Nat Friedman
@natfriedman
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https://t.co/Lhh178sIjq
California
Joined February 2008
I'm hiring full time engineers and geometry processing and computer vision researchers to help us read hundreds of ancient scrolls buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2000 years ago. We are scanning 100 scrolls this year (20x more than have been scanned in the last 25.
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Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000
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The deepseek team is obviously really good. China is full of talented engineers. Every other take is cope. Sorry.
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We moved out of San Francisco to Menlo Park a year ago after two meth addicts broke into our house while we were home and robbed us. They are both free now. The police who arrested them -- and were later forced to release them by the DA -- said these criminals were "frequent.
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Today we are announcing a major breakthrough in the Vesuvius Challenge: we have read the first word from an unopened Herculaneum scroll. The word is "πορφυρας" which means "purple dye" or "cloths of purple.". Congratulations to 21yo computer science
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We did it! We tested 300 Bay Area foods for plastic chemicals. We found some interesting surprises. Top 5 findings in our test results:. 1. Our tests found plastic chemicals in 86% of all foods, with phthalates in 73% of the tested products and bisphenols in 22%. It's.
I'm going to re-run all these tests on food we eat in California. Also going to test for other plastic chemicals. Let me know what foods we should test and suggestions for methodology.
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Today we're making GitHub free for teams of unlimited size, for private and public work. 🎉. Every developer on earth should have access to GitHub, and price shouldn't be a barrier.
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Many tech companies are 2-10x overstaffed and everyone who's paying attention already knows this.
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Today(!) we’re thrilled to announce unlimited free private repos for all GitHub users, and a new simplified Enterprise offering:
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TIL: in the 1990s Clinton offered federal workers a $25,000 buyout, and ~150,000 took the deal. He cut federal government spending from 22% to 18% of the economy, the lowest level since 1966.
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That @satyanadella had the vision and conviction to put $1B into OpenAI a year before GPT-3 is amazing and underappreciated.
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Cookie banners are annoying, so we removed them from GitHub:
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We’ve just added built-in citation support to GitHub so researchers and scientists can more easily receive acknowledgments for their contributions to software. Just push a CITATION.cff file and we’ll add a handy widget to the repo sidebar for you. Enjoy! 🎉
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After more than two years of work, we have secured a license from the U.S. government to offer GitHub to developers in Iran. This includes all services for individuals and organizations, private and public, free and paid.
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At GitHub every employee gets a prepaid debit card that you can use for books, courses, training, conferences – anything that might help you do your job better or advance your career.
This is one of the reasons why "Can you describe what I'd need to do to buy a $50 book?" is a deceptively good question to ask during job interviews (or earlier) for getting a read on how a company treats engineers, what their tolerance for process-for-sake-of-process is, etc.
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We are taking a stand for developers and have reinstated the youtube-dl repo. Section 1201 of the DMCA is broken and needs to be fixed. Developers should have the freedom to tinker. That's how you get great tools like youtube-dl.
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Watching llama.cpp do 40 tok/s inference of the 7B model on my M2 Max, with 0% CPU usage, and using all 38 GPU cores. Congratulations @ggerganov ! This is a triumph.
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Just bought my fifth sequential Tesla. I keep trying other cars with an open mind but Tesla is just better.
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Thanks to a major contribution of $2,084,000 from the Musk Foundation, stage 2 of the vesuvius challenge is now fully funded. Thank you to @elonmusk and his team for this support! We will do everything in our power to efficiently solve the remaining technical problems. The other
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BIG news! After an amazing three years at GitHub, I'm ready for my next adventure. Later this month, I'm passing the role of CEO to the very capable @ashtom:.
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We just added a "Copy" button to all code blocks on GitHub. 🍝
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Instead of leaf blowers, I want a quiet little robot that picks leaves up one at a time and puts them in a bag, at night while I'm sleeping.
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Oh, almost forgot to mention. New pro tip: Hit '.' on any GitHub repo. 😍.
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Consistently awed by the beauty of nuclear power plants, and by what they represent. The ability to create clean energy from matter, in a tiny geographical footprint, night and day, has to be one of the highest human achievements. I hope we start building them again!
