Mike Taylor
@hammer_mt
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🤖 AI persona simulators at https://t.co/QtPqoTk2G0 📕 O'Reilly author on Prompt Engineering 🎓 250k students on my generative AI course 📈 Built a 50 person growth agency
Liverpool, UK
Joined February 2009
It turns out the secret ingredient was people. We did interviews with 100 real people (so far...) and trained AI personas to respond like them until a superhuman LLM-judge couldn't tell them apart. Now our responses in Ask Rally don't suffer from any of the issues that purely
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Top of mind because I just took my son on an overnight trip down to London, while my wife looked after my daughter back home. If you have more then one kid, you'll be pleasantly surprised at how differently they behave when on their own with you.
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Big realisation that wasn't intuitive at first is that you have to put effort into strengthening each individual edge rather than attempt to involve all nodes in all events.
every child you add to your family adds much more than one new relationship third child = four more relationships fourth child = five more relationships
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Jesus it's even worse than I considered - build a valuable company elsewhere and you can basically never come live in London for a bit without losing a fifth of your equity!?
@jamesdacombe Many have exit tax but they also have a valuation on entry...ie come to our country and gains you have made before getting here is not taxed....UK does not it says sell anything when here and we will tax it all.
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In my experience most entrepreneurs are willing to give up lots of money in steady employment purely because they hate working for idiots. Every tax rise is a reminder the idiots in charge already wasted the other money you made for them.
in my experience, most entrepreneurs and innovators just fucking get on with it - they certainly don’t react to having to pay a few percentage points more in tax by saying “i’m staying in bed” or “i’m going to live in another country”
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The beauty of capitalism is that you're perfectly free to start a rival autonomous electric vehicle company and recruit an NHS nurse to run it for a trillion dollars.
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He only gets this if he turns Tesla into an $8.5 trillion company. So it's actually 179 million times more than a nurse and he's only "hoarding" 12% of that value.
Tesla have approved a $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk. That's 20 billion times more than a nurse in the UK earns. Don't let anyone tell you immigrants or disabled people are the problem. It's the richest 1% hoarding all the wealth. Time to tax the super-rich properly.
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Surely a vote for Zohran as the Working Families party would split the vote i.e. count as a vote against Zohran as the Democratic party? He doesn't just get to aggregate them together does he?
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani listed twice on the ballot for today’s NYC Mayoral Election. 92% chance he wins.
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Escape to paradise with this luxury Florida Waterfront Pool Home. Enjoy the sunshine for the holidays!
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That's one way to achieve affordable housing
JUST IN: A million New Yorkers claim they will flee the city if Mamdani wins tomorrow.
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This is great
The big article on data centers in the New Yorker is pretty good, which I wasn’t expecting given the reaction on X. Lots of good and bad: and covering both bubble & non-bubble arguments. It also featured the best version of “I spoke to a local farmer about a data center”
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Awesome to see these guys go from strength to strength
Kick's first Launch Week starts now. We’re releasing a new feature every day this week, starting with Reconciliation–it's accounting that does the work with you. And yes, @kickfinance just raised more to build the accounting firm of the future🧵
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> many came from rich families and had guaranteed incomes regardless of their grades The modern day equivalent is indie hackers who scaled past $10k MRR and don't need a job, so they screw around with AI and other interesting creative pursuits.
There's obviously some grade inflation going on, but I saw a fascinating trend at Oxford University over the last 80 years. Students in the 1950s had minimal pressure to do well; many came from rich families and had guaranteed incomes regardless of their grades. Hence the
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Most exciting thing we've launched since Feb
It turns out the secret ingredient to AI personas was (wait for it) real people 🔨. We did interviews with +110 real people (and counting...) and trained AI personas to respond like them until a superhuman LLM-judge couldn't tell them apart. Now our responses in AskRally don't
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We want to leave some work for the rest of you.
Why are intelligent high earning people so bad at arithmetic? If I am asked to write something for £1000 and I pay tax of 60% on that fee I am £400 better off than if I say ‘no thanks there’s no incentive to do it’ https://t.co/huS77OmHqv just do the job work harder and pay the
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The general public doesn't create anything that's useful in training AI. Only about 3% of people create rather than consume online.
Interesting proposal for compensating the public for data used in training. Note that there are of course a *lot* of potential objections; many of these are discussed and (often) dealt with in the paper
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So good
Friday night tip: If you see a "benchmark" result without reproducible code: call it "benchmarketing"
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It's not rocket salad 😂
@AscendedYield If supermarkets took less profits and used that money to lower prices then it follows that inflation will be lower. It’s not rocket salad.
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This is nails on a chalkboard for an introvert.
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GEPA+@DSPyOSS can optimize AI to generate human-like responses! Checkout this release by @hammer_mt! https://t.co/16OKQkIyBy
It turns out the secret ingredient was people. We did interviews with 100 real people (so far...) and trained AI personas to respond like them until a superhuman LLM-judge couldn't tell them apart. Now our responses in Ask Rally don't suffer from any of the issues that purely
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Solves the mystery why language models are great at coding.
The biggest predictor of coding ability is Language Aptitude. Not Math. A study posted in Nature found that numeracy accounts for just 2% of skill variance. Meanwhile, the neural behaviors associated with language accounted for 70% of skill variance.
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