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Joined November 2020
I wrote more about this here: lwprogramming.github.io/post… > Civilization is us delivering on a promise to the thousands of generations of our ancestors who once dreamt of paradise. Can you feel them smiling down upon us? Thanks @etiennefd for the inspiration, as always 🍰
It always brings me joy to think about how everything that ever was had to be invented by some person, even something as seemingly simple as cake
also they are giving this away for free to doctors and other healthcare professionals
Replying to @0xb____ @Ruesavatar
i think a lot of people in medicine are surprised to hear that there is an AI model that scored a perfect 100% on the US medical licensing exam*! *text-only questions, so no questions that include pictures
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dropping a picture of the defining decade by meg jay phd like a tpot flashbang before slipping back into the shadows
> i squandered most of my early 20s nearly everyone does
1. if he wanted to, he would 2. this doesnt excuse the other stuff he said about women, but 3. if you want alpha that means scrounging in every little corner and going where the alpha is, because the alpha isnt gonna come to you
Replying to @miraculous_cake
"...Misha and I have looked at thousands of games, but it never occurred to us to study our women players' games. How could we find the time for this?! Yet Bobby, it turns out, had found the time!"
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wait google has a stake in spacex too?!
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this 100% includes history of computing for those of us who are very online
you need to be learning the history of the places you live
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"turing complete import system" "TURING COMPLETE TYPE HINTS"
you know for someone that uses python basically every day i have no fucking clue how that shit works
"karpathy on dwarkesh changed my mind about RL being the future" "that's not what he said, did you even watch the podcast?" "no, did you?" "no"
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what
If you're making more typos in iOS lately, you're not going crazy - it's a bug in iOS that causes the keyboard to randomly insert the wrong letter instead of what you typed.
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I'm sure someone has commented on this already more clearly but it's really bizarre to go from tech twitter to a clip of shark tank where someone sells half their company for $20
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Apparently the Navier Stokes proof from Deepmind is this week World will never be the same
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for those of you who don't know this is what tpot 2021 was like
one donut too little, two donut too much #life
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x.com/miraculous_cake/status… i have a second hot take
ok i have a second hot take ig: there are two kinds of disagreements, one kind is deep-rooted impossible to resolve conflicts bc the crux is some deep principle you feel emotionally and logically, and the other kind is skill issue. and my hot take is *most* things are skill issue
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this isnt motivated by anything specific, the thought just occurred to me
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trying out a hot take: "you'll understand when you're older" is complete nonsense. if something is true, it should be possible *right now* to convince you it's true, and saying otherwise is what someone desperate says because they have nothing left in their bag of tricks
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import anthropic client = anthropic.Anthropic(api_key=...) def query(q): m = client.messages.create( model="claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929", messages=[{ "role": "user", "content": f"select {q}" }] ) return m.content[0].text
When I say vibe code your DB... I mean building actual DB g Go try vibe coding something like Convex or Supabase... you won't make it gang
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sometimes i look at those surplus auctions where some university is selling off 2013 macbooks for $15 each and wonder...
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i don't know that i'd advise students today to do this if they can avoid it, but i think going through college with a laptop salvaged from the junk closet definitely built some character
I just yesterday heard that @ETH is literally throwing away working 1080s from time to time
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it's kinda funny how many grand theories of music fall apart when you have to acknowledge that there are other genres
Replying to @missozma
is an opera singer not an artist? are broadway singers not artists? is the sideman session guitarist who doesn't write music not an artist? how about the sax player in a band who never writes that band's music? where do we draw that line? etc etc
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people will call nyc a walkable city and then not walk fast !!
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just saw a moon cake priced at Seventeen American Dollars
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