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Best of Twitter week of March 31-April 6, 2025
Alexey Guzey
April 06, 2025
Steve Ballmer reflects on Satya Nadella’s rise to CEO. Groomed for 15 years by Ballmer and Gates, Nadella was tested across Microsoft—accounting, search, enterprise, cloud.
"Satya is thoughtful. Satya is cool. And is absolutely the perfect choice as our new CEO."
— vitrupo (@vitrupo)
4:49 AM • Apr 4, 2025
"Nothing is difficult, only unfamiliar." - Old high school mathematics teacher quote, and one of the best pieces of advice I have received
— Ash Jogalekar (@curiouswavefn)
11:00 PM • Apr 4, 2025
^ surprisingly right
@teortaxesTex In the mental universe of ai2027's authors there is one inexorable fixed point pulling all timelines towards it. A brain in a box in a basement, a datacenter containing a country of supergeniuses, The Box, The Project, a pivotal moment where chaos lifts and eternity can be seen.
— John David Pressman (@jd_pressman)
7:54 AM • Apr 4, 2025
@teortaxesTex When I was younger I believed in this moment, but have increasingly come to realize I will probably never see it. I now believe something spiritually closer to Stross's Accelerando, a constantly increasing chaos as the 20th century order disappears in the rearview mirror.
— John David Pressman (@jd_pressman)
7:56 AM • Apr 4, 2025
^ a sane thread of AI predictions. Also see this one on rationalism vs empiricism.
This should be in a rulebook for men tbh. An older cousin told me if I wanted to have a better relationship with my then girlfriend to basically just minimize the amount of time I spent with her.
Always be busy with something else. Don't stop having hobbies just because you
— Komrade + Kommander (@KMNDR_)
5:02 AM • Apr 4, 2025
I knew someone who lived on an anarchist commune for a while and she said that the hot people who are all sleeping together get first dibs on everything.
— Everything Price Sufferer (@agraybee)
8:47 PM • Apr 2, 2025
fucking insane. some fish use electrical signals to navigate; if two fish on the same frequency encounter each other, they automatically switch frequencies to avoid "signal jamming" each other. exactly like how your wifi router does at home. wow.
— meatball times (@meatballtimes)
4:27 AM • Apr 3, 2025
sure, neural networks and backprop are cool. the most amazing topic in computer science is still Diffie-Hellman
you and i can communicate PRIVATELY, in a PUBLIC channel, without coordinating beforehand, because of clever mathematics
public-key cryptography. just incredible
— jack morris (@jxmnop)
7:17 PM • Apr 2, 2025
^ inspiring
The actual solution to this is to break the anxiety<>check response. Right now you feel anxiety or avoidance when you don't check, then temporarily relieve that anxiety once you check or avoid checking. So you reinforce the behavior and response. The gold standard CBT approach to
— shako (@shakoistsLog)
8:24 PM • Apr 1, 2025
^ i asked twitter for help with anxiety about checking messages and this tweet was most helpful. started to just check messages/emails first thing in the morning for an hour and haven’t had ~any anxiety in almost a week now.
The achievements of the Greco-Romans were made possible by a colossal volume of coinage. As early adopters they had no competition: little coin flowed outward and those states who held mines built up unbelievable treasures. A thread on the most momentous human invention:
— Uriah (@crimkadid)
12:18 AM • Apr 1, 2025
The diet of the most energetic octogenarian alive:
— Alexey Guzey (@alexeyguzey)
3:47 AM • Mar 29, 2025
Have a great week!
Alexey
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