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Aug 10, 2019 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
The central message of this wonderful #book is that humans feel special and apart from animals when they’re also just another animal.

We preach morality and purpose but in reality we live, eat, fuck and die.
Because we’re aware of our mortality, we get attached to the idea of final salvation: moderns want it via infinite progress in science and tech, Christians want it via the second coming of Jesus and spiritualists want it by becoming one with the self.
The treadmill of progress exists only in our minds.

Nature moves on with or without us, and with or without humanity.

We’re special only in our own eyes.

We’re not the masters of the universe but universe is our master.

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Mar 23
Don't compete.

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1/ The Internet is full of people winning all the time. Someone is traveling to exotic locations, someone else is raising funds, and another person is winning awards.
2/ Essentially, everyone around you is succeeding while you do spend your days as the nature intended – sleeping, eating, smiling, chatting with friends, and spending time with your cat.
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Slides from the projects done during Batch 3 of @lossfunk residency.

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1/ Naveen Arulselvan talked about

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2/ Sibesh Kar @sibeshkar talked about how we build tiny programs in our head when we're thinking.

He explained how general intelligence should require something akin to program search (which I fully believe in)

He also blew my mind with reference to Panini's attempt at synthesizing Sanskrit grammar into its core essence

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Jan 8
Kickstarted Batch 3 of Turing's Dream 6 week AI residency!

Profiles of the current residents 👇 Image
1/ Jayesh @wjayesh is exploring multi-agent systems.

For example, how can you have Devin talk to your cursor agent, and both of them talk to marketing agent.

During the next 6 weeks, he will aim to add one major feature to his open source project

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@wjayesh 2/ Vijit @SinghVijit14477 spent last 13 years aT Amazon, most recently doing R&D for Alexa.

He will be exploring multi-modal content generation and personalized AI! Image
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Nov 10, 2024
Kicked off the 2nd batch of Turing’s Dream, the AI residency that I run in Bangalore!

Here’s what they’re upto… Image
1/ Adithya S Kolavi @adithya_s_k is a 4th year engineering student at PES.

In 2024, he set a target to achieve 10k stars across his github repositories

His most famous one is Omniparse and has 5.5k stars, it's a library that converts unstructured data into structured data for LLMs github.com/adithya-s-k/om…
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He's working with UPI team to detect money laundering using graph NNs. (it has trillion edges, so fun problem!)

He's also working with a Harvard team to map MRI images over time to 3D space to see how brain structures change!
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Oct 30, 2024
Turing’s Dream first batch is over.

10 people, 10 projects, 6 weeks!

Here's what everyone explored in AI...

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1/ First a teaser of the atmosphere in the hackhouse!

A 3 minute video featuring @NirantK, @dementorSam, @__hsuya and myself (made by @mistrymm7)

@NirantK @dementorSam @__hsuya @mistrymm7 2/ Now, to the projects..

@py_parrot worked on replicating Anthropic's toy models of superposition, and extended it by trying to see how sparsity and importance of features impact representation of features.

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How to achieve success without trying to shoot for it!

My notes from the #book "Why Greatness Cannot be Planned" by @kenneth0stanley and @joelbot3000

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1/ It’s an unconventional self-help book disguised as a computer science research exposition (that’s why the publisher is Springer).

I strongly recommend reading it.

Here is a taste of the book’s main ideas. 👇
2/ Key insight:

Objectives only work when your goal is one hop away from where you are
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