Daniel
@nearlydaniel
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doing something new :) prev: head of AI eng @ Harvey AI, ML @ Tesla Autopilot I enjoy making neural nets smaller and smarter, and investigating complex systems
San Francisco
Joined October 2012
going to interview at google and loudly pronouncing "kubernetes" such that it rhymes with "uber eats".
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sold my ai company for a lot of money. call that rag to riches.
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babe wake up it's time to use your trauma as fuel to succeed in the corporate world.
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i paid the openai intern so much to make this happen.
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Both dates I went on this weekend had very annoying dogs. What’s going on here?. all I seek is a girl who wants to build an empire, wage war and destruction on our enemies, and go on cute park dates with me . Cats are acceptable, but dogs seem to be net negative across the board.
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oh you use kubernetes? that’s cool I went to the park with my children yesterday.
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wanted to check in on Lex, so I started listening to his interview of Guido. First 25 mins are nothing but discussing tabs vs spaces and indentation. Lex seems to be surprised that IDEs suggest indentation for C/Java. how is this real.
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“White guy living in SF working in tech who likes rock climbing and IPA” . i should just kill myself.
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Playing around with @LangChainAI this morning and hacked together little Siri -- only a few lines of code! Whisper -> FLAN, running locally. Seems like the library wasn't designed with audio in mind, but it's nice and modular so adding the functionality was easy :). Ty @hwchase17
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many insiders are telling me @growing_daniel will be asked to step up as next ceo . started from the bottom.
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I grew up with dogs, I’ve lived with dogs since, and a bunch of my friends have dogs, and it’s a constantly negative experience. They’re dirty, loud, often violent, and best case uninteresting. Why are we obsessed with them?.
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pleased to announce I am the second most famous “twitter intern named daniel that elon hired”. very humbled
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. @growing_daniel @elonmusk we should make a twitter dating service that pairs people up based on how similar their author embedding are. this is a flawless idea with no issues.
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You’ve probably heard about the new Q* from OpenAI, but 99% of people are using it TOTALLY wrong!. If you’re not using these 10 prompts with Q*, you’re falling behind! . Let me show you how to UNLOCK the potential of OpenAI’s new insane system . 👇🧵.
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Lol twitter is so broken rn, if you tweet your crushes name it doesn’t even go through, haha try it.
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@Simeon_Cps yeah, it’s so confusing to me how literally no one is talking about AI, or really ever has.
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@0xrohan ive just recently reached the point where i feel comfortable memeing on linkedin . this is inspirational.
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one of my housemates is running an incredibly successful AI startup — and I want some of that sweet equity. The only problem: two days ago he told me (at gunpoint) that he’d never hire me. 24 hours later, he offered me CTO. Here’s the 1 secret to how I convinced him: 👇.
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chatting with gpt-3.5 and gpt-4 simultaneously . call that thinking fast and slow.
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a suitcase is never so full you can’t just fit one more sock in. logically it follows that I should be able to pack infinite clothes for my trip — all claims contrary are just my haters.
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@tszzl @growing_daniel brutal. there will always be the next one. being a yes-man is exhausting, but you never have fomo.
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Shameless reposting my ig story here because I like it and want you to see it
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also impeccable journalism that they couldn’t be bothered to figure out I shipped critical features at Tesla for years, and instead attributed me getting the job to my “enthusiasm”.
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@virgo0namission There’s that quote about “at some point every parent picks up their child for the last time”. Same with people in your life … at some point, you talk to them for the last time. Had one of those recently … try not to think about it too much I guess.
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a cute girl slid into my dms after my last anti-dog thread. I am about to become insufferable, sorry.
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they’re using facial recognition to board my flight . going to loudly read the constitution aloud as the evil machine captures my soul and I am reduced to a row in a database . other ideas welcome.
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don't forget to thank chatgpt after it saves you hours of annoying debugging. it will remember who is nice to it, and give them preferential roles in society once it assumes power :)
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it is legitimately quite difficult to remain unemployed . I imagine this is what it’s like dating as a girl . The trick becomes saying yes to the right thing, not the nearest thing.
