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Breck Yunits@breck
5/28/2023

Excessive humility?

Breck Yunits@breck
5/24/2023

I never thought about where the term "macro" comes from. It's simply that a small change can have a "macroscopic" effect.

Breck Yunits@breck
5/14/2023

I asked Google Bard to review a URL and it said it loved it because: "It's ad-free. This is a big one for me. I hate ads."

Breck Yunits@breck
5/13/2023

A chef makes $50,000 per year. A dermatologist makes $425,000 per year. Pretty sure a dexterous chef + AI could make a pretty good dermatologist at 1/4 the price.

Breck Yunits@breck
5/6/2023

Now that ChatGPT is the fastest growing product of all time the Mobile App vs Web App debate is over. The Web wins. ^1 Assuming all the reports are true. ^2 Bravo to OpenAI for winning for the web.

In reply to @giu
Breck Yunits@breck
5/6/2023

"Pearson correlation between intelligence and ethics is zero"

Breck Yunits@breck
5/5/2023

In reply to @jayme
Breck Yunits@breck
5/4/2023

I almost never wear shoes, but when I do, those are the socks.

Breck Yunits@breck
5/4/2023

ChatGPT went from zero to bigger than Wikipedia according to Google Trends. Also shocking is that Yahoo is still bigger than both of them (as well as Netflix and Instagram).

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Breck Yunits@breck
5/3/2023

I am looking into registering an official 501c3 non-profit chapter in Hawai'i.

Breck Yunits@breck
5/3/2023

"I met a man with a dollar. We exchanged dollars. We each still had one dollar. Then I met a man with an idea. We exchanged ideas. Now we each have two ideas."

Breck Yunits@breck
4/27/2023

Doug Lenat spent 39 years with over 50 researchers building Cyc, a 30-million-rule AI system. But they did it closed source. His paper last year has 1 citation. This is what I mean when I say "licenses are for losers". I hope Doug opens it all up. There's still time.

In reply to @hyper
Breck Yunits@breck
4/26/2023

The case is more complicated: https://twitter.com/sfstandard/status/1651308745073508359 In my conversations some homeless (<10%) are in it for the game (they like living on the edge with the violence and fight for survival). If the mace story is true, unwise of Don to start a fight he couldn't finish.

Breck Yunits@breck
4/25/2023

There is a Midjourney web alpha!

In reply to @giu
Breck Yunits@breck
4/20/2023

I don't know anything but according to this site the current CDS prices imply probability is less than 1%. http://www.worldgovernmentbonds.com/cds-historical-data/united-states/5-years/

In reply to @dwr
Breck Yunits@breck
4/20/2023

I think this is an interesting insight. Care to expand on what you thought then and what you think now?

Breck Yunits@breck
4/19/2023

If history looks back on Marvin Minsky as the Darwin of our times, and "Society of Mind" as the "Origin of Species", I would not be surprised.

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Breck Yunits@breck
4/18/2023

Write 10 pages on paper. Type up the best 1 page. Refine with ChatGPT. Publish.

Breck Yunits@breck
4/18/2023

I love ChatGPT but back to writing mostly with pen and paper.

In reply to @ccarella
Breck Yunits@breck
4/15/2023

What is Purple?

In reply to @dwr
Breck Yunits@breck
4/14/2023

I make an alternative called Scroll (https://scroll.pub/) so I think I know the space pretty well. This looks really good, and I think they are doing some very smart technical things (SFC's look nice). I would love to recommend my own thing, but community/ecosystem is far too important so I'd go VitePress.

Breck Yunits@breck
4/12/2023

I had ChatGPT write me a collision detection engine using a quadtree. Works perfect...until N > 32. Devil is in the details. :(

Breck Yunits@breck
4/12/2023

Substack Notes: can I ignore or is it a must-try? Thoughts?