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“Have you ever read the book The Devil's Teeth? No. It's by Susan Casey. I highly recommend you read this book. It is a book about the great white sharks off the Fairine Islands”
“You've said the song Weightless from We Are Drugs was surf inspired. That song absolutely rocks to me.”
“This talk was given at Mindfest, put on by the Center for the Future Mind, which is spearheaded by Professor of Philosophy, Susan Schneider.”
“But on the other end of the tempo spectrum is a song like To the Sea, which is like very slowed down and synthy and ethereal and you really feel this like floatiness and undulation in the tune.”
“for audio gear. I've got a set of clips, the fives, and I am not sure what to do with it.”
“I did end up trading my old Tesla. Model Y and then getting the new version. Um, and as a result, I got access to version 14 or the newest, latest, greatest FSD. Um, and that is a noticeable differenc…”
“I am still, I've just been all in on Zwift and, uh, it's just been interesting how the video game of vacation, of your workout is just so much better”
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“Claire used Claude Design to redesign my newsletter. I think it's a winner. https://lennys-product-zoneee.vercel.app/”
“GPT Image 2 from @openai is now on Replicate Killer photorealism and crisp text rendering with strong adherence to layouts, UI, and design use cases.”
“I use two keyword tools um I'm not very original in this but they are very very practical so I used e Rank”
“Open weights. Agentic coding that actually finishes.”
“This paper presents F²LP-AP (Fast and Flexible Label Propagation with Adaptive Propagation Kernel), a training-free, computationally efficient framework...”
“I support a group called Sea Tree. I support Yeah. I support the Smith Lab in at UC San Diego.”
“Read our research: https://research.perplexity.ai/articles/advancing-search-augmented-language-models”
“AI natives can now use Kimi K2.6 on Together AI and benefit from reliable inference for production-scale autonomous agent workflows.”
“How to Draw a Candlestick Chart in R? – Both ggplot2 and plotly”
“How to Draw a Candlestick Chart in R? – Both ggplot2 and plotly”
“Finally, someone is doing for emotional intelligence what has already happened for “exercise”: Dr Brackett delineates the clear actionable steps (protocols) to take in real time to develop these skill…”
“The book that I recommend to everyone these days are two books. One is The Empire of AI. And the other is Power and Progress.”
“The book that I recommend to everyone these days are two books. One is The Empire of AI. And the other is Power and Progress.”
“We’re also introducing GPT-5.5 Pro for Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT.”
“Hah, I ended up buying the V8 mentioned in that thread”
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“later managed to track down a VR1280!”
“Deep Agents Deploy: an open alternative to Claude Managed Agents”
“Dive into the technical details → https://deepmind.google/blog/decoupled-diloco/?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=&utm_content=”
“It builds on 2️⃣ earlier advances: Pathways: an AI system that connects different computer chips...”
“DiLoCo: an approach to minimize the bandwidth needed across distributed centers.”
“So again, there's always more value purchasing an Apple product directly on Amazon than there is from Apple itself.”
“I haven't owned a Mac laptop in a while, of course, cuz I'm a big iPad Pro guy, but I wanted to see how the other side lives for a little bit.”
“This space black MacBook is sick.”
“So, my recommendation is if you are in the market for an Apple product that isn't an iPhone... go on Amazon first, see what deals they have, and you'll be surprised how much money you can save moving …”
“The M3 iPad Air can be had for less than $500 directly on Amazon instead of spending the $600 $700 for the same product at the Apple store.”
“Together as Decoupled DiLoCo, it can tackle the key challenge of training at scale.”
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“We introduce Auto-ART, an open-source framework that operationalizes identified gaps: 50+ attacks, 28 defense modules, the Robustness Diagnostic Index (RDI), and gradient-masking detection.”
“I endorse everything in this manifesto.”
“My digital twin is getting good. Thanks @blevlabs !”
“some more references in footnotes https://www.swyx.io/decade”
“New Huberman Lab Essentials episode out now: 30 minutes, key takeaways only.”
“New Huberman Lab Essentials episode out now: 30 minutes, key takeaways only. @erichjarvis”
“Listen to Cat”
“Lumos is an online debugging framework that exposes application-level bug provenances... Lumos provides developers with enough evidence to identify a bug's root cause, while incurring low runtime over…”
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“There are still likely a few weeks before the company files publicly, but PitchBook recently put out a great report looking at the business and its valuation. I want to bring on PitchBook's Franco Gra…”
“So my main thesis here is that Blackstone, which is one of the private credit managers that has been under a lot of scrutiny recently, is actually potentially a good investment to look at right now.”
