Faisal Abid
@FaisalAbid
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I build things
Toronto, Canada
Joined June 2008
We open the successive doors in Bluebeard’s castle because “they are there,” because each leads to the next by a logic of intensification which is that of the mind’s own awareness of being. To leave one door closed would be not only cowardice but a betrayal—radical,
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because science literacy is at an all time low. and nobody reads anymore. and people are retarded.
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Too many good brains have been afflicted by the pointless enthusiasm for useless knowledge.
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Until I went online, I didn't know there were so many idiots in the world.
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All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there
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This year’s #NobelPrize laureate in physics John Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data. The Hopfield network can store patterns and has a method for recreating them. When the network is given an
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BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
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Time for me to dive into LLMs and function calling. OpenAI, Gemini and Ollama APIs allow you to declare functions when calling their services. I initially thought the these AI services were going to call my function. But no, they return which function should be called with
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Need to do another one!!
😢 Missing so much the socializing and getting together with @nellarro @thundernerds @htavarez @ksivamuthu @vincentntang @FaisalAbid and everyone at Conf-migos For Life ❤️
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OpenAI has just revealed how very far they are from AGI.
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Tao on o1: “It may only take one or two further iterations of improved capability (and integration with other tools, such as computer algebra packages and proof assistants) until the level of "competent graduate student" is reached”
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The gang after a round of #RainbowSixSiege
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Linkin Park debuts new singer Emily Armstrong, replacing the late Chester Bennington
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This is a fantastic book. Highly recommend
The Beauty of Kernel Methods: A visual intuition for why the explosive combination of support vector machines (SVMs) and kernel methods made SVMs so hot—before neural networks dethroned them in the early 2010s. SVMs find an optimal classification boundary between, for example,
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“tell toranaga-sama that cursor is incredible. a game changer. in its current form it’s basically the equivalent of having a technical cofounder or a team of senior engineers. tell him i’m excited to see what i can build with cursor + claude” “the anjin doesn’t know how to code”
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Who would have thought that we should have been worried about Disney more than Weyland Corporation
This is wild. Disney is not just about movies anymore. They're building humanoid robots that can move like us:
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Cursor is the practical AI innovation needed in developer tools. Having used it all weekend, I can say that the future is now. Just bought the year subscription. @cursor_ai
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