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Surya

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Surya

@sdand

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Joined November 2016

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Surya
@sdand
Feb 11
the ability to predict the future is less about domain knowledge and more about idea generation coming up with good ideas requires extreme clarity of thought
Brandon Beylo
@marketplunger1
Feb 8
This turned out to be one of the greatest investment decisions of the past three years. Amazing.
Surya
@sdand
Aug 9, 2024
By 21, you've lived half your life—perceptually Our brain's internal clock is predominantly dopaminergic: novel experiences slow time, routine accelerates it. This time warp means perceived age outpaces real age(studies prove this) Solution? Just do more cool shit. Blog below!
Sam Altman
@sama
Sep 21, 2017
From a psychologist friend: "Adjusted for the subjective increase in how fast time passes, life is half over by 23 or 24. Don't waste time."
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This graph is made up, but presented as though actual data is being plotted. The details of time perception as age changes are being debated by psychologists: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_perc… Below is the spreadsheet used to generate this graph. It's literally just plotting ln(x). docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
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Surya
@sdand
Jul 11, 2024
made an app that guesses where you are in the world with just a picture using image embeddings trained on street view data first time using swiftui, consumer apps in general, TestFlight below
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Surya
@sdand
Feb 8, 2024
night vision with the apple vision pro, no cameras needed
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Surya
@sdand
Mar 9, 2023
I’ve sold everything. I’m tired of losing money. Just withdrew everything and put it all into 97% grade solid Tungsten Hiding my stash under my bed. No more banks, cold wallets, or credit cards. Just pure tungsten
Surya
@sdand
Jan 29, 2025
made a site to run deepseek r1 for free -- locally in your browser, no downloads, no servers purely using WebGPU r1-web is open source, made in america, run on american servers, available below forever
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This project doesn’t run a DeepSeek R1 model, but its distilled version on a Qwen2.5-1.5B github.com/sdan/r1-web
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Surya
@sdand
Oct 16, 2025
To solve AGI, we must first solve Geoguessr For that I built vlm-gym, a simple RL gym written in scratch, in JAX for Qwen3VL-4B (released yesterday) And added Geospot, a RL environment for geolocation and learned VLMs can learn how to geoguess. More:
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Surya
@sdand
Jan 6, 2024
Replying to @ipsumkyle
Surya
@sdand
Dec 23, 2024
everyday I spend 4 million tokens coding, 2 million on research (gemini, claude), and my claude computer agent spends 8-20m tokens scrolling and emailing me in 2019 i vividly remember opening up a colab notebook to finish my last HS essay with gpt2 frustrated that teachers never
Surya
@sdand
Nov 15, 2023
chatgpt plus accounts selling ebay for a premium 🫡🇺🇸
Sam Altman
@sama
Nov 15, 2023
we are pausing new ChatGPT Plus sign-ups for a bit :( the surge in usage post devday has exceeded our capacity and we want to make sure everyone has a great experience. you can still sign-up to be notified within the app when subs reopen.
Surya
@sdand
May 13, 2022
Replying to @neelsomani
incredible
Surya
@sdand
Mar 18, 2024
this weekend i went through every OpenAI employee's Github contribution history, aggregated them to predict when GPT-5 will drop tldr: soon(but late)
Surya
@sdand
Oct 13, 2025
I made a RL policy that guesses where a picture was taken without GPS data It continuously learns, updating its weights with every use in realtime -- over the weekend it improved 13.9% with <100 images Best of all, it does this without ever storing any image data, link below
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Surya
@sdand
Jul 10, 2023
Just got Code Interpreter to run GPT-2 117M with GGML entirely in ChatGPT Spent the weekend nurturing a relationship to get to this point -- also if you try enough you can upload zips of up to 250mb