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    Surya
    @sdand
    Oct 13, 2025
    I made a RL policy that guesses where a picture was taken without GPS data It continuously learns, updating its weights with every use in realtime -- over the weekend it improved 13.9% with <100 images Best of all, it does this without ever storing any image data, link below
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    @sdand
    Aug 9, 2024
    By 21, you've lived half your life—perceptually Our brain's internal clock is predominantly dopaminergic: novel experiences slow time, routine accelerates it. This time warp means perceived age outpaces real age(studies prove this) Solution? Just do more cool shit. Blog below!
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    Sam Altman
    OpenAI
    @sama
    Sep 21, 2017
    From a psychologist friend: "Adjusted for the subjective increase in how fast time passes, life is half over by 23 or 24. Don't waste time."
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    This graph is made up, but presented as though actual data is being plotted. The details of time perception as age changes are being debated by psychologists: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_perc… Below is the spreadsheet used to generate this graph. It's literally just plotting ln(x). docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
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    Surya
    @sdand
    Jul 11, 2024
    made an app that guesses where you are in the world with just a picture using image embeddings trained on street view data first time using swiftui, consumer apps in general, TestFlight below
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    @sdand
    Feb 8, 2024
    night vision with the apple vision pro, no cameras needed
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    Surya
    @sdand
    Mar 9, 2023
    I’ve sold everything. I’m tired of losing money. Just withdrew everything and put it all into 97% grade solid Tungsten Hiding my stash under my bed. No more banks, cold wallets, or credit cards. Just pure tungsten
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    Surya
    @sdand
    Jan 29, 2025
    made a site to run deepseek r1 for free -- locally in your browser, no downloads, no servers purely using WebGPU r1-web is open source, made in america, run on american servers, available below forever
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    This project doesn’t run a DeepSeek R1 model, but its distilled version on a Qwen2.5-1.5B github.com/sdan/r1-web
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    @sdand
    Oct 16, 2025
    To solve AGI, we must first solve Geoguessr For that I built vlm-gym, a simple RL gym written in scratch, in JAX for Qwen3VL-4B (released yesterday) And added Geospot, a RL environment for geolocation and learned VLMs can learn how to geoguess. More:
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    Surya
    @sdand
    Jan 6, 2024
    Replying to @ipsumkyle
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    @sdand
    Dec 23, 2024
    everyday I spend 4 million tokens coding, 2 million on research (gemini, claude), and my claude computer agent spends 8-20m tokens scrolling and emailing me in 2019 i vividly remember opening up a colab notebook to finish my last HS essay with gpt2 frustrated that teachers never
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    Surya
    @sdand
    Nov 15, 2023
    chatgpt plus accounts selling ebay for a premium 🫡🇺🇸
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    Sam Altman
    OpenAI
    @sama
    Nov 15, 2023
    we are pausing new ChatGPT Plus sign-ups for a bit :( the surge in usage post devday has exceeded our capacity and we want to make sure everyone has a great experience. you can still sign-up to be notified within the app when subs reopen.
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    Surya
    @sdand
    May 13, 2022
    Replying to @neelsomani
    incredible
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    @sdand
    Mar 18, 2024
    this weekend i went through every OpenAI employee's Github contribution history, aggregated them to predict when GPT-5 will drop tldr: soon(but late)
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    @sdand
    Jul 10, 2023
    Just got Code Interpreter to run GPT-2 117M with GGML entirely in ChatGPT Spent the weekend nurturing a relationship to get to this point -- also if you try enough you can upload zips of up to 250mb
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    @sdand
    Jul 4, 2023
    introducing vlite, a blazing fast vector db written in pure numpy using Apple metal perf shaders it speeds up indexing vectors over Chroma, Pinecone, Milvus from 5x to up to 50x and it only has 2 functions. memorize() and remember(). thats it.
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