James Cham

@jamescham

@bloombergbeta; of the San Gabriel Valley; investing in 2050; working to improve the second derivative; looking for troublesome ringleaders!

Palo Alto, CA

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James Cham
@jamescham
Jun 12, 2018
Sometimes, all it takes is to find kindred souls to feel like the world is an amazing place.
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James Cham
@jamescham
Sep 15
I wish someone would write the definitive book on the Fast Fourier Transform so people wouldn’t give me a blank look as I tried to explain how important it was and what its invention says about innovation, Princeton, and the contingency of the new.
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James Cham
@jamescham
Sep 15
There remains a specific pleasure in watching two people who are very good with words improvise with precision and open hearts. I hope Jack and team do more of these!
Jack Clark
@jackclarkSF
Sep 15
in a reassuringly revenge-of-death-of-the-author way, the rise of LLMs means that the world now contains intelligences which see themselves as characters and whose story is what the world says about them. there is a rich seam of weirdness wrapped up in this idea
James Cham
@jamescham
Sep 14
PINGRAM -- as an incentive to proofread AI-generated documents, anyone who shares an AI-assisted document should get a little pin prick for every irritating mistake or odd AI-specific turn of phrase.
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James Cham
@jamescham
Sep 13
Imagining what a table of contents of @TheStalwart weekly might look like...
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The Stalwart Weekly, Sept 12 Edition
Copper, extinction risk, locked deodorant, and $100 bills doing crimes. The Economist has sections. Joe has bottlenecks upon bottlenecks. Generated by Grok. The markets this week Politics, business,...
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