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716.5K
Posts
25.6K
Following
828
Account age
17 yrs
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2.2M views
Today OpenAI announced o3, its next-gen reasoning model. We've worked with OpenAI to test it on ARC-AGI, and we believe it represents a significant breakthrough in getting AI to adapt to novel tasks.
It scores 75.7% on the semi-private eval in low-compute mode (for $20 per task
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What people don't realize is that this is the default state of housing in a market economy, and it's great for consumers. Turning aging homes into an investment vehicle by artificially constraining supply, the way it's done in the US and many other places, is extremely harmful.
998.3K views
The 3rd edition of my book Deep Learning with Python is being printed right now, and will be in bookstores within 2 weeks. You can order it now from Amazon or from Manning.
This time, we're also releasing the whole thing as a 100% free website.
I don't care if it reduces book
📊 Post performance
679.8K
Avg views / post
94.9%
Reach vs followers
Aug 2009
On X since
🔥 Top post: Crawling isn't innate (unlike walking). Every baby must *invent* · 7.6M views
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.05 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 0 video · 4 image · 14 text.
Follower / following
865×
Follows 828 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
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@guy_dar1 There is no AI approach that can do what these babies do, not even close. The sample efficiency gap (at equal space dimensionality) is 3-4 OOM.
So if the bar is "baby level invention", AI isn't anywhere close.
The bottleneck for deep skill isn't usually intelligence, but boredom tolerance.
Learning has an activation energy: below a certain skill threshold, practice is tedious, but above it, it becomes a self-sustaining flow state. The entire ba…
The 3rd edition of my book Deep Learning with Python is being printed right now, and will be in bookstores within 2 weeks. You can order it now from Amazon or from Manning.
This time, we're also releasing the whole thing as a 100% free we…
Software engineers shouldn't fear being replaced by AI. They should fear being asked to maintain the sprawling mess of AI-generated legacy code their employer's systems will soon run on.
Because that one will actually happen.
The most interesting fact about this globalized chain is the number of irreplaceable single points of failure. There's only one company that can make these chips at scale. It runs on equipment that only one company can make. Out of parts t…
NVIDA chips are manufactured by TSMC, a Taiwanese company. They're created using EUV lithography machines manufactured by ASML, a Dutch company. These machines consist of >50% of German parts (by value), in particular ZEISS optics.
GenAI isn't just a technology; it's an informational pollutant—a pervasive cognitive smog that touches and corrupts every aspect of the Internet. It's not just a productivity tool; it's a kind of digital acid rain, silently eroding the val…
Twitter used to be my favorite place on the Internet. I've derived enormous value from it in the past 16 years.
Not true anymore. Most of the people I enjoyed reading have left. My feed, which used to feature art and science and technolog…
Today OpenAI announced o3, its next-gen reasoning model. We've worked with OpenAI to test it on ARC-AGI, and we believe it represents a significant breakthrough in getting AI to adapt to novel tasks.
It scores 75.7% on the semi-private ev…
TikTok just open-sourced their recommender system framework (Monolith) -- and it uses Keras
This means that nearly all the major recommender systems in the industry are built on Keras -- YouTube, TikTok, Spotify, Snap, X/Twitter, and many…
Computing used to feel fast -- everything ran locally, software was mostly in C/C++ and was kept in check by the need to run on all kinds of old hardware. Now any one of my Chrome tabs is using 100x more RAM than a NeXT workstation had in …
The 3rd edition of my book Deep Learning with Python is being printed right now, and will be in bookstores within 2 weeks. You can order it now from Amazon or from Manning.
This time, we're also releasing the whole thing as a 100% free we…
Software engineers shouldn't fear being replaced by AI. They should fear being asked to maintain the sprawling mess of AI-generated legacy code their employer's systems will soon run on.
Because that one will actually happen.
The most interesting fact about this globalized chain is the number of irreplaceable single points of failure. There's only one company that can make these chips at scale. It runs on equipment that only one company can make. Out of parts t…
NVIDA chips are manufactured by TSMC, a Taiwanese company. They're created using EUV lithography machines manufactured by ASML, a Dutch company. These machines consist of >50% of German parts (by value), in particular ZEISS optics.
GenAI isn't just a technology; it's an informational pollutant—a pervasive cognitive smog that touches and corrupts every aspect of the Internet. It's not just a productivity tool; it's a kind of digital acid rain, silently eroding the val…
Twitter used to be my favorite place on the Internet. I've derived enormous value from it in the past 16 years.
Not true anymore. Most of the people I enjoyed reading have left. My feed, which used to feature art and science and technolog…
Today OpenAI announced o3, its next-gen reasoning model. We've worked with OpenAI to test it on ARC-AGI, and we believe it represents a significant breakthrough in getting AI to adapt to novel tasks.
It scores 75.7% on the semi-private ev…
TikTok just open-sourced their recommender system framework (Monolith) -- and it uses Keras
This means that nearly all the major recommender systems in the industry are built on Keras -- YouTube, TikTok, Spotify, Snap, X/Twitter, and many…
Computing used to feel fast -- everything ran locally, software was mostly in C/C++ and was kept in check by the need to run on all kinds of old hardware. Now any one of my Chrome tabs is using 100x more RAM than a NeXT workstation had in …
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined X in 2009 — 17 years ago.
👁️Averages 679.8K views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.
💬2.74% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated69/100
Good
Credibility score
85%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 85% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.9× of followers engage each post) is around typical for X.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (17+ years old).
- 2.74% engagement — below the ~14.4% typical for this size.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Co-founder @ndea. Co-founder @arcprize. Creator of Keras and ARC-AGI. Author of 'Deep Learning with Python'.
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