gill verdon
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Tired: DDPM's.Wired: DTM's.
Update on our journey scaling thermodynamic computing from 0 to 1 million pbits. Includes a sneak preview of our Denoising Thermodynamic Models (DTM) algorithmic architecture & benchmarks.
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No one:.Absolutely no one:.Exited founders:.
yesterday I walked 18 miles and whittled two spoons. your soul needs very little to be happy. just keep your hands busy and your feet moving.
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Claude 3 Opus just reinvented this quantum algorithm from scratch in just 2 prompts. The paper is not on the internet yet. 🔥🤯
Fun little paper to appear tonight on the arXiv. How to do Hamiltonian Monte Carlo on digital Quantum Computers. As physics-based probabilistic ML accelerators are on the horizon, important to test how QC's could try to compete. Best way to predict future is to invent it.🙂
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"I want to kill companies that deserve to die. I believe in efficient markets.".-@PalmerLuckey
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Motor intelligence is ~10x harder than neocortical intelligence (language, art, etc); takes 10x more neurons and took 100-1000x longer to evolve. Everyone thinking that blue collar work was going to get automated before white collar work is in for a rude awakening.
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GPTchat can build quantum-classical neural nets 🤯🤖⚛️. It's so over. 😳
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Be like Richard Feynman. Don't ruin your beautiful neural machine. Say no to psychedelics.
Psychedelics create a high-temperature annealing phase of your brain. On average it seems like re-rolling your hyperparameters yields net negative perf delta. Insanely stupid to do as a founder, where your internal reward system steers a company IMO. Stick to Diet Coke, anon.
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Thank goodness at least I'm not on the 30 under 30 list.
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@pronounced_kyle That's exactly how exponentials work. Looking forward to saluting the galactic being at age 30.
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This week's AI breakthroughs remind us that humans are, in the end, pretty much probabilistic parrots too.
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Civilization desperately needs novel cultural and computing paradigms for us to achieve grander scope & scale and a prosperous future. I strongly believe thermodynamic physics and AI hold many of the answers we seek. As such, 18 months ago, I set out to build such cultural and.
Hey everyone, serious post for a second. As you may have seen, I have unfortunately gotten my identity and stealth startup doxxed by reporters via voice forensics and web sleuthing. As the day has finally come, I thought I’d share more about who I am. I’ve kept my identity.
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This is where I tweet from. Literally closed the Seed round on 2 phones from the Starbase parking lot, the day before the Starship launch. 📱📱🚗🚀🏭
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Damn, they weren't lying, the leaked YC memo to Founders goes hard 😳😳
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I think my Vision Pro is acting weird. all I see is this weird countdown
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Here is the full episode right here on @X. Enjoy!.
Here's my conversation with Guillaume Verdon (@GillVerd) aka Beff Jezos (@BasedBeffJezos), a physicist, quantum computing researcher, and founder of e/acc (effective accelerationism) movement that advocates for rapid technological progress, physics-based reasoning, and memes.
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The main thing stopping you from becoming a billionaire is your unwillingness to be misunderstood for extended periods of time.
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Microsoft finally achieving Majorana qubits. A huge milestone they have been pursuing for quite some time. Now comes the scaling for truly fault tolerant quantum computing. It will take a while, but this is a foundational technology for humanity.
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The difference between probabilistic vs quantum computing is that quantum programs can leverage destructive interference. Programs are like programmable layers of slits. Wave-like (quantum) vs gas-like (thermo) propagation.
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Hot take: anybody not pushing for more nuclear power is not a pragmatic environmentalist and is just leveraging a crisis/divisive topic to push an agenda, gain power/capital, and/or social status. Happy Earth day. Go nuclear. 🌎♥️☢️.
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Do whatever it takes.
"i quit big tech, moved in with my parents, sold my car, let go of my apartment, bought about $100k of gpus and i just started building. " @GillVerd / @BasedBeffJezos f-ing legend
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"I want to kill companies that deserve to die. I believe in efficient markets.".-@PalmerLuckey
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You fools were worshipping a canadian this entire time? 😭😭.
