MD Neurosurgeon | PhD Neuropharmacology | Dev | Fooled by randomness | Back on twitter because of A.I. | If you suspect I'm wrong, see my pinned tweet
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The human brain operates on roughly 20 Watts.
Superintelligence does not necessarily need a lot of power
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Esa-Pekka Pälvimäki retweeted
Microsoft's diagnostic AI solved 83% of 304 complex New England Journal of Medicine cases. Generalist physicians with reference materials solved 36%. We need to get this technology into clinics safely and fast. We need to stop making people wait for the right answers.
Cleaning out a closet produced a blast from the past, my first software sale. While working as a night guard, I noticed errors in our payslips, so I wrote a payroll app in spaghetti BASIC and sold it to my employer for about 600 bucks, adjusted for inflation.
I simply walked into the managers office and demoed it and they bought it on the spot.
Still remember that incredible feeling walking out of that meeting with a wad of cash in my hand. It was a huge sum back then.
It was a revelation about the power of code
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Esa-Pekka Pälvimäki retweeted
I’ve been using X for 15 years and I finally put the greatest photos I’ve ever taken on your timeline
hopescrolling
I have stage 4 cancer. I thought I'd fight it alone.
I was wrong.
Since mid October, ~20 strangers on X have stepped up to help me. All for free so far:
- An NYU Langone lab offered to run my tumor data through their system to sharpen my vaccine targets
- A U Michigan lab offered to test drugs on my actual tumor cells
- A biotech ran AI analysis on my tumor RNA
- A vaccine company offered to design a second vaccine to check the first one
Scientists. Engineers. People I've never met.
Cancer has been picking us off one at a time for all of human history. It counts on us fighting it alone, scared and quiet.
Not anymore.
We have AI. We have the internet. We have each other.
Cancer, we're coming for you, bitch. Buckle up!
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The grace of cats
Em 1969 os russos estudaram o comportamento de animais em ambiente de gravidade zero.
Vejam o gato.
Simplesmente o gato!
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
O vídeo é de experimentos soviéticos documentados no filme "Внимание! Невесомость!" de 1964 (experimentos anteriores a 1961), não de um estudo de 1969.
youtube.com/watch?v=kgmoq6…
youtube.com/watch?v=0b0PWj…
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[read about what’s happening with AI]
ME: Wow we’re actually legit fucked this is so bad.
[go outside]
ME: Wait those people are all acting like nothing unusual is happening. Maybe I was just in a paranoid bubble? Yeah it must be that. Phew.
[read more about what’s happening with AI]
ME: Wait no we ARE fucked. Shit. It’s all those people outside who are in a delusional bubble.
[go outside]
ME: Wait...
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Anyone with a laptop and a hundred dollars a month can change the world now. While on holiday.
Esa-Pekka Pälvimäki retweeted
All those years of refusing to learn Excel, Word and PowerPoint is about to pay off.
