**RT @jesslivingston:**
How Paul knew there was room for something like Y Combinator. pod.link/1677066062 (https://pod.link/1677066062)#thesocialradars (https://nitter.moomoo.me/search?q=%23thesocialradars)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/jesslivingston/status/1690564925314498560#m
Researchers at the University of Toronto used cell phone usage to measure the rebound from Covid in different downtowns, and no big American city's is more than 2/3 of what it was. SF is by far the worst off, at only 1/3 of 2019.
The intellectual honesty of a reply tends to be higher when it's a reply rather than a quote-tweet. That's another problem with quote-tweets. They lower the integrity of the conversation.
**RT @kenshirriff:**
The ancestor of the 8086 processor is the Datapoint 2200, a desktop minicomputer used as an intelligent terminal. Made before the microprocessor, the Datapoint built a processor from a board of chips. The Intel 8008 cloned the Datapoint, first step to the x86 architecture. 🧵
https://nitter.moomoo.me/kenshirriff/status/1690399544691900416#m
**RT @MetaLawMan:**
SEC v. Coinbase, Big Update:
Six Securities Law Scholars File Devastating Amicus Brief in Support of @Coinbase (https://nitter.moomoo.me/coinbase).
Law Professors from Yale, Univ. of Chicago, UCLA, Fordham, Boston University and Widener filed an amicus brief last night that Absolutely Shreds the SEC's…
https://nitter.moomoo.me/MetaLawMan/status/1690355411373772800#m
**RT @Noahpinion:**
So many of the 50s nostalgia is just comparing the rich people of the 50s with the working class of today.
nitter.moomoo.me/quantian1/status/1689998395799171072#m (https://nitter.moomoo.me/quantian1/status/1689998395799171072#m)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/Noahpinion/status/1690072153037897729#m
Training AIs on the output of AIs.
nitter.moomoo.me/KyleBeautweet/status/1690023118260117504#m (https://nitter.moomoo.me/KyleBeautweet/status/1690023118260117504#m)
**RT @TheOceanCleanup:**
This week we had our largest ever extraction from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: 11,353 kg of plastic out of the ocean for good.
As we transition to System 03, we see that increasing system size leads to bigger catches.
https://nitter.moomoo.me/TheOceanCleanup/status/1690000280530616320#m
**RT @destraynor:**
Really enjoyed the @tylercowen (https://nitter.moomoo.me/tylercowen) ⤠@paulg (https://nitter.moomoo.me/paulg) interview, even if, at times, the questioning felt a lot like this (classic) Jonathan Frakes clip.
https://nitter.moomoo.me/destraynor/status/1689951450128920576#m
**RT @Rainmaker1973:**
Shakuntala Devi, the human computer who gave the 23rd root of a 201 digit number in 50 seconds. The answer was verified at the US Bureau of Standards by the UNIVAC 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written to perform such a calculation buff.ly/3eoS0Xg (https://buff.ly/3eoS0Xg)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1689877978119905280#m
AI is the exact opposite of a solution in search of a problem. It's the solution to far more problems than its developers even knew existed.
**Response to @paulg:**
So it's not intrinsically a fad or a sign of opportunism that there are suddenly a huge number of startups all doing AI. There were simply a huge number of almost solvable problems that have now become solvable.
**Response to @paulg:**
AI is turning out to be the missing piece in a large number of important, almost-completed puzzles.
A pattern I've noticed in the current YC batch: a large number of domain experts in all kinds of different fields have found ways to use AI to solve problems that people in their fields had long known about, but weren't quite able to solve.
Something I taught 11 yo: If you want to eat healthily, one easy rule of thumb is not to eat things with brand names.
I was talking to an AI expert a couple days ago who told me that if progress in AI stopped now, it would still be another 2 years before we knew exactly what GPT-4 was capable of.
**RT @pitdesi:**
Walking reduces your risk of death; benefits continue up to 20k steps/day.
Ppl in the US walk an average of 4,774 steps/day.
New meta-study of 227k ppl showed an 📈 of 1k steps leads to a 15% 📉 in all-cause mortality.
No correlation bw step intensity and mortality.
https://nitter.moomoo.me/pitdesi/status/1689670306200485888#m
**RT @garrytan:**
There is a crazy amount of talented folks locked up in corporate big tech jobs that don’t let them build the way they should.
I’m hoping a lot of them actually come over to startups, and they realize, oh, this is what it’s like to run fast again.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/… (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-10/y-combinator-applications-show-access-is-the-toughest-ever)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/garrytan/status/1689649997359534080#m
**RT @brian_armstrong:**
Today is an important day for accelerating a global, decentralized financial system and increasing economic freedom in the world:
@BuildOnBase (https://nitter.moomoo.me/BuildOnBase) is now live and available for everyone
nitter.moomoo.me/BuildOnBase/status/1689321221715017728#m (https://nitter.moomoo.me/BuildOnBase/status/1689321221715017728#m)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/brian_armstrong/status/1689402873053118466#m
**RT @JohnArnoldFndtn:**
It’s underappreciated how much the strength of the American economy vis a vis rest of world since 2008 is due to the shale gas revolution and resultant low power prices. It spurred the industrial & manufacturing renaissance and acted as a tax break for American consumers.
https://nitter.moomoo.me/JohnArnoldFndtn/status/1689385560127713281#m