'The existence of Jupiter in our solar system can therefore be used to infer constraints on dark matter' Exciting paper from
@DjunaCroon
(
@IPPP_Durham
) with compelling perspectives for
#JWST
! Go read it!
its insane how 99.999% of suffering can be solved by
-picking up sth heavy
-seeing daylight
-drinking more water, caffeine, or both
-allocating a majority portion of financial assets into a digital currency with < 24 hours of market presence
.. its literally that simple
having a productivity fixation is important bc whenever there’s a voice in your head questioning if you’re lonely or on the wrong track in life there should be a louder voice yelling who cares if you’re a loser idiot you need to finish the fucking feature
I think human art still has value, not because a machine can't make it, but because just one person can have the talent to make something so beautiful that a machine can make perfectly without a second thought (or any real thought at all)
the Bryan Johnson story basically confirms our priors on the Zuckerberg story which is that if you’re an effeminate man in tech the highest EV thing you can do is start focusing on physical activity + build muscle so that people view you as a righteous leader
There's an argument to be made that we should be paying civil servants like $300,000 a year so that they actually focus on doing work instead of playing the political games necessary to secure their slice among the pizza rats
When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and search your soul。 you will find a hero lies in you。 dreams are hard to follow, but don‘t let anyone steal your dream
The Harvard letter thing is actually a good life lesson reminder that occasionally a small group of completely psychotically insane college students will appear out of nowhere and ask you to put your name onto some batshit fundraiser or petition and you need to learn to say no
one of the biggest blockers to progression is having to teach beginners that the secrets to success lie in words like "pandas" and "matplotlib" and "scipy" when you're trying to do something like "show a bar chart"
less than 20% of rural households with electricity at the onset of WWII! imagine coming home and having to explain, like, radar + radios + rocket bomber drones to people who have never seen a power outlet before
the overlap between communists and people who don’t support space travel becomes rational once you remember that their primary critique against capitalism is its never ending march towards resource consumption, which ceases to be an issue if we colonize the universe
It seems like everyone knows what RLHF is but what’s the devex around it? What tools are used? Once you’ve collected the data, what do you actually do to the model to get it to incorporate it?
if rich people always put their family in positions of power after ascending to the throne themselves it seems like a good survival strategy is to find a rich person and treat them better than their family does