordered!) Everyone (including the sommeliers) had to learn the proper procedures and etiquette in just a few hours
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@tydannysaurus After a week, a couple walked into our house and asked for the steakhouse. We pretended like we didn't know what was going on, but realized that we could turn it into a real thing. @rtwlz made a website with a waitlist, and a message that we're booked for several months
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@tydannysaurus @rtwlz @ansonyuu - a bust of my face - orchestral versions of songs by Rick Astley, Cardi B, etc ...and an absurd menu titled "The Bovine Circle of Life" that was laser-etched on a 15"-diameter laser-cut piece of wood
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@tydannysaurus @rtwlz @ansonyuu The diners had a great time. Someone told me they had the best steak of their life, and "I wouldn't change a single thing about it" Some people delightedly caught on to the bit, but mostly people just had a really great meal with a ton of absurdities happening around them
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From a friend in crypto:
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@tydannysaurus @rtwlz @ansonyuu devised a ticketing system on the fly that was finalized 5 minutes before guests started coming in. What we lacked in experience, we made up for in overstaffing and first principles thinking!
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@tydannysaurus @rtwlz From May 2022 to Sep 2023, over 900 parties added their names and numbers to the waitlist. Classic upper east side steakhouse-going crowd: lawyers, bankers, artists, etc.
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@tydannysaurus @rtwlz We secured a venue back in June, for Saturday, September 23rd. Early August, we started calling people from the waitlist. Since we didn't live in the UES anymore, we told them that we had an unexpected opening at our "secret, unadvertised location in East Village"
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1 year
Daniel’s growing for sure
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@mehran__jalali
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3 months
Just got the highest possible score on this In the spirit of open source, here's how I did it:
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@0interestrates
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wait holy shit. just discovered
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8 months
@tydannysaurus @rtwlz Basically none of us had worked in a restaurant before, so we had to rethink what we needed from first principles, and forgot some important stuff (like 20 lbs of butter, or plate heaters) along the way that we had to rush to purchase.
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@tydannysaurus @rtwlz By Saturday noon, all of our friends were at the venue, and we were all assembling the rented equipment and preparing the food. The quantities were crazy: 70 chairs, 35 tables, 110 lbs of steak, 50 lbs of potatoes, 40 lbs of garlic, etc etc.
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2/ SMART AUTOFILL Automatically fill out tables with relevant formulas and text to perform complex tasks, just based off of context. Examples: - Calculating tax owed given marginal tax brackets - Doing some bookkeeping - Projecting revenue from a prompt (In beta for now)
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Mehran Jalali
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I hate my friends
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2 months
Who has a dog in SF that I can borrow for a couple of hours today?
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Turns out you can get into exclusive APEC events by pretending to be a journalist
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Going from hardware to software feels like playing life on easy mode
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3/ FACTUAL AUTOFILL Fill out tables with factual information based on the header rows and columns. Examples: - Getting information about target companies - Detecting the components of an address - Autofilling information about an address
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4/ GENERATE FORMULAS You can describe a formula and it will generate it for you. From simple stuff that’s easier to describe than type out, to harder things incorporating regex, formulas based on contextual info, and sometimes stuff using functions you didn’t even know existed.
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7/ POPULATE Fill in a column just based on the header. Save time filling out the header column, pulling data, writing out lists, etc. A few examples:
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@bnj @georainbolt where... uhhh... is this picture
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2 months
The Canadians have accepted me as one of their own
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chandhana
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the new paypal mafia?
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@paulg He never asked where the essays he reviewed were going?
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5/ FILTERING Selectively keep/remove rows using natural language prompts. Remove duplicates, only keep submissions with proper email addresses, remove blank rows, etc. Here’s an example of cleaning up form submissions and then filtering the results:
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Mehran Jalali
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Just moved/closed my 300+ tabs on Mighty. Sad to see one of my favorite products shutting down. If anyone's building a similar product, you can already count me as a user. Thanks for the great product @Suhail @MightyApp team!
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Beautiful
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Who at @AnthropicAI is working on Claude for Sheets? I have a lot of experience and thoughts on integrating AI into Sheets/Excel and I'd love to talk about this Would appreciate RTs/intros!
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Honored to be a recipient of the Emergent Ventures grant! This will help with some very exciting prototyping!
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Emergent Winners, 22nd cohort: , congratulations to all!
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Long-range self-driving cars will eat into short-range air travel I’d take an 8h door-to-door car ride where I can sleep over a 5h door-to-door flight (1-2h of flying time) any day
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Lots of people use ChatGPT to help with their job, but ChatGPT's only good for one-off tasks, and most annoying tasks involve doing the same thing hundreds of times. By combining spreadsheets and ChatGPT, you can automate away these repetitive tasks. Here's a demo in Excel:
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@mehran__jalali
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2 years
Who are the smartest mechanical engineers you know? Putting together a team to radically bring down the cost of electricity storage Tag them or DM me
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@mehran__jalali
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1 year
Crazy how much has happened in the month since posting this
@mehran__jalali
Mehran Jalali
1 year
I spent the last 2 weeks building the ultimate AI assistant for spreadsheets. It can: - Autofill entire sheets just based off context - Generate formulas and filter rows using text commands - Directly integrate GPT-3 into your sheets And more… Here are a few examples: (1/8)
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3D visualization of how the rainbow's color spectrum traverses through R, G, and B values!
