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Dalan Mendonça retweeted
Every religion in history has promised miracles and warned of the apocalypse. Anthropic is the first to file both with the SEC.
Dalan Mendonça retweeted
It's so weird though. To have been tonked by a team ranked even lower than grimsby town and not feel anything. Truly winning the premier league is a magic elixir whose taste i had completely forgotten.
Given all the internet security insanity going on, might be best take everything and everyone offline. Free mental health boost too.
PSA: "Third world" was originally coined to mean something like "Non-aligned"
First world = Capitalist bloc
Second world = Communist bloc
Third world = Everyone else
Its evolution into a pejorative is a relatively recent phenomenon
Got all excited to make my first agentic payment (Hermes with a dedicated agent card from Robinhood) aaaaand it's blocked :/
Abhinav loves doing hard things. His product is not only gorgeous, it can literally extend your life. All the best bud!
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Shipping Spring 2027.
Today's Stratechery post places undue confidence in Meta not distilling other models. Meta's approach has generally been mercenary, Anna's Archive incident being the latest example. I'd be surprised if they weren't distilling.
Honestly need Indian exam concepts like "step marking" (do x differently) and "extra marks for good handwriting" (legibility/articulation quality) as affordances for guiding agents
Dalan Mendonça retweeted
God I’m tired of this stuff. The permanent underclass already exists and they’re not random people in the Bay Area worried about losing their white collar jobs
Apple laptops are getting touchscreens
🍎 fanboys gonna go from "laptops don't need touch!" to "OMG iTouchy IS SO GOOD!!"
Dalan Mendonça retweeted
Another way the current administration is trapped in the ZERO-SUM FALLACY: The H-1B visa situation.
+ You are NOT taking a job from a citizen, rather creating jobs by increasing overal economic output. Plus these people (even vegetarians) SPEND locally.
+ The US has long been benefiting from other countries' brain drain; without it its edge wd collapse. Tesla, Von Braun, von Neumann, Fermi & Einstein did NOT each take the job of a citizen.
+ It the problem is anti-Indian racism, say it, don't play games.
Wore a light jacket because its warm day in SF and the office AC is turned down to Siberian permafrost for some reason 🥶