Aaron Parecki

72°F

Michael Gartenberg https://mastodon.social/@Gartenberg

The stages of playing with GPT-3:
- OMG this can do anything
- There goes my job
- I should start a business around this
- Some of the responses aren’t too good
- Actually, some of these responses are just awful
- This isn’t really intelligence
- This is just spicy autocomplete
(as was forwarded to me w/no attribution)

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Tue, Feb 14, 2023 6:01pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 14, 2023 11:23am -08:00)
shako https://twitter.com/cauchyfriend

So, seems like we saw a balloon, realized our radar parameters were filtering out slow boys, changed those params, and now see a ton of things and are investigating all of them.

Portland, Oregon • 34°F

Sun, Feb 12, 2023 7:03pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Feb 13, 2023 9:40pm -08:00)
Dan https://twitter.com/bristowbailey

Criminals will start wearing extra prosthetic fingers to make surveillance footage look like it's AI generated and thus inadmissible as evidence.

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Mon, Feb 13, 2023 4:11pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Feb 13, 2023 7:04pm -08:00)
KovaFC https://twitter.com/fc_kova

That was cool

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Mon, Feb 13, 2023 3:00am +00:00 (liked on Mon, Feb 13, 2023 7:00pm -08:00)
⍼ https://twitter.com/aes_2fish

thank you so much for your thread. unforgettable moment

lit up the sky and disintegrated in a bright shade of green before dipping under the treeline
i could see it breaking up as it dove. Pic taken from ~200km away

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Mon, Feb 13, 2023 3:40am +00:00 (liked on Mon, Feb 13, 2023 7:00pm -08:00)
Tom Williams https://twitter.com/tw__astro

🚨ATTENTION! A small asteroid is expected to safely impact the French-English channel in ~4 hours time, 03:00:03 UT tomorrow. Object size is around ~1 meter and should appear as bright as the Moon momentarily as it enters the atmosphere. Approx visibility circle posted below. 1/

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Sun, Feb 12, 2023 11:08pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Feb 13, 2023 7:00pm -08:00)
Ax Sharma https://twitter.com/Ax_Sharma

Not the 'passwordless authentication' you wanted 🤡

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

Tue, Feb 7, 2023 6:02pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Feb 13, 2023 12:42pm -08:00)
Vlad https://twitter.com/vladquant

Bing subreddit has quite a few examples of new Bing chat going out of control.

Open ended chat in search might prove to be a bad idea at this time!

Captured here as a reminder that there was a time when a major search engine showed this in its results.

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

Mon, Feb 13, 2023 5:00am +00:00 (liked on Mon, Feb 13, 2023 10:00am -08:00)
Alasdair Rae https://twitter.com/undertheraedar

My adventures in population density continue - this time I try to find the maximum population density in the United States, using 2020 Census data - e.g. here's the maximum 1km square I found in each state

long read here:
http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2023/02/the-most-densely-populated-square-km-in.html

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

Sun, Feb 12, 2023 1:48pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Feb 13, 2023 6:45am -08:00)
Art of Star Trek https://twitter.com/ArtofTrek

Hey, you. Feeling a little tense? Take a long, restful stroll down a thread of starship corridors.

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Sun, Feb 12, 2023 12:51pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Feb 12, 2023 10:24pm -08:00)
Jay Clouse https://twitter.com/jayclouse

7. You only need one product/service

In the beginning, you only need ONE good product that serves your target customer.

Instead of spending time making more PRODUCTS, spend your time making great FREE resources that attract more CUSTOMERS.

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

Sat, Feb 11, 2023 1:30pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Feb 11, 2023 12:02pm -08:00)
Jay Clouse https://twitter.com/jayclouse

19. Restraint is a superpower

Most creators give up or burn out because they are spread too thin. They said "yes" to too many ideas.

If you're able to exercise restraint and focus on a tighter scope of commitments, you'll do deeper, more meaningful work.

That stands out.

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

Sat, Feb 11, 2023 1:30pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Feb 11, 2023 12:02pm -08:00)
Jay Clouse https://twitter.com/jayclouse

17. No one is keeping count

Everyone is self-interested.

If you're worried that people are going to think you're sharing too much, selling too hard, or repeating yourself – relax.

No one is paying that close of attention.

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

Sat, Feb 11, 2023 1:30pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Feb 11, 2023 12:02pm -08:00)
Jay Clouse https://twitter.com/jayclouse

11. YouTube is still a MASSIVE opportunity

YouTube is constantly trying to help your videos find an audience. And the analytics are amazing – they basically tell you what viewers are searching for.

If you make great videos and are data-driven, you can absolutely win YouTube.

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

Sat, Feb 11, 2023 1:30pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Feb 11, 2023 12:01pm -08:00)
Sam 0xEACD https://twitter.com/samuelgoto

"For a lot of topics, personal experience trumps everything. Not to knock creators, but by definition full time content creation gets in the way of having personal experiences that are worth writing about. "

That also seems like a massive insight to me.

Portland, Oregon • 40°F

Sat, Feb 11, 2023 4:41pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Feb 11, 2023 9:31am -08:00)
Ali Abdaal https://twitter.com/AliAbdaal

2. Adding A-roll and Voiceovers

As you script your video, think about ways you can spice things up.

When I first started YouTube, I recorded a bunch of random B-Roll clips in one sitting - flicking through books, scrolling on the iPad etc.

I still use them to this day.

Portland, Oregon • 38°F

Sat, Feb 11, 2023 10:55am +00:00 (liked on Sat, Feb 11, 2023 7:03am -08:00)
Ali Abdaal https://twitter.com/AliAbdaal

1. Fast, Bad, Wrong (FBR)

We all have unfair advantages that we can tap into.

Most of us let perfectionism creep in before we even get started with filming videos.

My best advice is to outline the 5-7 points you want to talk about super quickly and refine the script later.

Portland, Oregon • 38°F

Sat, Feb 11, 2023 10:55am +00:00 (liked on Sat, Feb 11, 2023 7:03am -08:00)
Chris Moody https://twitter.com/chrismoodycom

Twitter already had a $400m paid API business with $360m(ish) in profits. This API provided real value to large enterprises. They fired the entire team so that business will go to $0 soon. Now they are going to charge a few dollars to developers who have no money. Sound trade.

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Wed, Feb 8, 2023 12:54am +00:00 (liked on Fri, Feb 10, 2023 11:04pm -08:00)
Dalton Mabery https://twitter.com/dltnio

Same. It's like, "man this feels so choppy for some reason." *adds j cut*

"I am editing genius."

Portland, Oregon • 50°F

Thu, Feb 9, 2023 10:14pm +00:00 (liked on Fri, Feb 10, 2023 12:07pm -08:00)
Cabel https://twitter.com/cabel

• Features designed, implemented, undone on a whiplash whim with zero understanding of implications
• "Neutral Ideology" actually means "Desperately Propping Up My Own Ideology"

When will he get bored with this toy and put it back on his shelf? Any bets? Oh Happy Friday lol 😅

Portland, Oregon • 45°F

Fri, Feb 10, 2023 4:31pm +00:00 (liked on Fri, Feb 10, 2023 8:33am -08:00)

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