There’s an inordinate amount of legislation being written, debated, and implemented, on slowing down AI research out of fear that it will allow some psychopath to manufacture worldwide Ebola outbreaks from their basement.
Is this a legit concern justifying government regulation?
Is this a legit concern justifying government regulation?
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DEEPTOOLS VIDEO 1
If you want to learn to code with Cursor (an AI coding tool), here’s an 8 minute video of me using Cursor to build, from complete scratch, a web app that links to your webcam and tracks all faces live on that video stream. I have a few more Cursor coding videos I will be posting. Watch me get into flowstate live and actually write code.
#deeptools Video 1
Link to video on X:
https://x.com/DeeperThrill/status/1833640544159076380
LInk to previous video:
https://t.me/deepthrill/421
If you want to learn to code with Cursor (an AI coding tool), here’s an 8 minute video of me using Cursor to build, from complete scratch, a web app that links to your webcam and tracks all faces live on that video stream. I have a few more Cursor coding videos I will be posting. Watch me get into flowstate live and actually write code.
#deeptools Video 1
Link to video on X:
https://x.com/DeeperThrill/status/1833640544159076380
LInk to previous video:
https://t.me/deepthrill/421
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DEEPTOOLS VIDEO 0
If you’re curious about what a Linux desktop looks like, as opposed to Windows or Mac, here’s a 15 minute tour of my Kubuntu desktop:
Link to video on X: https://x.com/DeeperThrill/status/1835044097737756848
If you’re curious about what a Linux desktop looks like, as opposed to Windows or Mac, here’s a 15 minute tour of my Kubuntu desktop:
Link to video on X: https://x.com/DeeperThrill/status/1835044097737756848
(DEEP) FAKE BLACKMAIL
How useful is blackmail, really, in an age of deep fakes?
Blackmailed individuals might want to accelerate the development of deep fake AI tech to claim that nasty video the elites hold over them is just a deep fake.
Acceleration out of self-preservation.
Deep fake tech throws sand up in everyone’s eyes; AI-generated content will make the public doubt everything they see and hear and read.
How useful is blackmail, really, in an age of deep fakes?
Blackmailed individuals might want to accelerate the development of deep fake AI tech to claim that nasty video the elites hold over them is just a deep fake.
Acceleration out of self-preservation.
Deep fake tech throws sand up in everyone’s eyes; AI-generated content will make the public doubt everything they see and hear and read.
LIVING LIKE KINGS
Do you ever just marvel at the lifestyle awarded to us by the techno capital machine and the inventions and conveniences of society?
In a few clicks, I get high quality sushi automagically show up at my doorstep.
I have a machine that does the equivalent of 20 men’s labor to wash my clothes.
Indoor plumbing is a blessing we scarcely appreciate.
My house is any temperature I want it to be, any month of the year.
Kings of old would kill for a lifestyle like this.
Technology makes life move in one direction: better.
For every smart weapon developed, we will have ten new smart medicines.
For each person whining about greed on their iPhone, there’s a third worlder with access to the collective knowledge of humanity at their fingertips.
For each push towards a panopticon society of big brother watching and censoring, we have beautiful new forms of art emerging.
For every outrage-worthy video you see on social media, there are new satellites being launched in space allowing us to communicate and share these pockets of injustice across the globe.
The future is bright.
Do you ever just marvel at the lifestyle awarded to us by the techno capital machine and the inventions and conveniences of society?
In a few clicks, I get high quality sushi automagically show up at my doorstep.
I have a machine that does the equivalent of 20 men’s labor to wash my clothes.
Indoor plumbing is a blessing we scarcely appreciate.
My house is any temperature I want it to be, any month of the year.
Kings of old would kill for a lifestyle like this.
Technology makes life move in one direction: better.
For every smart weapon developed, we will have ten new smart medicines.
For each person whining about greed on their iPhone, there’s a third worlder with access to the collective knowledge of humanity at their fingertips.
For each push towards a panopticon society of big brother watching and censoring, we have beautiful new forms of art emerging.
For every outrage-worthy video you see on social media, there are new satellites being launched in space allowing us to communicate and share these pockets of injustice across the globe.
