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Happy to finally share a video I had the privilege to co-produce and edit. Enjoy!

@BrianG12321 @LLMJunky @TheAhmadOsman @0xSero @ivanfioravanti @ZenMagnets @NVIDIAAI Ok 80 might be high unless it is a Dell prebuilt ;D but where can I get rtx 6000 for 8,600? I just priced out a dual 6000 system with Threadripper and 128gig of ram it was 36k on the low end

@dfdooley @LLMJunky @TheAhmadOsman @0xSero @ivanfioravanti @ZenMagnets @NVIDIAAI Nah for 4x? 8k-10k per GPU plus another say 3‐6k? Could probably do the whole thing for less than 45k

Finally proud to announce that I've joined the GPU Minor Leagues. 2 x RTX 6000 Pro. I have six months to pay off the second GPU lol. You are all TERRIBLE influences.

@LLMJunky @BrianG12321 @TheAhmadOsman @0xSero @ivanfioravanti @ZenMagnets @NVIDIAAI Ha it sounded like he was talking a full system with 4

@dfdooley @BrianG12321 @TheAhmadOsman @0xSero @ivanfioravanti @ZenMagnets @NVIDIAAI scroll up brotha

@LLMJunky @BrianG12321 @TheAhmadOsman @0xSero @ivanfioravanti @ZenMagnets @NVIDIAAI 20k lol 4x 6000 rig is gonna cost closer to 80k for the whole system

@BrianG12321 @TheAhmadOsman @0xSero @ivanfioravanti @ZenMagnets @NVIDIAAI LOL yeah let me just drop 20K 😭 imma need saint ahmad to drop one on me as a prize.

@MLStreetTalk unterstein.net/su/docs/CathBa…

Last night I read the classic “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” Steven Raymond and he referenced the lazy dev “Lazy like a fox. Or, as Robert Heinlein famously wrote of one of his characters, too lazy to fail.” This was re the Linux dev model and open source vs closed. Also worth a read!

The number one virtue of a programmer is laziness. Larry Wall nailed it in 1991 in Programming Perl. Every dev knows the feeling: you'd rather spend ten hours writing a script than ten minutes doing the boring thing by hand. The other day I pointed Claude Code at my receipt backlog in emails/vendor sites. Used QuickBooks CLI, Google Workspace CLI, browser automation etc. It uploaded 300+ receipts and categorised them all, and the cherry on the cake -- a summary email fired off to my accountant! I actually enjoyed it, it felt like I had dev-ified the task. It still took ages and was an iterative/interactive process (like all good AI actually is and always will be), but it was actually fun! Agentic AI is a developer's wet dream. AI makes miserable tasks genuinely fun because you're solving an interesting novel orchestration problem every time instead of manually clicking the download button on a hundred PDFs. Still a tonne of tacit technical knowledge needed though, accountants are safe for a while 😃

@grunscga @codyaims This may have been a brilliant tip. I turned off swipe (which I thought I already did) and with a short window of experience it may have helped. I also turned off the double space period thing.

@dfdooley @codyaims I am 100% convinced they changed the underlying touch driver so that it erroneously converts some taps into swipes, which for typing means the swype keyboard (if you have it enabled) receives a zero-length swipe and turns it into gibberish. It also makes many games unplayable.

I found my 9 year old iPhone X and decided to charge it to test a few things - There's no lag switching between apps / screens - I had zero typos while typing 6x faster. Returning to my "new" phone, I had 7 typos while just writing this post

I remember the piano moving experiment and thinking about the ants ability to quickly coordinate. Your explanation is great and quickly gets me there intuitively. They also have a powerful pheromone system that adds to the detail of the movement of the other ants before them. I could watch this experiment for days.

@nickcammarata Each ant is a particle with momentum, which is spread across various frequencies. Every time they interact with the object, they are interacting with what is basically a mean field approximation of the other ants. Each ant is trying to avoid getting jerked, predicting the motion.

I don’t actually know how to process this, what’s a reasonable explanation of what is going on here

@sporadica Remember the guy at the top of the telephone pole in Waking Life?

it’s actually funny how Marc /is/ on to something, sorta our culture+economy is being completely rewired to favor those with no “introspection” in a way no thinking, just action, just do things, think about consequences and morals and plans later. make a fuss. go viral. piss people off. lie. raise tons of money with no plan. don’t think things through just DO. and this is why we will falter and, potentially, fail completely.

