A neural network made from scratch, a ScratchNet. No advanced algorithms, no machine or deep learning libraries, just NumPy. Able to correctly identify PII from non-PII containing documents 92.3% of the time in training and 93.3% of the time in testing. You can just do things.

My two and a half year old son, who I’m told is speech delayed, just told me for the first time out of nowhere unprompted, “I love you daddy.” 🥲😭

I had a similar thought when Moltbook came out: what if all of these cognitively inert bots or agents can come together, to in an emergent fashion, produce real cognition, like the way biologically inert organic compounds came together to produce the first forms of life. But now I am wondering, what if we still play a crucial role in this emergent artificial intelligence describe in this masterfully written post - what if what are the novel data producing organ, or organelle, AI ultimately needs to have sustained growth?

We can no longer protect the flock ourselves, we need wolfhounds to guard against the wolves

Most underreported story in all of tech

When all else fails, build.

Socialism was never a working-class movement. It has always been a project of intellectuals: academics, writers, journalists, and professional theorists. It appeals to those who prefer grand systems, simple moral narratives, and top-down control. It flatters the belief that society should be redesigned by people who “know better,” giving intellectuals a starring role they don’t receive in a market economy. In many ways, socialism is a luxury belief.

they’re not jobs if they’re not valued. they’re not valued if there aren’t customers out there willing to pay them for their great work. needing the government to “create” a job is tantamount to welfare and that level of welfare resolves these individuals to a dependency on the government and lack of economic mobility. and chains our people, collectively, to a more indentured future. you may be well intentioned but you have, and always will, fail to see the destitute folly of government as a job creation engine. i have tried to engage you on this topic, in good faith, with empiricism and reasoning, but you have only dodged my points and pivoted to some populist refrain about the importance of taxation and the evils of productivity-driven success. i can only assume you’re dodging these truths because you and the rest of the politburo leadership have deemed the conversation unsafe speech and put your oligopoly at risk. let’s leave it at that then. perhaps if your ways get their day, we can all bask in the glories of the dark ages ahead.

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.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense. SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world. Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere. SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity. Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help. The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist. Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives. Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation. Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears. Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction. We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.

The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did. And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves. One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults. Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life. If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever. Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen. Alternatively There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all. To start - If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers. It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail) Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability. Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up But They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.

This is a bad plan with a bad justification.

It means we’re back

This is why I left the party, you’re dogs chasing cars. Exploration in search of new frontiers and resources is the reason the USA exists at all.

RT @Logie3333: @Bottom_Creek @frontierism Why would God show us the stars if we weren’t meant to be among them

It will take a truly artificial brain to reach the singularity. Not clever coding, or heavy scaling, but some kind of synthetic biology not constrained by metabolic or mortal limitations.

I think a lot of this @pmarca introspection conversation is people speaking past each other. Ultimately, the issue is not whether or not you’re introspective, we all inevitably are, the issue is how objective you are about it. As we’ve learned from LLMs - context is paramount.

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Vibe, but verify