Swayson

"It is never a question of resources, it is always a question of resourcefullness"

@mybroadband Please list the names

15 councillors and public office bearers in the City of Johannesburg owe the city more than half a million rand in electricity bill arrears. mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/65…

@nivi wealth flex

NAD is the best molecule I’ve found for all-day energy, with seemingly no downside. I don’t drink coffee at all.

@BraaiEngineer always look for Drs who focus on functional medicine.

doctors are soo retarded, but kudos to this guy for admitting it: 1.) doctors don’t understand signal processing (Kalman filters), 2.) they don’t understand noise, and 3.) they don’t read any new research after graduating (most, anyway) doctors’ hesitancy around ad-hoc testing is based on expensive, infrequent tests with no baseline, “oh geez we’ve never measured before and we can’t easily test it again but we can only test it if we already suspect it because test is too noisy” but to anyone with a stats or radar background, it is obvious that cheap, fast *full-body* scans solves the false positive issue because N prior baselines characterizes noise to prevent undue distress and you have cross-body correlation more holistic measurements = good, because you can see drift and characterise noise when anomaly occurs, easy to say: “hey, we picked up an anomaly in scan no. 54 at sensor 218 – probably noise in scanner – can u go for a scan at to confirm?” and then because you have N priors, can cancel out the noise.

We need this for South Africa

@KerryHaggard @MTNza Go through the bank, not just MTN. Use MTN's deceased-estates / bereavement channel, in writing. Push for the faster Master's route if the estate is small. Escalate if MTN still refuses. (National Consumer Commission, the Consumer Goods and Services Ombud, and ICASA)

My mom passed away late April. A death certificate and death notice are not sufficient for @MTNza to cancel her month to month contract - they need a doc from the Master's Office - which can take up to three months (or more!). In the meantime, they still bill a dead person.

Claude Fable 5 debuts at #1 on DeepSWE. It outscores the previous best by 3% and sets a new state-of-the-art on our long-horizon coding benchmark.

South African members of Parliament need to have term limits. This bullshit of greedy fuckwits doing a grand tour of every department only to leave disorganisation and destruction in their wake needs to end.

@vigilantersa most gov systems have several exploits. its pretty open which makes it even more ridiculous

Hilarious how Starlink in South Africa is a "national security issue" but China has been allowed to infiltrate everything.

If i was @wootware i'd negotiate with @valvesoftware to get Steam Controllers in South Africa.

@DavidKPiano fair. okay, rather state machines and loops, are both iterative

@Swayson State machines can be acyclic

Everyone hyping loops right now is going to absolutely lose their minds once they learn about state machines

@KevinNaughtonJr you just talked, and didnt do lol

never take advice from people who talk always take advice from people who do

@DavidSacks You are blatantly dishonest sacks.

Some recent articles have created a misleading narrative that I did not take Mythos seriously or tried to downplay the cyber threat. This is based on egregious cherry-picking of my comments and (since the real target is the Trump Administration) needs to be corrected. When Mythos Preview first launched, I pointed out that Anthropic has a history of scare tactics, but then immediately went on to say that “we have no choice but to take this seriously” and that every CISO and IT department should move quickly to harden systems against AI-powered cyberattacks. Here’s what I said on the April 10 All-In Podcast (3 days after launch of Mythos Preview): “Anytime Anthropic is scaring people, you have to ask, is this a tactic, is this part of their chicken little routine, or is it real? With cyber, I actually would give them credit in this case and say, this is more on the real side. “It just makes sense that as the coding models become more and more capable, they’re more capable of finding bugs. That means they’re more capable of finding vulnerabilities. That means they’re more capable of stringing together multiple vulnerabilities and creating an exploit. “I do think that every company, or IT department, or CISO that is managing code bases should take this seriously and use the next few months to detect any dormant bugs or vulnerabilities and roll out patches.” I posted similar framing on X: On April 10: “The world has no choice but to take the cyber threat associated with Mythos seriously. But it’s hard to ignore that Anthropic has a history of scare tactics.” (With examples attached). On April 12: I noted that a growing number of people were wondering if Anthropic was the AI industry’s “boy who cried wolf,” and that the company would face a serious credibility problem if the threats didn’t materialize. These are the lines the articles highlight. They emphasize the “scare tactics” / “boy who cried wolf” critique while omitting the parts where I said the cyber threat itself was real and required immediate action. It is entirely possible to question a messenger’s track record while still treating the underlying risk as serious — and that’s exactly what I did. By the way, this view isn’t unique to me or even particularly controversial; highly respected tech commentator Ben Thompson recently made a similar critique about Anthropic. On April 30 I posted a more technical thread after tests by the AI Security Institute showed that GPT-5.5-Cyber performed similarly to Mythos: “Mythos is not magic. It’s not a doomsday device. It’s the first of many models that can automate cyber tasks (just like coding). … these models do not create vulnerabilities; they discover them. The bugs are already in the code. Using AI to discover and patch them will actually harden these systems. “The leap from pre-AI cyber to post-AI cyber means that there will be a big upgrade cycle. … it’s important that cyber defenders get access before cyber attackers. That process is already underway but needs to happen quickly.” My position remains consistent: We are on a shot clock until Mythos-level capabilities diffuse widely, including to non-U.S. / Chinese models. We need defenders to find and patch vulnerabilities before that happens. This requires cooperation between government and industry. Unfortunately Anthropic’s needlessly confrontational posture toward the Administration has distracted from that mission. Policy debates have their time and place, but right now tangible defensive action is what matters most. I hope everyone moves forward on that basis.

@deanwball @OpenAI So your job now is how to maximally control society?

I am pleased and honored to announce that, on July 6, I'll be joining @OpenAI as leader of a new team called Strategic Futures. Our mandate will be to help the company's leadership shape frontier AI policy. There is a ton of work to do, and I'm excited to get started.

@tferriss Dialog meetings plenty of self help, am I right? ;) Surprised to see you on the list

Self-help is dangerous precisely because it easily becomes self-fixation. A focus on improving the self usually first requires finding problems with the self. This is quite the pickle. In a society that rewards problem-solving, you can end up hallucinating or exaggerating unease in order to fix it. This leaves you always in the red, always one step behind. Imagine a dog chasing its tail that has committed to being unhappy until it catches the tail… but it’s always just a few inches short. Still, it whirls around and around, “doing the work.” Perfection always recedes by one more book, one more seminar, one more habit tracker.

@MbalulaFikile > That is why government has adopted a program of action to deal with this particular challenge in other words, how do i loot from both SAns and foreigners, while this happens and I hide evidence @PMashatile

WATCH] On behalf of the African National Congress, I want to state that we a country of over 60 million. There are many people who come to our country and many come to our country to contribute to the wealth of our country and its progress. Many contribute positively in our country. There are people in our country who have taken it upon themselves to do things which the vast majority do not condone and this must not paint South Africans as xenophobic. Indeed we do have a challenge of illegal immigration in South Africa and it’s not a problem unique to South Africa. There are many country’s affected by this. South Africa is a signatory of the Geneva Convention and we must deal with this challenge within the perimeters of the law. We can’t deal with it with hatred. That is why government has adopted a program of action to deal with this particular challenge which the President has made a public announcement. We have called for law enforcement and calmness and follow the government’s Action Plan on dealing with illegal immigration. We have made it very clear as the ANC, we cannot and should not be associated with anything that amounts to hate crimes. In this particular instance the majority of South Africans are people of Ubuntu and humanity. Because we too would not be free without the solidarity and assistance of country’s such as Mozambique in the fight against apartheid. Many people sacrificed such as Samora Machel the President of Mozambique and many combatants died here fighting against apartheid. #ANCinMozambique #ANCatWORK

@Prins_PewPew medical is a socialist system

It's absolutely absurd how you can walk into a liquor store and buy as much alcohol as you please. But if you want anything over a S3 pharmaceutical drug you need to spend hundreds of Rand to see a doctor who will give you a prescription. INSANE.

@fhuszar you reinvented morese code

I have developed a new Turing-complete programming language specifically for Agents. It's based on Brainfuck but exclusively uses Em Dashes, En Dashes, and Hyphens. Here's a simple hello world: ———---–––————---——------

@omarsar0 @frydwia Curious when A2A will lift-off. It likely will have more integrative effect than MCP, although we found it still a bit too slow for our use cases.

@frydwia Agents should live where the work happens, not in a separate tab. It's great to see Viktor pushing agents in that direction (closer to where work happens) as that helps make decisions faster and more efficiently.

Excited to announce Viktor in Microsoft Teams. This week we crossed $20M in annualized revenue run rate. In Slack. One app, no sales team, no rollout. Now Viktor goes where the rest of the working world actually is. 320 million people work in Microsoft Teams. The biggest org chart on earth – departments, approval chains, the manager and the manager's manager. Here's what we actually built for them: the first AI where the barrier to entry is zero. You don't learn it. You don't prompt it. You don't even have to understand what AI can do. You @mention Viktor like a coworker, and the finished work comes back. In fact, you don't even need to mention Viktor. Viktor makes everyone AI-native. No course, no manual, no learning curve – the value comes to you, you don't reach for it. That's the mission: bring our rebellious optimist to the people who need him most. The operators and managers buried inside big companies. The frontline. The ones who were never shown what this could actually do for them – until today. Workspaces are where agents belong. Not apps. Viktor is live in Microsoft Teams. $100 in credits to start, no card. The AI for the rest of us – now where the rest of us report to someone.

@naval Where does design fit in?

It's the Age of Builders. (sorry financiers and talkers)