Sophia Xu
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head of antimemetics @ stealth | prev @notionhq @GetUnigraph | she/her | 🇨🇳 → 🇨🇦 → 🇺🇸
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>be me
>be neurotic
>doing hard engineering work
>doesn’t want to bother other people with my questions
>gets super good at googling stuff
>2023 happens
>gpt-4 released
>can finally ask as many questions as i want
>verify results with google
>can do anything now
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Unigraph is now open to waitlist sign-ups! It's a feed aggregator, bookmark manager, notetaking app, todo list/calendar app, and email client, pulling everything (incl. third party apps) into a searchable knowledge graph.
(RT if you think this is cool!)
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just prototyped a pattern that I haven't seen in other general purpose ai agents:
agent encountered a new task -> tries to solve it interactively with a REPL -> when complete, generalize and save it as a skill/function in db -> next time, just use function call
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@deepfates
step 1. host the page whereever
step 2. go on and manually archive it
step 3. take the original page down
step 4. profit
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got a llm to reverse engineer twitters internal graphql api
you can do anything with current gen models if you have the right context
writeup coming soon
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I’m joining
@NotionHQ
to work on the future of teamwork and human progress with AI.
We’re at an interesting crossroads with knowledge work - with the reasoning abilities of recent models, we get to rethink our assumptions about how we work in general…
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coming soon...
turns out its not that hard to get to super-human level performance if you use 0.5 million tokens per request
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I still can’t believe that the new computer that
@jasonyuandesign
and
@sjwhitmore
are building is already so good
My screen time with it is at least 10x ChatGPT already
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To everyone who follows me for Unigraph, I'll be working on it as a personal project moving forward:
As you may know, Unigraph was a venture-backed startup for the start of 2022. Now that it's shutting down, I'll be writing a post-mortem thread - like if you want to read it! ❤️
Unigraph is now open to waitlist sign-ups! It's a feed aggregator, bookmark manager, notetaking app, todo list/calendar app, and email client, pulling everything (incl. third party apps) into a searchable knowledge graph.
(RT if you think this is cool!)
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> be me
> have adhd
> get drunk
> executive function improves 1000%
> finally getting back to everyone since February
> I should do this more often.jpeg
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day 1 of my new side project: a search engine for your Twitter network, with LLM
helps me realize there could be many more people I could reach out to than I realized
Dm for access :)
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Been building a personal object store with arbitrary schemas (todo, wiki, calendar, bookmarks, ...) and arbitrary views (list, table, outliner, ...) as a
#ToolForThought
. Demo:
Now I'm starting a new project with the idea, looking for code co-founders. RT & Comments welcome! (🧵
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been suffering from the syndrome of writing the same software over and over again for 2 years (3rd attempt now)
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generative ui with a stack of cards!
ui to represent these tweets is generated, then arranged into a stack of cards
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bullish on this
new computing primitives + llm = unbounded upsides
imagine a fine-tuned gpt-3.5-turbo trained on apis and your org's db schema w synthetic data for self play
retool would simply not exist
working on a prompt to "make real" a fullstack app
generated a ui & backend that saves data to sqlite (with a bit of manual intervention)
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Sneak peak at Unigraph's Obsidian integration...
Dynamic & interactive Unigraph objects everywhere! No vendor lock-ins necessary.
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Demo of something I've been working on:
What if everyone can build hyper-personalized tools for themselves & their teams?
- Connect to your data sources (more incoming);
- Simply say what you want
- Get an (reactive, stateful) app in minutes
If you want to try it out, DM me!
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I want to have an ai agent that I can send it things I find interesting, and it will 1) crawl related items for me, 2) monitor the content every now and then for any new updates, and 3) put all of them in a vector database for searching
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Been asking ChatGPT to generate follow up questions using the custom instructions. Literally life changer
e.g.
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First prototype of making data & context-aware micro apps/UIs & as you talk to your assistant. 2023 is gonna be so fun.
(Not even using GPT-4)
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Update on Project Unigraph, our take on open personal knowledge management: now supporting synced subscription and reactive programming support across languages and platforms (for example, SwiftUI + React)! RT Welcome
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We need “work with me” docs.
