Glyptodons
This post is a mirror of a tweet. Glyptodons went extinct ~11,000 years ago. They weighed 4,400 lbs, lived for 60 years, and were 5ft tall and 11ft long. Their olfactory bulb was 5-10% of their entire brain mass, and Continue reading
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Twitter Conversion Funnel Visualization
This page is best viewed full-screen here instead: https://xstats.blue/ A short script that shows you your twitter conversion rates. More links: Source code, How to Twitter Successfully Twitter Conversion Dashboard View your Twitter engagement funnel / conversion rates Anonymously share Continue reading
Cold Flight
A cold flight is when you combine the concepts of a cold email and a plane flight . Many of life s best opportunities are only available in-person, so always be willing to hop on a cold-flight for something important. The most Continue reading
On The Edge
Most traits that highly successful people have are not inherently beneficial. It takes a good dice roll, both genetic and circumstantial, for their benefits to accrue rather than destroy. Imagine someone is extremely good at noticing things that no one Continue reading
2024 AI reflections
This is a mirror of a post I made on twitter here. effortPost> 2020-2025 AI releases which surprised me: time for musings! note this excludes many research results to instead focus on model outputs which i didn t think i d see Continue reading
Try a Thing
Your browser does not support the video element. when i was young i had this insane view that the world was completely mad and irrational and no one knew what they were talking about and now that i am slightly Continue reading
Things to buy
This page is a list of some great purchases I ve made. Until advertising becomes much more efficient, many of the best purchases we make are direct suggestions from friends! last updated: Mar 22 2026 Other Lists Many others have made Continue reading
It’s Just Math
This post is a mirror of a tweet on reductionism with respect to LLMs referring to AI models as just math or matrix multiplication is as uselessly reductive as referring to tigers as just biology or biochemical reactions
HeavenBanning
This post is a mirror of the original tweet on HeavenBanning from June 1st 2022, around half a year before ChatGPT was released. heavenbanning, the hypothetical practice of banishing a user from a platform by causing everyone that they speak Continue reading
AI -> inequality++
This post is a mirror of a tweet I made on why I expect inequality to increase as AI progresses. ai is a force of extreme empowerment. currently it seems like many AI tools will be broadly available for anyone Continue reading