July Hata

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enterprise is apollonian consumer is dionysian

This is why I find it hilariously unrandom when people say this is random but

one of the ideas I find fascinating is this idea of - doing things at random randomness is random? is it though? through this life, you spend a lot of time doing random things. but finding something at random has an oddly structured unrandom clause. in some way one of the pre-requisites of being random lol is to have high curiosity, and through curiosity it provides you with the sustenance to traverse much distance and cross many fields and brooks, the changing of seasons, the changing of self - until you find some random things. birds that fly over long distances, trees that see countless summers, birds and bees and finally and all of a sudden - you're like oh man this is random but

On Boundary conditions: I think of plans in terms of creating boundary conditions. I used to think that coming up with a plan was about sequentially mapping out every sort of linear step and sequentially what needed to happen in order to reach the next step. This is obviously not working, and my feeling to do this or desire to do this has diffused over time. It’s almost like I have a plan, and I come up with a plan. Here’s the general direction that I want to go in, and I don’t know why it works. Every now and then I come into situations where I come up with a plan, and then I start the journey. On my way on the journey, somewhere along the path, I get lost in side quests or get confused. I think to myself, “All right, you know what, screw the plan for a moment. Let’s just do the thing that I just want to do.” I start doing things. Ironically, I find myself doing the exact next thing that I needed to do in the plan. Almost like declaring that I’ve discovered this new land when, in fact, I had already mapped out the land. I hadn’t been there yet, but I already mapped it out, and here I am going and executing it. This sort of repeatedly happens in some form or another over some period of time, and it’s a little bit eerie and somewhat of a new feeling for me in a way that I can’t quite describe. Of course, there are unknown unknowns and unforeseeable futures that change paths, or the air smells different when you get to certain plateaus. It’s a little bit harder to climb that mountain than you thought, and if things take longer than they seem, and there are, of course, down moments in the plan itself. I think if you’ve done something similar before, something akin to, if you’ve done the John Muir Trail before and then you do the Continental Divide Trail, there’s sort of the sense of having a sense of knowing what it takes. Maybe it’s just called experience, but the experience allows for a certain kind of trust that things will fall where they may, or the boundaries and parameters of events that need to take place. Maybe it’s a settling, almost like sediment. It’s really about having done something that creates the experience and sort of intuitive understanding of where the boundary and limitations of certain systems are. How much you can push them, how much you need to pull, what’s most at risk, what’s not at risk. These things become, I think, clearer when you’ve done those before and you have better error bars on them in the process of doing them. I like this idea of boundary conditions, or also called boundary value problem. Because part of it becomes about how well you set the initial conditions and almost the prerequisites and requirements and the system and the thing that you’re working within. You’re sort of naturally discovering the process within what you need to discover. The boundary conditions create the constraints for you to allow yourself to express creativity in. It’s a very different way to approach planning itself, or maybe it’s just a different way that I have approached planning in the past. Boundary conditions work a lot better for me because, sort of generally, where I need to go is clear, and where we currently are today is clear. If we set the constraints around the boundary conditions at the moment, the path illuminates itself naturally from the constraints that find themselves there. How to figure out where to go to begin with before setting the boundary conditions or figuring out where the boundary conditions are is an exercise that’s left up to the reader and is trivial.

@majamediaco I think what’s considered “wrong” is exactly what creates the texture that makes “you” recognizable

AI writing minimises entropy, which gives it that smooth feel but good writing often adds controlled chaos, aka the “wrong” words

@majamediaco The difference between the two is almost nothing but developing the internal tools to see the difference between the two feels like a life time or trial and error

i think people are conflating introspection and rumination introspection can produce insight, but rumination is introspection stuck in a loop

@leeknowlton @faust_machines sounds like nobel making a dynamite and saying not like that

@0xJuly @faust_machines machines that make us make humans sounds like some Matrix stuff. might have pmf in some more authoritarian places!

