Here's my conversation with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) about the positive role of AI and technology in the recent history and future of human civilization. This was fascinating and fun! https://t.co/XQdkfhNI4npic.twitter.com/WYKeF1trYt
The ambitious mind can view progress in binary terms:
• I don’t have an hour to lift, so I shouldn’t go. • I don’t have 4 hours for deep work, so I shouldn’t start. • I don’t have 30 minutes to call mom, so I shouldn’t call.
America’s childcare system is on the brink of collapse due to lack of funding. My bill will lower childcare costs to $10 dollars a day to help families and restore our childcare industry. pic.twitter.com/esZbFDnHkD
Avoid These 10 Common Writing Mistakes To Build Your Twitter Audience. The difference between the roaring successes and the majority dropouts? High impact writing. The ability to clearly communicate a message, in a way that builds an audience and gets them excited about becoming your customer. Learning how to write, and applying your skills to scripts, tweets, articles and newsletters is the single biggest investment you can make in your career as a creator and your personal brand. ......... Kieran Drew quit dentistry to become a writer, and now shares what he learns as he builds his creator business. With 160,000 Twitter followers (having only opened his account in August 2020) and over 20,000 subscribers to his Digital Freedom newsletter ........... “One big idea, one captivating story, one core emotion, one core benefit, one call to action.” Drew believes that “specificity is the secret.” ........... “The road to hell is paved with adverbs,” said Stephen King. .......... Avoid words such as really, quickly, rarely, and so on. If a word ends in -ly, it’s not your friend. “Use them as an opportunity to swap out for bigger and bolder language.” Your message will be stronger, less fluffy, and more memorable to readers........... To save serious headaches, see if your sentence passes “the zombie test,” which goes like this: “If you can add ‘and by zombies’ to the sentence, it’s passive. If you can’t, it’s active.” This is the difference between “The world was rocked by Kieran (and by zombies)” and “Kieran rocked the world (and by zombies).” You want the latter, and so does your audience. .............. “First draft fast, second draft slow, one week buffer.” Simple. “Leave time between your drafts, and schedule content one week ahead.” ........... The internet shows you the opposite.” Instead of trying to sound well-educated, “distil core ideas down to their simplest form.” Be clear instead of clever. It makes you easier to consume, instantly memorable, and more than pays off long term........... Add line breaks to break up your paragraphs, use snappy sentences, bullet points and white space. “The secret is to be easy on the eyes.” ......... “Cut a third from your draft before publishing. People are busy. Write like it.” Even if you think what you’ve written cannot possibly be cut down, give it a go. Keep chopping until it’s a third shorter and much punchier. You won’t even remember what you cut out. ............ Remove fluffy phrases like “I think that,” “it’s possible that,” “you could,” and “probably.” Don’t be afraid to take your stance. ........ “Don’t be the guru, be the guide”
When Doctors Use a Chatbot to Improve Their Bedside Manner Despite the drawbacks of turning to artificial intelligence in medicine, some physicians find that ChatGPT improves their ability to communicate empathetically with patients. ........ On Nov. 30 last year, OpenAI released the first free version of ChatGPT. Within 72 hours, doctors were using the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot. ......... Most surprising to Dr. Lee, though, was a use he had not anticipated — doctors were asking ChatGPT to help them communicate with patients in a more compassionate way. ........ In one survey, 85 percent of patients reported that a doctor’s compassion was more important than waiting time or cost. In another survey, nearly three-quarters of respondents said they had gone to doctors who were not compassionate. And a study of doctors’ conversations with the families of dying patients found that many were not empathetic. ............. Enter chatbots, which doctors are using to find words to break bad news and express concerns about a patient’s suffering, or to just more clearly explain medical recommendations. ..........
the help he and other doctors on his staff got from ChatGPT to communicate regularly with patients.
......... He asked his team to write a script for how to talk to these patients compassionately. “A week later, no one had done it,” he said. All he had was a text his research coordinator and a social worker on the team had put together, and “that was not a true script,” he said. So Dr. Pignone tried ChatGPT, which replied instantly with all the talking points the doctors wanted. ........... The ultimate result, which ChatGPT produced when asked to rewrite it at a fifth-grade reading level, began with a reassuring introduction ......... “Doctors are famous for using language that is hard to understand or too advanced,” he said. “It is interesting to see that even words we think are easily understandable really aren’t.” .......... The fifth-grade level script, he said, “feels more genuine.” ............ “Most doctors are pretty cognitively focused, treating the patient’s medical issues as a series of problems to be solved,” Dr. White said. As a result, he said, they may fail to pay attention to “the emotional side of what patients and families are experiencing.” .......... In long, compassionately worded answers to Dr. Moore’s prompts, the program gave him the words to explain to his friend the lack of effective treatments .......... It also suggested ways to break bad news when his friend asked if she would be able to attend an event in two years .......... for a doctor to admit to using a chatbot this way “would be admitting you don’t know how to talk to patients.” .......... It’s time-consuming to read the letters of referral and medical histories and then decide whether to grant acceptance to a patient. But when he shared that information with ChatGPT, it “was able to decide, with accuracy, within minutes, what it took doctors a month to do,” Dr. Kohane said. ............ Dr. Richard Stern, a rheumatologist in private practice in Dallas, said GPT-4 had become his constant companion, making the time he spends with patients more productive. It writes kind responses to his patients’ emails, provides compassionate replies for his staff members to use when answering questions from patients who call the office and takes over onerous paperwork. ......... It was the sort of letter that would take a few hours of Dr. Stern’s time but took ChatGPT just minutes to produce. ...... After receiving the bot’s letter, the insurer granted the request. .
