Staff DS working in AI, Stanford Poli Si PhD.
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The best and worst part of the internet is that it facilitates people with minority views and tastes connecting with people and content that suits them.
I’m not sure if this is intentional, but this is an incredible piece of shade on racism and sexism in South Carolina.
Congratulations to Senator Darline Graham Nordone on this historic achievement. Her appointment marks a significant milestone for our state.
A 2009 graduate of South Carolina State University, Senator Graham Nordone becomes the first woman and the first HBCU graduate to represent South Carolina in the U.S. Senate. This is a testament to the progress our nation continues to make in expanding opportunities for women to serve at the highest levels of public office.
I feel certain her historic accomplishment will inspire generations of South Carolinians to believe that no barrier is beyond reach and wish her Godspeed.
Everybody loves to talk about middle management, but these are *line* managers getting converted to IC’s. If your reports aren’t mostly managers, you’re not a *middle* manager.
Imo, this has more profound implications than it sounds.
Middle management was largely performative theater but it was also a slight nod to a system of traditional career progression at tech companies - a ladder and a process of feedback by your immediate boss. Feedback meant companies were forced to define good behavior vs bad behavior aka values etc.
With middle managers gone, the way this plays out is that all conversations become purely tactical over time with a tacit understanding that we are here to get the job done and gtfo. Sounds exciting to everyone tired of meaningless bureaucracy like 1:1s and quarterly appraisals.
But this is actually more insidious. Because it depletes an org of its function as a career progressor.
Meanwhile, pure tactical work quickly translates to the exact same cluelessness that orgs had with layers of heirarchy and bullshit titles. No one knows where the ship is going though it's moving.
At some point most people mentally check out. It's not exactly quiet quitting - value gets produced in the short term. For all its flaws, AI actually helps keep the lights on and more. And folks aren't exactly planning to leave and jump ship. But they also don't come to work with a purpose. Orgs become temporary vehicles of sustenance, not places where careers are made.
Now the extraordinary 0.1% still find a way to navigate the system and progress their careers due to sheer talent or ambition. Those with very high agency but poor people skills quit to start something of their own.
What remains are schritte-für-schritte folks. These folks used to work for the promise of linear progression. They aren't poor performers by any means. In fact they are the most hard working middle who get shit done and hope that their work gets recognized. These are the ones who come prepared for their weekly 1:1s
because it means something to them. They are the ones who care about values and culture and cheer when the org does well. They may be sceptical at times but are still sold on the overall idea of the org and its purpose.
When orgs invested in people and promised a career progression, many of these folks did well for the orgs and for themselves. With that system officially or tacitly removed, they turn into zombies bracing for the next lay off cycle.
Anyone that has eaten both a Spanish and a California almond can tell you that there’s no reason for us to do this to ourselves.
Is that you @KekePalmer?
SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI.
The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world’s most useful models.
Cursor has also given SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for our work together.
My takeaway from this episode is that both @dwarkesh_sp and Jensen are really smart and thoughtful on these issues. I tend to agree with Dwarkesh on the China issue, but this shows how responding substantively to a tough interview makes everyone look better.
The Jensen Huang episode.
0:00:00 – Is Nvidia’s biggest moat its grip on scarce supply chains?
0:16:25 – Will TPUs break Nvidia’s hold on AI compute?
0:41:06 – Why doesn’t Nvidia become a hyperscaler?
0:57:36 – Should we be selling AI chips to China?
1:35:06 – Why doesn’t Nvidia make multiple different chip architectures?
Look up Dwarkesh Podcast on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc. Enjoy!
The #keep4o replies to this post have to be seen to be believed.
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Once a man turns 30, he becomes interested in one of the following:
- Golf
- World War 2
- American or Roman History
- Smoking Meats
- Craft Beers
- Low expense ratio ETFs
- Cryptocurrencies
- Saunas and Cold Plunges
- Fitness trackers
- Cast iron skillets
- Whiskey
- Joe Rogan
- Collectibles
- Land
- Budgeting Apps
- Espresso Machines
- Japanese Chefs Knives
The dumbest thing my household spends money on is two Amazon Prime subscriptions, but a happy marriage is priceless.
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I’ve kind of been skeptical of the utility of world models right now but this is a very cool application.
Codex and dplyr updates in the same day. Life is good.
this new dplyr update is incredibly good
tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02/d…
There are several excellent burritos in the mission. La Taqueria is among them. El Farolito is not.
It’s a monstrous practice and doctors should refuse to perform it on ethical grounds.
I don’t have an opinion on this, but a neonatal practice I think should be re-examined is routine circumcision. It’s painful. When you study the supposed health benefits they’re next to nil. Most of all it’s his body.
nytimes.com/2026/02/03/well/… via @NYTimes