The goal of @faust_machines is to build machines that make us make human

v0.5.1 sw update for @roc_camera : - Switched to a V4L2 camera pipeline, rpicam-vid with direct ISP GPU shader for NV12 to RGBA - Better boot times - Fixed v0.5.0 bug of getting stuck on a terminal screen - Other performance improvements / various bug fixes

Socrates: As I said at the beginning of this tale, I divided each soul into three - two horses and a charioteer; and one of the horses was good and the other bad: the division may remain, but I have not yet explained in what the goodness or badness of either consists, and to that I will proceed. Socrates: The right-hand horse is upright and cleanly made; he has a lofty neck and an aquiline nose; his colour is white, and his eyes dark; he is a lover of honour and modesty and temperance, and the follower of true glory; he needs no touch of the whip, but is guided by word and admonition only. Socrates: The other is a crooked lumbering animal, put together anyhow; he has a short thick neck; he is flat-faced and of a dark colour, with grey eyes and blood-red complexion; the mate of insolence and pride, shag-eared and deaf, hardly yielding to whip and spur. Socrates: Now when the charioteer beholds the vision of love, and has his whole soul warmed through sense, and is full of the prickings and ticklings of desire, the obedient steed, then as always under the government of shame, refrains from leaping on the beloved; but the other, heedless of the pricks and of the blows of the whip, plunges and runs away, giving all manner of trouble to his companion and the charioteer, whom he forces to approach the beloved and to remember the joys of love. Socrates: They at first indignantly oppose him and will not be urged on to do terrible and unlawful deeds; but at last, when he persists in plaguing them, they yield and agree to do as he bids them. - Phaedrus, Plato (Benjamin Jowett Translation)

@leeknowlton @faust_machines Typo 😅 Machines that make us more human Is what I meant

@0xJuly @faust_machines Do we have an extra make in there or is that intentional?

It’s crazy how much more the speed at which you can hypothetically test ideas out the speed at which you can test physical ideas especially in the health space feels like it’s going to be gated by regulation

@isabelunraveled Life hack

Taking a reeeeally deep breath feels so incredibly good

One of the things that I forget is to do stuff that I enjoy. Maybe it’s easy for some people to do things they enjoy easily but to me it takes more effort sometimes and I know that. So when I do enjoy things solely for myself I appreciate it.

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@mikekalilmfg It's interesting to note that a lot of humanoid hardware is exploding with chinese companies, while the US companies are exploding with foundational robotics sw companies

How can anyone keep up with all of these? There are probably more US foundational robotics AI software companies than Chinese humanoid firms at this point. I’m not saying this is one of them but there are gonna be a lot of acquihires starting later this year. I don’t see how they can all coexist.

@Object_Zero_ so down with this - would love to see this in more detail

OK, been promising this for 3 weeks now. It’s become a thermodynamic framework for a civilisation living under a star. I think I have maybe [21] articles here. Will post them with full LaTeX formulations, fully cited axioms, theorems, definitions, postulations, etc. Full logic graph. This will be a challenging read for most people, feel free to use your preferred LLM to bounce it off. Probably I should publish Part 1->5, then the wrapper content (exec summary, nomenclature, bibliography, etc). I’m not sure how easy it will be to follow on X. I’ll make a pdf or markdown available to some people soon after, if you’re interested. Any pointers at this point welcome.

Honestly same

@majamediaco Welcome back!

i entered my creative sabbatical believing that clearing my calendar would expand the work. instead, it changed my understanding of what fuels it. this essay is about what my sabbatical actually taught me about friction, work, and creative energy 💌

HARD MODE started from a feeling: AI has collapsed the gap between imagination and physical reality, and most people haven’t noticed yet. Stuff that used to take months now takes days. I was living that. So we decided to create a space for this energy to take root. HARD MODE is a hackathon for builders who want to combine AI and physical things: hardware, embodied AI, physical systems, at a moment when making has never been more powerful. And apparently it’s the right time: 0 —> 600 applicants (closed early) 0 —> 15k followers on IG Sponsorship deals with Anthropic, Qualcomm, Akamai and a stack of others backing us. We have ~ 200 absolutely cracked builders joining us from MIT, Harvard, across the US and beyond. Craziest thing is we started working on this in Jan and built it while doing academic research. You can just make things happen. That’s the whole point of being here. We start in two days…