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thinking @stanford. prev @stitchbygoogle, @OpenAI Converge.

Stanford, CA
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Markus Zhang
2 years
built a Vision Pro 👓 ai tutor @ stanford treehacks 🌲 w @aheze0 . - 📽️ generates ai video (not sora) for math visuals .- 📺 searches 3b1b videos & mit ocw pdfs.- ⏳rewind time, see older transcripts/content. ✨ ClassX ✨
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RT @kylejeong21: RL environments are the new dropshipping.
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Join millions who have switched to Grok.
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overheard in sf: "don't use pip install! uv add!!".
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in high school I was obsessed with making the perfect playlist, so I scraped all of public Spotify to train embedding models. I was hella dumb and had a vocab of 10M := 10M distinct songs, and got destroyed chatgpt “prompt.me a playlist”. Led me to obsession with chatgpt.
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share a piece of lore about yourself getting into research
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RT @SemiAnalysis_: TSMC 2nm process data leak investigation🧵. Taipei time August 5th, a trade secret leak case involving TSMC's 2nm technol….
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Happy gpt5 day to those who celebrate.
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RT @_jasonwei: The longest chain-of-thought / reasoning trace I have witnessed was almost twenty minutes long and involved crazy backtracki….
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- I have not understood an idea until I can see the pattern of its flaws. - I have not mastered an idea until I can improve those flaws. The judges vary: logic for math, peers for science, market for products.
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RT @gunsnrosesgirl3: The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the o….
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When AGI comes, what’s the purpose of a university?. Good answers only pls.
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6 months
Speaking with friends top in other fields humbles me. i.e, bio x ai:.- to me, bio is 1 application of an AI method, among many.- to them, AI is 1 tool that bio can use, among many. this framing shift is important. many paths lead to the same goal of a better humanity.
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For Parents Weekend, Stanford pulls out all the stops … steak, flatbread, cheese plate, focaccia. Clearly a good capitalist knows who are its *real* customers … not the students, but their parents’ pocketbooks !
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Recent work on inference scaling laws shows that when you have automatic verifiers, throwing more compute at generation can dramatically improve success rates.
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So errr we made *brain typing* at treehacks. Think of moving your left and right cheek (kinesis), and that maps to 0 and 1. Make any letter from binary w Huffman codes. Then use autocomplete to type faster. Voila, you can type like Stephen Hawking at 2x speed.
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5/ NeuroScribe. Brain computer interface keyboard. Translate thoughts into binary, which can be translated into any language
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Forget hugging trees. We need to save our planet for ~data collection~, this paper claims. We haven’t measured the Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) of exotic species yet, which is useful for hacking nature; and we need them to not be extinct?.
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Scaling laws suggest that more than a trillion species inhabit our planet but only a miniscule and unrepresentative fraction (less than 0.00001%) have been studied or sequenced to date. Deep learning...
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The reason narratives are important is they end up driving economic activity.
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A disregard of the past is a beautiful feature of America. Humanity has the rest of the world for culture and heritage. America can’t help but reinvent herself, for each new generation doesn’t know what the old guard invented in the first place.
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Our mini Baymax ❤️ crazy that RL + LLMs can make Pixar dreams come true!. What a clever reinvention of such a mundane desk thing. What if we made cute robots that humans loved.
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Apple's Machine Learning Research team just gave us our first look at the possible upcoming tabletop robot which was reported by @markgurman
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RT @paulg: This may be the most inspiring sentence I've ever read. Which is interesting because it's not phrased in the way things meant to….
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The underdog was once a loser. The oppressor was once a winner. The narrative outside changes. Who you are inside shouldn’t.
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RT @KobeissiLetter: Chip Stocks Overnight Reaction to DeepSeek:. 1. Arm, $ARM: -5.5%.2. Nvidia, $NVDA: -5.3%.3. Broadcom, $AVGO: -4.9%.4. S….
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