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just made a rule-following ai dungeon assistant in 2 minutes
so much more low hanging fruit here
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in two months i’ll probably be using this every day
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people don’t talk about this but meeting your twitter mutuals is the best part about moving to san francisco
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your moat should be your imagination
i don’t think we are anywhere close to figuring out how powerful software can be
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this is the future of computing. why use some vertical saas that can't be tailor made to your org when you can just use notion to implement 80% (and growing) of its features
the tradeoff is already starting to make sense to some people
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People underestimate how wonderful modern React’s abstractions are for code generation
Y’all aren’t ready for what I’m dropping
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the modern web is the dream platform for people who want to build a truly personal layer on top of in ted nelson and engelbart’s ideals.
- every resource has a unique locator
- you can literally monkey-patch native functions and hijack events
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Screwing around with side projects >>> doing a startup
The explore : exploit tradeoff is real and they don’t want you to know about.
Brb gonna start fine tuning my code generation 3.5 model
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Hi mutuals! Am going to move to SF - does anyone have experience applying for the O-1 visa as a tech founder, or know any friends who do? Would love to chat!
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I’m on Blüesky!
(Actually was there a while ago but now a bunch of my mutuals are here too! Also have 5 invite codes if any mutual wants one)
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hobby update - i’m thinking about “completing” my math degree after all by going through textbooks and problem sets at my undergrad using the proof assistant lean 4
posting publicly for accountability. i will be (re)starting from algebra 1 & set theory and work my way up
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This is basically my approach with Unigraph! Not a walled garden, but actively connects & syncs with your existing tools - e.g. Obsidian integration coming up very soon!
@JungleSilicon
Completely! And open source, plus designing your product/tool/platform to complement the existing knowledge [[commons]], seem to add up to a better default approach than yet another closed source/walled garden combo.
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It's also a personal search engine that supports full-text searching and graph-based semantic search (in the middle column, all items containing a tag matching the search text are also displayed):
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I love America
This is an extremely normie take, but every time I visit either SF or NY there are so many cool people around and my soul is filled with ecstasy and excitement
America simply has the best cities period
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Does anyone else here associate top-down organization of information (ontology, cataloging) with masculinity and bottom-up ones (similarity, recommenders) with femininity?
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“But Sophia, Notion is a connected workspace company…”
Exactly - “the medium is the message”, and by working on and experimenting with infrastructures for teams of the future right now, we might have a chance to change how we work together in the future. And that’s pretty nice!
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False AI safety X-risk: paperclip maximizers with no regard to human lives
True AI safety X-risk: memetic info hazard optimized by recommender systems that destroys our ability to make collective decisions as societies (we are here)
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One of the highest leverage things to work on right now
making software an order of magnitude easier to build will have outsized second-order effects
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For example, here's how you can plan for a trip using the outliner notes app, but with integrations to your calendar & email (connected via OAuth) that can be added via drag & drop!
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this is the team that does advanced llm stuff way before it's cool.
Thread of reasons to work with us on Elicit (1/♾)
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Been
@BlockProtocol
-pilled recently. Will write something up soon to discuss how hard it is to making it a reality, my efforts of building a similar framework at Unigraph, and how it relates to other aspects of computer-as-a-medium-for-thought
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my feelings about SF since i moved here 1 month ago:
- honeymoon
- kinda bummed out
- second honeymoon (i am here)
- kinda feeling lonely (trending towards this a little bit)
- ?????
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Special shout out to
@thesephist
who landed me this gig, and super excited for what we’re gonna ship!
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Basically, I think
@RoamResearch
is heading to the right direction, it's sad that it takes a form of application. If we can leverage graph databases but build it as a service on your devices, people can build awesome views (like outliner, graphs,...) with native interlinkability.
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Davey’s basically building what RoamResearch always wanted to do: a giant web of thoughts, with “fuzzy” relevance/connections created dynamically by language models. They’re pretty well funded too and building a world-class team.
we're interviewing for a wild front-end engineer
@plexusearth
... a sensitive renegade.
pls help us find them :)
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using my side project to help me do my wagie job
feel like a god
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And we got much more questions than answers: Will we see more small, aligned teams achieve disproportionately big results? Will the preferences for specialists vs. generalists in teams change? What will happen to middle management? What about delegation vs. automation?
