Best of Twitter - Week of April 11, 2022
How Mr. Beast Became Successful on YouTube.
It's a 15 minute youtube clip from Joe Rogan interview. Excellent!
^ Mr. Beast has been doing YouTube since he was 11 years old and only got a microphone at 15, only started making money with it at 18.
Great scientists like Einstein, Newton, and Darwin had a single year in which they made multiple career defining discoveries.
Was it their youth? Their lack of obligations? The right problem at the right time?
I explore the mystery of the miracle year:
Found this infographic from 2013 when @patrickc shared how @stripe scaled by "doing things that don't scale":
- wrote custom code for early users
- onboarding house-calls!
- signed TY cards in mail
- customer chat room w/ whole early team
- late night alerts
Maxim:😀, then🚀!
Archaeal viruses that make their host cell grow 8000x bigger while cranking out viruses and still maintaining the capacity to do asymmetric division with normal-sized daughter cells
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
Holy -
I'm getting cold shivers reading this paper
They made ML models trained on different modalities but all taking language input/output, to reason together by using language as a common representation
This is getting so close to "parts" models of the mind it's scary
Andy Zeng @andyzengtweets
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Our newest system DALL·E 2 can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language. See it here: openai.com/dall-e-2/
5 years ago, anyone saying that this would be possible within a decade would have been laughed out of the room.
It's hard to overstate how huge of a leap this is from where we were even just 1-2 years ago. It is absolutely mad.
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"B-52s flying from Barksdale AFB to complete a mission in East Asia incur a marginal cost of $50/kg to deliver bombs. Starships cost is cheaper and can put weapons on target in less than thirty minutes."
"This has to count as one of the biggest economic policy failures of recent times, and we still are not taking seriously that it happened and what that implies for our collective epistemic capabilities moving forward."
respecting goggins much less these days tbh because powerful self-talk is 10x easier when doing physical rather than mental work, since mental work takes up the exact facilities you need to use for self-talk
I have found a serious mistake in >50% of the cap table spreadsheets proposed as "final" right before a closing.
1. We asked students to test a specific hypothesis with a dataset: Is BMI related to number of steps? Other students were just asked to analyze the dataset.
The students with a specific hypothesis were 3X less likely to see the gorilla in the data! genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
In fact, when we looked at drugs targeting the 50 most-prognostic genes in cancer, nearly every one of those drugs failed in clinical trials. These death-associated genes tended to be pan-essential and their inhibitors had high toxicity.
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