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David Drake

@randomdrake

Former YC CTO. Startup CEO. Engineering leader. AI researcher studying how humans compress reality into stories. Published author. Substack ↓ he/they 🧡

 Oregon, USA
randomdrake.substack.com
Joined June 2011
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Sam Altman
@sama25 Oct 2023
i expect ai to be capable of superhuman persuasion well before it is superhuman at general intelligence, which may lead to some very strange outcomes
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Can tell I put this together at the height of the Q4 nested radius posting 😅
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@jh3yy23 Oct 2023
Almost forgot about this one! Built with @reactjs && @greensock 🤙 Using GSAP's Draggable to create dynamic drag resistance ⭐️
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I wanted to share some thoughts on what’s happening right now in Israel and Gaza. barackobama.medium.com/my-st…
Thoughts on Israel and Gaza

Thoughts on Israel and Gaza

It’s been 17 days since Hamas launched its horrific attack against Israel, killing over 1,400 Israeli citizens, including defenseless…

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Kentucky's ban on gender-affirming care impacts #neurodivergent #transgender youth & contradicts JAMA study on mental health benefits. 👎 Read our latest article & learn how to support affected individuals. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #MentalHealth neurodivergentvoice.com/2023…
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March 30th is World Bipolar Day! Did you know that 2.8% of the US adult population has a bipolar spectrum disorder? Let's spread awareness and celebrate the strength of those living with bipolar spectrum disorders. #WorldBipolarDay #BipolarDisorder #MentalHealthAwareness
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TheIdOfAlan@TheIdOfAlan9 Nov 2021
I'm "still afraid to use spaces in file names" years old
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Today, the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act. Again. This ruling reaffirms what we have long known to be true: the Affordable Care Act is here to stay.
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One of the most headslapping moments I’ve had in many years of being a crypto skeptic was when someone suggested they were in crypto because quote “The returns are higher than anything possible in the real economy.” “What does that tell you!?!”
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@elonmusk22 May 2021
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk19 May 2021
Tesla has 💎 🙌
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Manu@mrcatacroquer25 Apr 2021
Hello world! I want to share with you a device I made, its name is "Yayagram", a machine that helps our beloved elders to keep communicating with their grandchildren . How? Let me open a thread to give you all the details of this contraption.
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A truly silly portion of my day is transferring data between three email accounts, two chat programs, five messenger apps. (Not counting the ones I use for work on the entirely separate computer.)
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Actually, Evil Dead II - we didn’t have makeup mirrors on the first one.
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Replying to @GroovyBruce
@GroovyBruce on the set of evil dead
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Yuki Kamitani@ykamit4 Jan 2018
Deep image reconstruction: Natural images (seen images), GIF version Left: Seen images Right: Images reconstructed from brain activity (being optimized)
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Laravel takes the top spot of backend frameworks on GitHub. Who said PHP was dead? 🔥 – at Bryant, AR
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@vuejs5 Jan 2017
Just released vue-devtools 3.0 with various improvements: github.com/vuejs/vue-devtool…
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#Canada showing the world what #cannabis is capable of - "Recreational weed could be a $22.6B industry: study" - thestar.com/news/queenspark/…
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Scientists Crystalize and Reveal the Structure of our CB1 Receptor. See #THC Fitting into our Brains! #cannabis cannabisreports.com/news/201…
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The Beginner's Guide to Buying #Cannabis features our Founder/CEO David Drake @randomdrake mjm.ag/1S9bSf4
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Go See Our Founder @randomdrake in the Exhibit @oaklandmuseumca on the History of #Cannabis museumca.org/exhibit/altered…
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