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christian
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christian
@curious_vii
driven by compression progress // “Dilige, et quod vis fac:”
Philadelphia, PA
Joined October 2009
- Replying to @deepfatesAlso, was considering back surgery bc pain was so bad due to a slipped disc in '19; stopped wearing shoes during the pandemic and it was totally healed in ~6 weeks
- I’m a huge fan of @yudapearl’s “The Book of Why,” esp his 3-level causal reasoning model. But it got me wondering… Could there be even higher levels of causal reasoning? So I asked GPT-4, and it produced a speculative take w/ 6 additional levels. Here they are, from 1–9 🧵
- Replying to @tekniumInteresting, maybe there's a reason other than customer-centricity that they'd like to make it as easy as possible to input high-velocity and high-volume streams of proprietary data?
- It just hit me that what the iPhone did to hardware, AI will do to software. We used to have a million different physical products and devices to meet our needs for communication, getting news, listening to music, taking photos, etc. Then, BOOM, it all collapses into the
- I was a Google hater for a long time but tbh Gemini is awesome, and they've done a great job integrating and simplifying things for Workspace users Had an incredibly compelling "client magic moment" yesterday where the ceo created a Gem that compacted contract review from 6
- Replying to @thecaptain_nemoNoticed that. Sam recently indicated that AGI would require additional breakthroughs; Ilya spoke as if the current transformer-based approaches were enough during his latest interview. Hm.
- First-ever MBA case study (1919) was about managing disgruntled workers when #inflation was eating up wages. Interesting to read a century later.
- Since I shut down my startup at the beginning of the year and started doing indie consulting (as initially a temporary thing), I have served 36 clients across 3 continents, built multiple "artisanal software" applications used in production workflows, worked with brilliant
- Replying to @natfriedman"what's the most important thing no one's paying attention to?" pipe your meeting transcripts into that one and be amazed...
- Replying to @buccocapitalif you think that's crazy, wait 'til you find out the entire entire "consumer economy" has been underwritten by unsecured sovereign bonds for decades...
- ChatGPT is making me love programming again
