A big secret is that you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time—most people don’t even try, and just accept that things are the way that they are.
People have an enormous capacity to make things happen. A combination of self-doubt, giving up too early, and not pushing hard enough prevents most people from ever... See more
Let’s first look at how to calculate self-attention using vectors, then proceed to look at how it’s actually implemented – using matrices.
The first step in calculating self-attention is to create three vectors from each of the encoder’s input vectors (in this case, the embedding of each word). So for each word, we create a... See more
2 years. Dozens of scripts. 1,000,000s of views.
Here are 10 scriptwriting fundamentals I stand by for almost any YouTube video 🧵: https://t.co/rR9sovOTmg
Companies should consider bringing on automation engineers.
Their job would be to use AI to speed up company workflows.
- write reusable prompts
- make custom ChatGPT plugins
- create AI agents for company processes
- build AI... See more
Paul Graham on how to make yourself a big target for luck:
“When you read biographies of people who've done great work, it's remarkable how much luck is involved.
They discover what to work on as a result of a chance meeting, or by reading a book they happen to pick up.... See more
Unsurprisingly, hiring friends and former colleagues was by far the biggest channel. This also in part explains why multi-time founders, and anyone with a large network (e.g. Y Combinator), have an advantage:
“All of our early hires were friends/ex-coworkers.”
“First hires were practically all former colleagues. Several people who worked with me in
Loneliness isn’t just making us unhappy, it’s silently killing us: Social isolation is as harmful as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. If the situation is so critical, why aren’t we doing more to fix it? Because we’ve been collectively ashamed to talk about loneliness . Our silence has incubated one of the most insidious crises our society has to face.... See more