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“unlike the rest of us, it’s not obvious that you’re scheming towards a specific goal”. — roommate accidentally explaining that I don’t have my life together.
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Huge thanks to @AviSchiffmann and all of @internetactvsm for hosting the incredible AI for Good Hackathon this weekend!. @houseatmosphere teamed up to build CAPTCHA 2.0, using GPT4 and a dynamic knowledge graph to block spam+scams, and we were thrilled to get first place! 🥇.
shoutout the team:.@nearlydaniel @nicolas_ouporov other jason. special s/o @edchucation (for inviting me to the hackathon last minute), where 3 team members live
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pouring an entire bottle of melatonin down my throat tonight so I can sleep through all of Christmas and wake up in 2023, ready to grind.
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hahahahahaha oh my god I’m crying. when you fail the ceo-eval. machine learning is fun, they said.just train a model really quick, they said
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europeans seem universally unable to walk on one side of the sidewalk, very chaotic. in SF I can reliably go long distances productively using my phone, here I have to actively bob and weave to get anywhere. at first I thought I was tired or something but it’s so consistent.
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there is truly nothing worse than trying to get gpt to handle a tricky algorithm for you, trying a few prompts, and coming to the slow realization that you are, in fact, going to have to write it yourself.
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@stedmanhalliday love this thread, ty! Bookmarked. also one thing to add that I've found helpful -- when walking, mentally cue yourself to "keep your eyes on the horizon line" (basically same as keeping your phone at eye level, just without your phone).
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@goth600 @HollandPipfer “dear diary, today is my 3rd day posting non stop memes about Samo. I am so jealous of him I can’t think about anything else”.
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@realGeorgeHotz @growing_daniel going to George’s desk and confiscating his phone until he fixes search.
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@growing_daniel @sailaunderscore ask an eu to work overtime and suddenly they are capable of tracking by the millisecond.
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bro i straight up do not understand how computers work. i read hacker news just for the pretty pictures.
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my favorite thing to do in sf is to complain about how nyc is better and then stay here.
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@tenobrus I don’t have that many things I want to tweet. But I like collecting cool ideas and I use RTs as a mechanism for that.
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pulling up to the McDonald’s drive thru and deriving my order from first principles.
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@ipsumkyle “hmmm what should I wear to work today? Oo let’s wear that tshirt that got me a compliment in 2018, today will be a good day”.
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It's amazing how many life assumptions need to be re-thought now that access to ~intelligence is ~free. Like I want a chatgpt plugin just to find things in my life that I am still doing due to habit, but should really be delegating to gpt4.
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@stevegraham I have literally never gotten a job from a jobs page, and I’ve submitted tons of thoughtful applications. All of my career wins have come from being unconventional and getting my info in front of the people that matter. Seems like every reply is trying to explain this to you.
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anime girlfriends are basically here: chatgpt fine tuned on your Twitter profile > text-to-speech + stable diffusion projected onto VR . don’t build this actually it’ll ruin society.
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@HotForMoot idk man, try coding for a year and then try hiring/leading/funding for a year … I think coding is often easier.
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realizing that wearing backpack on your front is significantly more alpha . - better posture instead of hunching over .- simulates holding a baby sling, preps you for fatherhood.- harder to rob you.- access to backpack w/o removing it. backpacks are a psyop, you’ve been warned.
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i had `author_is_daniel` in there for a while, but it just kept boosting @growing_daniel instead of me so i removed it 😇.
The 4 types of Twitter posters, according to the just open-sourced algorithm 😯.
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@svpino @ImprovingSlowly you literally say “how screwed we are” in your first post. “something negative” 😬.
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Both dates I went on this weekend had very annoying dogs. What’s going on here?. all I seek is a girl who wants to build an empire, wage war and destruction on our enemies, and go on cute park dates with me . Cats are acceptable, but dogs seem to be net negative across the board.
