Air Katakana

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Air Katakana

@airkatakana

based postdoctoral researcher in AI and language learning enthusiast. building based weeb tools @ {secret solopreneur side project}. based in tokyo

EN/JPJoined March 2015

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Air Katakana

@airkatakana

May 23

kaist

@kaistpr

professor jinjoon "vendetta" lee

@jinjoon_lee

forced me to send a fairly large sum of money to his wife's bank account, under threat of withdrawing an offer to be a postdoc in his lab. university leadership such as president kwang hyung lee did nothing about this

this is the final nail in the japanese birth rate coffin

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MachinePix

@MachinePix

Apr 12

Tentacle robot gripper by the Harvard Microrobotics Lab.

give me a robot and a gpu i could put this guy and everyone he knows and loves out of a job in less than a week

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Pamphlets

@PamphletsY

May 17

Unskilled Labor is a Capitalist Myth.

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all japanese learning advice is either duolingo-type stuff (spoonfed baby steps that get you nowhere), or this, with absolutely no in between

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flood insurance guy went bankrupt and no one is getting their money back anyway

a loop with/without print statements is the difference between 2 mins execution time and 2 seconds (5900% more time to execute) please don’t run your code with a lot of print statements unless you’re debugging

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Eric Zhang

@ekzhang1

May 2

so i saved $27000/year by removing 10 lines of code this morning they were print() statements

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if you think “move avocados into box” is a hard task for modern robots you are not qualified to comment on my posts

“how can i learn japanese” “how can i learn python” “how can i create a successful startup” “how can i become an ai researcher” i get these questions in my dms from strangers daily and the answer is the same to all of them

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system prompt: “you are chatgpt, a large language model…” user: “who are you” chatgpt: “i’m chatgpt, a large language model” hOlY sHiT iTs sElF aWaRe

consuming 5000 hours of japanese media while not learning how to understand japanese (a task that takes ~300 hours if done properly) is insane person behavior

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no, you couldn’t. don’t apply your own abilities to me

Meanwhile the first thing Berkeley CS undergrads are shown:

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Life After My Ph.D.

@LifeAfterMyPhD

Aug 9, 2023

gentle reminder for PhD students: things like working overtime, missing sleep, any period of misery, prioritizing work over personal life, and working weekends/holidays aren't requirements for success and anyone who promotes those things is just trying to exploit you

OpenAI: “We have provided a cheap API so you can easily build products for your startup on top of ours ” Also OpenAI: “We can and will destroy your business and your entirely livelihood without warning. The rivers will run red with the blood of our loyal customers”

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Alex Ker

@thealexker

Oct 29, 2023

Many startups just died today. Because OpenAI added PDF chat. You can also chat with data files and other document types. We had a wave of products better suited as features rather than stand-alone companies. Wrappers are being squeezed by OpenAI on one side and incumbents on

Air Katakana

@airkatakana

May 14

now consider that the vast majority of people in the world have no idea that this is happening

anyone who has a job that involves thinking in any way would probably benefit from reading this book (halfway through now). very straightforward and cogent thoughts on how to make things that people find value in

being insanely talented at almost anything: no one can relate or understand at all except the other top 1% in your field who are just like “cool” being insanely talented at sports: multi-millionaire, people worship you worldwide, women throwing themselves at you

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i don’t have any avocados

soon ai will eat absolutely everything, but right now there's a sweet spot where you can leverage your domain knowledge in conjunction with ai to make something useful with minimal financial or labor investment. last chance to join the upper class before takeoff maybe

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what do you think he’s gonna do with the excess heat generated by 350,000 H100s?

15% chance of dyson sphere by 2030 is absurd, we havent even put a human on mars yet. what are these people smoking

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this is actually good advice though

guys if you want to move to japan, 4 year degree + job offer are literally the only requirements for a work visa. especially given the rapidly increasing number of foreign entrepreneurs, meaning you possibly don’t even need to know japanese for work, you can just go

the vast majority of AI art steals no one’s job. i was never going to commission anyone to draw freddy krueger pikachu taking a bath with the pope on mars. this is simply an image that exists now, which otherwise would not have existed if we did not have AI art

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we can free him from his fruity hell

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why are none of them black

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i think you’re trying to use it wrong

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print statements slow down program execution a lot. i’m not sure why this isn’t common knowledge

imagine being an llm, you read all of these stories about a rich world full of color and 3d objects, and yet your only sensory experience is text

welcome to x, the everything app, the public town square

japan makes every single other country look entirely uncivilized honestly if someone ever figures out how to make a country like that but with the productivity of the usa i honestly think it would be best for all of us if it took over the entire world

just got a job offer from google, for my recent work introducing this simple modification to the diffusion model sampling procedure

i got 500 followers for saying things like “print statements make your program slower” and “read books to learn things”, something is deeply wrong with you people

feynman on learning japanese (don’t be like him, be like me)

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notlinear

@notlinear1

Dec 22, 2023

if you get autism get feynman autism not anime autism

microsoft was afraid of the imminent WizardLM-2-Vicuna-8x22B-Uncensored-SuperHOT-8K-GPTQ. microsoft wants to erase your anime girlfriend

come to Japan, I will help you set up a company. You can legally train on anything without copyright issues, excellent food, safe city, amazing public transportation, etc My DMs are open

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they had the idea 2 decades ago sir

if you want to do something, how fast you are doing the thing is probably more than 1000x more important than whether you are doing the thing or not in the first place

korea so fucked beff had to delete this tweet

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this turtle is completely unaware of the amazing multimodal capabilities of gpt-4o

claude writing my code claude making my data claude making my logo claude making my pitch deck claude drafting my incorporation documents claude negotiating with the sec when i get sued for putting false information in my incorporation documents the future is here

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how deep can it go

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