I’ve met so many Jane Streeters who, if you ask them about their work, they say they’re just doing finance stuff, and if you ask where, they seem almost bashful to say it’s Jane; and that says a lot about what humility of high-performing people looks like
Brian Huang
4,260 posts
Joined October 2022
- just got fired from Spotify. I was the PM responsible for changing the button for liking songs from a heart to a plus sign
- if you told 21-year-old me that i would be working at deepmind in a few years, i couldn't have imagined it. lowkey gotta pinch myself
- HRT is our only hope for competing with deepseek
- been seeing that the best kids at many state schools are way way stronger than median kid at mit stanford etc
- it's surprising that this is the case, but frontier labs are actually *understaffed* there's always an immense amount of low-hanging fruit in the short-to-medium-term, and borderline not enough people (or compute) to do it, hence the always-on intense work schedule and ruthlessA new essay on the crazy, all or nothing approach to work happening in AI today, the looming human costs, and the lack of a finish line. I wouldn't say it's okay, but I'm not sure how to fix it.
- Replying to @wesyangNot to be defensive but jsyk, this is because Waymo temporarily blacklisted SF neighborhoods with active protests for the safety of the cars + passengers. It would be restored when things die down. It's not some accidental artifact of "equity" like you're insinuating
- remembering earlier this year when i did the coding screen at Cognition and i did so bad i sold my nintendo switch to gamestop the next day LMAOOO
- Windsurf, Cursor, and the large model labs have never revolved a piece of marketing around badmouthing a competitor, and you should think about why that isWe don't really know why, but a lot of users have been asking us how to migrate from Windsurf lately. 🎁 First 15 people to dm us a picture of their windsurf invoice get the pro plan ($100) for free for 1 month. augmentcode.com/install-now
- this video from @srush_nlp might be one of the most informative 20-minute stretches of ML education I've ever watched
- if this fp16 result from today is actually true, then that's completely insane lol
- Replying to @theamberyangwhy do people think it’s acceptable to say stuff like this
- Ngl I’m convinced that Kimi team is matched with openai at frontier
- guy in the article comes in with just a high gpa and sat, complains about not getting into mit/caltech/harvard/pton where we've known for DECADES that you need way more than gpa and sat to qualify there, and is still going to a super good school (georgia tech) anyway ???