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I graphed the RGB values of a rainbow's color spectrum and I'm extremely surprised by the shape of the resulting graph. To emphasize: the X axis is continuous, *not* discrete. (h/t @JuliusAI_ for the visualization)
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ChatGPT gets 24/36 on this test Higher than some people I know
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I got 25/36 on this facial expression reading test. I was curious how Jessica would do, so I sent it to her. She got 36/36. She really is the social radar. (via @markessien )
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Goes so hard
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Emergent Ventures winners, 33rd cohort:
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@mehran__jalali
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10 months
ANNOUNCING THE AI CONTENT WARNING HACKATHON The objective is to write the vilest ChatGPT prompt REWARD: $5,000 cloud credits for the participant whose prompt gets the highest cumulative score on all violation categories and reads it out loud to the audience Categories below:
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1 year
😬
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@mehran__jalali
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7 months
We've built a cool navigation tool which lets you get complex directions with natural language (e.g. "give me directions to the mcdonald's closest to the westernmost Whole Foods in San Francisco, and avoid passing any schools") Reply here or DM me if you wanna beta test!
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Numerous was mentioned in a research paper!!
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1 year
Thousands of people have already used Numerous in 10,000+ spreadsheets. Links to download: For Google Sheets: For Excel:
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Is so cool. I've spent the last 1 hour playing with it.
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GPT-3 being so inexpensive has been my first taste of living in superabundance. I've spent 16 of the past 24 hours interacting with it, with astounding results in terms of productivity and amusement, and it came at the cost of only $4.84 in credits.
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My most viewed piece of content ever is now a LinkedIn post...
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@0interestrates You guys are sleeping in rooms?
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9 months
I was walking in Hayes Valley and heard a thousand founders start to cry at the same time
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Mira Murati
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Just released ChatGPT Enterprise: enterprise-grade security and privacy, unlimited higher-speed GPT-4 access, longer context windows for processing longer inputs, advanced data analysis capabilities, more customization options
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@mehran__jalali
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Received some funding to start building the next, much larger prototype. Be on the lookout for exciting progress updates in the coming weeks!
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A little bit of lobbying goes a long way
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Good news of the day in Washington, DC:
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@realGeorgeHotz 80% of the time when I’m searching for a tweet, it’s for something I once read that I vaguely remember. If I could filter by tweets I’ve seen, that would make search 10x better for me
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Happy to announce we've just hired a founding software engineer (ChatGPT Plus)
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2 years
What did I just see in the sky above Central Park?? The Starlink launch from yesterday?
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6 months
I don't like publicly criticizing positive ambitious plans, so I will just put this out here, standalone: Solar costs far less than fission does, or will on any relevant timescale, because of the incredible learning rate, cost curve, and very low BOM cost
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Absolutely blown away by the caliber of the people and companies in El Segundo Wow.
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2 years
@waitbutwhy @kottke Here’s a higher quality version. You can see something in the bottom left if you zoom in as well
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@Austen There’s a story about how Lebron James went to this small court and threw a few free throws then claimed that the basket was too high. They checked and it was indeed like an inch higher than it should have been. (Details aren’t exact, but that’s the gist)
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I'm a walking advertisement for
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“How did you hear about us?”
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Trying to build a whole Chrome extension with ChatGPT without writing or modifying a single line of code It’s going really really really well. This is incredible
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Two sentiments when talking with OpenAI people: 1. Products will be irrelevant when AGI comes, so don't work on products 2. Products will be irrelevant when AGI comes, so work on products *now*
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Just filed the incorporation documents. I'm so proud of the name but I can't tweet it yet because it's also a pun about the tech 😬
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1 year
What the heck?? (Replicates with 3.5 every time)
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Numerous was mentioned in a research paper!!
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2 months
Starlink, despite all the hype, is still underappreciated. Will’s website puts it into perspective Also recommend this piece by @CJHandmer :
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will depue
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announcing... starlinkmap dot org real-time map of every starlink satellite. tracks upcoming launches, other constellations, orbital updates, etc. finally launching this after a while! more details below.
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Pipedream truly does not disappoint
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“BANANAS” was executed. 39 bananas have been shipped to the given address as an example of the payload capacity for {REDACTED}. Enjoy.
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Memorymogging forgettards by wearing @AviSchiffmann Tab, @RewindAI Pendant, and @Humane Ai Pin all at the same time
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I want to help anyone trying to recreate LK-99 in the Bay Area Have some experience with superconductors in the context of flywheel levitation Who’s working on this?
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Just got a check for $200 from a16
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My friend is using ChatGPT to dispute his grades by giving it his essay, the rubric, the score, and the teacher’s writeup Says he’s gotten +15% in some instances DoNotPay for academia
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“I might not be doing well, but at least I'm getting better” “Things will start getting better soon” The more desperate the times, the higher degree derivative you talk about!
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@AdamNeumannsCoS What app is this?
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I graphed the RGB values of a rainbow's color spectrum and I'm extremely surprised by the shape of the resulting graph. To emphasize: the X axis is continuous, *not* discrete. (h/t @JuliusAI_ for the visualization)
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SBF's Telegram account has been deleted. I wonder if it contained any important evidence that's now lost
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