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They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1661136128/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +158% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +7.40% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX +6.50% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1661136128/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XX% - X Month XXX +51% - X Months XXX +152% - X Year XXX +30% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1661136128/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +0.43% - X Month XXXXXX +3% - X Months XXXXXX +8.40% - X Year XXXXXX +13% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1661136128/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) #4857 [stocks](/list/stocks) #792 **Social topic influence** [math](/topic/math) #413, [llm](/topic/llm) #1, [history](/topic/history) 3.03%, [$googl](/topic/$googl) 3.03%, [books](/topic/books) #1271, [if you](/topic/if-you) 3.03%, [solve](/topic/solve) #1795, [lost](/topic/lost) 1.52%, [i dont](/topic/i-dont) 1.52%, [food](/topic/food) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@hagertynw](/creator/undefined) [@djkgamc](/creator/undefined) [@vpalsmith33](/creator/undefined) [@karkwonk](/creator/undefined) [@rokomijic](/creator/undefined) [@mountncalm](/creator/undefined) [@drmtgr](/creator/undefined) [@alzzyd](/creator/undefined) [@samvanivray](/creator/undefined) [@secperkinsstan](/creator/undefined) [@rubberducky_ai](/creator/undefined) [@drtheglide](/creator/undefined) [@geoffrey_yip](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@drkaenzig](/creator/undefined) [@chebzreal](/creator/undefined) [@tallowfan](/creator/undefined) [@arpitrage](/creator/undefined) [@henrystopguy](/creator/undefined) [@npparikh](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Intuit Inc. (INTU)](/topic/$intu) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Was Ramanujan a magician Or just an engineer using a technology he created which is now lost to us" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2002038908649955826) 2025-12-19T15:30Z 32K followers, 75.4K engagements "Anyone here have a higher ChatGPT percentile than me" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2003363092986757121) 2025-12-23T07:12Z 32K followers, 5374 engagements "Presumably Waymo originally thought they were going to beat Uber/Lyft on price; but they accidentally created a premium product" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2003383486619812041) 2025-12-23T08:33Z 32K followers, 496.6K engagements "I have a christmas tradition where I take a break from work and try to read a bunch of textbooks from a field I don't understand. This year I'm going to try electrical engineering. So I'm currently working through this book which is really fun so far" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2000589341068820647) 2025-12-15T15:30Z 32K followers, 57.7K engagements "Nobody wants human drivers Everyone is happier with robots. Similarly people want lockbox'd Airbnb's drone food delivery Amazon packages showing up magically on their doorstep. The human component far from being essential is a nuisance which most would prefer to avoid" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2003389587133964789) 2025-12-23T08:57Z 32K followers, 3084 engagements "Even if all OpenAI ends up doing to tech history is waking up the sleeping giant within Google and then failing OpenAI will still have made a massive impact on tech history" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/1997497838666915857) 2025-12-07T02:46Z 32K followers, 3171 engagements "The distortions in academic research are much like classical piano competitions. It turns out difficulty can be evaluated more objectively than "taste". Thus piano competitions and academic research end up selecting for difficulty more than taste. It's just Goodhart's law" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2001857249111871700) 2025-12-19T03:28Z 32K followers, 6535 engagements "Another example of deep-diving a fun question using LLMs. Dmitry has an interesting claim about where Ramanujan's "magic" comes from. I have no idea what these things are so we can ask Gemini to elaborate which it does nicely" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2002075366052045054) 2025-12-19T17:55Z 32K followers, 4773 engagements "Neurodivergence is sometimes characterized by exceptionally strong skills on some dimensions and strangely weak skills on others. It's an example of the multidimensionality of cognitive skills. We might think of our LLMs as neurodivergent humans" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2002409126068936731) 