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Canad/acc.
The Canadians are growing too powerful. Specifically the engineers they are sending to Silicon Valley. Their numbers grow by the day and their startup ideas are insanely ambitious. Beff's doxxing has only emboldened them. It may already be too late.
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Self-organizing complex systems are self-similar at multiple scales.
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So good 🔥
Had to Ghiblify @Extropic_AI — very worth it (although, in reality, @trevormccrt1 is reasonably taller than @GillVerd)
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Fun little paper to appear tonight on the arXiv. How to do Hamiltonian Monte Carlo on digital Quantum Computers. As physics-based probabilistic ML accelerators are on the horizon, important to test how QC's could try to compete. Best way to predict future is to invent it.🙂
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"anon, i was at the 4am Grindmas grind sesh at the office and didn't see u there. r u sure you celebrate?"
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Regardless of the outcome of the study of #LK99, what's clear is that everyone has woken up to the potential of materials research to change the world. The next era of materials discovery will be AI-guided, further accelerating the rate of breakthroughs. We are on the verge of.
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Valar Atomics (@valaratomics) absolutely mogging other nuclear cos in terms of capital efficiency (and aesthetics). Bullish.
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Got our first Thermo silicon chips from our manufacturer.
What did you get done this week?.
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Pessimists don't even make the footnote in the annals of history. Ignore them and keep accelerating.
BREAKING: Wright brother’s forced to make emergency landing just 12 seconds after takeoff.
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Got chip?
This chip will accelerate AI compute way past Moore's Law. I sat down with @GillVerd and @trevormccrt1 to talk about their new ambitious startup @Extropic_AI launching today.
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Moore's law is coming to an end. @Extropic_AI is pioneering the next-gen system for end-to-end neural information processing at the thermodynamic limits of computing. Many more details to come. 🔥🫡. Thanks to @willknight for the feature in @WIRED today.
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The universe is full of resources and free energy that are locked away behind a barrier of complexity. Increasing intelligence and technology levels unlock these resources. Don't let anyone convince you the pie is finite. Civilizational skill issue.
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@FarisSbahi You know exactly what you did. I hope you sleep well at night. 🐍 . Coming for you. 😘.
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Palmer is evidence that "prove them wrong" energy can build generational companies.
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Excited to have S³ News visit our superconducting thermodynamic computing lab and fab during our first data and manufacturing runs. These are the first steps in our quest to redefine computing from first physical principles. We're stoked to bring you all along this journey.
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Michael Andregg (@michaelandregg) announcing that Eon is looking to achieve whole human brain scan and emulation by 2030 🤯
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If you told me my lecture on quantum energy teleportation from 2015 would be at the top of internet search results back then I would never have believed you. Thanks to @perplexity_ai for the feature 🙏
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Quantum computing was the warmup. The main show is about to begin.
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The world doesn't need more chat and docs apps. Silicon Valley needs to get back to its roots focus on deep tech again. There needs to be a YC for deep/risky tech (hardware, quantum, AI), otherwise most VC funding will be burned trying to make more Snapchats/Notions/Slacks.
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Intelligence is a thermodynamic process and we're building its steam engine.
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I've seen things I cannot unsee. The future of computing will be wildly different.
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Finally met Palmer Luckey today. Thanked him for all he's done for deep tech / defense tech founders. Firm handshakes all around. 🤝
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Reinvented computing from first principles twice from scratch over the past two and a half years. Open sourcing one of them so the world can accelerate the advent of this technology.
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A glorious day. This is just the beginning.
Announcing our $14.1M Seed round.
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@elonmusk @QuilletteM @pewdiepie @RichardDawkins This would be the ultimate meeting of meme masterminds.
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@flcnhvy @elonmusk @ERCOT_ISO Solar ain't gonna help much in a snow storm. Tesla needs a nuclear division 🙌👌😤.
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"How important is the ego component of your drive to do what you do?" -@PeterDiamandis ."It is massively important to me. I need everyone who wronged me to weep." -@PalmerLuckey .🔥🔥🔥
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Just recorded a banger episode of the @PirateWires pod. The champions of:.Freedom of speech (@micsolana) +.Freedom of exchange (@balajis) +.Freedom of compute (@BasedBeffJezos).joining forces. You won't want to miss it.
