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Today I'm releasing The Living Museum, an experimental interface for the British Museum that brings its digital collection to life using AI.
livingmuseum.app/explore
JT
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JT
@jtalms
everything's computer • social agents, multi-agent simulations, and generative agent-based models
- every waterloo student should be given 10k on admission for side projects and community building, no questions asked absolutely cracked team at @waterloofab @_yashkarthik @AbhayRatti
- when you spent the last four months cutting snowflake costs and someone runs a six hour query on a 4xl
- take note folks. people always ask me how to get their foot in the door, esp. when switching fields or careers. instead of applying to 100 places with the same resumé, pick 2-3 and go super hard for them.in under 24 hrs i landed a marketing internship at @Shopify 💚 my job search in public payed off — i’ll be interning at a company that’s all about bold ideas and dreaming big. shopify clearly operates at the speed of innovation and i’m beyond grateful to be part of the team.
- Replying to @AntisemitismCAThis is ridiculous, Harden doesn't come across as antisemitic in these clips. He seems like someone who is deeply sympathetic to Palestinian suffering. That doesn't make him an antisemite and labelling him as one is detrimental to your cause.
- Replying to @waitbutwhyThe not-so-small gap between animals and humans cuts both ways. Not only are humans more vicious, carnal, and animal-like than we think we are, but animals themselves have far more empathy, compassion, and "humanlike" emotions than we give them credit.
- > be me > sipping flat white > reading papers on agents > see reference to preprint: 'episodic memory influencing decision-making' > open in new tab > text sister: > "hey, looking for a neuro/cogsci reading list, here's an example—" > ... > she coauthored the paper > tfw
- i've had twitter for 8 years. i have ~200 followers, half of them bots, family members, or dead accounts. @rayhascode has had twitter for two weeks. he has ~100 followers, all real, vibrant, luminaries in their fields. do not sleep on cohere interns.
- I wrote a blog post about shipping the Living Museum and dealing with the aftermath. I talk about the origin story, unexpected social media reaction, and future vision for museum-specific AI interfaces.
- incredibly proud to work with such a stellar team, whose passion for building great products is on display every day and night⌘R+ Welcoming Command R+, our latest model focused on scalability, RAG, and Tool Use. Like last time, we're releasing the weights for research use, we hope they're useful to everyone! txt.cohere.com/command-r-plus…
- Yesterday I attended “Philosophy of Design” by the venerable @saleh_digital at @535Toronto. My main takeaway was that design is where philosophy meets practice. The best design is principled and transcendent, reflecting a civilization’s logos—its rational and intellectual
- playing around with a new concept for a party game. first, players generate images with ✨ai✨. then, other players try to recreate these images - but without using the same words. the game gets harder and harder as more words are taken away!
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