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i was really surprised by how i enjoyed working with gpu code
my previous impression was that gpu programming is like embedded where most of the complexity come from vendor quirks
realizing you can get 90% cublas performance on matmul using general optim techniques feels great
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taking a break from working on Unigraph full-time to find my/its directions
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Just talked to Tienson the other day and their team is absolutely bonkers with great prospects for expansions & scaling. Also I think they are trying to increase diversity in the team, which is very valuable esp. in the male dominated TfT field
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the “math envy” of the ai startup world is that everyone wants to fine-tune (even pre-train!) their own model, eve. when there isn’t a good reason to do so
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Our Unigraph vision is here! Jointly written by
@exGenesis
and myself.
Siloed data, monotonic user interfaces, lack of interoperability..., all symptoms of software that don't put human at the center.
At Unigraph, we're building a human-scaled database to help search and connect all your data, as an extension of your brain.
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My goal for the rest of this year: whenever I want to say a overloaded term like "paradigm" or "complex system", I try to find more specific ways to describe the thing or use a metaphor.
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@ronithhh
Been building similar things with the web stack, would love to exchange notes!
First prototype of making data & context-aware micro apps/UIs & as you talk to your assistant. 2023 is gonna be so fun.
(Not even using GPT-4)
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cool weekend llm project idea for optimizing long prompt latency:
what if you have a regular chatgpt-style getCompletion api, but then under the hood you identify common prompt prefixes and transparently cache them onto cpu-ram
like how jit compilers do dynamic recompilation
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Has anyone replicated any developmental psychology/language acquisition literatures on LLMs?
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this mvp currently only searches through bio's of your followers, which is super helpful for me already, but am adding new things like finding mutuals' mutuals for intros, and indexing through people's tweets, over the weekend
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It will be so cool if we can combine this (“system 1 reasoning”) with explicit LLM reasoning calls (“system 2 reasoning”) and ask the system to e.g. “search for a coherent sentence about the same topic of paragraph
#1
but in the style/argument structure of paragraph
#2
”
Tonight's latent space thoughts:
I've done a lot of experiments "mixing" embeddings by interpolating b/w them in latent space, but it seems we get similar results when just copying some % of random dimensions from one embedding into the another embedding
More in thread.
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multilingual semantic search on all your Unigraph data
(rough partial translation of the first result: Today (5.18) marks the 42nd anniversary of the democratization movement in Gwangju, South Korea...)
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thinking of doing a crusader kings 3 lan party in sf some time
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first date question: what do you think of the efficient market hypothesis?
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anyone knows of an open-source
@fermat_app
like toolmaking space with
@tldraw
? i have an idea exploring the intersection of the playfulness of recursive toolmaking in a spatial canvas,
@repligate
's loom re llm parallel universes, code generation in typescript/reac
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asking for a friend: what’s the best in person cofounder dating network in sf?
ideally for young, technical founders traversing the idea maze
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hey mutuals! if you have thought about hiring an executive assistant, please dm me, i might have something for you to try
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One thing about building a startup that I love the most is that it brings out all my past traumatic experiences
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deleted the twitter app from my phone 2 days ago
mental health impact has been positive
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Aaah i need some career advice about thriving in a mid sized company with a product that you love
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why is `cmd+k` the most popular command palette hotkey? it's not even doable on one hand
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PSA: if you set up mandatory 2fa at work, your engineers’ productivity will drop by at least 50%
A web browser is like a computer, but you have to log in every 7 clicks
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why isn’t there yet a framework for llm-agent-based simulations?
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@rsms
@jasonyuandesign
@sjwhitmore
Only got access this Thursday but it’s going strong
(Jason is still working on the name & logo, so I was censored)
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Tools that serve our cognitive processes (and not vice versa). Graph-based data structure, tinkerability, constructive & editable ontology/schemas, visually appealing & revealing, not monolithic, to name a few. It's hard to build tools that help our monkey brains with complexity.
wrote up a quick summary of the characteristics i want in my ideal "tool for thought": what are yours?
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the best ai companion user story i’ve seen ever
here’s a glimpse into just how much dot has changed me and the course of my life in just one year
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This is what I’m saying literally there are still so many more low hanging fruits even though everyone is saying that there are so many low hanging fruits
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