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Interesting theory as to how the plastic gets into beef.
Plastic wrapped silage is the reason for this btw, grass fed steers eat a lot of silage, it gets really hot in the plastic while fermenting (prob absorbs some) and some farmers don’t even take the plastic off before cattle eat the bales so they eat the plastic lol
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Horrible, depressing chart of phthalate content in common foods.
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Advice for Food Companies. Since we launched PlasticList, we’ve been heartened to have quite a few food companies reach out and ask for help interpreting their results and tracking down and eliminating their contamination. I’ve had calls with a bunch of these. I am happy to
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We spent the last year working closely with OpenAI to build GitHub Copilot. We've been using it internally for months, and can't wait for you to try it out; it's like a piece of the future teleported back to 2021.
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These models that have been trained never to offend the most shrill parts of society are going to be like living with an HR person monitoring your every move. The iron prison, in every corner of your life. Hell on earth.
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Overheard in silicon valley: "I want to join a company where the culture is yelling and getting shit done.".
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Instead of leaf blowers, I want a quiet little robot that picks leaves up one at a time and puts them in a bag, at night while I'm sleeping.
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GitHub processes 2.8 billion API requests per day, peaking at 55k rps. Lots of busy bots. 🤖.
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You can now – finally! – drop images and videos onto the Markdown file editor on GitHub. 🥳
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We're considering opening applications for desk space in the GitHub HQ in SF to open source contributors who want a place to work. You'd need to sign an NDA, and we might occasionally ask for your feedback on things we're building. What do people think?.
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Introducing the GitHub command palette. Hit Cmd-k on Mac or Ctrl-k on Linux and Windows anywhere in the @github web interface. Enjoy😊
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False.
GitHub Copilot costs users $10 per month, but it costs Microsoft an average of $20 per user per month. Some users are costing the company as much as $80 per month. AI-powered Copilot coding tools are a race for who runs out of money first. Trick all developers into dependence.
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👇 Kathy is experimenting with adding a to GitHub profiles. Thoughts?.
hey, so we heard ya & are trying out a thing where you CAN have a readme on your @github profile. @mikekavouras built it btw! re:
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Megabytes of ancient text are coming.
A tidal wave of new primary sources from the ancient world could very soon be on its way - enough to keep scholars busy for decades! The first words have being read from digitally ‘unrolled’ carbonised scrolls from a Roman library in Herculaneum! (Image: Nat Friedman)
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Today we're launching a new GitHub team in India – the world's largest democracy. Indian developers, please let us know what we can do to better serve you!.
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Best hack I learned this week is creating a claude project for all your blood tests / health results, so you can get relevant health advice.
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Major missed opportunity, not putting a particle accelerator under the apple park building
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Full results and write-up: We also have instructions for running your own tests!.
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I'm going to re-run all these tests on food we eat in California. Also going to test for other plastic chemicals. Let me know what foods we should test and suggestions for methodology.
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We live in a time of miracles.
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We're using a particle accelerator and AI to read a lost library from a dead empire. People have been trying to read the Herculaneum Papyri for 275 years. With your help, we'll do it in 2023. Thrilled to announce the Vesuvius Challenge:.
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🔥Multi-line comments are here! Click and drag to comment on multiple lines in a pull request diff. ✨. These little quality-of-life improvements are at the heart of what we love doing at GitHub. 🥰
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Recently learned that the Starlink facility in Bastrop, TX is on track to be the largest PCB factory in the country.
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Need volunteers to come to my office in Palo Alto today to construct a 5000 piece Lego set. Will provide pizza. Have to sign NDA. Please DM.
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GitHub now automatically creates a table of contents for your files from your headers. 📖. After much consideration, we made this a feature of the viewer, not a concern of the editor: no special markdown to insert. 💡. Let us know what you think!
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The Google I grew up with would have already implemented YouTube-wide in-video search.
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Excited to announce that @npmjs will be joining GitHub, and honored to have the chance to serve the millions of JavaScript developers who rely on npm!.
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Who is the genius behind the sphere? It seems to have been designed by a team headquartered in Kansas City (Populous) and financed by a private equity firm (Apollo). Is there a good history of this project somewhere?.