“My first two TiKZ Sparks unicorns from DeepSeek v4.”
“Andrew's idea was let's get rid of all the phone names all the linguistic stuff and you know the old stuff let's just have one newer Network that maps from raw audio wave to the sentence to the spoken…”
“Patrick is the co-founder and CEO of Clarify, an AI-native CRM built for modern go-to-market teams.”
“Bill's an optimist on Humanity read his annual letters at the end of every year the gates annual letter and it will really pump you up about all that we we do”
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“My first two TiKZ Sparks unicorns from DeepSeek v4. (Expert mode, from the DeepSeek site, which is supposed to be v4 Pro according to the release)”
“Your uninvested cash can earn up to 3.95% APY. That's a 0.65% boost over an already high rate for three months, just for being a new client. Plus, free instant withdrawals to eligible accounts. Start …”
“But I think that the challenge has always been, I think, the ecosystem that Salesforce has around it. And it's been this great walled garden. But, you know, 25 years is a long time in technology. And …”
“Love using auto-review. It’s my new default mode”
“Every university needs a @mroth78 as president.”
“To facilitate this, we release \textbf{OpInstruct-HSx}, a synthetic dataset of $\approx$28k validated Haskell programs.”
“We have to shill Josh's uh blog post on deconstructor of fun. Now blog post is called the systems the platform can't build for you”
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“We introduce VEFX-Dataset, a human-annotated dataset containing 5,049 video editing examples across 9 major editing categories and 32 subcategories...”
“Building on VEFX-Dataset, we propose VEFX-Reward, a reward model designed specifically for video editing quality assessment.”
“Judd Kessler, a Wharton professor, author of Lucky by Design, tells us about market design, how we allocate scarce resources, and how we can use it to make a difference in our lives.”
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“DeepSeek V4 Pro is now available on Together AI. DeepSeek V4 Flash coming soon. Try it now: https://www.together.ai/models/deepseek-v4-pro”
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“Might be a good project to build with Hermes/OpenClaw.”
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“I'm often using a tool called flight connections, which you know, you can go and search this airport and see all the direct flights.”
“It's in the spirit of another pop econ book about market design, which Al wrote, which is called Who Gets What and Why.”
“My colleague, whose office is next to mine, had a book that came out a few weeks before mine. It's called Having It All. So my colleague is Corinne Lowe, and I'm really enjoying that book.”
“I think the two starting tools that I often recommend people look at, are award tool and points. Yeah, they let you search multiple airports, multiple date ranges, different cabins, different programs…”
“I've talked about PointMe in the past, and I think it's more comprehensive. It's better for step-by-step booking instructions, but it's not perfect because it doesn't have really flexible searching on…”
“Or if you're really technical, seats.arrow is another kind of power user tool. It has a higher learning curve, but is a lot more capable.”
“Me? I made an AI to help me see the AI community here on X in a new way: https://t.co/8L5xphk0qQ which helps me see the whales and the small accounts. So I know it is possible.”
“Talked to @ListenLabs co-founder + CTO @florian_jue in the latest Max Agency.”
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“Talked to @ListenLabs co-founder + CTO @florian_jue in the latest Max Agency.”
“In this work, we present SCALA (Signaling CA with Local Attraction), a novel non-hierarchical cellular automaton decoder for quantum repetition and toric codes.”
“By evaluating SCALA alongside the hierarchical CA decoder proposed by Harrington, we provide a direct comparison between non-hierarchical and renormalization-group-style local decoding strategies.”
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“There is one award tool that I didn't mention earlier. That is got to be my favorite which is the points path browser extension.”
“Professor F Lee so for fa many of you might know her as the inventor of imet which you know ties back to 2012 image net was was what made alet possible because you know networks need a lot of data to …”
“the podcasts just in and around startups you know whether it's this week you know in startups the all in pod obviously the stuff that Jason's doing but also acquired which is a great podcast that goes…”
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“We also introduce the QFrame python library, which is used to automate the construction of quantum circuits that represent reciprocal transforms.”
“We present pygridsynth, an open-source Python library for ancilla-free approximate Clifford+$T$ synthesis... Taken together, these features make pygridsynth a Python-native platform for high-precision…”
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“We further release VEFX-Bench, a benchmark of 300 curated video-prompt pairs for standardized comparison of editing systems.”