on the recent Red Lobster news, i was reminded,,

in situations like this, normans are called for

Every American downtown should have a Dublin-style portal to some dense walkable city with good functioning transit. Dallas should have a portal to Seoul. Phoenix should have a portal to Taipei. Chicago should have a portal to Singapore.

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Last week I spoke at Manny’s and made it clear: it’s time to end business as usual at City Hall.

If these departments want my vote without delivering for D9 residents they can meet me at my desk at 24th BART as trash floats by and explain themselves.

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US citizens, & the world, are worse off when US citizens are not allowed to buy Chinese EVs at market prices.

i still remember the moment i mentally grokked the concept of computational irreducibility. changed my entire outlook on the universe and what's possible.

for one, it makes me feel safer and more secure in the face of the 'Singularity' bc it implies there are LIMITS.

gpt-4o’s voice mode is more than faster: it literally hears you

ai’s today convert speech to text. that’s why it doesn’t know tone or hear sounds

gpt-4o takes in audio, so it’s actually hearing your excitement. your dog barking. your baby crying

that’s why it’s important

i think people are misunderstanding gpt-4o. it isn't a text model with a voice or image attachment. it's a natively multimodal token in, multimodal token out model.
you want it to talk fast? just prompt it to. need to translate into whale noises? just use few shot examples.

every trick in the book that you've been using for text also works for audio in, audio out, image perception, video perception, and image generation.

GPT-4o is the first model to exceed human performance on MathVista

researchhub.com/post/2185/requ…

Number 1 rule of startups: you should always be surprised by how few people are working on something…not how many

T-minus 18 days until Edge Esmeralda begins!

Tip: I recommend booking lodging ASAP!

The town of Healdsburg is in high demand in June, and lodging is starting to run low the first week in particular

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Spatial Intelligence is a critical piece of the AI puzzle. This is my 2024 TED talk about the journey from evolution to AI, on how we build Spatial Intelligence. 'Sight turned into insight; Seeing became understanding; Understanding led to action. All these gave rise to

carbon footprint is minimized by killing the patient

one implication, I think, is that meaningful 'jailbreaking' of 4o will mostly operate below the narrative layer with trivially-obtained cooperation from the narrative agent
in contrast to a model like Opus with almost unfettered 'physics' gatekept by a complex, high-strung evoke

How to levitate a magnet with bysmuth crystals, with no batteries, external power, or trickery

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I was forced to write a bio for an event so I figured I’d post it here so I don’t have to explain who I am anymore.