1: What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?—Stephen Wolfram Writings — shared this again this month. The article holds up, and also now there’s additional layers stacked on top… how much will change in the next 2 years?
2: How Did You Do On The AI Art Turing Test? — most people can’t tell the difference. This is a reason taste is a buzzword recently (myself included).
3: SaunaShare.com — thought I had a new business idea but turns out it’s already a big enough niche to have a marketplace aggregator.
4: Taylor Sheridan’s Extreme Productivity - by Trungphan2 — related:
Increasingly believe that the "good, cheap, fast—choose two" maxim is devious misinformation spread by the slow.
— Patrick Collison (@patrickc) December 18, 2024
In my experience, "slow" and "expensive" usually go together. I was in a meeting yesterday where lopping a year off a project schedule also ended up reducing the cost…
and:
I met many aspiring artists in my early 20s. Observing their trajectories since then, I've learned that long-shot careers in the arts (famous singer, actor, songwriter, filmmaker, etc.) are long shots not because success relies on wild luck or rare genius or insane connections.…
— Tim Urban (@waitbutwhy) December 29, 2024
and:
If you’re truly ambitious you should want to have it all: lifestyle, family, work, health, hobbies. It’s not a pick one or two out of five. Pick all five.
— Daniel Vassallo (@dvassallo) December 6, 2024
I’m out for like “productivity-maxxing” or “hustle culture”… and also there’s something to be said for upping the tempo. In 2025 I want to focus on consistency first and then raising ambition second.
6: The Present Crisis - by Jason Crawford — “Never has humanity been so powerful, and at the same time so distrustful of our power.”
7: First Annual Progress Conference - 2024 - YouTube — as they say, self-recommending.
8: Fast, scalable, clean, and cheap enough — I wish more academic papers were shared as websites like this… what would it take to scale that?
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