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Best of Twitter week of December 9-15, 2024
Alexey Guzey
December 17, 2024
Daily or near-daily ("DND") use of marijuana increased from less than 1 million Americans in 1992 to about 18 million in 2022—surpassing daily or near daily drinkers for the first time ever
— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp)
5:21 PM • Dec 15, 2024
Interesting paper: participants got $50 to ‘trade’ in S&P or bonds as if it were a given day in the last 15 years, and they were shown the WSJ headline from the *next* day (36-hour clairvoyance)
After 15 random days: average return was 3.2%, 45% lost money, 16% went bust (!)
— Fin Moorhouse (@finmoorhouse)
10:26 PM • Dec 14, 2024
At the age of 29, Perelman provided a short proof of the soul conjecture (10 years before Poincaré) and then gave a talk at Princeton. The leaders in the math dept asked him to apply and asked for a CV. Perelman thought no CV was necessary after the talk, and didn't apply.
— Shubhendu Trivedi (@_onionesque)
8:32 PM • Dec 15, 2024
^ perfect illustration of why we need new institutions of basic science. a genius comes to princeton and proves that he’s a genius. princeton: “why don’t you submit a job application”
Post office sends a personal representative of the government to every address in the country, and it’s been doing it for 250 years.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani)
3:33 PM • Dec 14, 2024
^ underappreciated fact that government can be very competent when it wants to
🚨Ilya Sutskever finally confirmed
> scaling LLMs at the pre-training stage plateaued
> the compute is scaling but data isn’t and new or synthetic data isn’t moving the needleWhat’s next
> same as human brain, stopped growing in size but humanity kept advancing, the agents and… x.com/i/web/status/1…— John Rush (@johnrushx)
12:10 AM • Dec 14, 2024
The apparent "philosophical problems" of quantum mechanics are not unique to QM at all: they are in fact the same problems that arise whenever one attempts to construct an abstract model of reality. We can see these problems already in high school-level mechanics. (1/14)
— Jonathan Gorard (@getjonwithit)
9:58 PM • Dec 8, 2024
Woman on Facebook proudly reports how her husband shone a laser at a “drone” which was actually @FedEx flight 3926 at 4,000 feet.
This is complete madness.
— Take That, Clouds (@TakeThatClouds)
9:36 AM • Dec 14, 2024
The COVID era Paycheck Protection Program was defrauded at an incredible scale. People received PPP loans for total nonsense at stunning rates.
Thread of funny claims.
Dodge Hellcat LLC x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil)
11:04 PM • Dec 12, 2024
This illustrates another huge problem with EA/utilitarianism/communism. You think you can judge what's best for the world from abstract intellectual Mount Olympus aka Oxford, San Francisco, Aspen, Davos. You cannot.
— Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 (@pmarca)
7:33 PM • Dec 13, 2024
"We must be honest, our movement was born at the height of the cold war and due to the anti-colonial struggle we ended up absorbing concepts alien to Arab culture and Islam. Such as Socialism and class struggle.
But the Prophet, pbuh, lived in a free market society" Al-Shara
— Mihnea/𒈪𒄴𒉈𒀀 (@Miyhnea)
9:58 AM • Dec 12, 2024
Waymo's market share is now equal to Lyft within SF. Incredible.
Network effects is one of the best sources of defensibility. But it's proven to be not that important in ridesharing.
You need a minimum network size, but once you have that, there are diminishing returns. In… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Alex Immerman (@aleximm)
5:17 PM • Dec 12, 2024
You only need 1 or 2 people in which you can earnestly tell your dreams and aspirations to — without the underlying fear of evil eye.
Just that alone is more than most will have ever experienced
— SELENA (inevitable) 🦈🃏 (@milky_selena)
1:41 AM • Nov 19, 2024
^ i created a gc with 3 friends a few months back to discuss a big personal project i’ve been working on and i think it completely changed its trajectory
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