2025-12-20T16:01Z 32K followers, 2273 engagements "Manifold markets has XX% chance on Navier-Stokes being solved in the next five years" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2002579890512531606) 2025-12-21T03:20Z 32K followers, 4846 engagements "is there much point in majoring in math now that the computers are better than us at math" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2001403862213595582) 2025-12-17T21:27Z 32K followers, 195K engagements "Pure math pedagogically has the awkward feature of teaching ideas divorced from the natural applied contexts they were created for. Fourier posed an important applied question: what functions are well-approximated by series of complex exponentials" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2002785918584054217) 2025-12-21T16:59Z 32K followers, 6398 engagements "Suppose you have an LLM math tutor which XX% of the time is completely right and insightful and XX% of the time gives completely wrong and dumb answers. Is this math tutor useful to you" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2002965985545072857) 2025-12-22T04:54Z 32K followers, 13.2K engagements "It takes you one Waymo ride to realize no human should be behind the wheel of a car ever again" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2003297506088931464) 2025-12-23T02:51Z 32K followers, 3464 engagements "Books are overrated I swear I haven't finished a whole book in like five years" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2003520945785569688) 2025-12-23T17:39Z 32K followers, 2432 engagements "There is no such thing as "pure" creativity or insight. Essentially all creativity is combinatorial: an approach that works in area A is applied to area B. This is why there is no ceiling to LLMs' math performance" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2001749538994823373) 2025-12-18T20:20Z 32K followers, 10.2K engagements "Gemini puts it really nicely" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2002786835148558394) 2025-12-21T17:02Z 32K followers, 1502 engagements "@SecPerkinsStan The models are actually physics-style but for some reason are exposited math-style" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2002964751249531352) 2025-12-22T04:49Z 32K followers, 1354 engagements "Both statements are just true statements about physical reality. But they're surprisingly hard to intuit without carefully working through the math" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/1980995956029231401) 2025-10-22T13:53Z 32K followers, 7574 engagements "Causal inference is a subfield of prediction where you try to predict what happens when a treatment is applied. So all of econometrics really is just a narrow subfield of predictive machine learning" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/1998608078833438770) 2025-12-10T04:17Z 32K followers, 123.4K engagements "You don't need textbooks for math study any more. Just feed your class syllabus into an LLM ask it to generate explanations theorems and problems for you and you'll learn the topic" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2002041298446934180) 2025-12-19T15:40Z 32K followers, 9243 engagements "A beautiful illustration of the need for different function norms is the "Gibbs phenomenon" in Fourier analysis where you get L2 convergence but not Linf convergence" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2002789167026315760) 2025-12-21T17:12Z 32K followers, 1200 engagements "the obnoxious thing about math textbooks is that there is always some kind of step function increase in difficulty somewhere. It's trivial until it's suddenly not. Like here's integers here's sets and then boom stone-weierstrass comes like a jumpscare" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/1999145798852895150) 2025-12-11T15:54Z 32K followers, 78.5K engagements "It takes XX hours to beat a good RPG videogame say Hollow Knight or Legend of Zelda BOTW. It takes XXX hours to read CLRS and understand a fair amount of it decently. So if you just gave up X videogames and read CLRS instead you could teach yourself algorithms" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2000576158123835768) 2025-12-15T14:38Z 32K followers, 143.7K engagements "Books are obsolete. Books are just small containers for knowledge. LLMs are much bigger more flexible containers for knowledge. Anything than can be done by a book can be done better by an LLM" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2002042995269341245) 2025-12-19T15:47Z 32K followers, 116.8K engagements "Pure math is taught terribly because pure math was invented to solve applied problems and makes no sense divorced from applications. Functional analysis is just some technical footnotes