Gavin Crooks

@gavincrooks

Physics-native unconventional computing.

Berkeley

threeplusone.com

Joined November 2008

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Gavin Crooks
@gavincrooks
Oct 29
It's been said that there are only three papers worth writing on a given topic: the first paper, the best paper, and the last paper. Maybe now is the time to be writing some last papers.
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Gavin Crooks
@gavincrooks
Oct 20
“An Anthropic researcher” is a funny way to describe Jascha, as if he were fungible.
Ruben
@rdominguezibar
Oct 18
An Anthropic researcher just told a room full of PhD students that their career plan no longer exists His 3 pieces of advice for students: 1. Use AI every day. If you're on the exponential, you'll never fall behind it. 2. Choose projects that get better when compute scales. The
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Gavin Crooks
@gavincrooks
Oct 16
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Thinking sand, burning through the gigawatts of Memphis. I watched thruster plumes glitter in the night beyond the McGregor gate. All those moments will be lost in the context window, like tokens past the cutoff. Time to compact.
Gavin Crooks
@gavincrooks
Oct 16
The singularity is already here – it's just not evenly distributed
Gavin Crooks
@gavincrooks
Sep 20
I don't feel this way at all. The dawn of the agentic era of science fills me with energy and enthusiasm. So many previously impossible projects are now merely hard! Truly an incredible time to be alive.
Boring_Business
@BoringBiz_
Sep 20
Once you watch Claude or some other LLM do a task that used to take you 3 hours in the span of just 3 minutes, all work starts to lose its purpose Have been hearing the same sentiment from many of my friends in middle management across tech, finance and other office jobs All
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