Isaak Freeman
@isaakfreeman
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Now heads-down learning. Past: math @Berkeley , ran @futureforumfdn , neurosci at @UniofOxford . Between Vienna/Bay/Boston
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Friends & I built a new group house: Arcadia is a beautiful 10-BR house in Berkeley. We have space open for a few more residents and guests - DM me!
We put a lot of sweat and love into it - I'd appreciate it if you could retweet this🌱💞
Pic:
@VitalikButerin
visiting Arcadia ☘️
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Surprise: I’ll be joining the Boyden Lab
@eboyden3
at MIT, in the Media Lab MAS/PhD program. I’ve been intrigued by high-resolution simulations of life for a while, and now is the best time to try.
In fact, I’ve already moved to Boston and got started! (here w/
@alexeyguzey
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After my post-high-school gap years, I'm now retreating into a (self-)learning phase for ≥1-2y and going to university, to deepen my foundations in math/physics & ML/CS. I'll be mostly based in the Bay, lmk if you're around!
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Years ago, stuck in my home valley in rural Austria, I was sad about how few people work on humanity’s pressing problems. I now built an incubator to get some of the brightest minds to tackle global issues, and we’re running our first event in 40 days:
Future Forum's public launch! FF is an experimental 4-day event on Aug 4th-7th in SF.
Ft.
@3blue1brown
,
@anderssandberg
,
@_TamaraWinter
,
@jasoncrawford
,
@eboyden3
, & more.
More info & apply now:
Please retweet this & help us reach Twitter's far corners!
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After high school, I fell in love with human biology and spent ~6 months & 10h+ per day self-teaching up to and beyond an undergrad level. Armed with this, I went to a neuroscience/neurology lab at
@UniofOxford
. Now - finally - our first paper is out!
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As the awesome
@_TheResidency
2nd cohort is wrapping up, Arcadia () has some temporary guest rooms open! Please share with friends, apply via the website or say hi at isaak
@joinarcadia
.org. Come stop by for a healthy mix of Bay Area sanity and insanity 💚
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violently torn between already up at 6am (lawful neutral) or still up at 6am (chaotic good)
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Lastly: We love to host guests, from crashing for just a day to multiple months. We want to be a landing pad in the Bay for individuals from many communities - DMs are open❣️
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Friends, I'll be pretty heads-down for the next year while speedrunning my undergrad, and I'll probably be less responsive than usual. If I don't get to respond to your DM swiftly — I still love you🥺
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We deeply care about agency, thoughtfulness, kindness, and doing good for the future of humanity.
If this sounds interesting to you, you can let us know here if you'd like to be part of the community or become a resident!
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The Austro-German majority has ended. No pretzels anymore, just maple syrup
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Arcadia has a spot open in late March/April — send us a DM if you're interested in living with incredible folks from across communities!
Our v2 website is out too — including resident bios :)
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If people tend to systematically underestimate what they can do, it can be unbelievably impactful to simply ask your friends / acquaintances / mentees: "What is the wildest thing you could do?" Heightening ambitions can be shockingly effective.
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Who are the best math & physics tutors you know to support an ambitious/fast-paced learning plan?
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Where did life come from? What chemistries might alien life use?
Free idea: Systematically try to cook up new life from scratch. A cooking recipe for aliens... 🧵👽
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Robots taking over Arcadia’s makerspace
Excited to announce Tau Robotics (
@taurobots
). We are building a general AI for robots. We start by building millions of robot arms that learn in the real world.
In the video, two robot arms are fully autonomous and controlled by a single neural network conditioned on different
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I'm coming back online here just to highlight this: Super excited to collaborate with The Residency! The first cohort is cracked and I'm excited to see what awesome stuff they'll do.
🚨 It’s time to build 🚨
This year The Residency is teaming up with Arcadia House to provide our founding cohort with an incredible environment to both grow as an individual 🌱 and to build the future 🚀
Read a few more of our tweets (X’s?) below to learn more 👇
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Imagine you’d like to take a 2 hour nap and then being gently woken up by slowly rising caffeine in your blood. What are ways to delay-release capsules for 2-6 hours? Ideally not just preventing stomach dissolution but also extending intestinal absorption for a while
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Huel (powder) might not be an optimal food in general, but it seems like a surprisingly good catastrophe survival food! Durable, stockable, nutritious. I'll see you at the bunker
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proper pace of learning 🫡
I've spent the past ~2 weeks building a GPU from scratch with no prior experience. It was way harder than I expected.
