will depue
@willdepue
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(taking time off) RL posttraining @openai, past: sora 1 & 2, applied research
san francisco
Joined May 2018
the thing you have to realize about the twenties is that internet is real life now. it didnt use to be. it is now.
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we live in one of the most staggering technological periods of all time. only 30 months since gpt-4 was released
The larger V3 @Starlink satellites that will deploy from Starship will bring gigabit connectivity to users and are designed to add 60 Tera-bits-per-second of downlink capacity to the Starlink network. That's more than 20 times the capacity added with every V2 Mini launch on
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i think daniel lurie has done a great job so far with san francisco
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i still can’t believe what america did in vietnam. it was so so bad. it really does explain a lot about older american generations. imagine how radicalized you’d be if you grew up during that
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(performative will depue) i think the taylor swift album is very good
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Also, it's not a secret that I'm not a big fan of short-form video, especially AI-powered, AI 'companions', or how this technology might be used to build other superstimuli. But I believe Sam, Bill, and the rest of the Sora product team when they say that they've put a lot of
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Sora 2 is out! I'm incredibly impressed that despite Sora 1 setting a ridiculous bar — as the largest jump in video capability basically ever — Sora 2 somehow matches up here. For people that played around a lot with Sora 1, it didn't feel clear that Sora really 'understood'
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a good point from ryan mcentush: “hackathon these days you’re not competing for money, you’re competing for o1 citizenship”
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the new paul thomas anderson film is very good and worth watching. strange, but excellent
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reminder
do not build Infinite Jest (V), do not build the infinite AI TikTok slop machine, do not build the P-zombie AI boy/girlfriend, do not build the child-eating short-form video blackhole, do not build the human-feedback-optimized diffusion transformer porn generator. save yourselves
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wild thinking back to where i was four years ago: leaving for college, escaping the academic grind, pandemic hitting that year and teaching myself to build apps that summer, building and growing my discord analytics app, freaking out over GPT-3 four years later: dropping out,
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i was late to this but if you haven’t spent an hour with claude code or codex, please drop what you’re doing and try it. this is going to completely overhaul the software market way faster than i thought.
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new business card
Thank you to @willdepue for commissioning a business card. I drew him as a little elf man with a rifle cause that's what he reminds me of
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thank you to my kind judaic friends for educating me about their beautiful culture, to @aidanshandle and David Oks and @kinespheric and @alexkesin and @sberens1 and @tszzl and many more i’ve surely missed tonight. Shanah Tovah!
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