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My next company in 20 years.
just a little more compute bro. I promise bro, just one more star system…we’re so close bro. just one more and we’ll summon god bro. bro cmon at least just this star man…please!
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I think I know but ya'll won't like the answer. .
TikTok parent Bytedance has a drug discovery team and has a bunch of open reqs for computational biology PhD’s. Meta. Google and Microsoft have teams dedicated to it too. Software is eating the world
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Elon is the GOAT.
Hardware is hard. That’s why Elon is by far the greatest founder of all time. Remember — countless startups die just while trying to put stationary beige boxes on desktops. Very smart people get crushed by supply chain disruptions, or China tariffs, or lockdowns, or shipping.
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Some takeaways from @ID_AA_Carmack on Lex Fridman:.-now is highest-leverage moment in history to work on AGI.-estimates AGI ETA ~2030.-code for AGI will be simple/single-dev implementable.-fast takeoff ("AI foom") is implausible
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Launched the idea that has possessed me for 8 years.
What did you get done this week?.
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Thermo + probabilistic computing community will be bigger than the quantum computing community in a few years. Mark my words. Let the quantum exodus begin.
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If you think e/acc changed the world, just wait until you see the impact thermodynamic computing will have on it. Give it time. Come back to this post in a few years.
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Your time is limited. Don't waste it living someone else's life.
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Going to tease the future of computation here today. A fitting venue.
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Reverse engineering how black holes compress information is originally what got me inspired to start working on quantum machine learning algorithms.
Black holes are kinda insane at compression. 66 orders of magnitude improvement to compress the universe.
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My life is simply a quest to find zero-day exploits in physics.
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The year is 2030. Local pharmacies have the mRNA equivalent of 3D printers. Variant sequencing is ubiquitous. Updated vaccine formulas can easily be downloaded & distributed via the internet. Humanity effectively unlocks a meta-immune system. How can we make this happen faster?.
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You can think of the quantum supremacy demo as demonstrating a form of quantum hashing from parameter space to bit space. It's really a demo of quantum chaos, but not a useful algorithm.
Introducing Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip with a breakthrough that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits, cracking a 30-year challenge in the field. In benchmark tests, Willow solved a standard computation in <5 mins that would.
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btw, this is the thing that cools thermodynamic neurons
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POV: you're yapping about thermodynamics and the Kardashev scale
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A bit of quantum, a lot of thermo, and a sprinkle of acceleration. Should be a bit in there for everyone.
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My first doxxed pod. 🥲. Had a great time with the @MOZ_Podcast & @bayeslord last night!. Give it a listen if you are interested in hearing more about @Extropic_AI as well.
New @MOZ_Podcast is out w @basedbeffjezos, @antoniogm, @dwr, @eriktorenberg, @labenz, + @bayeslord . We cover:.- Doxxing.- Alpha in AI right now.- What @GillVerd (AKA @BasedBeffJezos) is building w/ @Extropic_AI.- The gospel of e/acc. Links in comments.
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Got top 3! 🥉🏆. XPrize will now fundraise for this cause!! 💰🤝🏆. Extremely excited for energy-efficient intelligence to get the limelight it deserves ⚡🧠🤖. Time to raise $100M!
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If you would have told me 3 years ago that I would create an account and philosophy that would get me on such a stage to debate heads of state, I wouldn't have believed you. Life can get weird 😆.
Was on a panel at the @WorldGovSummit in Dubai arguing against AI overregulation and for open source AI, debating the head of IT of South Africa
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Kudos to Yud for understanding the importance of pseudonymity.
We disagree about almost everything, but a major frown at Forbes for doxxing the e/acc in question. Many of society's problems are Things We Can't Say. Building up a pseudonym with a reputation is one remedy. Society is worse off as people become more afraid to speak.
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My whole career in quantum computing was intended from day 1 as an intellectual warmup for the devices I am building now.
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Unreal.
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