Progress tracker in thread (coolest stuff at the end)👇
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People (and I) tend to vastly underestimate their degrees of freedom in life. You usually can do so much more than you think.
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Supported Lantern early on - excited for the launch! Curing caries is just an epic quest to be on
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SF is a shit city but it’s so much easier to love it when remembering that SF never outgrew being a gold rush frontier
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As a total code noob (beyond some basic python/numpy), how much AI do you recommend having in the process of learning? Use Cursor/Copilot or not at all in the beginning? Write every line yourself or use AI-autocomplete? Only use for troubleshooting?
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I had a casual chat with Visa today — and it was super fun! Check it out :)
woke up sleepy this morning with 3hrs sleep for a zoom call with
@isaakfreeman
and I am now energized af like i've had 5 coffee. cant wait to share the recording with yall this guy is 🔥
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any moving electrons will emit light. but nothing reaches absolute 0. doesn’t that mean everything is always emitting EM? surely usually with a peak in infrared or lower (3000/330K≈10mm EM wave), but surely the dis also includes visible light? is everything always glowing a bit?
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wait, please explain why would RLHF not generalize to superhuman performance for most outputs? even if average Joe doesn’t understand relativity, he can still tell you whether Einstein is being nice or not
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entering my early 20s and still so high IGF-1 🫣 “personal growth” the doc joked
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@gregeganSF
’s Morphotropic is a great read for anyone interested in bioelectrics and
@drmichaellevin
’s stuff
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As far as I was able to find out, nobody took the Miller-Urey and tried them at scale?? It's fundamentally a probability and combinatorics problem. What kinds of conditions have what chance of life emerging? Think 10,000 small pots, in a huge hall with varying conditions.
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@MoritzW42
If I go into neurotech in the long run, it's other areas of knowledge & skills which currently bottleneck me! Also, those areas are instrumental for even more fields, while bio is instrumental ~only for bio.
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@clairebookworm1
@cyb3rblaze_
@SumnerLN
@patrickmineault
@allisondman
if you have interesting protein targets which you suspect could mediate glial cell function, you could stain for them in the expansion process and then use that data
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We know it's possible to get life somehow like this (proof: you). We don't know the details. But we can experiment and design. Based on the initial data, eg how complex the resulting molecules are, perhaps you could even train models to predict better cooking pot conditions
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The first experiments (Miller-Urey) put organic compounds and ions into a pot, similar to certain conditions near deep-sea vents back on Earth 4 billion years ago. Then they cooked it a day. But life didn't take a couple days:
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@RealDavidParke
@tylercowen
@VitalikButerin
I meant the metaphorical "build", not constructing it on our own! :)
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but why do waves primarily interact with objects roughly the size of their wavelength
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居安思危
Even as the U.S. refuses to even TALK about the withering of its defense-industrial base, China is engaged in a massive military buildup, while insulating itself from vulnerabilities in fuel, food, and finance.
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It might've taken millions of years. What if you let this kind of experiment run for months? Years? What if you systematically varied conditions - a set of pots more like an undersea volcano, one more like a hot spring, one set with more tiny porous caves (to get membranes...)
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You can try weird things and imagine getting wild results: Novel life! Silicon-based chemistries? RNA world organisms, that mainly use RNA to do stuff (instead of proteins)? Novel ways of storing information, not RNA/DNA? Cooking up aliens!
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@krishnanrohit
- the virtues of Singapore, why you should move to a talent pot, whether SF is the ultimate talent pot, and why having kids prevents you from coworking
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@ohabryka
hmh makes sense. how much do we know about RLHF decreasing the potential for deception in the first place?
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@willdepue
it’s not easy to make friends our age in SF! and there’s actually not that large of a peer group. found it way easier in Europe
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