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@ChShersh How would you go about learning c++ these days with say 7years programming experience mostly high level stuff very little rust and go?

I once interviewed for a Rust position. They asked me to do the interview in Rust despite me telling them I don’t know Rust. Unfortunately, they weren’t impressed by me writing perfect Rust that compiled and worked without knowing the language. I didn’t get the job.

@KyleMau Have you ever lived in those places? There is like a 50% chance of rain every day in Summer and absolutely zero gurantee of the "beautiful" you are imagining.

I have never understood the Eastern and Northern European mindset of going on vacation during summer. When your city is 75 degrees and beautiful and everything is available, you go to Greece and pay $300 a day to turn yourself into a lobster. Instead of just... going in November. You know, when your city is 40 and dreary and grey with 4 hours of "sun "a day. And Greece is 75 and you get a private beach. Make it make sense.

@mysteriouskat How about "goodbye, it was wonderful speaking with you"

I'm supremely bad at ending conversations. Can I get some tips on how to politely free myself?

@ToKTeacher How do pure economists think about negative externalities?

Almost all economists agree with some version of the paper below (even if they cannot "mathematically prove" it) "AI will largely be bad for most people". Why don't we hear from optimistic economists when it comes to the effects of AI on global wealth? Maybe because of this:

@ToKTeacher Why would an AI with the cognitive capacity of a human being not be an AGI?

Sam Harris has said that AI could be a replacement for (quote!) "...all of human cognition". What could he mean? Some thoughts:

@AishwaryaDevv It all works if u have a human written baseline

Am I the only one getting vibe coding fatigue? Building landing pages in 30 seconds was fun, but maintaining a complex codebase where half the logic was “vibed” into existence is an absolute headache. Feels like we traded 1 hour of typing for 5 hours of architectural debugging later. I’ve started manually writing core logic again so I actually know where the technical debt is hiding. Is anyone successfully managing large production projects with AI agents, or are we all just building disposable software?

The right kind of ambition is to compete against yourself. To be the best version of yourself.

@akanksha7196 Have u tried USA?

honestly applying for a schengen visa is a humiliation ritual

I've tweeted about this before but it's a good reminder The founder of Tik Tok was running out of money trying to build an education start up. One day, he looked at the people on his train. Eyes blank. None of them were learning the next day he pivoted to brain rot and won

@TheVixhal Is an LLM a universal touring machine?

Could consciousness emerge from logic gates? Modern AI systems ultimately run on just 3 basic logic gates: - AND Gate - OR Gate - NOT Gate Individually these gates are extremely simple. But when billions of them are combined together in complex systems, they can process language, generate code, recognize patterns, and simulate human-like reasoning. If intelligence-like behavior can emerge from massive combinations of simple logic gates, could consciousness emerge too? And if human brains are also made from simpler units like neurons, is consciousness just an emergent property of complexity?

Always interesting to see people giving life advice a la "dont pursure this career" on the timeline How about you just let everyone figure out what the hell they want to do and then you let them do it? Has to be the most European thing I have experienced as a European

Trading against price insensitive traders such as forced buyers / sellers is powerful because we know that they are not acting on information that we don't have

@sbzomer Looks healthy

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@pedma7 Bro cannot dm but I live in Lisbon and also trading crypto systematic trend. Could be awesome to connect!

this is how much i spent living in Portugal last few years. few caveats though: - i live alone - i purchased my house off lisbon center, pay <$500 a month mortgage - have a cheap car (<$10k), so low maintenance costs but anything else i never look at expenses.

@BurakYngn @systematicls Can one person not be both?

@systematicls Claude is the personality hire

It's so interesting to me how drastically different the personalities of Opus 4.7 and GPT 5.5 are. GPT 5.5 is smart, hardworking, slightly autistic and doesn't want to talk much. Huge preference for diving into tasks and hammering tasks out over long, long periods. Opus 4.7 is also obviously smart, but the only way to accurately describe Opus 4.7 is that he is charismatic but extremely lazy, talks a lot, but doesn't like to get work done. The only saving grace of Opus 4.7 is that he really does have an eye for design. -- Opus 4.7 is the quintessential toxic employee you need to fire while GPT 5.5 is the one you're glad to have on the team, but wished you could understand him better / have a more pleasant time interacting with him.

@xbtDLN By that argument you may as well write in ascii representation. The comma is for ease of reading. But short sentences are also helpful.

Always thought commas were kind of unnecessary. If you can’t tell how someone would say a sentence you’re probably not intelligent.

@pedma7 Depends on what task. If its taxes I get it. Anything quant research or dev shouldn't be the case.

sometimes i find myself doing more frequent breaks or playing a video game (that tends to be 2 or 3 games), when i have a hard task to solve that I know is a headache. but i've been trying to force myself to bruteforce it regardless. i think thats a muscle. you need to train your muscle to head on towards hard tasks and get them done rather than being stuck on them for a few days. if i dont do this, i slack off on anything that is harder than usual. and most things i do these days are not simple, they are quite hard compared to what i was doing say a year ago. example a trade on a tail venue with a weird api that doesnt match anything i have built for other other venues. i can either procrastinate on that for a week, or just get it done. i view my work increasingly as a pain in the ass. but thats where you get paid more for. to solve those issues. your competition is struggling the same as you. probably more as they have other mandates that aint as flexible as yours. just get it done man. the frustration that spawns off your procrastination aint worth it. you have to get it done anyways so why delay that.

In a world with instant access to explanations understanding them is even more powerful as the masses get numbed into passive consumption disguised as intelligence

@predict_addict Yea and everyone does the former and then we wonder why nobody gets it

Two very different ways to teach arithmetic. One says: “Here is the rule. Memorize it.” The other says: “Here is the definition. Here is why the rule follows.” That difference looks small. It is not. It is the difference between performing math and understanding math.

@Aella_Girl Does this work with only humans allowed?

Imagine a circle, with a little spinner on it that you can flick. The circle is 80% red and 20% yellow, like a yellow pie slice. You flick the spinner. It spins, and slowwwly stops. Where did it land?