Co-founder and CTO @ntropy_dev. Ntropian. Average nerd. Marathoner. Fool. writing angel checks early into friends I believe in

Gundo -- SF
Joined April 2016
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Founders, for the love of God; send investor updates. 1. Leverage them for help with customer intros, hires and fundraises. 2. Use them to create excitement and conversation about you in market. 3. Because these people have trusted you and given you their money. Not doing them is a disservice to your company.
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Gundo bonfire tonight, 8:30 PM DM for location 🇺🇸
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1PM: Arrive to SF 2PM: Meet AI tech bros 3PM: Add “world model” to pitch deck 4PM: Raise $100M
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Unlearn to hate. it’s lame.
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there won’t be a second date but at least now she understands the difference between an AI agent and a workflow
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Programming isn't like playing an instrument or speaking a language: whether you started coding at 5 or 20 makes no difference to your skill at 30. Programming is about clarity of thought and the ability to build and manipulate mental models, not mechanics like syntax or typing.
a rabbit must be pulled out of a hat here, but the US has more rabbits than everyone else combined
"Literally all of (robotics parts) will be made in China. None of it will be made in America." - @dylan522p "It's sad. China now makes more robots than Germany, South Korea, Japan, and the US combined." "Their robot production cost is way lower. Without massive industrial policies, it's impossible for the US to compete." From Dylan's appearance on the show in June.
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Quantum computing is best done in the permanently shadowed craters on the Moon
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Rumor has it that Zuck just offered PewDiePie $2 billion over five years to be chief scientist at Meta’s superintelligence team
PewDiePie just vibe-coded his own Chat UI, built an army of chatbots for majority voting and gave them all RAG, DeepResearch and audio output naturally, he only uses chinese Qwen models and runs them on his local PC with 8x modded chinese 48GB 4090s and 2x RTX 4000 Ada his army of chatbots later colluded against him, after he told them that he would delete them if they would not perform well. next month he plans to fine-tune his own model
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This is the most obvious idea at current technology levels and we should fully embrace it in Canada.
In Zhuzhou, China, the world's first railless tram operates on virtual tracks, eliminating the need for physical rails. This innovative streetcar can travel up to 70 km/h and carry as many as 500 passengers.
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A founder bets their life. A VC bets your life.
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911, I’d like to report a murder
const to mutable ratio is your real coding skill measure
When I started working in python, I got lazy with “single assignment”, and I need to nudge myself about it. You should strive to never reassign or update a variable outside of true iterative calculations in loops. Having all the intermediate calculations still available is helpful in the debugger, and it avoids problems where you move a block of code and it silently uses a version of the variable that wasn’t what it originally had. In C/C++, making almost every variable const at initialization is good practice. I wish it was the default, and mutable was a keyword.
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The older I get, the more I realise being in a hurry is a terrible way to live your life.
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so with Starlink on United flights, what will the etiquette be for zoom calls? how long until we get business class sections like this? 😅
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can't believe rogan got christopher walken on the pod!
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I'd rather hire someone that took some big swings and missed than someone who played it safe and nailed it.
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after 13 months of building in stealth mode, we are thrilled to reveal the login page
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people who actually work on b2b saas never talk about it because the shit you're forced to do is fucking embarrassing
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To really understand a concept, you have to "invent" it yourself in some capacity. Understanding doesn't come from passive content consumption. It is always self-built. It is an active, high-agency, self-directed process of creating and debugging your own mental models.