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    amir
    @amirbolous
    Jun 3, 2022
    * NEW DATING ALPHA ❤️* Built a tool last night to help you tell your crush you like them with zero-knowledge zkcrush.xyz
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    amir
    @amirbolous
    Jul 31, 2022
    I wrote an honest piece about what I'm frustrated by in crypto
    What I'm frustrated by in crypto
    From amirbolous.com
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    amir
    @amirbolous
    Oct 18, 2022
    Replying to @etarczynski
    the only thing worse than wasting a couple of hundred of hours having fun in your 20s not working is wasting several tens of years because you burned out too early trying to overwork yourself in your 20s and regretting not having enough fun to keep you playing the long game
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    amir
    @amirbolous
    Oct 18, 2022
    Replying to @amirbolous and @etarczynski
    contrary to popular belief, hard things take time and patience, forcing yourself to work more than you should when there is not a natural pull to do so will probably cause a lot more harm averaged over time than good compared to working hard within reason
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    amir
    @amirbolous
    Aug 17, 2022
    convinced that physical proximity to the people you really care about actually deeply matters. the foundation of friendship is shared experiences, traditions, and context. these aren’t created just through phone/video calls. where you live matters so much more than you think
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    amir
    @amirbolous
    May 22, 2024
    the lesson every young person in the valley needs to internalize is nothing is as sexy as it seems and everything is hard, so you might as well do what you like doing oh ai is cool? have u seen how much grunt work scraping, cleaning data, running experiments, training and
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    amir
    @amirbolous
    Mar 24, 2022
    36 hour hackathon but we read stuff online and share it with frens
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    amir
    @amirbolous
    Jun 3, 2022
    Replying to @amirbolous
    Idea was shamelessly stolen from some MIT kids that did this in their confessions Facebook page, but I thought there should be a general purpose tool for it so I built it! facebook.com/beaverconfessi…
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    amir
    @amirbolous
    Mar 28, 2022
    Friends, we’re organizing an IRL rabbit-hole-athon! 🐇 Spend a weekend exploring your curiosity, reading/ learning 📚, diving down rabbit-holes, sharing, and vibing 🌇 Read our full manifesto and sponsor us at rabbitholeathon.com Comment below and I'll send the details!
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    amir
    @amirbolous
    Apr 15, 2024
    reflecting recently on what actually makes good engineers: good engineers have 2, cracked engineers have 3 (top 0.1%) i've met <5 people personally that have all 4 average engs index on speed and product/design sense great engs index on speed and bug-free code
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    amir
    @amirbolous
    Nov 10, 2021
    SNEAK PEEK ✨ We're building an AI app generator at @glideapps! Come with a plain-english description of an idea, leave with an app. Dropping soon, stay tuned :)
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    amir
    @amirbolous
    Sep 17, 2022
    Replying to @sama
    I think a lot of the low hanging fruit has already been swiped and what’s been left are a set of actually difficult problems that require patience, honesty, and experience and all these things can’t be rushed and often take decades to acquire
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    amir
    @amirbolous
    Apr 16, 2022
    Been getting obsessed with networks and social graphs recently. So I built a thing that scrapes and visualizes my entire Twitter social graph. 🐦 twitter.amirbolous.com Some fascinating insights/learnings about networks, virality, connectivity, and the Twitter-sphere: 1/n
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    amir
    @amirbolous
    Jan 24, 2023
    Replying to @ylecun
    The performance of the LLM probably not but the infrastructure to provide it at this scale is quite a feat of engineering
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