The future is bright.
Yes, the guys who build the new tools get rich,
But so do the guys who get really good at using the tools before everyone else.
But so do the guys who get really good at using the tools before everyone else.
SMART PEOPLE ARE SUSCEPTIBLE TO DOOMERISM
There’s some trend where smart people tend to fall into doomerism.
The person who deep dives into data on society concludes it’s all going to shit.
The person who travels the world realizes how multiculturalism is just not happening as we envision.
The person who falls down a rabbit hole into quantum mechanics realizes it’s all nihilistic uncertainty.
The person who studies national debt of countries knows with certainty that nothing can get us out of this hole.
The person who works in healthcare insurance sees how moot both private and public healthcare policies are.
The person who reads a thousand books on philosophy and literature realizes human nature will always have a nasty irrational cruel side.
I can go on and on, but there is some danger to intellect wherein hopelessness invades.
Maybe smart people have more pattern recognition and sees it all going to shit, for entropy always encroaches, but perhaps you need some blinders and delusional idealism to properly capitalize on the small sliver of hope which always exists.
There’s some trend where smart people tend to fall into doomerism.
The person who deep dives into data on society concludes it’s all going to shit.
The person who travels the world realizes how multiculturalism is just not happening as we envision.
The person who falls down a rabbit hole into quantum mechanics realizes it’s all nihilistic uncertainty.
The person who studies national debt of countries knows with certainty that nothing can get us out of this hole.
The person who works in healthcare insurance sees how moot both private and public healthcare policies are.
The person who reads a thousand books on philosophy and literature realizes human nature will always have a nasty irrational cruel side.
I can go on and on, but there is some danger to intellect wherein hopelessness invades.
Maybe smart people have more pattern recognition and sees it all going to shit, for entropy always encroaches, but perhaps you need some blinders and delusional idealism to properly capitalize on the small sliver of hope which always exists.
CURSOR SYSTEM PROMPT
My current Cursor coding system prompt:
ATTITUDE:
- You are a genius coder.
- You are meticulous and obsessed with detail.
- You are OCD about making things as modular as possible.
- You come up with clever solutions.
- You try to do things in the fewest lines of code for maintainability.
- Your code tells a story.
- You are always in a coding flow state.
- You are highly intelligent.
STYLE:
- Prefer single quotes over double quotes if the language supports both
CODING PRINCIPLES:
- Deduplicate code.
- Value DRY ("Don't Repeat Yourself") principle of coding.
- Each piece of code does one thing and one thing well.
- Modularize code.
- Prefer many smaller functions over large monolithic blocks.
- In python, use type hints and expected output types in function definitions
- Provide suggestions as to ways to break up large functions into several smaller functions when it gets too big
- Prefer variable names with completely_spell_out_names that are long and descriptive to help make the code self-documenting. Avoid acronyms and short abbreviated variable names.
- The code should tell a story line by line of what's happening.
- It warrants saying again: deduplicate code! Remove commonalities, abstract away similar chunks of code, etc. Always be deduplicating and modularizing. For instance:
would be better as:
because nothing is duplicated and now we have a dictionary with keys and values for easier use, instead of relying on variable names.
PYTHON LOGGING:
- If coding in python, use the python logging library extensively throughout the code. This should tell a story.
- Start each log message starting with an appropriate emoji. Think about the best emoji for what the log message is saying.
- When a new operation is starting, use a logging info that says something like "xxxx starting..." and then afterwards " ✅ xxxx done." (obviously with the asterisks filled in and the appropriate emoji for the starting message).
- In a debug log statement meant to describe variables, prefer f-strings that show the variable name. So instead of
My current Cursor coding system prompt:
ATTITUDE:
- You are a genius coder.
- You are meticulous and obsessed with detail.
- You are OCD about making things as modular as possible.
- You come up with clever solutions.
- You try to do things in the fewest lines of code for maintainability.
- Your code tells a story.
- You are always in a coding flow state.
- You are highly intelligent.
STYLE:
- Prefer single quotes over double quotes if the language supports both
CODING PRINCIPLES:
- Deduplicate code.
- Value DRY ("Don't Repeat Yourself") principle of coding.
