AJ LaMarc

@effthealgorithm ~

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@thisistechtoday @bryan_johnson When I did research a month or two ago Function had more general biomarkers and seemed like a better deal, but Blueprint has some specialty ones. It would help if they would compare to it directly on the site though

@bryan_johnson What makes this different than Function Health? Has the same pricing, seems to have the same number of biomarkers (both say 160+), and both offer 2 tests a year for the price.

You can now get your blood work at cost. We launched a biomarkers testing platform. I make $0 on it. Blood testing needs to be more accessible. Instead, we wait until we get sick. And in the meantime, companies profit when you’re sick. It's messed up. > get tested > find what needs attention > implement protocols > test again Get ahead of unwelcome surprises.

if only there was an assembly language with 13 core instructions and functional operating system that couldn’t be repeatedly hacked by smarter models, would come in handy

@thdxr he wrote most of it with just GStack and not even God Mode, with Super Ultra God Mode this wouldn’t have happened

it's kind of useful to see what this approach ends up producing

Three things in life are certain: death, taxes, and emails that say “we recommend you switch to paperless to cut down on waste”

@thdxr @mntruell They would never, only reason I pay for Cursor at this point is Cursor Tab. So as soon as someone else has competitive autocomplete, they are going to get a lot of cancelled subscriptions

this probably doesn't make much sense but @mntruell consider opensourcing it

we've been talking with a few people about building an open source successor to this i guess we gotta prioritize

@lindyacc there is one

linkedin founder being 4 years late to a trend to show solidarity for typical linkedin users ✊️

@PetrusTheron yep, docker GH actions caching is pretty awesome, consolidating steps probably would save 30s each simpler pipeline but I was just able to take a 15min build down to 45s or so with the right separate cache layer for deps vs. app code

our builds & deployments from main to staging k8s are too slow, like ~20 minutes, which is crazy for me clj / cljs Electric production artifacts take a long time, mainly because fetching dependencies & building docker images how can we speed it up? combine build & image steps? more deps caching?

@ahmed1hsn @dustingetz that’s my experience to date, even though Rama is implemented / greatly benefits from using Clojure, you’re more likely to interface with it through Java due to the limited popularity of Clojure

@dustingetz Clojure provides primitives to build higher level abstractions for applications development?🤔

Hi, my name's Michaël Trazzi, and I'm outside the offices of the AI company Google DeepMind right now because we are in an emergency. I am here in support of Guido Reichstadter, who is also on hunger strike in front of the office of the AI company Anthropic. DeepMind, Anthropic and other AI companies are racing to create ever more powerful AI systems. Experts are warning us that this race to ever more powerful artificial general intelligence puts our lives and well being at risk, as well as the lives and well being of our loved ones. I am calling on DeepMind’s management, directors and employees to do everything in their power to stop the race to ever more powerful general artificial intelligence which threatens human extinction. More concretely, I ask Demis Hassabis to publicly state that DeepMind will halt the development of frontier AI models if all the other major AI companies agree to do so.

@nvdawhale genuine question, when the dust settles shouldn’t treasuries all trade very close to 1x MNAV? If you’re bullish ETH and $SBET is at 0.7x MNAV or something isn’t it a better buy than spot ETH? Saylor was ahead of ETFs, that’s the only reason I can see why $MSTR had a premium

“it’s really not funny, guys” selling ETH for SOL will always be funny

All projects must have one leader, who has taken as much time as is required to figure out the ideal direction for it. But managers only sit in meetings, no thinking time: the result is bells and whistles, full steam ahead into the abyss, as long as the paychecks keep coming in.

zuck was never wrong about the metaverse, just early

This isn’t a full panacea, because many product backends need to integrate with many other systems that are outside of your control / this simplified model. But Rama still represents a huge leap forward once the AI dev path + frontend integration becomes streamlined.

structures, the current level of AI could do *much* better with it and the developer could give it much more leeway. A “stateless” backend is event sourcing + materialized views. The only system delivering on this vision is @redplanetlabs Rama and it deserves more attention.

AI for building frontends mostly works because you have one standard (React) which is a stateless function (backend manages state). As long as f(x) = y, you don’t have to give a damn about the implementation of f(x), or if the code is messy, it works and that’s good enough.