sora research at @openai, previously at midjourney, high school dropout
Mar 20 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
long overdue thread why i think university is useless for its only purpose, and why i dropped out of high school:
the thread below goes through: 1) why universities are so bad 2) how we can make univsities great 3) why the best people get a degree 4) why companies care about a degree 5) disclaimers
Mar 19 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
you think career is competitive? everyone does the same thing and no one knows the feedback loops.
gaming is actually competitive, everyone spends all their time on it and knows all the feedback loops. you can easily make 500k$ cash yr if you are top 1% of a big game
like do you realize how hard it is to be top 1% at league? you are against millions of people who know exactly what do to to improve, and they play most their awake time. it's so much harder than any economically valuable task
Mar 9 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
never compete when applying for jobs, there are hundreds of applicants with better grades and universities than you. but none of them will be making a personalized demo
i used this demo to get all my interviews like openai over two years ago before moving to sf
or when interviewing at midjourney, i spent a weekend making a full canvas image generation tool to make sure they knew exactly what i'm good at. don't wait for them to ask interview questions
this is still live, links are on my github
Mar 5 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
>70% of people are in permanent slight suffering because they are allergic to making ANY mentally tough decision when there is also an option to do nothing. rant:
then they come up with reasons for why it's so good to not do the thing, and all their friends will agree, because they too don't want the ability to make a tough decision be something they'd every need to consider
Feb 25 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
sad people don't know that happy people have nearly only green dots (happy days) while happy people don't know unhappy people have mostly red
one thing i have noticed is that sad peoples brains have 100s of rationalizations for why they are sad, ie "but the sadness gives me meaning". the only way to know this is false is by being very happy 30 days in a row and you notice all suffering is bad
Nov 28, 2024 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
universities don't have monopoly on foundational knowledge anymore, here is how i learned all the math intuitions behind diffusion models as a high school dropout with with claude:
since i dropped out of high school, i had 0 knowledge of probabilities or mathematical notations, claude helped me understand those. here it taught me what p(x) of a variational auto encoder is, but i had to have like 10 more chats to really understand cause i'm dumb:
