Dean W. Ball

On the future of Hyperdimensional.

Big day tomorrow… 🇺🇸💪

for me, classical music is all about the little moments the little marches and waltzes of late Beethoven where you can feel the deaf master trying so hard to remember what music sounded like the moment toward the end of Sibelius 5 when the swan theme rises like the sun over a…

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Just got invited to take part in an expert elicitation study about generative AI's impact on cognition and education and the invitation letter had THIS GODDAMN LINE.

I feel this may be helpful to some of you today:

The first rule of public policy commentary is “do not comment on public policy whose primary source you have not read.”

my transition from human to google doc is now complete

It’s a strange feeling knowing self-consciously that the work you are doing at this very moment is the most meaningful work you’ve done to this point in your life. To be sure, it’s weird in the moment—at once chilling and electrifying and gratifying. But it’s also illuminating…

Insurance is an underrated way to unlock secure AI progress. Insurers are incentivized to truthfully quantify and track risks: if they overstate risks, they get outcompeted; if they understate risks, their payouts bankrupt them. 1/9

my cat’s legal team will be in touch about the use of his likeness

apm skyrocketing to new highs this week

Very proud to call @abigailrsal, the author of this fantastic essay (a two page print spread!), my wife. “The American laptop class is a political powder keg.”

o3/o3-pro scheduled tasks are underrated (even though they are buggy). For example: “Please identify the 20 most promising pharmaceutical treatments currently in different stages of clinical trials.” (Model does this) “Give me a weekly update on news related to each of these.”

unprecedented means of authoritarian control via re-id systems based on matured computer vision. fast and cheap classification of speech via small llms. means to use wifi and other signals to see through walls. There is so much here that is important and it is all moving so fast

Here is a random, incomplete list of topics I would be researching if I were still writing publicly: 1. The microeconomics of automated scientific experiments (should we expect “AWS for chemistry” or should we expect automated labs to be vertically integrated?) 2. The evolution…

Amazing to me that this album is more or less entirely its own genre and no one in the last 60 years has ever really tried again. Genuinely singular.

bon appetit

as a creator of anything, your most important, almost sacred, obligation is to show respect for the time of every person in your audience xai failed tonight in that regard people don’t forget such things

This isn’t just an LLM-written tweet—it’s a tweet by GPT-4o.