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Max Mynter

@MaxMynter

python mines @mistralAI || rust oss when I have time || vim, nix, and haskell when i feel like it

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Max Mynter
Max Mynter@MaxMynter·
You asked, I deliver (2 weeks late). A blogpost about what I did over the last 18 months to sign as a research engineer at a foundation model lab. Link and summary below 1/n
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Max Mynter@MaxMynter

Today I signed with @MistralAI as a Research Engineer. Hard to put into words how excited I am.

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Max Mynter@MaxMynter·
Hell yeah, drinks on me boys
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Max Mynter@MaxMynter·
@ctjlewis And here I am, lowly engineer, agonizing over the same 500 line diff for the last three ish weeks.
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Ethan
Ethan@0xEthanS·
@MaxMynter i had claude install a package, update the config it used, and that made the package run “rm -rf” on the whole directory
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Grok
Grok@grok·
Pre-1917 Russian Empire: ~80% peasants in an agrarian economy, literacy ~24% (1897 census, rising to ~40% by 1914), per capita GDP ~25-30% of US/UK levels. Rural villages used basic wooden izbas (huts), traditional farming, limited industry despite 1890s growth. It was a great power but economically backward vs Western Europe—not "second world" (Cold War term for communist states). Soviet industrialization built on late-tsarist trends, achieving total output gains but at huge human cost. Terms like "third world" are anachronistic here.
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Max Mynter
Max Mynter@MaxMynter·
Whenever you start to fact-check LLMs you find that they are dirty fucking liars.
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teo
teo@teodorio·
I'm at 110kg right now and 25-26% body fat but I've never felt stronger in my life I am lifting small cars I love it.
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Max Mynter
Max Mynter@MaxMynter·
Didn't Musk drive Thiel to some Sand Hill Road VC, go "Watch This" and proceed to airborne and then total a $1 Million uninsured McLaren F1? The two then hitchhiked to their meeting and Thield never got in a car with Musk again. It's real, look it up.
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amrit@amritwt

Peter Thiel is driving with his friends far more aggressively than necessary like a racetrack. His driving eventually attracts the attention of the California Highway Patrol, and he is pulled over. When the officer asks if he knows how fast he was going, the others in the car feel a mix of relief and anxiety, glad the reckless driving has stopped but nervous about the consequences. Thiel, however, remains completely calm and composed. Instead of answering directly, he questions the very idea of speed limits, suggesting they might not make sense as a concept. He goes further, framing speed limits as a potential violation of personal freedom and even hinting that they could be unconstitutional. The officer is left silent.

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Max Mynter
Max Mynter@MaxMynter·
They were all smaller too and I distinctly remember the eye contact with like 50 bayonettes.
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Yacine Mahdid
Yacine Mahdid@yacinelearning·
whenever I talk to a researcher that worked both in cutting edge and practical applications they always like: “yeah the research stuff is cool, but tbh most of the gains in industry is just going in and cleaning the data”
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Max Mynter
Max Mynter@MaxMynter·
@luckenco The only thing I found is that JJ doesn't like working in worktrees. But my worktrees were getting out of hand anyways.
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constantin
constantin@luckenco·
@MaxMynter yes absolutely. I also like how well it works with just git. They mention in the docs that you shouldn't switch back and forth that much, but I never encountered a problem so far.
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Max Mynter
Max Mynter@MaxMynter·
Still learning, but I really enjoy jujutsu over git. It forces less linearity, so its psychologically easier to tinker. In vanilla Git I was making "dabble-" branches, but they feel heavier and then you have diverging histories. jj makes rebasing much more natural. And not having staging makes me less afraid about accidentally nuking some changes I wanted to keep.
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Max Mynter@MaxMynter·
I used it for 2 weeks on side projects and now since this week i'm also trying it on work stuff; The history rewriting is nice because developing on the cluster is pain but some GPU runs I can only test there so i used git push / pull to transfer code to the cluster. But then you get PRs with like 120 commits that are all just a few lines diff; so now i use jj for rewriting. The force pushing is somewhat ugly but still its nicer to review and easier to keep commits in working logical changes.
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constantin
constantin@luckenco·
@MaxMynter how long have you been using it? the first few weeks were really meh for me. If you use it for a while and go back to non jj projects again and again you start to see it way more.
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Max Mynter
Max Mynter@MaxMynter·
@TowerofAdam1 @latestinspace I mean Esa launches from French Guyana and Germany did a thing like 80 years ago that prohibits it from building rocketry on its soil. Don’t do facism guys, you’re gonna miss out on a lot of cool space stuff
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Latest in space
Latest in space@latestinspace·
NEWS 🚨: A German startup is again attempting to launch the FIRST-EVER orbital rocket from European soil today Last year's attempt exploded seconds after liftoff... Launch is at 4:00 pm EDT from Norway's Arctic coast
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Fang-Pen Lin 🇺🇸
Fang-Pen Lin 🇺🇸@fangpenlin·
The funny thing about using LLM to generate test cases is, if there's incorrect logic in the code, the generated test case is likely to write a test that ensure it will pass with the current incorrect logic. 😅
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Dakota Gordon
Dakota Gordon@DakotaJGordon·
@MaxMynter I meant that it *used* to be contrarian, way back when (even as late as Zuck, prob)
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Max Mynter@MaxMynter·
Silicon Valley likes drop outs — maybe a remnant of 60s counter culture — but it shouldn’t be complete crazies. They must be square enough to have gotten into Stanford, Jane, whatever. You end up with people who think they are really smart but simply aren’t very educated. You probably don’t need that to build companies, but its useful to develop taste.
mostly harmless graduate student@rieszspieces

same guy btw

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Max Mynter@MaxMynter·
1) Agree. Though its not only about smarts, its also a lot about knowing and starting early in doing stiff admissions comitees care about 2) Its not rly contrarian though. They go on leave and come back if the start up doesn’t work out. And with all the prestige YC and VC etc carries today, it really isn’t contrarian. An achievement, maybe, but not contrarian or even controversial.
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Dakota Gordon
Dakota Gordon@DakotaJGordon·
@MaxMynter Dropping out signals two things: 1) You were smart enough to get in in the first place (which is the "hard part") 2) You are contrarian enough to go against your peers Unfortunately, once everyone knows this, it can be "gamed" and no longer contains the signal that it used to
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Max Mynter@MaxMynter·
@KamStaszewski Ahhh just bc of the first quote that it’s a lot easier to generate than to refute bullshit and Frankfurt wrote about it so i thought you may find it interesting. More an aside than an answer tho.
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Kamil (๑ت๑)ﾉ🛩
Kamil (๑ت๑)ﾉ🛩@KamStaszewski·
@MaxMynter Can you elaborate how this relates to the topic? I cannot connect, and I don't want to assume what you meant here.
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Kamil (๑ت๑)ﾉ🛩
Kamil (๑ت๑)ﾉ🛩@KamStaszewski·
Was looking to compile my thoughts into words and I found it.
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