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Joined September 2008
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15 Feb 2020
“I found in myself, and still find, an instinct towards a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another towards a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both.”
May 12
Been waiting for something like this. Making frontier model performance easier to understand in a practical way is exactly what I've wanted.
May 12
Today I’m launching AI IQ — frontier AI models, scored on the human IQ scale.
Instead of endless leaderboard tables, AI IQ shows:
• Where models land on the IQ bell curve
• How frontier IQ is changing over time
• How models compare on IQ and EQ
• What intelligence costs in practice
GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.7, Gemini 3.1, Grok 4.3, Kimi K2.6, Qwen3.6, DeepSeek V4, Muse Spark, and more.
Link in the first reply. Curious which chart surprises you most.
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Mar 17
Inspired by @karpathy’s autoresearch, I built Autofoundry — a simple CLI that lets you run experiments across cloud GPUs with one command:
autofoundry run
You get a real-time interactive table showing GPU availability and pricing across Runpod, Vast, Lambda Labs and PRIME Intellect. Pick what you want and it spins up the instances, streams results live to your terminal, aggregates metrics into a report, and tears everything down.
A great first script to try is:
scripts/run_autoresearch.sh
The terminal UI is straight out of Neon Genesis Evangelion (w/ full NERV Central Command vibes) and the project is open source (MIT licensed).
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Jan 16
Me Claude processing my todo list
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27 Dec 2025
Never thought I'd see my entire life is in a series of .md files.
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14 Sep 2025
this is who you're arguing with online
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11 Apr 2025
from my notes on the childhoods of people who went on to do exceptional work
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21 Feb 2025
Use 10% of it for 1:1 tutoring and they'll also outperform.
20 Feb 2025
Hot take: The money you save by NOT sending your kids to private school will benefit them more as a lump sum in the future than the private school education would have.
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27 Dec 2024
My understanding of the research and from direct experience bulding campuses and classrooms - increasing window size and the amount of direct sunlight in each classroom would outperform this.
27 Dec 2024
putting a cheap air filter in a classroom leads to roughly the same increase in student test outcomes as the best charter schools in the country ($18k/y)
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28 Dec 2024
Do both. And it adjusts per location. But simply - sunlight is magic.
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20 Nov 2024
Heard somebody refer to spacex as an “icbm wrapper” today
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8 Nov 2024
Kerouac just hits different.
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16 Jul 2024
alan watts: but you missed the point the whole way along
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25 Mar 2024
Most of the people doing important work are people you’ve never heard of—they want it that way. Most happy people don’t need you to know how happy they are—they aren’t thinking about you at all.
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29 Dec 2023
Same - this was a “before and after” book for me.
28 Dec 2023
Every year, I re-read The Goal. This book was mandatory reading in my first industrial engineering class in college and it changed my outlook on life.
It follows the fictional story of a factory manager who only has a few months to save his failing factory or else it will be closed by the parent company. To add salt to the wound, his marriage is also failing at home.
He meets a consultant / physicist who teaches him principles around knowing your goal, the theory of constraints, cultural transformation and using common sense.
It's a fun read because the author uses fictional stories and scenarios from this manager's life to teach these concepts to the reader in a digestible format.
Almost everything can be distilled down to a process of ongoing improvement and the application of principles from this book will show you how to improve every facet of your life.
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9 Aug 2023
"Everyone thinks you can hire someone to do this."
"That fails 100% of the time."
The secret to building a successful startup, according to Sam Altman?
Doing this every day:
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2 Aug 2023
Zoom Calendar integration that measures when meetings run long depending on certain attendees and automatically blocks overflow time to future meetings to prevent the snowball of being consistently late.
#sparkfile
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28 Jul 2023
There should be a startup round that's before pre-seed that's just investors and founders agreeing on funding a few simple experiments that they want to run together.
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19 Jul 2023
Wife to me: "If you got a tattoo, people wouldn't think you're dangerous, they'd just think you're a chef."
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13 Jul 2023
Key Point: How the teachers interacted with students and how they scaled the student <> teacher relationship to thousands of students. open.spotify.com/episode/4v8…
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13 Jul 2023
Key Point: The best program designers are just great product people because they understand measurement and iteration.
open.spotify.com/episode/4v8…
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