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Dawid van Straaten

@nullaxiom

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Generalist, autodidact with interests in mathematics, programming, psychology, and neuroscience. Works with @davidbombal. Opinions are my own!

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Joined July 2018
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When you get the 0.1% of hackers on your channel. @Steph3nSims on @davidbombal! Go check it out and enjoy
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At least it has now been established that you don't need to be able to think to achieve gold at the IMO.
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We need more science and less Silicon Valley sales tactics and fear mongering. There should also be oversight on Frontier Labs, but they will never go for it because "China" will beat them.
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RT @GaryMarcus: memorization versus reasoning is a false dichotomy. almost all machine learning systems can go beyond their training data….
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RT @GaryMarcus: Hot take on OpenAI’s IMO gold. What does it mean? I don’t know (yet). The fact that no tools, coding or internet was used….
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LRMs should be called LHMs.
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I try to employ a fail fast mentality. It allows me to see the problems earlier than later.
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AI workflows can reduce many mistakes made by agentic AI.
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Surprise favorite new YouTuber doing great content is @TaylorLorenz, and I know she's been at it for 2 years, but her latest content is 🔥. Her School is dead, ChatGPT is becoming a religion and How the government is tracking your life to name a few are brilliant videos. I know.
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RT @three_cube: Linux Basics for Hackers 2nd Edition was published yesterday!. It is the #1 Bestseller on Amazon!. Now, you can get the boo….
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Honestly I think LLMs are the illusion or imitation of thinking, language didn't come before building a model of the world. There are a lot of tests that you can do from the cognitive sciences that shows this, and which LLMs fails at, and the guys at big companies are simply.
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Yesterday, 25 years ago. A team of the most talented game developers released one of the greatest games of all time. Without Warren Spector, @Harvey1966, Sheldon Pacotti, and a whole team of super talented people whom I didn't mention, we wouldn't have had Deus Ex, still a.
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RT @FreedomofPress: Today marks the 2nd anniversary of the passing of legendary whistleblower, anti-war hero, and FPF co-founder @DanielEll….
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Honest question, as someone who didn't learn Python as a first language. I learned C and C++ before Python. Spaces and tabs really seemed like the dumbest thing to argue about. Why was it ever a thing, when most programmers using other C-type syntax languages never worried about.
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The future of Rust programming tutorials. 🤣
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Network training taken to the next level 🤣
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LLMs can be helpful if you know what you're doing, and they could disastrous if you don't know what you're doing. So you should still become an expert in your field.
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Everything is not what it appears to be. Remain skeptical of what you think you see and experience. These are not generally good things to trust, unless it can be reproduced under very strict conditions, even then your perceptions can fool you.
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Cornal Hendricks was a great player who had his opportunities taken away by a rare heart disease and ended up playing for my favorite club @BlueBullsRugby 4 years after he was told he'll never play rugby again. Cornal was a great human being, someone with tenacity. You will be.
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RT @PhysInHistory: Margaret Hamilton in 1969, standing next to listings of the software she and her MIT team produced for the Apollo proje….
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RT @amermathsoc: Today, we celebrate International Women in Mathematics Day in memory of Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fiel….
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