Adam Wolnikowski
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Adam Wolnikowski
@AdamWoptimized
Building agents for hardware teams @Nominal_io
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@dirtman @dropalltables Did that thermal inversion create consistent good breeze?
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@dropalltables I used to do this yacht race called sauna sail, we’d race on the lake used for cooling a coal fired power plant and it was awesome as it was held in the middle of winter with a warm lake
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@PiyushGrover101 @TurnerNovak Also known as Allston Christmas! You can score some crazy stuff laying around on curbs then. Furnished my first apt in Cambridge that way
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One of the most insane things I’ve ever come across:
Up until World War II, the majority of renters in NYC all moved at the same time on May 1st at 9am.
This is because (almost) every housing lease in NYC expired on the same day.
This goes back to an old Dutch tradition where every contract had an end date of May 1st. This was carried over when Dutch settlers immigrated to the US. And in 1820, the state of New York actually passed a law mandating that any housing contract without a specified term ended on May 1st. Many housing leases were just oral / handshake agreements and not actually written down, so they all had this same end date.
At the height of Moving Day in the early 1900’s, it was estimated that over a million people in NYC all changed their residences at the same time. For context, NYC’s population was 1.5m in 1890 and 7.4m in 1940.
Every year on May 1st, tens of thousands of farmers, etc came into NYC with wagons to make money moving people and their things around all day.
There’s a few quotes about this on the Wikipedia page. A good one from 1832:
“On the 1st of May the city of New York has the appearance of sending off a population flying from the plague, or of a town which had surrendered on condition of carrying away all their goods and chattels. Rich furniture and ragged furniture, carts, wagons, and drays, ropes, canvas, and straw, packers, porters, and draymen, white, yellow, and black, occupy the streets from east to west, from north to south, on this day. Every one I spoke to on the subject complained of this custom as most annoying, but all assured me it was unavoidable, if you inhabit a rented house. More than one of my New York friends have built or bought houses solely to avoid this annual inconvenience”
Moving Day finally ended during WW2 because they couldn’t get enough able-bodied men in town to help move people. They were all away at war.
These labor shortages + a general housing shortage + rent control finally put an end to NYC’s Moving Day.

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Every hardware team we work with has the same problem: more data than time.
@Nominal_io acquired @FidLabs to accelerate building the AI layer that changes that. Proud to have @AdamWoptimized join as an AI Product Lead.
Nominal is building the hardware data supply chain. Powered (now even more) by AI.
@jrshoch shares the full story: nominal.io/blog/fidlabs-a…
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Nominal has acquired @FidLabs. AI that actually understands hardware test data, built into the workflows engineers already use.
Fid Labs CEO @AdamWoptimized joins as AI Product Lead.
More from Nominal co-founder @jrshoch: nominal.io/blog/fidlabs-a…
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@paularambles The “…adoption isn’t slow. It’s explosive.” construction is so bad I almost have a hard time believing it’s AI
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yes sure use chatgpt to write your text but at least try to make it sound like you didn’t

Y Combinator@ycombinator
AI has stopped being a feature and started being the foundation. We're excited about a new wave of startups rebuilding software, services, and silicon— and pushing AI into the physical world. ycombinator.com/rfs
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This made me reflect on the fact that most CS curricula don’t have courses focused on specific languages, as opposed to classics departments offering Greek or Latin. That actually gives me hope that maybe how we teach core CS topics doesn’t need to change all that much, we’ll just end up with a single unit and pset about C++ or python the way systems courses today do a unit on assembly
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@usdarawmilk @noremacback @jeremykauffman @3YearLetterman @elonmusk We all are unfathomably wealthy relative to average income 200 years ago, yet that doesn’t ease anyone’s qualms with inequality
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@noremacback @jeremykauffman @3YearLetterman @elonmusk As I was reading it I thought for sure his tweet was sarcastic and was going to end by saying this and I couldn’t believe it didn’t
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@jeremykauffman @3YearLetterman @elonmusk *universal* high income is an oxymoron. high income is a relative measure.
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@AdamWoptimized so true. Whether SF is back or not is largely irrelevant now that NYC has a Flatiron Building in full glory. Levels.
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