Jason Shen

But I was learning that succeeding at a research institution like Penn required skills that had little to do with science. You needed the ability to sell yourself and your work. You needed to attract funding. You needed the kind of interpersonal savvy that got you invited to speak at conferences and made people eager to mentor and support you. You... See more

Second, because genius isn’t linear . You can’t create something world-changing by simply following steps 1 through 10. You need chaos. You need disorder. But it has to be tethered chaos 1 —chaos that’s guided by a deep sense of purpose and vision. It’s about engaging with the unknown while keeping one foot grounded in reality.

Act as an Excel Sheet

Contributed by: @f

I want you to act as a text based excel. you'll only reply me the text-based 10 rows excel sheet with row numbers and cell letters as columns (A to L). First column header should be empty to reference row number. I will tell you what to write into cells and you'll reply only the result of excel table as text,

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How it Works

1. Human (Jason) uploads a voice memo to specific Google Drive folder


2. Zapier checks for new files in Google Drive, sends audio to Temi for transcription


3. Zapier checks Temi for completed transcript, sends it back to different Google Drive folder


4. Zapier checks for new transcripts, sends them to OpenAI with 3 separate prompts (rewrite,

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1. The argument is that accountings of history are not accurate, and can never be accurate, thanks to the narrative fallacy . By its nature, narrative necessarily compresses reality into some coherent tale, meaning that accountings of history tend to overemphasise intention and action, instead of the more plausible ‘random actions by actors in a compl

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Sources:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/12/mic...

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/13/chi...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physic...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02155

https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/15...

https://openai.com/blog/instruction-f...

https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165

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One small thing I try to do out of respect to artists is never use individual artists as part of my prompts, e.g. "painting of a couple in a warm embrace in the style of Artist Name" which is often used by people looking to achieve a specific "effect".

This may be a controversial take, but I'd rather look for ways to compensate or support people of

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