-
korrents.com
Expecting a layoff in advance provides little psychological protection against its effects.Their words
Being mentally prepared didn't provide much protection. The effects of job loss looked remarkably similar.
Related posts
Amjad Masad x.com
This is cool, but if your output domain is known in advance, why not just train a model to produce logprobs over enums?
The the words it uses that this site has seen least often elsewhere. Posts are matched on those words alone — nothing here is a summary of this one.
Top people
Showing Profile →
Hiding
Hiding
20 September
-
Their words
The feedback loops that drive system change are both "highly destabilizing and difficult to predict."
14 September
9 September
5 September
4 September
From one piece Why Fei-Fei Li Is Betting on Spatial Intelligence 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
-
Their words
I think three of us have total conviction about the scaling law. That that I think we do. I do think the exact architecture choices and data mixtures is where the the devils are in the details.
-
Their words
And I do believe Atlas is a significant step forward because now with every single frame, you have a you can generate an estimate a important piece of information, which is the the view viewpoint, the camera pose. And that is the most critical information one needs about the geometry of the of the space.
3 September
24 August
-
korrents.com
Planning a day or a week in advance works because it pays the brain's decision cost once rather than dozens of times.Their words
Every decision has a cost in terms as we've seen the brain having to put in invest fuel to make that decision. So if you're having to do that every time you make a decision, that can seem very burdensome. Whereas if you did it once in a big way where you planned it out for the day or the week, maybe the costs in terms of the activation energy required for the brain is much lower for you if you do that.
21 August
-
Their words
Because one can measure these things, one can monitor this debt dynamic happening, so it’s easy to see problems approaching. I’ve used this diagnostic process in my investing and I’ve kept it to myself, but I’m now explaining it in detail in How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle because it is too important to keep to myself.
1 August
30 July
-
Their words
To be clear, this doesn't mean there will never be bubbles or crashes. There definitely will be. It is just that nobody can predict them.
27 July
-
Their words
And you don't want to guess what's the instruction that the model needs because you might not predict it correctly. The thing that you want to do is you want to run it.
12 July
-
Their words
I believe this represents the most important advance we have yet seen in the science of human aging.
Medicine is Moving From Calendars to Clockserictopol.substack.com
8 July
-
Their words
We argue that the next leap in AI4Math systems requires a decisive shift from predefined problem-solvers to research agents that can address frontier mathematical challenges with rigorous formal mathematical reasoning.
27 May
-
Their words
If you get your positioning right, the world just keeps handing you wins that you didn't even expect. So like we never predicted this exact scenario but like our fundamental understanding of the position was right. like if if there is a neutral party, all these companies with billions of dollars will kind of use a neutral party to advance their own like company's interests.
26 May
7 April
-
Their words
And so you sort of you've you've pursued very similar ideas. It's been very successful in one case and it's been completely and utterly unsuccessful in the other case. And I think I mean a priori, you can't tell which of these is the thing to do. And you actually need to do both.
13 March
-
Their words
A companies that have locked up, you know, and and don't have commitment issues, you know, have these 5-year contracts for compute, they've kind of locked in a humongous margin advantage because they've locked in compute for 5 years at a price of what it transacted at 5 years ago or three years ago or two years ago, whatever it is.
7 January
-
korrents.com
Companies should offer dual career tracks so product managers can advance without becoming people managers.Their words
Companies should embrace multitrack job ladders for product managers who prefer product leadership to people management.
9 December 2025
-
korrents.com
Entrepreneurship resembles gambling rather than chess, because the large payoffs cannot be identified in advance.Their words
you don't find entrepreneurs in chess clubs. You find entrepreneurs in casinos. They're playing poker. They're playing bat gam. You know, they're playing games of chance with an occasional very high payoff. And a lot of life is exactly like that, but you don't know where the huge payoff's going to come in advance.
25 November 2025
-
Their words
one of the one of the ways in which my thinking has been changing is that I now place more importance on AI being deployed incrementally and in advance.
12 September 2025
-
Their words
uh common sense meaning the ability to make inferences about what might happen uh that are reasonable guesses but that do not require you to experience that mistake and learn and learn from it in advance that's tremendously important and that's something that we basically had no idea how to do uh about 5 years ago but now uh you we can actually use LLMs and VLMs ask them questions and they will make reasonable guesses
9 August 2025
-
Their words
People had grown to expect miracles, but GPT-5 is just the latest incremental advance.
9 March 2025
-
Their words
It's easy to get impressive-looking results if you're comparing against a poorly-tuned baseline, and that observation turns out to explain a surprising fraction of supposed improvements.
1 October 2024
-
Their words
Unfortunately, I see no strong reason to believe AI will preferentially or structurally advance democracy and peace, in the same way that I think it will structurally advance human health and alleviate poverty.
17 September 2024
-
Their words
Another challenge for Class II biotechs is that even if you have a nifty computational drug discovery platform, you are still often bottlenecked by the rest of the drug development process. It takes 1,000 (or more!) small steps to advance a drug through discovery, development, and past the regulators.
10 January 2024
-
Their words
What I discovered by casting a wide net was that I have very little ability to predict how useful a call will be in advance.
23 December 2023
-
Their words
Biology is unpredictable, especially when the immune system is involved, and there is no guarantee that a drug that appears safe in animals will be safe in humans.
14 December 2023
-
Their words
And I would encourage anybody, if anybody listening to this is an entrepreneur, has a small business, whatever, think about the things that are not going to change over 10 years. And those are probably the big things.
28 October 2023
Nothing matches.
What is a korrent?
A korrent is a belief a person has stated in their own words: one sentence stating the claim, backed by a quote and a source, kept at korrents.com.
Under a name here, the quoted block is what they actually said. The korrent beneath it is the claim those words support, in korrents' wording — tap it to see the record, its source, and who else holds it.
Nobody here wrote their own korrents. They are compiled from public statements, and a person can change their mind, which is recorded too.
About the English under a post
Some people here publish in a language other than English. Where they do, this site shows a machine translation beneath the post, in this typeface — the site's own, not theirs.
The post itself is never changed, moved or hidden: what is set in the serif above is exactly what the person published, and it is what to quote them on. A translation can be wrong in ways that matter, especially about tone.
Only the post's own words are translated. A quoted post, a linked article and a belief on korrents.com are left in their original language.