what happens when u give today’s frontier AI models a standardized test designed for 17 year olds? i tested 20 AI models from US and Chinese providers on the official SAT Practice Test #10 from College Board.
spoiler: they’re all above average. but none of them are getting into MIT.
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DALL-E 3 prompt: the thinker statue composed of circuit boards and glowing neural pathways, contemplating existence, dramatic chiaroscuro lighting
tldr: i gave…
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
hi zane.
tbh i havent had a resume since my junior year internship (2019); i went to straight into grad school and then got wine’d and dined into a job at L’Oreal’s research lab. I q…
All media are extensions of some human faculty. The wheel is an extension of the foot. The book is an extension of the eye. The extension of any one sense reshapes how we live — and how we think.
— Marshall McLuhan
your brain processes 10 trillion bits per second. you output 39. the interface …
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i dont know what the solutions are. they will emerge over time. nothing is certain from the onset. Bell, Lee and Zuck couldn’t have fathomed what their innovations would become. I wont pretend to.
But, I want to.
So I’m decided t…
ok so the economic model of the internet is broken. #genz yay 🙄
the incentives of publishers are no longer to produce high quality content, unless they want to [game the algorithm](https://vincentwi.com/blog/futur…
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It was a symbiotic relationship. Google benefited from being on THE place to find information. Users benefited by quickly finding what they needed. Websites and content creators benefited with larger audiences, focused and happy users, and a clear-cut path toward success. We all got wha…
my goal with this (now 125+ page!) schpeel was to say that the economic covenant of the internet is breaking. we’re witnessi…
my goal with this (now 125+ page!) schpeel was to say that the economic covenant of the internet is breaking. we’re witnessi…
the way most ppl do startups is fundamentally flawed. heres what i’ve learrned to try to not make the same mistakes.
the Product Development process goes as follows:
We’re seeing the subtle infiltration of fascist id…
The CAT S22 Flip Phone is AWESOME. It’s exactly what you’d want in a dumb phone. It’s got everythi…
my goal is simple. identify a basket of foods i can eat ad infinitum.
I’ve tried just about every food texture on the planet: from kangaroo to aligator, bland biscuits to 麻辣 rice cakes, [fancy kosher pe…
When did i get cooties?
supposedly 70% of america has cooties - aka oral herpes ak…
The best you can do is (to) try your best
“Care what other people think and you will always be their prisoner” - Lao Tzu
“I’ve had a l...
Large Language Models (LLMs) are traditionally trained by randomly sampling data blocks from massive datasets. However, this way to learn is probably dumb af.
Humans don’t learn effectively by randomly reviewing information -> LLMs might benefit from a more structured approach too.
You may…
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The Know All - Ramifications
Pivotal pioneers and inflection points
T&GR: pg20
Where does the original music come from?
- Natural rhythm of heartbeat (Ooga Chaka)
- What about the euphoric /stank face?
The invention of time: clocks, dials, adoption
The defiance of darkness: whale lamps, 💡
Ja…
The Know All - Wisdom
Wisdom skills (and meaning making maturity) involve the application of cognitive or reasoning capacities to the domains of human life
Attributes:
* critical thinking;
* creativity,
* self-understanding,
* abstract reasoning,
* social/emotional/communication skills,
* cur…
Vincent W thoughts
What is the point of ML? What is it learning? Based on a fixed set of training data, learn to predict the label of unseen test data. They learn this by assuming this information is in a vacuum and nothing outside (unpredictable) can arise. Example: we assess data on bubblegum pla…
Philosophy is full of irrelevant old dead white dudes. They’re all just conservative white males who write to further the ideological aims of a repressive Anglo-hegemony. Anything they say should be disregarded because they were so far removed from the societies they lived in and/or the contemporary…
OK so basically the year is bumblefuck middle age crusade shit and the catholic church has a cuckhold white knuckle grip on the nut sack of every living being bc of like Augustine’s philosophies from the 4th century. Tldr they’re the reason why catholicism is everywhere and the Bible is written in l…
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