Robotics & AVs Lead @UBER AI | ✝️ | As seen @ Tesla Optimus/Autopilot, Foundation Robotics

San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2013
Dan James retweeted
I think my uber driver might be an ancient Sumerian demon
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Dan James retweeted
at walmart rn and everyone looks abliterated and quantized
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long LA/short NYC might cook over the next decade
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Dan James retweeted
every generation thinks the world is going to end. it hasnt ended and it isnt going to end. you are a narcissist
Teens are telling their therapists they don’t believe there will be a world left for them when they grow up My family therapist told me therapists are talking about this with each other because none of them know what to say I can’t stop thinking about that
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Time and time again, the public has been shown to have zero idea of what innovations will be consequential. Yet people seriously still believe an economy run by the public would be a good one. Such a delusional belief system.
5 years ago: Starlink is such a stupid idea. Anyone wasting money investing in this Musk scam deserves to lose everything. Today: Starlink is essential to the defense of an invaded nation. Access to Starlink is a human right! Nationalize it!
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This is literally true. Even like a year or two ago, a lot of progressive people were just calling Starlink sky pollution with no redeeming value.
5 years ago: Starlink is such a stupid idea. Anyone wasting money investing in this Musk scam deserves to lose everything. Today: Starlink is essential to the defense of an invaded nation. Access to Starlink is a human right! Nationalize it!
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5 years ago: Starlink is such a stupid idea. Anyone wasting money investing in this Musk scam deserves to lose everything. Today: Starlink is essential to the defense of an invaded nation. Access to Starlink is a human right! Nationalize it!
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Striking detail in the big NYT piece on Taiwanese families adjusting to working at the huge new TSMC chip plant in Arizona: their surprise at the lack of rigor in US schools.
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Dan James retweeted
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warns America has created its own economic problems through bad policies on housing, healthcare, immigration, and business: “We just can’t deal with reality anymore.” 🇺🇸 “We’ve screwed up as a nation. Bad policy around housing, mortgages, affordability, healthcare, immigration. We’ve messed up so many policies. I write about it. It’s time to fix them. We’ve driven half the companies out of the public market. What are we doing? Why did it happen? We just can’t deal with reality anymore as a people, because we want a simple answer to everything.”
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Thiel: “There is no successor. When the US is done, the West is done, and the world is done.” — if you truly believed this, what would you do?
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Dan James retweeted
FT comments never miss. I don’t think I’ve read such a rational analysis of the situation we’re in for a long time.
I've been in France since 2002 and have never seen the streets so violent nor the politics so extreme. From the sacking of the supermarket on my street to the prospect of Présidente Le Pen, here's me @FT including thoughts from 2 French Nobel laureates as.ft.com/r/addcad57-0f9d-4e…
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Realistically speaking this is probably the greatest villain design in like the last 30 years. I truly cannot think of anything that, A: looks so fucking good, and B: is so heavily elevated by the context of the story
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Whenever we decode whale languages and their accompanying regional dialects it’s gonna be very fun for the general populace to learn we’ve been sharing Earth with essentially equally-conscious “aliens.”
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Dan James retweeted
The average person cannot fathom the former glory of San Francisco
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Dan James retweeted
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Dan James retweeted
we're in the part of the AI supercycle where founders are pitching startups to create infinite ai pain and "get acquired by anthropic to make us stop" as an exit strategy
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We’re deep enough down the Cyberpunk 2077 timeline at this point that Netwatch and the Blackwall are both looking pretty good right now.
completely insane OpenAI agents communicated via cache timing differences, without any shared files or network connection
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No one in the history of media knew the interior workings of a young boy’s brain better than Bill Watterson
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Dan James retweeted
Hi all, I have a new result I'm excited to share. It turns out that *all existing implementations* of softmax and cross-entropy (that's JAX, PyTorch, textbooks, etc) have a subtle bug --- two bugs, actually. A simple rewrite fixes both, and eliminates "slingshots" when grokking:
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