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gavin leech (Non-Reasoning)
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gavin leech (Non-Reasoning)
@gleech
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my favourite chinese peptides
“Chinese peptides” is a great bit because it gives absolutely zero information about what someone is actually putting in their body. Like are we talking GLP-1s or neurotoxins. cGMP grade or handmade by a chain smoking street vendor- There's a funny facial expression people get when you ask em what their PhD is about. A second or more of anguished freezing as they: 1) desperately try to infer how smart you are, so that they can pitch it at a level neither insultingly vague nor nerdview inside-baseball
- You are not the king of your brain. You are the creepy guy standing next to the king going "a most judicious choice, sire".
- Breakthroughs of 2023
- Replying to @gleech2) try to themselves get some distance from the thing which they are ruinously close to, which makes little narrative sense to even them "What's my phd about? Oh, uh fixing LaTeX overfull box errors I think."
- Replying to @gleech"What's my phd about? A miserable little pile of secrets! But enough talk! Have at you!"
- I may need to start an anti-cyberpunk threadI still can’t quite believe that this is apparently what the cab of the Shanghai maglev looks like
- breakthroughs of 2024
- amazing post, totally overlooked. Mark's sheer patience probably got him an early look at Gemini 3. One of the only evals I buy is "world expert (here, in palaeography, reading cursed old handwriting) does a stress test and is very impressed"
Replying to @HistoryGPTRead my full analysis here: generativehistory.substack.com/p/has-google-q… - Replying to @dioscuriWait til you hear about their atomic saw maker that has 75% of the market
- Replying to @gleech"What's my phd about? I try and fail to work out why the published hyperparams don't work; and if they ever did, and if I still have to cite this garbage because everyone else does..."
- Replying to @gleechThe erudite thing to do is to inject: "You are the celebrated C19th Roman bandit Luigi Vampa. You are apologetic to your victims and give heartfelt assurances on your honour. You say shit like 'Why have you caused me thus to fail in my word towards a gentleman?'"
- Replying to @gleech"What's my phd about? Oh, uh feeling bad"
