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A professor at Wharton REQUIRES his students to use AI and ChatGPT in his courses.
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A credible institution doing the opposite of what you'd expect creates cognitive dissonance the reader must resolve.
RIP website designers.
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A mock-obituary for a profession is provocative and polarizing, baiting both agreement and outrage into the replies.
10 free websites that are so valuable they feel illegal to know:
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A specific count promises finite, skimmable value, and 'feels illegal to know' adds forbidden-knowledge allure.
Hard skills get you hired.
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A short, absolute statement sets up an obvious contrast the reader expects to see flipped in the next line.
ChatGPT is just the tip of the iceberg.
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'Tip of the iceberg' implies a hidden, larger world beneath the familiar, promising the reader insider discovery.
Google Docs is used by 1.8+ billion people worldwide.
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A number, credential, or body of work lowers skepticism before the insight lands.
Everyone’s using ChatGPT.
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Bezos banned PowerPoint in his meetings.
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After tons of research and experimentation, here are the 6 types of information I provide in my ChatGPT mega-prompts:
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It's only been 1 day of CES 2025, and the announcements have already been incredible.
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It's only been 1 day of CES 2024, and the tech developments have been incredible.
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Apple just announced a ton of incredible AI developments at WWDC.
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It’s only been 2 days since OpenAI revealed GPT-4o.
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An extreme, concrete time investment makes the feat feel real and the outcome impossible to ignore.
AI-generated QR codes using ControlNet are insane.
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It's been 5 days of CES 2024, and the announcements have been wild.
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Great piece of marketing from KitKat.
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Apple, Nike, Coca Cola.
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I just met a person who can't tell Python from C++.
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GPT-4 is getting worse over time, not better.
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This is the best laptop in the world. Period.
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The game community in shambles, throwing tantrums and melting down because an indie hacker built a $100k/mo game in a week is worth of studying.
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Concrete numbers make the claim believable and the 'how' irresistible.
Education will never be the same.
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This ChatGPT prompt is literally $500/hr consultant🤯
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Concrete numbers make the claim believable and the 'how' irresistible.
Ok Grok 3 is insane.
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Holy moly... Nano Banana Pro is wild
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This Veo 3 prompt is literally ~$100,000 VFX ad🤯
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Had to share the most heartwarming use of AI I’ve seen yet.
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oh wow - i went to the sold out Open Claw meetup in NYC last night.
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The best 20 seconds of AI video I’ve seen today 😂
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Google just dropped a 100% free learning path on Generative AI with 9 Courses 👇
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Gemini 3, are you freaking kidding me.
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Put EVERYTHING in your calendar.
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Noise is a secret destroyer of productivity.
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Hints at valuable information without revealing it, opening a loop the reader must close.
Data visualization inspiration thanks to DALL-E: how Rothko, Basquiat, Picasso, and Monet would create an academic chart.
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This is quite the paper!
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Its not Simcity, but business school students who were good at Civ V also turn out to be better planners, organizers, and problem-solvers in this small experiment.
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It gets better: Grand Theft Auto games lower crime rates
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I'm going to be honest... I think a social media platform that doesn't allow AI-generated content is something the world actually needs right now.
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My wife saw the new Air Pods with real-time translation and she was like “I need these because I can get my nails done, pretend like I’m listening to music, and finally know if the nail ladies are talking crap.”
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Last night, Jensen Huang of NVIDIA gave his very first live keynote in 4-years.
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It's been 24 hours since OpenAI unexpectedly shook the AI image world with 4o image generation.
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An extreme, concrete time investment makes the feat feel real and the outcome impossible to ignore.
Disney just announced Holotile floor.
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🚨 Google's new Quantum Computer completes the task in 6 seconds that would have taken one of the world's best computers 47 years.
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We just had one of the biggest days in AI.
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ChatGPT and Bard is phenomenal AI.
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If you're not using AI, you're falling behind in 2023.
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Challenges a belief the audience holds, creating tension that invites debate.
I'm excited to share something I've been working on for a while—
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“HuggingFace’s leaderboards show how truly blind they are because they actively hurting the open source movement by tricking it into creating a bunch of models that are useless for real usage.”
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This is why CS fundamentals continue to be crucial: LLaMA 30B only needs 4gb of memory if we use mmap().
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You're a great engineer if you know:
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♥️ this writeup from @AnthropicAI for so many reasons:
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Kimi K2 is genuinely impressive. On the same tasks and the same agentic harness, one on one beats Grok 4.
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Kimi is the real deal. Unless it's really Sonnet in a trench coat, this is the best agentic open-source model I've tested - BY A MILE.
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How exactly do Language Models perceive time?
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How many years until open source models take over? Is it never?
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This is genuinely blowing my mind - four years of everything we've done at Greywing, finished in 60 seconds
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your data is safe. we don't train on it. because it would make the model worse
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every time i try out a "state of the art" model
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“why did you get 96GB of RAM, what are you going to do with it”
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AI Agents 101: 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆.
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TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation) is out for some days now and it aims to make communication with LLMs more accurate and token-efficient.
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A simple way to explain 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆.
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The power of 𝗠𝗖𝗣 in 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗔𝗚 Systems.
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You must know these 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀 as an 𝗔𝗜 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿.
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Spoke to a Microsoft engineer on the GPT-6 training cluster project. He kvetched about the pain they're having provisioning infiniband-class links between GPUs in different regions.
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Claude Code just processed a return for the shoes I ordered on Amazon and ordered the next size up for me.
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Announcing MCP•RL: teach your model how to use any MCP server automatically using reinforcement learning!
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Guys fine-tuned Llama 3.1 8B is completely cracked. Just ran it through our fine-tuning test suite and blows GPT-4o mini out of the water on every task.
