notadampaul
@notadampaul
Building things with a small team
are your words your own? Are theirs? Did ChatGPT write this? What's going on? Wouldn't you like to know
college is done. It's done. We need parallel institutions funded by aristocratic patronage right now. Otherwise we can simply sit on the beach and watch as the whale's carcass rots around us
I wrote about the civility mania sweeping elite college admissions for @nytopinion nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opi…
my guess is it will rake in however much it needs to for you to say it raked in 2.3% more than the next-highest model on VendBench or whatever useless thing you're pretending to measure that was already Goodharted six months ago
The xAI office just got a Grok-powered vending machine, thanks to our friends at Andon Labs! How much dough do you think Grok is gonna rake in in the next month?
claude code in AWS bedrock is so good. Incredible UX, just a masterpiece of infrastructure engineering
optimal runtimes be like "i got that log(n) me"
santa’s helpers be like “i got that nog in me”
he has officially said a second funny thing. Seeing signs of recursive self-improvement. Fast takeoff may be imminent
Wow I can’t believe Epstein killed himself before realizing it was all a hoax
something tells me the next Luigi is gonna be female (Astronomer CEO's wife)
very excited by OpenAI's release of their 9th new tool for finding hotels and buying clothes online
just back from 8 days of paddling in the rivers of the remote northern Canadian wilderness. I was surprised to learn there, one of the few places left on Earth without mobile or internet service of any kind, that the bears and wolves appear to have an AI risk p(doom) of 0
hearing rumours that Windsurf is in talks to be acquired by Brampton
me teaching my son how to use the internet: "yeah so now click 'Never for this site'. Yeah click again, the UI devs don't know what autofocus is. Okay now click 'Not now' then 'Never for this site'. Yeah now 'Accept all'. No don't subscribe. Yep so now hide tips. Okay now you'll…
just absorbed a sneeze instead of sneezing it and honestly feel like I powered up. What secrets are being kept from us by Big Sneeze
Ophiocordyceps digitalis
The Republican budget bill is not only reckless — it’s cruel. It slashes Medicaid and takes away health care from millions of Americans. It closes rural hospitals and cuts food assistance for our veterans and seniors. It jacks up energy bills. And it could trigger deep cuts to…
every day the first thing I do when I wake up is play 18 games of bullet chess in rapid succession. Just one after another bang bang bang bang If I win I have a great day. If I lose I enter an unproductive malaise and sulk for 5+ hours while making it everyone else's problem