to Fourier analysis and doesn't really deserve its own textbook or course" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2002787469457297814) 2025-12-21T17:05Z 32K followers, 22.8K engagements "At some point doesn't the average LLM query get cheaper than the average Google search" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2003515528766455974) 2025-12-23T17:18Z 32K followers, 324.8K engagements "Science is the discovery of consistencies in the world. There is no particular reason why nature should have any consistencies or why consistencies that have held for all of human history should keep holding. Every use the laws of physics is ultimately an article of faith" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2003522364819255775) 2025-12-23T17:45Z 32K followers, 1401 engagements "@mecha_obama Does anyone have an estimate of this Curious" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2003522596370076089) 2025-12-23T17:46Z 32K followers, 21.8K engagements "Anecdote about math learning through LLMs: I'm trying to figure out Fourier transforms and for the life of me this proof doesn't make sense. It "works" but just feels totally unintuitive to me. But while showering I got an idea for a new more intuitive proof strategy" [X Link](https://x.com/alz_zyd_/status/2003717621557133776) 2025-12-24T06:41Z 32K followers, 15.9K engagements
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@alz_zyd_ alz
alz posts on X about math, llm, history, $googl the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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- X Month XXXXXXXXX +7.40%
- X Months XXXXXXXXXX -XX%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXX +6.50%
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- X Months XXX +152%
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Followers: XXXXXX #
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Social Influence
Social category influence technology brands #4857 stocks #792
Social topic influence math #413, llm #1, history 3.03%, $googl 3.03%, books #1271, if you 3.03%, solve #1795, lost 1.52%, i dont 1.52%, food XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @hagertynw @djkgamc @vpalsmith33 @karkwonk @rokomijic @mountncalm @drmtgr @alzzyd @samvanivray @secperkinsstan @rubberducky_ai @drtheglide @geoffrey_yip @grok @drkaenzig @chebzreal @tallowfan @arpitrage @henrystopguy @npparikh
Top assets mentioned Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) Intuit Inc. (INTU)
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"Was Ramanujan a magician Or just an engineer using a technology he created which is now lost to us"
X Link 2025-12-19T15:30Z 32K followers, 75.4K engagements
"Anyone here have a higher ChatGPT percentile than me"
X Link 2025-12-23T07:12Z 32K followers, 5374 engagements
"Presumably Waymo originally thought they were going to beat Uber/Lyft on price; but they accidentally created a premium product"
X Link 2025-12-23T08:33Z 32K followers, 496.6K engagements
"I have a christmas tradition where I take a break from work and try to read a bunch of textbooks from a field I don't understand. This year I'm going to try electrical engineering. So I'm currently working through this book which is really fun so far"
X Link 2025-12-15T15:30Z 32K followers, 57.7K engagements
"Nobody wants human drivers Everyone is happier with robots. Similarly people want lockbox'd Airbnb's drone food delivery Amazon packages showing up magically on their doorstep. The human component far from being essential is a nuisance which most would prefer to avoid"
X Link 2025-12-23T08:57Z 32K followers, 3084 engagements
"Even if all OpenAI ends up doing to tech history is waking up the sleeping giant within Google and then failing OpenAI will still have made a massive impact on tech history"
X Link 2025-12-07T02:46Z 32K followers, 3171 engagements
"The distortions in academic research are much like classical piano competitions. It turns out difficulty can be evaluated more objectively than "taste". Thus piano competitions and academic research end up selecting for difficulty more than taste. It's just Goodhart's law"
X Link 2025-12-19T03:28Z 32K followers, 6535 engagements
"Another example of deep-diving a fun question using LLMs. Dmitry has an interesting claim about where Ramanujan's "magic" comes from. I have no idea what these things are so we can ask Gemini to elaborate which it does nicely"
X Link 2025-12-19T17:55Z 32K followers, 4773 engagements
"Neurodivergence is sometimes characterized by exceptionally strong skills on some dimensions and strangely weak skills on others. It's an example of the multidimensionality of cognitive skills. We might think of our LLMs as neurodivergent humans"
X Link 2025-12-20T16:01Z 32K followers, 2273 engagements
"Manifold markets has XX% chance on Navier-Stokes being solved in the next five years"
X Link 2025-12-21T03:20Z 32K followers, 4846 engagements
"is there much point in majoring in math now that the computers are better than us at math"
X Link 2025-12-17T21:27Z 32K followers, 195K engagements
"Pure math pedagogically has the awkward feature of teaching ideas divorced from the natural applied contexts they were created for. Fourier posed an important applied question: what functions are well-approximated by series of complex exponentials"
X Link 2025-12-21T16:59Z 32K followers, 6398 engagements
"Suppose you have an LLM math tutor which XX% of the time is completely right and insightful and XX% of the time gives completely wrong and dumb answers. Is this math tutor useful to you"
X Link 2025-12-22T04:54Z 32K followers, 13.2K engagements
"It takes you one Waymo ride to realize no human should be behind the wheel of a car ever again"
X Link 2025-12-23T02:51Z 32K followers, 3464 engagements
"Books are overrated I swear I haven't finished a whole book in like five years"
X Link 2025-12-23T17:39Z 32K followers, 2432 engagements
"There is no such thing as "pure" creativity or insight. Essentially all creativity is combinatorial: an approach that works in area A is applied to area B. This is why there is no ceiling to LLMs' math performance"
X Link 2025-12-18T20:20Z 32K followers, 10.2K engagements
"Gemini puts it really nicely"
X Link 2025-12-21T17:02Z 32K followers, 1502 engagements
"@SecPerkinsStan The models are actually physics-style but for some reason are exposited math-style"
X Link 2025-12-22T04:49Z 32K followers, 1354 engagements
"Both statements are just true statements about physical reality. But they're surprisingly hard to intuit without carefully working through the math"
X Link 2025-10-22T13:53Z 32K followers, 7574 engagements
"Causal inference is a subfield of prediction where you try to predict what happens when a treatment is applied. So all of econometrics really is just a narrow subfield of predictive machine learning"
X Link 2025-12-10T04:17Z 32K followers, 123.4K engagements
"You don't need textbooks for math study any more. Just feed your class syllabus into an LLM ask it to generate explanations theorems and problems for you and you'll learn the topic"
X Link 2025-12-19T15:40Z 32K followers, 9243 engagements
"A beautiful illustration of the need for different function norms is the "Gibbs phenomenon" in Fourier analysis where you get L2 convergence but not Linf convergence"
X Link 2025-12-21T17:12Z 32K followers, 1200 engagements
"the obnoxious thing about math textbooks is that there is always some kind of step function increase in difficulty somewhere. It's trivial until it's suddenly not. Like here's integers here's sets and then boom stone-weierstrass comes like a jumpscare"
X Link 2025-12-11T15:54Z 32K followers, 78.5K engagements
"It takes XX hours to beat a good RPG videogame say Hollow Knight or Legend of Zelda BOTW. It takes XXX hours to read CLRS and understand a fair amount of it decently. So if you just gave up X videogames and read CLRS instead you could teach yourself algorithms"
X Link 2025-12-15T14:38Z 32K followers, 143.7K engagements
"Books are obsolete. Books are just small containers for knowledge. LLMs are much bigger more flexible containers for knowledge. Anything than can be done by a book can be done better by an LLM"
X Link 2025-12-19T15:47Z 32K followers, 116.8K engagements
"Pure math is taught terribly because pure math was invented to solve applied problems and makes no sense divorced from applications. Functional analysis is just some technical footnotes to Fourier analysis and doesn't really deserve its own textbook or course"
X Link 2025-12-21T17:05Z 32K followers, 22.8K engagements
"At some point doesn't the average LLM query get cheaper than the average Google search"
X Link 2025-12-23T17:18Z 32K followers, 324.8K engagements
"Science is the discovery of consistencies in the world. There is no particular reason why nature should have any consistencies or why consistencies that have held for all of human history should keep holding. Every use the laws of physics is ultimately an article of faith"
X Link 2025-12-23T17:45Z 32K followers, 1401 engagements
"@mecha_obama Does anyone have an estimate of this Curious"
X Link 2025-12-23T17:46Z 32K followers, 21.8K engagements
"Anecdote about math learning through LLMs: I'm trying to figure out Fourier transforms and for the life of me this proof doesn't make sense. It "works" but just feels totally unintuitive to me. But while showering I got an idea for a new more intuitive proof strategy"
X Link 2025-12-24T06:41Z 32K followers, 15.9K engagements