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Today we're introducing Draft pull requests – tag your work-in-progress PRs as Draft to signal to your teammates that you're not ready to merge them yet.
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has trained a groundbreaking model with many millions of tokens of context that performed far better in our evals than anything we've tried before. They're using it to build an advanced AI programmer that can reason over your entire codebase and the
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Looking for an intern to spend a month or two testing a theory about the Shroud of Turin. Ideally you can start in the next few weeks, and can work full-time. Pay is $2k/week, required in-person in SF.
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The best startup advice used to be "ignore competitors; just make something people want.". These days it seems like everyone is obsessed with moats and market structures and the behavior of incumbents. Seems like we've gone too far. Just make something people want.
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Please share the most impressive o1 outputs you've generated.
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Shipping another small improvement to GitHub: you can now select and copy/paste one side of the split diff instead of selecting both sides. Our analysis indicates that this is a 1.7% overall life improvement for GitHub users. 🎉
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🌟 So excited to announce that GitHub now includes built-in CI/CD!.
Ready to start automating your own custom workflows?.Sign up for the beta of GitHub Actions with built-in CI/CD today 👇.
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Honored that @NASA is using GitHub, Actions, and CodeQL for the Mars drone flight software: If anyone working on this needs GitHub support, please feel free to DM me directly!
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But there's more: a few days ago, @Youssef_M_Nader, working with new segmentations from the Vesuvius Challenge segmentation team, was able to generate this image of stunning clarity and size:. This is the revolution in digital papyrology that Dr. Seales has created. Nothing like
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A high-density, walkable European city like Paris, Berlin, or Barcelona is an entirely different phenomenological thing from an American “city” like San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Atlanta. We should use a different word for the places we build in the US. They’re not cities.
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Congratulations to NASA for the first controlled, powered flight of an aircraft on another world!. And to the thousands of open source developers who helped make this happen: we put a beautiful new badge on your GitHub profile. 🌟.
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Tried the latest Tesla FSD today in rush hour traffic and I am very impressed. It handled congested high-speed merges better than I would have handled them. No mistakes the whole drive home, very smooth, and less overcautious-feeling than before.
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For everyone else, enjoy the usual onslaught of obstruction and red tape.
NEW: Just issued an Executive Order that will allow victims of the SoCal fires to not get caught up in bureaucratic red tape and quickly rebuild their homes. We are also extending key price gouging protections to help make rebuilding more affordable.
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Starting later today, GitHub is donating up to 60,000 core-hours per day of idle GitHub Actions compute capacity to Folding@Home's efforts to find drug treatments for 2019-nCOV.
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Customer development pro tip – announce a mysterious product launch and ask your users to guess what you're launching. Then furiously build what they're asking for before the event.
Any guesses? 😇.
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This is going to be an insane year for AIs writing code.
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We're planning to scan 100 ancient Roman scrolls this year and we urgently need to hire a contractor to help us design the cases that hold the scrolls while they are in the particle accelerator. Job is immediately available and work needs to be completed in the next 4 weeks. If
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The amazing team at GitHub built a new code search engine in rust that can operate at GitHub scale. Very excited to see this ship!.
Check out the technology preview for GitHub code search, the next iteration for search, discovery, and navigation on GitHub.
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I’ve been playing with using GPT-3 to control a browser the last couple days. Here’s a quick demo. As you can see it's pretty neat! But also quite flakey. Will publish the source code shortly for others to try and improve.
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Twitter should allow you to search all the tweets that you've seen.
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The LLM playground that's hosted at is now open source:. Enjoy!
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It was a little jarring to get a big red X on your PR when a colleague requested a change, so we swapped it for a more conversational icon that still clearly indicates PR status.
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We've started work to add GitHub Copilot support for vim and JetBrains. Quick preview of Copilot in IntelliJ:
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When StackOverflow is fully dead (due to long congenital illness, self-inflicted wounds, and the finishing blow from AI), where will AI labs get their training data?. They can just buy it! Assuming 10k quality answers per week, at $250/answer, that's just $130M/yr. Even at.
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👋Working on a fix, and notice your fork is behind? Now, you can sync from the parent with just a single click in the GitHub UI. 👇. Hope you like it! 🌟
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