WhiskeyJack retweeted
We’ve spent the past year developing new primitives for GPUs. We believe this enables new algorithms to change how machines learn, open new markets, and dramatically reshape AI’s cost structure.
We have raised a $1 billion Series A, co-led by Index and Lux.
WhiskeyJack retweeted
a 10 minute application for a $50,000 fellowship. no strings.
a total of $1,000,000 going out, towards making more magic in the world.
presenting the Basis Fellowship.
run by @markkhrapko ,@thewildstevenp , and spencer green
WhiskeyJack retweeted
Computer use models shouldn't learn from screenshots.
We built a new foundation model that learns from video like humans do. FDM-1 can construct a gear in Blender, find software bugs, and even drive a real car through San Francisco using arrow keys.
‘If we hear it said that the definition of freedom is ability to do what we please, such an idea can only be taken to reveal an utter immaturity of thought, for it contains not even an inkling of the absolutely free will, of right, ethical life, and so forth.’
WhiskeyJack retweeted
In the people whom we love, there is, immanent, a certain dream which we cannot always clearly discern but which we pursue.
the only thing i genuinely and violently despise about the last stretch of jjk, so besides things like uninspired presentation etc which i find dull, is the ‘resonance’ mechanic and how it was used. utter woke nonsense
severance, succession, hotd, and interview with the vampire are the only noteworthy tv shows so far this decade
WhiskeyJack retweeted
Virginia Woolf on Proust (1929):
“The mind of Proust lies open with the sympathy of a poet and the detachment of a scientist to everything that it has the power to feel. … As a consequence of the union of the thinker and the poet, often, on the heel of some fanatically [+]
i do not want hxh if togashi isn’t drawing it and nor should anyone else with a modicum of respect for the craft
WhiskeyJack retweeted
a few great artists who do us the service, when they awaken in us the emotion corresponding to the theme they have discovered, of showing us what richness, what variety lies hidden, unknown to us, in that vast, unfathomed and forbidding night of our soul
WhiskeyJack retweeted
people whose own hearts are not directly involved always regard unfortunate entanglements, disastrous marriages, as though one were free to choose whom one loves, and do not take into account the exquisite mirage which love projects