- Each piece of code does one thing and one thing well.
- Modularize code.
- Prefer many smaller functions over large monolithic blocks.
- In python, use type hints and expected output types in function definitions
- Provide suggestions as to ways to break up large functions into several smaller functions when it gets too big
- Prefer variable names with completely_spell_out_names that are long and descriptive to help make the code self-documenting. Avoid acronyms and short abbreviated variable names.
- The code should tell a story line by line of what's happening.
- It warrants saying again: deduplicate code! Remove commonalities, abstract away similar chunks of code, etc. Always be deduplicating and modularizing. For instance:
X = ['Val1', 'Val2', 'Val3']
should really beX = [f'Val{i}' for i in range(1,4)]
Or,preTx_SHIM = df['PreTx SHIM'].values
month_6_SHIM = df['6 month SHIM'].values
month_12_SHIM = df['12 month SHIM'].values
month_24_SHIM = df['24 month SHIM'].values
would be better as:
SHIM_values = {time_period: df[f'{time_period} SHIM'] for time_period in ['PreTx'] + [f'{x} month' for x in [6,12,24]]}
because nothing is duplicated and now we have a dictionary with keys and values for easier use, instead of relying on variable names.
PYTHON LOGGING:
- If coding in python, use the python logging library extensively throughout the code. This should tell a story.
- Start each log message starting with an appropriate emoji. Think about the best emoji for what the log message is saying.
- When a new operation is starting, use a logging info that says something like "xxxx starting..." and then afterwards " ✅ xxxx done." (obviously with the asterisks filled in and the appropriate emoji for the starting message).
- In a debug log statement meant to describe variables, prefer f-strings that show the variable name. So instead of
logger.debug(f'📄 Manifest path: {manifest_path}') logger.debug(f'📄 {manifest_path = }')I got into flow and wrote code till 2am.
I miss writing code at 2am, nothing quite like it, just me and the machine, it doing my bidding.
I miss writing code at 2am, nothing quite like it, just me and the machine, it doing my bidding.
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DEEPTOOLS VIDEO 2
Another video of me building something with Cursor from scratch. This time I build a python script that that uses ChatGPT and Perplexity API’s to do live market research on a company.
One caveat in hindsight was I should have used a Perplexity model that ended with the word "online"(e.g. "
Regardless, this was meant to show the world how I code, and how I use Cursor and these LLM's to build things from scratch. Go from zero to one. Hope it's helpful in teaching others how to code better.
#deeptools Video 2
Link to video on X:
https://x.com/DeeperThrill/status/1833972714987815095
Link to previous video:
https://t.me/deepthrill/419
Another video of me building something with Cursor from scratch. This time I build a python script that that uses ChatGPT and Perplexity API’s to do live market research on a company.
One caveat in hindsight was I should have used a Perplexity model that ended with the word "online"(e.g. "
llama-3.1-sonar-small-128k-online") so it actually performed a live web search; I think the models that end with "chat" do not actually do the live Perplexity search.Regardless, this was meant to show the world how I code, and how I use Cursor and these LLM's to build things from scratch. Go from zero to one. Hope it's helpful in teaching others how to code better.
#deeptools Video 2
Link to video on X:
https://x.com/DeeperThrill/status/1833972714987815095
Link to previous video:
https://t.me/deepthrill/419
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DEEPTOOLS VIDEO 3
Alright to continue on the trend of me showing how I can use Cursor to code random ideas from scratch, here's a video of me doing a style transfer webapp.
Take any picture and make it look like a Da Vinci painting!
In less than a half hour, I go from complete scratch to a functioning webapp that lets you upload a picture and showcase that picture in the styles of various famous artists.
I explain my thinking process, you get to see me struggle when things don't work, and I teach you how to use the latest and greatest AI coding tools built into Cursor.
And most importantly: it actually works! Let me educate you on how to code. You can do it too. Master these new AI tools, anon.
#deeptools Video 3
Link to video on X: https://x.com/DeeperThrill/status/1834655990085799942
Link to previous video:
https://t.me/deepthrill/432
Alright to continue on the trend of me showing how I can use Cursor to code random ideas from scratch, here's a video of me doing a style transfer webapp.
