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@SVVVAYED The Green Glass Sea

Never been a better time to re-read this essay ribbonfarm.com/2017/11/09/ceo…

my friend at Anthropic said they’re routing your requests specifically to the dumbest model (his name is Steve and they made him by distilling a CVS receipt)

actual footage of Anthropic FDEs arriving to automate your back office

@Austen What kind of engineering roles in the federal government is gauntlet targeting? Super cool stuff!!

Candidates must: * Pass a battery of tests * Pass a thorough background check * Be willing to relocate to Washington D.C. * Be a citizen of the United States Graduates of the program will be hired as AI engineers by the federal government. gauntletai.com/gfa

I’m very excited to announce 🇺🇸 Gauntlet for America 🇺🇸 Our country needs AI-native engineers, and the U.S. Government is looking to Gauntlet AI to provide that capability. This is a COMPLETELY FREE, all expenses paid fellowship to prepare for high-stakes public sector roles.

Will is the rarest skill on earth right now. you can mass produce intelligence you can buy beauty you can fake status but you cannot download will from anywhere it has to be grown in suffering and nobody wants to suffer so nobody has any. one man with will is worth ten thousand without it. the future belongs to whoever can still force themselves to do things they do not want to do

@StumptownGrrl the studio apartment is where God puts a man when he wants to talk to him alone

The children who were never given a phone will inherit the dreams of those who were

To clarify: we are now in the “electronic trading has just been introduced” phase where retail traders/bootstrappers/small caps are making an incredible amount of money due to rampant market inefficiency And next comes the “high-frequency trading phase” where sophisticated AI entities with 1000 tentacles suck the alpha out of every crevice, making incredible profits and pushing out retail The latter has not been built yet, and it likely needs to be built from the ground up—it won’t be Google. You could build it. We are building Spellbook to thrive in this future.

If you don't shamelessly promote your work, every day for the next 2-3 years, you will get stuck doing someone else's work until you realize that nobody is going to pay you if they have no idea who you are.

@DeltaClimbs Where do I apply

@_sholtodouglas @SebastianLague Also age of empires takes me back. Is it as fun as it was playing as a kid?

@_sholtodouglas If you haven’t gotten into game dev YouTube yet would recommend @SebastianLague , similarly fun experiments in longer form, less ai focused for now though

Spent a week over Christmas making an RTS (we’ve played too much AoE2 recently) - and my twitter algo has fully switched into game dev twitter. It’s incredibly wholesome - people are making some insane things (in particular, image -> mesh models mean some indie devs have created absurd production quality). RTS to share later post a little bit of polishing!

We live to reveal ourselves to ourselves.

@iamgingertrash Demis has the Mandate of Heaven

No one deserves the winners medal more than this man

One of my favorite lessons I’ve learnt from working with smart people: Action produces information. If you’re unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it’s the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing. Sounds simple on the surface - the hard part is making it part of your every day working process.

@vhmth Sounds like an incredibly fun time

Things I've learned in 3 months of my internship: - waterproofing battery casings - screws… so many things about screws - statics diagrams for moments, distributed forces, beam bending - jupyter notebooks to physics models and design constraints - earth anchoring and soil composition - wind… lots about drag and pull out forces, distributed member forces, etc. - leaf springs - spring constants through bending - heat sink pressure distribution and heat efficiency - solidworks - lots of it but especially sheet metal - working with sendcutsend to make parts - using mills and lathes to fix your mistakes - deburring for hours and destroying your wrist - altium and how pcbs work (schematics, footprints, through holes, vias, sourcing electronic components, etc.) - bypass capacitors - pull up resistors - i2c bus speeds, rise times, total route impedance and capicitance - continuity testing, grounding checks, etc. for wire harness testing - getting pcbs made (output jobs, gerber files and nc drill hole files, pick and place types, etc.) - via plating, pre-baking, parts placement and inventory management - bom.. lots about bom

wrote this a month ago & 15 people liked it & that was enough to make me happy & put it out of mind. this weekend someone at substack found it & featured it & I went from around 100 subscribers to almost 4k over a few days. surreal.

Sci-fi can’t bear seveneves. Set in a world where moon is going to be hit by an asteroid and how earth deals with it. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance is a book about beauty through the lens of philosophy. Captured through the narrators ride across the United States on a motorcycle with his son

@zen_motor_ These all sound awesome thanks what's the tldr + the best one?

Best books to read?