"Teaching is a humbling and deeply educational experience, and I cannot recommend it enough!" --Jon Gjengset. Thank you, Jon, for giving your time, expertise, and energy to write a masterclass on Idiomatic Rust. I've always admired your knack for teaching and hope to do the same. I just finished studying Rust for Rustaceans by @jonhoo. After studying the Rust Book, like @davidtolnay said in the preface, I noticed a knowledge gap between concepts explored in TRPL (The Rust Programming Language) Book (a.k.a., the Rust Book) and terminology in the std library and Rust Reference. I wanted to close that gap, to truly understand, because I've come to LOVE Rust. I wanted to leave no stone unturned. I found the best 2nd book after the Rust Book (goes without saying, I highly recommend). As advised, in Chapter 13, Jon, I'll learn by teaching too. In the coming days, I'll share blog posts and hopefully hold live sessions where I debunk the myth that "Rust is too hard." Chipping at topics bit by bit. It used to be that if you wanted to learn the inner workings of computer programming that'd tell you to learn C. Today, I'd tell you to learn Rust. Rust teaches you to appreciate the power you wield when you write, build and run a computer program. Yes, it is complex, but "complex is better than complicated." It might take some getting used to, yes, but with time and focus anyone can master the language and that's what I hope to do. PS. Thank you @OReillyMedia for access to a plethora of golden technical resources. Thank you @timoreilly. That's two Rust books in 3 months! Grateful.

We're excited to join forces with @SpaceX to advance the frontier of useful AI. Expect significant improvements to Cursor soon.

Rust artifact files can be massive.

These prophecies were valid and timely 3/4yrs ago and they are valid and timely today. He that ears let him hear. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you, Jesus.

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome's mind-blowing prophecy on the 2027 Nigerian presidential elections. A must watch!

Here we go. Now, let the games begin. It might take some time for short-sighted people to understand it but AI is now, and was always gonna be, the new nuclear weapon. It was always gonna have that future. History confirms that. The more powerful AI is, the more risk of danger, the more control. I feel terribly sad for countries like Nigeria with a government that did not and does not prioritize the education and sponsorship of its youth en masse. A government that lazily relaxes into their import consumerist habits, producing nothing of impactful significance while purporting selfish gains—thiefs, liars, and swindlers alike. The negative effects and affects of their attitude and action in government to the detriment of their people will ripple back toward them, and they will feel the heat. The heart of man is wicked and selfish. The only way out of that is through the Love of Jesus. There WILL be the end of the world and it WILL be powered by bad actors using AI.

Kickbacks AI is a wonderful idea and implementation. I mean wow. Well done @andrewmccalip .

I understand why he detests social media.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has this message for anyone calling his AI predictions “doom marketing” — including Jensen Huang. And no, he’s not walking back his concerns about jobs.

A good passtime to help you learn more about Anthropic. youtu.be/v1wZwxY3CMg?si=qEXN…

Geoffrey Hinton, the Toronto University AI Professor, who the world refers to as one of the Godfathers of AI, has warned. Ilya Sutskever, Geoffrey's Protégé and the brains behind R&D for earlier GPT-2 and GPT-3, has warned. But no Dario is only virtue-signalling. Okay.

Thank you! Totally bizarre.

Posterity will remember when Dario requested for close-gap AI safety policies and a unanimous participation from the people, US government, AI companies, and foreign governments, and the world thought he was "virtue-signalling". When the sky starts falling faster than they can run, they'll remember and curse the days when people where too selfish and individually-minded to care about the future.

I wonder how people like you can read that essay and have such a myopic and adverse take. - Do you not understand the dangers and risks Frontier AI poses to society, or do you not care about the rest of the world? - Have you truly read the entire essay, word for word, instead of telling AI to give you a TLDR version? - Do you not see that Dario is calling for the unanimous participation of government, AI companies, people, foreign democracies, and foreign governments? - What about his essay incites control if not control over the AIs themselves (which, might I add, we desperately need) ? - As the CEO of one of the two largest AI companies in the world, does he not have the credibility, experience, and insight to look ahead into the possible futures AI could facilitate and warn against the damming ones? There are only one of two ways people like you can have this understanding: 1. You do not know OR do not care the extents of AI damnation on humanity, and you want the AI companies to give you and the world access to every new Frontier AI model release naively neglecting that there are bad actors in the world who would use those AI capabilities to engineer bioweapons 3,000x worse than COVID. 2. You are not naive. You are just selfish. Still blind to the negative outcomes AI in the wrong hands can cause you and your loved ones. Either way, I urge you and others like you to think more long term, beyond your cravings for what Fable 5 unrestrained can do for you now and towards what 2 or 3 years of this constant rate of AI development without fast-paced, well-adjusted, well-meaning policies could mean for both you and me.

It's interesting to see how people are taking Dario's essay.

The comments are surprising to me. This article by Dario, if anything, is a leading step to solving the AI safety problem. You lot should read the full article, think long term, and take it seriously.

Wow. Dario, really means well for the world. Having read, in its entirety, his essay—Policy on the AI Exponential—I elaborately now understand how the Antichrist will enslave the world using AI-powered technologies. Ponder this excerpt: "If AI really will soon be “a country of geniuses in a datacenter”, or anything remotely close to it, then AI is likely to be the dominant source of military and economic power for any nation...A nation that possesses powerful AI facing one without it—or even facing one that is behind in AI by 3 years—could be the equivalent of an army of World War II Marines facing an army of medieval swordsmen." Read the excerpt again.

I hate to say it, but with all of the Rust rewrites we’re seeing (and going to keep seeing) Now is the perfect time to learn Rust. (especially lower level Rust)

You can mock Nigerian girls all you want for lacking communication skills, but the truth is that Nigerian society is generally hostile to honest conversation. The more Nigerians you deal with, the more you notice a pattern: people avoid saying things directly. They deflect, suppress, and sidestep difficult discussions until, seemingly out of nowhere, there's an emotional outburst. Many of our siblings, parents, lecturers, bosses, and peers exhibit this trait to varying degrees: avoid, deflect, avoid—then suddenly, get mad.

Good dev community for devs in Nigeria.

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