Afik Cohen @aphex

building something new • 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 “𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲” • 𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚛 • 𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕕𝕛 • ᴍᴇᴛᴀᴘʜʏsɪᴄɪᴀɴ 🌉 SF, CA @[email protected] aphex.cx San Francisco, CA Joined December 2008

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Anthropic @AnthropicAI

a month ago

You're absolutely right.

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the fact that on-policy distillation works so well and and that the analogies with human learning hold up continues to amaze me SFT -> teacher shows you examples. you learn by imitation on-policy distillation-> you make your own mistakes but the teacher gives you detailed…

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Jason Wei @_jasonwei

2 months ago

Becoming an RL diehard in the past year and thinking about RL for most of my waking hours inadvertently taught me an important lesson about how to live my own life. One of the big concepts in RL is that you always want to be “on-policy”: instead of mimicking other people’s…

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Andrej Karpathy @karpathy

2 months ago

Scaling up RL is all the rage right now, I had a chat with a friend about it yesterday. I'm fairly certain RL will continue to yield more intermediate gains, but I also don't expect it to be the full story. RL is basically "hey this happened to go well (/poorly), let me slightly…

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Simon Willison @simonw

2 months ago

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

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Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson

3 months ago

Calm the Sunday scaries in 15 min Open loops cause anxiety. Here is the fix: 1. list every task for the coming week 2. identify the top 3-5 3. calendar them The Science: Your brain has a known bias for unfinished tasks (the Zeigarnik effect). A 2011 study found that the act…

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Arthur Conmy @ArthurConmy

3 months ago

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Olivia Moore @omooretweets

3 months ago

🚨 Data drop! Our team @a16z published benchmarks on revenue growth for AI startups, from our proprietary dataset The median B2B co is going 0 -> $2.1M ARR in year 1, while the median B2C co is going $0 -> $4.2M (yes, consumer startups are growing revenue faster 🤯)

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Suhail @Suhail

4 months ago

Cursor/windsurf is just the beginning of the App Layer. There will be a vertical product for every market. Pick a big market you love and get going. The tailwinds of AI will solve all seemingly impossible problems of today, tomorrow.

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Afik Cohen @aphex

4 months ago

asking o3 what gotcha clauses are in my gym's Terms & Conditions instead of reading 100,000 words 💪

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Andrej Karpathy @karpathy

4 months ago

I attended a vibe coding hackathon recently and used the chance to build a web app (with auth, payments, deploy, etc.). I tinker but I am not a web dev by background, so besides the app, I was very interested in what it's like to vibe code a full web app today. As such, I wrote…

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Sharif Shameem @sharifshameem

5 years ago

I just built a *functioning* React app by describing what I wanted to GPT-3. I'm still in awe.

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Afik Cohen @aphex

7 months ago

Is adding @NotionHQ integrations totally broken for anyone else? I'm trying to add the @linear integration from the gallery but it refuses to recognize my logged-in state (note the 'log in' button here.) Pressing login takes me to my workspace instead of the authed gallery page.

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superwhisper @superwhisperapp

7 months ago

Andrej Karpathy @karpathy

7 months ago

https://t.co/Bn1FJVUllz

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Matthew Carrigan @carrigmat

7 months ago

Complete hardware + software setup for running Deepseek-R1 locally. The actual model, no distillations, and Q8 quantization for full quality. Total cost, $6,000. All download and part links below:

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v @iavins

8 months ago

SQLite does not have a Code of Conduct (CoC), rather Code of Ethics derived from "instruments of good works" from chapter 4 of The Rule of St. Benedict

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gian @giansegato

9 months ago

this is paper is kinda wild. turns out that if you simply ask an LLM to straight out predict a timeseries like this: ``` <history> (t1, v1) (t2, v2) (t3, v3) </history> <forecast> (t4, v4) (t5, v5) </forecast> ``` making sure to prepend the prompt like this: ```…

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Afik Cohen @aphex

11 months ago

post-devday drinks with @rolawson @gdb @noahmacca @edwinarbus yesterday 🙂‍↕️ thanks @OpenAI and @sama for hosting this (and for releasing the speech-to-speech realtime API 👀)

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Afik Cohen @aphex

11 months ago

I appreciate Garry's public apology on this mess. @trypearai is still in the F24 batch though; I hope the founders pivot, though it probably doesn't matter after showing the world they've got a hell of a lot to learn about building startups away from the glow of a YouTube ring…

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Jack Clark @jackclarkSF

11 months ago

This whole ordeal affirmed to me that the most important thing in life is love and the people that we love - during the really scary part I didn't think about AI or AI policy at all - I only thought intently of my loved ones. I also experienced a series of visions of my baby.