Bill Strathearn

@LoyWhitney @CaltrainAlerts Gotta be in Menlo for the deets I guess. Something impacting the service of all trains implies a track obstruction of some sort

@CaltrainAlerts More information??

Due to Service Disruption near Menlo Park, Please Expect Up to 25-40 Minute Delay for All Trains. More Details at app.simplifytransit.com/alerts/caltrai…

The most elegant and concise speed run through quantum field theory that I've ever encountered... youtube.com/watch?v=f8O3XM… The title is not clickbait. It's true 🤯

They finally figured out how the Giza pyramid complex was built - youtu.be/h5kWDOuY2Uo?si…

It won't help you find YT video gold nuggets but it can definitely help you find specific comments and highlight ones that you'd like to reply to. I know that you ❤️ replying to YT comments...

@commentiquette I built a simple command-line utility for the Mac (or Linux) which allows you to "search" the comment stream on any YT video pretty effectively: github.com/billstar/YT-Co…

What a time to be grappling with these questions!

Prediction and understanding, once tightly coupled, may be decoupling... We achieve powerful predictions without the intuitive, distillable understanding we've always sought, forcing us to redefine what "knowing" truly means...

This is one of my favorite @MLStreetTalk videos b/c it pulls together common themes and concepts from many of Scarfe's interviews and creates a truly fascinating meta discussion and series of questions about the utility of complex models (which defy understanding) and the embodiment of those models and concepts youtube.com/watch?v=pO0WZs…

@Plinz I'm curious if you've read @DavidDeutschOxf's book: "The Beginning of Infinity". That wonderful work of expanded horizons provides the best justification I've ever understood for why problems are inherently soluble that we perceive before the solution materializes

As a youth/teenager I was also worried about remaining lonely and never finding true love, but if you are a truly loving person, there are so many amazing souls that want to love you back. I am so grateful for being embedded into a network of love

One thing that I would like to tell my past self is to cultivate optimism. Things that go wrong are largely things you cannot influence (and have often unexpected upsides), while optimism makes you more effective at changing things you can.

Here is the best video I've found which helps to demystify how these claIms might actually be possible youtu.be/RbGxbII44eE

The predominant opinion on these claims centers around disbelief but there are a lot of solid reasons to believe that this is the future of portable energy storage. Word on the street is that this "battery" is really a sodium-based hybrid supercapacitor utilizing a 3D-nanostructured (gyroid) solid-state electrolyte and might be based on recent _"Nanocell-structured carbon nanotube composite fibers for ultrahigh energy and power density supercapacitors"_ research from KIST. Believe in the future! youtube.com/watch?v=Y-aPS2…

@LinusEkenstam Word on the street is that this "battery" is really a sodium-based hybrid supercapacitor utilizing a 3D-nanostructured (gyroid) solid-state electrolyte and might be based on this research from KIST: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

YES! 💯% - I really wanted the YouTube "Ask about this video" feature to index comments in the same way it indexes the video transcript. It doesn't 😭 With about an hour of Claude Code work, I had a working command-line tool that does exactly what I wanted: github.com/billstar/YT-Co…

What I love about these personally crafted apps is the fact that I can iterate on them indefinitely. It's owning your own roadmap based on your imagination rather than waiting on someone else’s backlog.

I spent the last two weeks building apps that I always wished existed. From chord progression designers to screen recorders. I think we are going into an era where every app will be built on demand. Buying software makes sense if it's solving a problem that cannot be generated.