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More from Nabeel S. Qureshi

Principles

// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open sourced it. It got a great response, including a shoutout from Tim Ferriss, so here it is on Substack.

6 months ago 57 votes
Reflections on Palantir

A retrospective of an eight-year stint.

9 months ago 43 votes
The Serendipity Machine

Notes on Using Twitter

a year ago 30 votes
Notes on Puzzles

1. I mostly don’t play chess anymore — it’s too addictive, and tends to take over your brain in a way I don’t like — but one habit I’ve retained is solving puzzles.

over a year ago 25 votes
May Updates + New Essay On Moral AI

A few months back, I read a tweet from Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) which stuck in my mind: “the long term goal is to build AGI that loves people the way parents love their children”.

over a year ago 27 votes

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I’m very much into genealogy. I came to realize that my interest was more specifically as a kind of photograph genealogist.

3 days ago 7 votes
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Light in weight. Light in price. Heavy in features.

3 days ago 10 votes
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We’re seeing a substantial turn towards online social interaction replacing in-person social interaction — especially among the younger generations. That was exacerbated and accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. But mountains of research show that physical touch is critical to a person’s mental wellbeing and online interactions haven’t been able to provide that. One solution may […] The post Could these VR haptic gloves replace human touch? appeared first on Arduino Blog.

4 days ago 5 votes
So I saw this headline

reading it was, "Is he Deommodore 64?" (No, unfortunately, Deommodore Lenoir's jersey number is 2, and I'm not even a 49ers fan.)

4 days ago 10 votes