I'm 30 and have raised $100m+ for startups I've founded. Here's how: - raised $250k angel round to get started - pivoted to AI 4 weeks later and raised a $100m seed round
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๐จ๐️ Imp: Zoho is building its own large language model (LLM), similar to OpenAI's GPT and Google's PaLM 2 models. The project is being overseen by @svembu, and is being worked on by the company's R&D team in India.@deepsekharc reports https://t.co/7CxvajmzSx
— Chandra R. Srikanth (@chandrarsrikant) June 14, 2023
Kind of hilarious that when money was virtually free people were blowing it on ad spend and subsidizing delivery apps, and now that capital is extremely expensive there’s a technological breakthrough that requires insane amounts of hardware investment to play ball
1/ The market is changing so quickly -- so much learning comes through osmosis speaking to others (both strangers and friends), and often times spontaneously
My favorite point from @mattcharris's latest article: while there's a lot of discussion on the threat of hallucination in genAI chatbots... banks should actually fear chatbots telling the truth! 'Don't invest your money in my bank. Our rates are worse than X competitor!'๐ https://t.co/gDR1HPpSZz
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) June 14, 2023
Someone’s assistant just told me in scheduling a coffee meeting that the person doesn’t actually drink coffee, only Diet Coke. Believe it or not, you don’t actually have to order coffee at coffee meetings! ๐คฃ
Remember. Russia's rehabilitation of Stalin and Stalinist policies require united opposition from the free world once again. Ukraine is the front line of a fight that demands attention from all. https://t.co/egQBeLHnrZhttps://t.co/cY56fYD4fA
I think Putin already knows this, and his current military goal is simply a prolonged stalemate. He can't win; if he pulls out, he might be the victim of a coup; but if he digs in he might be able to prolong the war till he dies of natural causes.
In studying the great characters the world has produced, I dare say, in the vast majority of cases, it would be found that it was misery that taught more than happiness, it was poverty that taught more than wealth, it was blows that brought out ......https://t.co/0jlFV2JGB2pic.twitter.com/kZPs8vo0GV
A very strong call from #Estonia's Parliament to break Russia's cycle of aggression and establish a special international tribunal under the auspices of the UN General Assembly.
It's the first time a national parliament has adopted such a statement but I believe not the last. https://t.co/pAWkOG6r26
So. You are looking at the new John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard. Effective July of last year. It is one of a small number of endowed professorships for tenure-track faculty. pic.twitter.com/rm2YSVlsAu
— Sarah Elizabeth Lewis (@sarahelizalewis) June 14, 2023
All sufficiently organized countries can reliably teach you the basics, but none can reliably figure out what you should work on. You have to do that for yourself.
I had invited him as a guest for the TV talk program Pairavi Defending the defenseless in 2011. He was shooting in Pokhara. He came to Kathmandu took part in the debate and left for Pokhara. On a parting note he said , every person needs to speak for Dalits - a real mahanayak ! pic.twitter.com/pG3DSY4eCt
— Mayor Francis Suarez (@FrancisSuarez) June 15, 2023
Never in my wildest dreams could I have predicted a future where a new virus would become the #1 infectious disease killer of children and that medical leadership would decide the vaccine for this virus is NOT important for kids, and NOT promote it. ๐คฏhttps://t.co/kFDPU9w9MO
— Dr. Lisa Iannattone (@lisa_iannattone) June 15, 2023
Since @JoeBiden cannot and should not talk about Trump's indictment for violating the Espionage Act. But if other Democrats don't push back on Trump's disinformation, he will succeed in framing things on his terms https://t.co/pzeMQtNiS9
— Lars for President (@LibertarianLars) May 24, 2023
How to value your seed-stage startup: Start at $10m
Did YC? +10m Product has revenue? +20m Founder ex-FAANG? +50m AI startup? +90m Ex-OpenAI / Anthropic +100m Founder sold previous company? +100m Authored a famous AI paper? +500m Crypto but added AI to the name? +1B
My partner Ryan (whom I am marrying next week ❤️) wisely stays off social media, so allow me to be his temporary avatar. He’s been teaching himself woodworking. This is the first piece of furniture he’s built with his own hands: a walnut credenza in midcentury modern style ๐ pic.twitter.com/fuMh2HjUFX
"Startups are bought, not sold" is one of the biggest value-destroying myths in VC.
Founders can and should lay the groundwork for a sale years in advance by proactively reaching out to and meeting with potential acquirers. Don't wait to be "discovered" by corporate M&A teams.
In a great (& destructive) irony, Mechanical Turk is just AI, now.
The MTurk crowdworking platform is a major place for researchers (and companies) to get humans to do small tasks & experiments. But this paper finds 33-46% of Turkers use LLMs to do tasks. https://t.co/MMO15yYMgjpic.twitter.com/N0B5f6dxOY
Amnesty: "We call on the UK to refrain from extraditing Julian Assange, for the US to drop the charges, and for Assange to be freed” @amnestyhttps://t.co/GlWuuUBeOD
"We cannot seem to do what other countries think is easy, while we’ve happily decided to do what other countries think is impossible." Really appreciated this essay by @aaronecarrollhttps://t.co/SORJCVeEQy