Hahaha no offense it would be a brilliant way to do it. I was really making a bad joke ;D I know how hard it is to work hard on something and have external issues throw a wrench in the works! Not fun, but it does give you really amazing skills to anticipate where failures are likely. Communication being a huge failure mode!

@dfdooley lol I’m not engagement baiting this is my first time ordering a panelized pcb, I’m relatively very new to electronics

The absolute worst thing possible happened. I ordered the boards with a v-score so I could snap them apart into 9 separate boards, they did not come with it. I don’t even know where to go from here, so incredibly bummed. I guess I will have to order some more boards.

@Scobleizer @obsdmd @noahvnct Obsidian has been a hidden gem for awhile. I almost hate that it is getting popular but love to see them succeed at the same time!

A lot of the highly techie AI people in San Francisco use @obsdmd to store everything about their life and dreams. Er projects they are building. @noahvnct laid out why better than I have seen.

Those who need to occasionally imbibe a fine Fourier Transform need this set of books! Very few remain… Thank you @cube_flipper for the recommendation! The single edition is sold out and this one will be soon. fourieratlas.com/products/atlas…

@byte_thrasher Only a few of these left and it is excellent! fourieratlas.com/products/atlas…

imagine there are people out there getting high without knowing about the fourier transform like what do they think about

@0xSero I have this in my Amazon cart ready to go though the dust cover is not as cool as your copy!

This book really changed my career, I don’t think I’d be where I am without having read it. I learned so much from it, and have not found any other book that has been able to teach me as this one has. I will buy this book for 3 people, winners selected on Friday

@JosephJacks_ Is this a statement, or are you trying to create a foundation for something you believe but don’t want to say? It sounds like a precursor to introduce transhuman, cybernetic, or genetic ideas. I don’t think we need to be depricated for silicon. We made these tools as extension!

Homo sapiens is, by any honest engineering assessment, a 300,000-year-old prototype that has never received a major revision. The core hardware—the genome, the neuroanatomy, the metabolic architecture—was optimized for persistence on the African savannah under conditions of caloric scarcity, predation pressure, and a maximum lifespan of roughly 35 years. Every feature of the organism reflects these ancestral constraints. The immune system is calibrated for parasites and bacteria, not novel respiratory viruses. The stress response is designed for leopards, not quarterly earnings calls. The spine is a hastily modified quadrupedal column forced into bipedal service, producing the single most common chronic pain condition in the industrialized world. Meanwhile, the environment this organism now inhabits has changed beyond recognition. In the last 10,000 years—an evolutionary eyeblink—we transitioned from small-band foraging to agriculture, urbanization, industrialization, digitization, and now the threshold of artificial superintelligence. The rate of environmental change has gone exponential while the rate of biological adaptation remains glacial. This is not a mismatch. It is a chasm. The last twenty years alone have produced: the smartphone (2007), CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing (2012), AlphaFold (2020), large language models surpassing most human benchmarks (2023–2024), and early demonstrations of programmable biology, room-temperature quantum coherence effects, and synthetic cells. If we project this trajectory forward with even modest compounding, the organisms that will thrive in the world of 2050–2100 bear little resemblance to the organisms evolution has given us.

@niko_kukushkin The irony is that the walking part was not included in the actual experiment. Only the mouth movement and antennae grooming. The walking was programmed and not part pf the experiment. It did spark our curiosity but has oversold what was actually tested.

We’ve simulated worms, we’ve simulated abstract cognition, we currently have language simulators taking over the world economy, but isn’t fascinating how biased we are towards “it walks = it’s alive”.

Read the paper itself. The sugar stim cascades the “predicted neurons” for mouth movement and also they tested for antennae grooming. The movement in the animation is misleading and is amazing to visualize and has sparked our collective curiosity, however, it is over selling what was actually accomplished.

This is the central question. The framing now suggests LIF neurons + connectome = behaving embodied fly model. Willing (happy, even) to be proven wrong, but I'm skeptical.