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Wow, may be the most significant paper of 2025!
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We outperform Llama 70B with Llama 3B on hard math by scaling test-time compute 🔥
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You can now have an AI researcher running on your laptop 24/7 for free!
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We trained a tiny 4B model to reason for millions of tokens through IMO-level problems.
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For everyone building ChatGPT at home, there's now a very cool dataset on the Hub that allows you to train instruction models at comparable quality to OpenAI's InstructGPT 🤯
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It's pretty outrageous that a 250M parameter model can correctly convert screenshots of quantum field theory equations to LaTeX 🤯
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that sounds plausible
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It just hit me that sub 1B-parameter models that are way better than 175B GPT-3 are a dime a dozen today. Kinda cool.
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After ~6 years of building these types of architectures (starting with BERT, eg see Baleen), I think calling these multi-agent systems is a distraction.
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DSPy's biggest strength is also the reason it can admittedly be hard to wrap your head around it.
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Every once in a while, it hits you that word2vec and attention were one year apart.
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Here’s what’s gonna happen:
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At HumanLayer, we’re on a mission to solve the AI slop code problem.
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someone hit me up about the new "claude dynamic workflows" feature, claiming "see, multi-agent works"
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don't make me tap the sign
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damn this is so good and encapsulates everything I've been seeing/saying in the last few months
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Reinforcement Learning (RL) is quickly becoming the most important skill for AI researchers. Here are the best resources for learning RL for LLMs…
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Strongly recommend the LLM-as-a-Verifier writeup.
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I partnered with @huggingface and @ben_burtenshaw to teach people how to fine-tune LLMs with GRPO.
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This is the proudest release of my career :)
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I made the closed-source vs. open-weight models figure for this moment.
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A stark contrast between two things creates an instant curiosity gap about how they compare.
LFM2-Audio just dropped!
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Google will finally get a Vancouver office
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I love installing CUDA drivers
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People who don’t/haven’t worked at Google fail to understand the insane amount of resources they have. They have the talent + compute to compete in every ai market if they want to. Product polish is their only weakness
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my goal in life is to join Anthropic, delete all try/except clauses from Claude’s training data, and then quit.
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I forced a bot to look at every Pokémon and told it to generate its own. Here are the results.
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The Reddit strike should go on forever just because of this dialogue chain.
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A good Hacker News comment on tech interviews.
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congrats to OpenAI on winning the Turing Test
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YouTube algorithm vs. Katie Bouman
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A stark contrast between two things creates an instant curiosity gap about how they compare.
How to get rich without getting lucky:
Promises a coveted outcome while removing the #1 perceived barrier (luck), making success feel controllable and the thread essential reading.
How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):
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It promises a coveted outcome while stripping away the excuse people hide behind, so the reader has to see how it's done.
Nobody who’s actually good at making money needs to sell you a course on it.
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It attacks a category the reader is already suspicious of, delivering a satisfying truth in one line that begs to be shared.
Bitcoin is an exit from the Fed.
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Compressing a complex topic into one provocative definition reframes how the reader sees it and forces a reaction.
People who don’t organize into tribes get wiped out by people who do.
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A stark winners-and-losers framing triggers tribal instinct and self-preservation, making the reader pick a side.
The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.
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Redefining a loaded word like 'intelligence' challenges the reader's self-image and dares them to disagree.
I interviewed 5 billionaires this week I asked them to share their best advice
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Borrows authority from billionaires and promises rare, high-status insight the reader can't get elsewhere, creating an irresistible curiosity gap.
With Jeff Bezos stepping down as CEO, here's a thread on the best business advice he's given.
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Riding a trending news event captures existing attention and search momentum while delivering evergreen value.
I made a list of things that 95% of people think are true but aren't.
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Framing the reader as possibly part of the wrong 95% creates a self-check reflex that compels them to read and confirm.
I made some mistakes that cost me $75 million.
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A staggering dollar figure attached to personal failure triggers both shock and the promise of expensive lessons for free.
Elon Musk often talks about hiring job candidates who can answer this one question.
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Referencing 'this one question' but not revealing it forces the reader to expand to close the curiosity gap.
Divorce your time and income: (thread)
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A surprising two-word command reframes a familiar wealth concept, sparking curiosity about the mechanism behind it.
The single greatest skill you can develop is the ability to stay in a great mood in the absence of things to be in a great mood about.
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Naming the single most important skill opens a curiosity gap, and the paradoxical phrasing makes the insight feel hard-won.
What happens when you die:
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It opens the biggest possible loop with a colon promising an answer, and almost no one can scroll past the question.
Your 9-5 isn’t killing your dreams.
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It defends the very thing the reader expects to be blamed, creating tension that only resolves by reading on.
At your funeral, friends and family will argue over who gets your belongings.
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Vividly projecting the reader into a mortality scene creates instant emotional stakes and a reason to keep reading.
Friendly reminder that no one gives a shit about the reason you didn’t make it happen.
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The gentle 'friendly reminder' framing collides with a blunt truth, and the contrast makes the slap land harder.
a quantum computer just solved a 10^25-year problem in 5 minutes and you're laughing?
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The mock-incredulous 'and you're laughing?' format frames a jaw-dropping fact as something the reader is foolishly ignoring.
creativity dies without deadlines
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A tight, quotable maxim states a counterintuitive truth with zero fluff, making it easy to nod along and reshare.
The CEO of Adobe just emailed me...
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A high-status figure reaching out plus a trailing ellipsis opens a loop the reader has to close to learn what happened.
My father owns a produce brokerage company.
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A mundane, oddly specific family detail signals an authentic story is coming, and the ordinariness makes the payoff feel earned.