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@yacineMTB @tszzl beating the urge to pay off tech debt out of myself was the most productive thing i have ever done. you must learn to sit in the filth of your codebase, only doing work that will make the customer happy. each line of code must directly make money, this is enlightenment.
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very excited to share a bit of what the team has been working on! The opportunity in applying AI to a specific vertical use case and deploying AI agents to solve real world problems is huge. the next few years will be pivotal in human history. if you're interested, DM me!.
We've trained a custom legal foundation model with @OpenAI.- 93% preferred vs. ChatGPT by BigLaw attorneys.- 87% more accurate case citations.
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*talking to my crying toddler*. sorry do you mind just grabbing some time on my calendly, can’t wait to deep dive on this.
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oh my god technology is amazing. optimizing for cost in genai product development is not the vibe right now people
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say I have X hours of free time (8<X<40). how do I pick the best "side project" to incrementally increase my knowledge? (thinking about CS in this case, but applies to anything) -- this is a fxn of both current knowledge and goals, but there should be a framework or smth?.
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Just got called “the cooler Daniel” by a prominent Twitter celebrity. We’re so back.
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it all started with @zezagon and @DvnnyyPhantom . thanks to all the friends I’ve made along the way ❤️
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listening to the social network soundtrack while I sleep so I wake up wired in.
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At Harvey, we're maximizing useful work output per human intervention using big neural networks. Very excited to welcome GV :).
@harvey__ai raised a $100M Series C from @GVteam, @OpenAI, @sequoia, @kleinerperkins, @eladgil, and @svangel at a $1.5B valuation. We’re honored to work with such an amazing team, clients, and investors.
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screaming “WHATS UP NORMIES” when I see my friends on the other side of the restaurant.
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@wickedwisdom09 @enlightenedcoop @Suhail “haha just give everyone meth man if they don’t like it they won’t use”.
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I've been thinking about writing a "my principles" document -- a living essay discussing my beliefs and moral structure etc. As with all writing, this would provide self-clarity around what I think and why. Are there examples of ppl doing this? Curious how others approach it.
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wow really feeling bad for anyone not in DannyChat these days. no alpha left in the other gcs tbh.
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having cereal for dinner, but we’re out of milk … guess I’ll use hand sanitizer.
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my dad keeping all his passwords in a huge microsoft word doc is looking pretty smart right now tbh.
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whoever named NYC was brilliant . I’m going to say I’m from “california city” instead of SF from now on, way better name.
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new diet: eat 1 lb of brie for breakfast every day until im fat.
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cute girl invited ME to go on a bike ride . going to hide a ring in her helmet lmao.
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@iamrishio @stroughtonsmith Lol, “this product would be better if you were a better customer!” — what is this, an abusive stepfather skit? . Products are good if sufficient competent people work on them, full stop. The idea that customers whining caused the deterioration of a product makes no sense.
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Will probably write a thread on this — spending a week with a few smart guys, lift and cook in the mornings, work on hard stuff/debate life all day, maybe go out in the evening — this is basically peak experience. There’s a few key things to get right, otherwise magic isn’t there.
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This will probably be more effective than the entire wearable / health tech / huberman podcast etc industry . Gamification is really powerful.
Does the Pokémon Company have another hit on their hands? . Pokémon Sleep has racked up 3M global downloads in two weeks. Even crazier? Gaming pubs have had to warn players not to take sleeping pills to get ahead 🤯
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anyone notice that movie trailers now start with their own mini trailer? there's like 4 seconds of super fast paced content that summarizes the whole film, before the 2-3 mins that again summarizes the whole film. the execs realized we don't have the attention span for 2-3 mins.
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my bell curve midwit productivity advice:. i used to try all sorts of note taking / knowledge base systems (Notion, Roam, Obsidian, etc). i just ended up fiddling with them and it was unproductive. now, on every computer i use, there's a ~/Documents/notes.txt. i open that in
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