my wife loves the brands of peanut butter where they take the jars off the line about 80% the way through the production process and make you do the rest

We need to pace the frontier

At the beginning of this year, big portions of @databricks started running on Genie. When finance started doing all their work with Genie, we noticed that they were combining Genie with a Live Cloud Spreadsheet called Row Zero. This combination is really powerful. We met the Row Zero team and were blown away. Today, we're excited to announce that we've agreed to acquire Row Zero. Stay tuned for an awesome experience of Genie + Row Zero: databricks.com/company/newsr…

@crashdev and I have been leading seed rounds into Excel replacement startups since before I went bald and have lost money every single time … until the team at @GetRowZero got it very, very right. We can finally end our watch. Thanks guys for letting us be part of your journey!

Big news: @GetRowZero is joining Databricks! 📊 We’re bringing a native, fully governed spreadsheet experience to Databricks Genie, combining the flexibility of spreadsheets with enterprise-grade security and lineage powered by Unity Catalog. Finance, operations, sales, and marketing teams will be able to work, model scenarios, and collaborate using standard spreadsheet logic without leaving their data and AI foundation. Welcome to the team, Row Zero! 🚀 databricks.com/company/newsr…

Excited to announce @GetRowZero has been acquired by @databricks We're gonna bring the last-mile analytics capabilities of the world's highest performance big-data spreadsheet to the Databricks platform

switched from Astra Medium as a daily driver to the new half-priced Sol Max and token usage is way down at what seems like similar intelligence, at least for my use case

In the shoe section at REI and three unrelated people are using ChatGPT on their phones to do real time research on shoes as they try stuff on Real vibe shift

Rinad (@rinadwithanr) and I wrote an essay about iron deficiency! It came out of a broader project we’ve been working on surrounding “low-hanging fruit” in improving general health and wellbeing. The problems we’ll address impact many people and their quality of life. In many cases, they tend to be measurable, treatable, and strangely under-served or neglected by the broader healthcare system. Iron deficiency really stood out here, particularly in women. It’s incredibly common, can affect how you feel and function well before you’re technically anemic, and yet often isn’t caught because routine bloodwork doesn’t actually measure iron stores. (Lately, we’ve been seeing a lot of discussion re: iron deficiency on Twitter, and I’m glad more people are talking about it!) We looked at how iron deficiency actually works, why ferritin matters, how prevalent it is, what the evidence says about its effects on fatigue, cognition and physical performance, why it so often goes undetected, and what the evidence says about treatment. This is the first piece in a larger body of work we’re developing on overlooked-yet-surprisingly-tractable problems in health—particularly in women’s health, longevity, and quality of life. More coming soon! In the meantime, get your ferritin checked and read what we’ve put together. Substack link below! And if any of this is an area you’re working on or thinking about, DM me or Rinad—we’d love to discuss :)

back in highschool was i was into speedcubing the WR was Yu Nakajima around 11 seconds when i started, and Feliks Zemdegs was coming onto the scene when i quit apparently the kids are down to 3.5 seconds now??? did not think physically possible

Rebasing and getting PRs merged in a high churn project

Image search as narrative form —

was at the park today with my toddler looking at the other millenial parents and this tweet hit me like a freight train of truth absolutely memetic victory, i couldn't unsee it

there's a lot of code i'm super proud of, and that is probably still beyond frontier LLMs for another year or two but there's a lot more code that, upon revisiting, i say "yeah i wrote this before AI" as an explanation for why it's dogshit

don't really understand why gmail's spam detectors get almost everything EXCEPT all the fake twitter "Someone signed into your account" emails

was reviewing my old random evals and astra light gets this one right instantly now