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@unixpickle

Code, AI, and 3D printing. Opinions are mostly my own, sometimes a computer's. Husband of @thesamnichol. Co-creator of DALL-E 2. Researcher @openai.

"Have your cake and eat it too" is a dumb expression. Nobody wants to "have" cake; the only reason to have it is if you plan to eat it. So really the expression should be "eat your cake twice" or "have two cakes for the price of one".


Spotted at Home Goods: an AI-generated image for sale to hang on your wall.

unixpickle's tweet image. Spotted at Home Goods: an AI-generated image for sale to hang on your wall.
unixpickle's tweet image. Spotted at Home Goods: an AI-generated image for sale to hang on your wall.
unixpickle's tweet image. Spotted at Home Goods: an AI-generated image for sale to hang on your wall.
unixpickle's tweet image. Spotted at Home Goods: an AI-generated image for sale to hang on your wall.

If Netflix acquired Warner Bros. and killed the theatrical window, who would actually object? I don't know anybody who *likes* having to wait for a movie to be streamable.


I will never stop calling bouillon cubes "Boolean cubes"


If you say "with a twist", you are ChatGPT.


Which is easier to use?

unixpickle's tweet image. Which is easier to use?
unixpickle's tweet image. Which is easier to use?

Real estate or code?

unixpickle's tweet image. Real estate or code?

What the heck is a "machine learning feature" in cloudflare, and why are they limited to 200 in the first place?


Finally Philly has made it into the Michelin guide.


Just saved so much time by pasting a bunch of code into ChatGPT Pro, asking it to find any potential bugs, and letting it run during my meeting. I came out of the meeting and learned about two subtle shape errors that would have made results silently broken.


If we were to reinvent software, there are a lot of things we could do differently. A standard mime type header in all files would be amazing. Also 64-bit network addresses.

It might be surprising to some, but a file is defined by more than just the simple file extension. Good software should know for example when a file is a .jpeg even if it has a random file extension.

zuhaitz_dev's tweet image. It might be surprising to some, but a file is defined by more than just the simple file extension.

Good software should know for example when a file is a .jpeg even if it has a random file extension.


I googled "hello world in brainfuck" and blindly copied the AI response. Turns out it prints ":QXX[I[^XP".


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