Travis Fischer (@transitive_bs) on X (original) (raw)

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  YOOOOOOOOOO stoked to announce the second batch
  @HackerResidency
  .. and it's even bigger this time! 12 founders, 6 weeks, 1 dope villa come lock in and BUILD with us all for *free* we provide: - luxury villa - up to $100k in funding 🔥 - free food, laundry, workspace - tons of
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  Yesterday's GPT-4 launch was **crazy** 🔥 After discussing w/ colleagues and taking some time to collect my thoughts, Here are the top 3 things GPT-4 enables that were previously impossible or extremely difficult to achieve – including examples 👇
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  Microsoft is porting the TS compiler to Go for a massive native speedup – amazing! But why not Rust / C# / etc? Here's
  @ahejlsberg
  explanation from his
  @wesbos
  interview:
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  OpenAI has privately announced a new developer product called Foundry, which enables customers to run OpenAI model inference at scale w/ dedicated capacity. It also reveals that DV (Davinci; likely GPT-4) will have up to 32k max context length in the public version. 🔥
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  If you're ever working with random JSON data and want to generates type info from it, quicktype.io is *amazing*. Just paste in some JSON and it infers TypeScript types. It also handles lots of other input + output combos and is free + open source.
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  ChatGPT now has access to every episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast 🔥 Every amazing interview, every nugget of wisdom, every guest 🤯 Really excited to share this ChatGPT Plugin that I've been working on with
  @rileytomasek
  and dexa.aiIn-depth examples below 👇
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  Replying to @samhogan
  lmaooo you're intentionally rage baiting people, aren't you? 👀
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  A practical guide on how to use LLMs effectively:
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  New Bing Chat AI feels much better than ChatGPT. • around 3x faster • quality seems on par or better for all prompts • includes up-to-date news and sources If you have access, here's a hacky Node.js wrapper to build cool experiments on top of it ✨
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  AI-powered semantic search is going to be everywhere soon. Here's an open source example of how you can build your own semantic search index for *any* YouTube channel / playlist. Powered by
  @OpenAI
  ,
  @pinecone
  , and
  @vercel
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  Replying to @JeffWeniger
  here's a graph comparing the estimated median salaries. huge difference the US is still #1, but the misleading trendline disappears. if anything, the mean annual salary chart is just showing how skewed the wealth gap is in the US for the top % of earners, and why the median is
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