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Nick Bergson-Shilcock

@nicholasbs

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You can do more than you think you can. New Yorker by choice. Cofounder and CEO @RecurseCenter.

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Joined April 2007
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@nicholasbs
Nick Bergson-Shilcock
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Conspiracy theory: Banks and airlines discovered LLMs years ago and this explains their captchas.
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nolen
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idea: inverted captchas that are ~impossible for humans to solve serve them to suspected bots using AI models to solve captchas. if they solve it successfully they fail the test
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Nick Bergson-Shilcock
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OpenAI Anthropic DeepMind MSL xAI Reflection SSI Mistral Prometheus Who am I missing?
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Nick Bergson-Shilcock
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The US and Europe aren't on different continents, they're on different planets.
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Paul Graham
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With rules like this, who would invest in a German startup? Not me.
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Nick Bergson-Shilcock
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"How did you spend your time off of work?" If you're lucky enough to have a chunk of time when you don't need a job, you want to make it count. Only you can answer this question for yourself, but it's helpful to hear stories of how others have used their time, and what they
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Arya Sundaram
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NEW potential NY state immigration policies just announced in @GovKathyHochul State of the State: - NY state sanctuary policy - ICE can't enter schools, houses of worship, hospitals without a judicial warrant - NYers can sue ICE if their constitutional rights are violated
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Governor Kathy Hochul
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Housing. Infrastructure. Clean energy. When communities say yes, New York will LET THEM BUILD.
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@BillKristol
Bill Kristol
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"ICE agents operate masked, heavily militarized, and without any visible identification...In democratic societies, the use of lawful force depends on legitimacy. Legitimacy depends on accountability. And accountability begins with identification."
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ICE won’t even match the courage and professionalism of the Iraqi Police.
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Full post here:
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Nick Bergson-Shilcock
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"Choosing learning over autopilot" A thoughtful, a concrete approach to coding rigorously with LLMs by an RC alum now at Netflix.
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nolen
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unicode braille characters are 2x4 rectangles of dots that can be individually set. That's 8x the pixels you normally get in the terminal! anyway here's a proof of concept terminal SVG renderer using unicode braille:
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@OnodaCapital
Hiroo Onoda
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I’m just howling at the mental justifications for the “conservative” Presidency indicting the Fed Chairman while troops are in the streets with Bernie Sanders’ preferred trade and consumer lending policies. All with like 3.6 divorces per cabinet member
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@reidhoffman
Reid Hoffman
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Question to all those who said Trump would be better for the economy: is attacking the Fed’s independence what you had in mind?
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Federal Reserve
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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: https://t.co/5dfrkByGyX
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@RpsAgainstTrump
Republicans against Trump
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Reminder: On his first day in office, Trump pardoned 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters. More than 600 had been charged with assaulting, resisting, or obstructing law enforcement, including about 175 accused of using deadly or dangerous weapons or causing serious injury to officers.
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Homeland Security
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Reminder: if you lay a finger on a federal officer or agent, you will face the full extent of the law.
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Aaron Rupar
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Tapper to Noem: "I just showed you video of people attacking law enforcement officers on January 6. Undisputed evidence, and I just said, President Trump pardoned all of them. You said that President Trump is enforcing all the laws equally. That's just not true. There's a
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Nick Bergson-Shilcock
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It's gotten a beating from all sides these past many years, but the hill I'll die on is that liberalism is good, actually. Constitutionally limited government with enumerated powers, individual rights, rule of law, immigration, and free speech, trade & markets.
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Daractenus
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Unless you do it while you attack the U.S. Capitol, then you’ll just get a presidential pardon.
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Homeland Security
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Reminder: if you lay a finger on a federal officer or agent, you will face the full extent of the law.
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Nick Bergson-Shilcock
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Also, by idolizing someone who embodies the opposite of these things, modern Republicans show they don’t care about most traditional ethical values and signs of character: - honesty - integrity - fidelity to your spouse - modesty - humility - respect - conscientiousness -
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Turnbull
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Things that Republicans no longer believe in. 1. Limited government 2. Citizen rights to protect themselves from a tyrannical government 3. States’ rights 4. Free market capitalism 5. Independent banking system 6. Reducing the federal debt and deficit 7. Freedom of
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Nick Bergson-Shilcock
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I wonder which lab's next round they'll invest all this in?
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a16z
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At Andreessen Horowitz, we just raised over $15B. With these new funds including American Dynamism ($1.176B), Apps ($1.7B), Bio + Health ($700M), Infrastructure ($1.7B), Growth ($6.75B), and other venture strategies ($3B), we raised over 18% of all venture capital dollars
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Nick Bergson-Shilcock
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Last time I tweeted this, @BoBurlingham replied and I learned about Small Giants, which was a revelation.
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