Take any picture and make it look like a Da Vinci painting!
In less than a half hour, I go from complete scratch to a functioning webapp that lets you upload a picture and showcase that picture in the styles of various famous artists.
I explain my thinking process, you get to see me struggle when things don't work, and I teach you how to use the latest and greatest AI coding tools built into Cursor.
And most importantly: it actually works! Let me educate you on how to code. You can do it too. Master these new AI tools, anon.
#deeptools Video 3
Link to video on X: https://x.com/DeeperThrill/status/1834655990085799942
Link to previous video:
https://t.me/deepthrill/432
Deeply Thrilling Telegrams
DEEPTOOLS VIDEO 3 Alright to continue on the trend of me showing how I can use Cursor to code random ideas from scratch, here's a video of me doing a style transfer webapp. Take any picture and make it look like a Da Vinci painting! In less than a half…
Example of what this looks like at the end of the video https://t.me/deepthrill/433
Deeply Thrilling Telegrams
I tend to write code in layers. I get an end-to-end system working as a base layer and then I go back over the whole system and fill in the gaps with subsequent layers. I find that this is cumulatively faster than building each component piece by piece and…
LAYERING USAGE
Notice how in my DEEPTOOLS Video 3 (https://t.me/deepthrill/433) I used this layering approach from my post about layering here https://t.me/deepthrill/402 to:
first just stack the images;
then use XOR;
then a neural network;
then a webapp;
and then using famous artwork from the web.
I did it layer by layer and made sure each layer was solid before moving on to the next.
That video shows me enacting a real life example of what I wrote about here.
An alternative approach that is also aligned with the principle of layering would have been to build the entire webapp with a mere XOR blending, and move the “use a neural network” step to the end of the list.
Notice how in my DEEPTOOLS Video 3 (https://t.me/deepthrill/433) I used this layering approach from my post about layering here https://t.me/deepthrill/402 to:
first just stack the images;
then use XOR;
then a neural network;
then a webapp;
and then using famous artwork from the web.
I did it layer by layer and made sure each layer was solid before moving on to the next.
That video shows me enacting a real life example of what I wrote about here.
An alternative approach that is also aligned with the principle of layering would have been to build the entire webapp with a mere XOR blending, and move the “use a neural network” step to the end of the list.
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DEEPTOOLS VIDEO 3
Alright to continue on the trend of me showing how I can use Cursor to code random ideas from scratch, here's a video of me doing a style transfer webapp.
Take any picture and make it look like a Da Vinci painting!
In less than a half…
Alright to continue on the trend of me showing how I can use Cursor to code random ideas from scratch, here's a video of me doing a style transfer webapp.
Take any picture and make it look like a Da Vinci painting!
In less than a half…
If you lose your job to AI that’s your fault for letting your skills atrophy.
If your labor can be replaced by a machine, how useful were you really?
If your contributions to society can be better served by a robot, what value did you really provide?
I want machines picking fruit, no need for illegal immigration slave labor.
I want machines automating the ports and truck driving, no need for unions to hinder efficiency.
I want machines rendering video game worlds.
I want machines manufacturing widgets.
Forcing humans in jobs for the sake of labor and fears of unemployment slows down progress as a society.
Every single one of these examples have roles for people being creative, for handling operations, for organizing high level logistics.
And claims that AI will eventually replace even those jobs are silly because there will always be a need for human labor, if only to provide more training data for AI.
You fall behind you get left behind. Keep your skills sharp.
If your labor can be replaced by a machine, how useful were you really?
If your contributions to society can be better served by a robot, what value did you really provide?
I want machines picking fruit, no need for illegal immigration slave labor.
I want machines automating the ports and truck driving, no need for unions to hinder efficiency.
I want machines rendering video game worlds.
I want machines manufacturing widgets.
Forcing humans in jobs for the sake of labor and fears of unemployment slows down progress as a society.
Every single one of these examples have roles for people being creative, for handling operations, for organizing high level logistics.
And claims that AI will eventually replace even those jobs are silly because there will always be a need for human labor, if only to provide more training data for AI.
You fall behind you get left behind. Keep your skills sharp.