Lincoln HS in SF has a lot of problems with a gang of teens assaulting & threatening other kids - I was in police station when a Lincoln mom was filing out a police report to protect her teen from death threats. She’s already had to change schools for her other kids due to gang violence and threats. These violent kids need to be removed from the school so the other 99% of the student body can get a real education without violence or harassment. Maria Su & BOE does nothing impactful about this ongoing problem.

I thought the tweet below must be omitting some critical context or paraphrasing the text ungenerously. But no, the NYT actually published an op-ed that claims the University of California hasn't sacrificed excellence even though it admits students who struggle with basic math.

If students from UC schools are graduating despite not being able to do basic math, that only indicates that UC has dramatically dropped their academic standards to push students across the finish line. This is a terrible argument and it devalues the UC degree.

Sam Altman: This Is Like Going to Get Fire From the Gods⁣ ⁣ "We have only scratched the surface of figuring out how to build great products that really make people more capable, more powerful... this is like we went to go get fire from the gods." — @sama

This op-ed can’t be real: “Students on University of California campuses may struggle with basic math, but they are graduating at record rates.” “What has made the University of California exceptional is its commitment to increase access without sacrificing excellence.”

Introducing iHermes A personal AI assistant powered by Hermes Agent, with GBrain for memory. You talk to it in iMessage. We're huge fans of Hermes. We've been using it to build internal systems and automate work, and we wanted more people to get that kind of value without having to set up the whole thing themselves. Start with one text. Connect the apps you use, hand off a task, and let it work through the steps. It keeps useful context from your earlier work and follows up proactively. Our goal is to make iHermes the most transparent and secure personal assistant in iMessage, built around the person using it. Your assistant should work for you.

I've attempted to map everything in oncology in a public website and open source repo for all. The site is trying to get all cancers, products, technologies, bottlenecks, people, startup opportunities with 1000+ ideas for upgrading the field. If you have a loved one with cancer and you are technical or can engineer, go take a look, file improvement requests or bugs or help with the open repo and make this the best open and free info resource for individuals, researchers and educational use. This should save people time, aid AI oncology projects and generate positive action. If you are not technical just complain in this thread about broken or annoying or things you want and I'll fix them live. Some of the interesting pages: Treatments: A gallery of the molecules being used And targets: The technologies in oncology: 1100 ideas for helping oncology: Bottlenecks on oncology: Open questions (LETS GO RESEARCH PEOPLE) Startup requests (LETS GO STARTUP PEOPLE) Mechanics of cancer: Battlefronts: Isotope supply: Key papers: Pipeline funnels: Cancer by type: Institutional rankings: The startups: Heros and heroines : Key medical people: Here is the project roadmap: Models and data sets: There are other views as well, take a browse. Try making a PR if you have an upgrade to this on the repo here: If you are biologically/medically minded and something is wrong, file a bug as well or say on the thread and we will get it fixed live. If this is a useful project star the repo and help get it calibrated. I've tried to add some other languages but I cannot speak them so tell me if that doesnt work well. I believe we will crack oncology and having total information dominance is key to the problem. Let the feedback flow!

Greg Brockman: If We Ban Data Centers, China Writes the Rules⁣ ⁣ "AI will continue without us, and then we'll have zero say, as opposed to we're the leaders, and then we have all the say... we could just say, hey, you have to be a well behaved data center as opposed to we're going to ban them or we're going to stop AI."

I need you to understand how retarded @sfgov is: 5 years ago, the Board of Supervisors *unanimously* appointed a felony kidnapper to a City Commissioner role. Turns out this guy has also been going around raping. @sfgov currently has no way of removing him, so @sfbos is burning legislative sessions and taxes on making new laws so they can fire the rapist/kidnapper that they hired. The best part: @sfgov has hired ANOTHER rapist, Jon Jacobo, as a commissioner in the same time period.

Jensen Huang pushed back hard against AI labs calling for tighter regulation and slower AI development, at Dreamforce. "If you are not confident about the safety of the products, and you're not confident in its functionality, capability, or safety, then don't just release it. We don't need any new laws. We don't need new regulations. we just need companies to decide that when it's time to run as fast as they can." safety and speed are not mutually exclusive, and new laws are not required to make AI systems safer. Build fast, test aggressively, and pause only when you are no longer confident the product is safe. --- From "Salesforce" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)

Yesterday I was in Austin, TX to announce the Airbnb Housing Accelerator, a $250 million commitment to help get more homes built. Airbnb started because of a housing problem. My roommate and I couldn’t afford our San Francisco rent, so we rented out airbeds in our apartment. Today, housing is unaffordable for millions of people around the world. If you step back and ask why housing has become so expensive, the biggest problem is pretty simple: we don’t build enough of it. America is short more than five million homes, more than all the housing in New York City and Los Angeles combined. We build fewer homes today than we did in 1950, even though the population has doubled. Airbnb has been part of the housing debate, and we understand why communities have concerns. Dedicated Airbnb listings are a small share of the housing supply—about 0.5% here in Austin and 0.3% across the U.S. Restricting short-term rentals is an understandable response, but the evidence shows it doesn’t address the underlying problem. New York City effectively banned Airbnb, and rents have risen about 30% since then. Austin took a different approach and passed reforms that made it easier to build more housing. Rents there are down 18%. Every city is different, but Austin is a clear success story. We believe building more homes is essential to making housing more affordable. So we asked ourselves: what can Airbnb can do to help? We found a few places where we can. Today, around 750,000 homes in the U.S. are ready to break ground, but are stuck because they can’t get the final piece of financing. That’s where we can help. We’re doing four things: 1. Putting $250 million behind housing projects that unlock $5 billion in development. 2. Supporting local housing advocates working to modernize zoning, speed up permitting, simplify building codes and reduce unnecessary costs. 3. Creating a $5 million Housing Innovation Prize for technologies that can make homes faster and cheaper to build. 4. Launching the Airbnb City Index to make it easier to see which cities are building housing, becoming more affordable and adopting policies that work. Our first project is in Austin. We’re investing $6.4 million to help build 201 affordable apartments in St. John, a neighborhood where the land has sat empty for nearly 20 years. The community fought to turn this lot into affordable housing and won. But construction stalled for nearly five years because the developer was a few million dollars short. Airbnb came and played a small part to unlock this project. None of these Austin apartments will ever be on Airbnb. Short-term rentals aren’t permitted. We’re investing anyway, because the goal is simple: help build more housing. We’re starting in the U.S. because it’s the market we know best. I want to prove this works here before taking it further. But housing affordability is a global problem, and I hope we can eventually take what we learn here and apply it globally. This is new for us. We’ll get some things wrong. And $250 million won’t close a five-million-home gap on its own. I know there will be skepticism about this, and that's okay. Airbnb only works if communities trust us and feel good about our presence in them. We can’t ask people for that trust. We have to earn it. The best way to do that is to help solve problems in the communities where we operate. That’s what the Housing Accelerator is about. Brian

Jensen Huang completely destroys Jacob Coxon’s (ex-Anthrpic employee) 10% extinction prediction. no data, no scientific grounding, no defensible 10%. "First of all, we shouldn’t [try to explain a 10% chance of extinction], because it’s made up. These are well-educated people. They’re called researchers. Obviously, they’re working in a lab, and so the confluence of these words—and then the prediction—is alarming and troubling. It shouldn’t be done. It’s irresponsible." ---- Full video on "All-In Podcast" YouTube channel (link in comment)