Me: How much salt do you put in your tomato sauce? Jessica: Not too much. But not too little. Me: How long do you cook it for? Jessica: Not too long.

When furious, be curious. This attitude saves me from my own stupidity.

Trump doesn’t seem to understand that knowledge work has no borders. It costs me nothing to hire a tech worker from Europe or India or anywhere. Americans are already competing globally for knowledge work, and there’s nothing that can be done about it. It’s pure meritocracy.

The next Elon Musk won’t come to America because the startup trying to hire him won’t be able to afford the $100K H1-B visa fee.

Imagine watching your husband get assassinated and then going on stage in front of 100,000 people to forgive the man who murdered your husband. @MrsErikaKirk just gave us an incredible example of what type of person we should all aspire to be.

Attorney General Pam Bondi: "There's free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society...We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."

okay what I did here was I took a data set of ChatGPT interactions collected in the wild and reversed the "assistant" and "user" tags. fine-tuned llama 8B on some of that data and gave it the ability to message you first. try it at youaretheassistantnow.com 😊

Today is the official publication date of my new book, Joyful Learning @public_affairs! It's intended for families & founders seeking & building creative schooling options. Get your copy wherever books are sold, or listen to the audiobook-which I narrate! amazon.com/gp/product/154170…

Will AI make cheaters of us all? #numbersense: junkcharts.typepad.com/numbe…

One of my kids threw up on the couch tonight and I had to clean it up while my wife bathed her. It was a real mess. And yet I still find my situation better than this.

4mo ago: We bought a used forklift & strapped an Ai kit to it 4mo later: We’re moving hundreds of pallets a day in a customers warehouse Yesterday I got 3 requests totaling 100+ forklifts We have to scale right now V2 coming soon

News: NIH to crack down on excessive publisher fees for publicly funded research bit.ly/4nCdIbl

This is me, nearly seven years ago, stepping into the United States to begin my journey as a graduate student. I left behind everything and everyone for a dream I wasn’t even sure existed. Since then, I’ve experienced freedoms and opportunities I could only imagine back home. For the first time in my life, I wasn’t afraid to speak my mind online, because here, no one would arrest me for it. I could wear what I wanted, without fear of punishment. I was treated with dignity and earned professional opportunities based on my work, not my gender or background. If I ever felt unsafe, I could trust that the police would protect me, not ignore me or blame me. I even had the right to file a FOIA request and question the police about an incident, something unimaginable in Iran. That moment was what first made my account go viral: People were shocked when the truth came to light and even more shocked that someone like me had the right to uncover it. I could speak on national TV, share my political beliefs, and know that my voice mattered. That was the first time I truly understood what it means to live in the “land of the free.” What many young Americans may not realize is just how precious these rights are. They’ve inherited freedoms others around the world are still fighting for. Yes, achieving success in America takes hard work, but it’s possible. That alone sets it apart from so much of the world. Despite its flaws, America remains the greatest country in the world. And even though I’m not a citizen, I celebrate this country, and all it offers, not just to its people, but to the world. Happy Fourth of July. I’m grateful to those who gave their lives to build and protect this nation. #4thofJuly

I've said in many times and places what I think we should do. Have everything publishes as what we call now preprints and make that the only form of publication. It's entirely author driven, and the infrastructure would be cheap and funded centrally so there would be no costs to publish or read. Then have peer review be layered on top of those already published works, with everything ranging from individual comments/reviews from readers to organized review by scientific societies to whatever else people invent to do it. The system of peer review we have today isn't just expensive, it isn't just bad because it denies lots of people access - it's bad because it doesn't do a good job at its job of assessing the validity and impact of science. We can do infinitely better for a lot less money if we cut journals out of the system entirely.

🚨 Registration is live! 🚨 The New England Mechanistic Interpretability (NEMI) Workshop is happening August 22nd 2025 at Northeastern University! A chance for the mech interp community to nerd out on how models really work 🧠🤖 🌐 Info: nemiconf.github.io/summer25/ 📝 Register: forms.gle/v4kJCweE3UUHUE81A We have a larger capacity this year, so please spread the word ‼️ #NEMI2025 #AI #mechinterp #workshop #GenAI