Surya

There is no greater illusion than thinking the accomplishment of some goal will change your life. What will change your life is the person you become in the process of going for it.

It took me 43 years to realize there are no adult. Just kids in adult bodies trying to figure it things out the best they can.

At some point, usually in your 20s, you'll notice that the people around you stop believing in themselves. And no matter how hard you try, you can't save them. By all means, do not let it infect your mind. Stay on your path.

i fucking love computers

Found my new favourite sorting algorithm

You learn by doing. There’s no other way.

Most people don’t hate math. They hate the cognitive friction of missing prerequisites.

ironically the first thing ai killed was no-code everyone is now coding

i keep coming back to this essay by @nateliason "create proof you can do hard things"

"Programming is not about typing, it's about thinking." — Rich Hickey v/@CodeWisdom

Me defending my O(n^3) solution to the coding interviewer.

Everyone is thinking about themselves all the time… ask yourself: how often do you think about others vs yourself? This alone should convince you to stop caring too much about what others are thinking about you, because they aren’t. We’re all lost in their our own fantasies.

nobody will remember: - your salary - how “busy you were” - how many hours you worked people will remember: - nothing! Do whatever it is that you want to. 💙

> be child prodigy chess master at 4 yrs age, represent England in international junior chess championships > after a tiring 10 hr chess match at 13 yrs age, throws away the match to a 30yr old grandmaster and decides the brain is supposed to be used for greater things than endless chess matches > gets into Cambridge at 16 but they say he is too young, so he develops a theme park game for a year to wait to get old enough for Cambridge. >Writes funny AI actions like NPCs puking if food stall and roller coaster are beside each other > wants to study neuroscience because he is determined to replicate the human brain and AGI using computer science > gets Thiel fellowship but doesn’t drop out > thinks it is stupid to not pursue a phd which was his lifelong dream just because Theil is giving him $1M > sees DeepBlue beat Garry Kasparov, but is more impressed by Kasparov than DeepBlue, because DeepBlue can only play chess but Kasparov’s brain can do all the other things humans can > starts DeepMind with Mustafa Suleyman, Shane Legg with the goal of creating AGI > all VCs ask him to move to SF, he refuses. Believes valley culture of shutting down startups and pivoting to new ideas is not conducive to long term research. Hires from Oxford, Cambridge and UCL > relentless journey of protein folding with John Jumper. Finally when they achieve it - they decide to predict all known protein structures and open source it > agrees to be acquired by Google because chasing AGI will require infinite compute > doesn’t care about billion dollar valuation. Life is too short, and there’s no time to lose to find AGI within his lifetime > shoots entire documentary sitting in London train and cabs What a man. True genius. 🫡

@ChrisMurphyCT You're being played by people who want regulatory capture. They are scaring everyone with dubious studies so that open source models are regulated out of existence.

Helping people without an expectation of return has network effects. Your unconditional giving not just helps directly, but it compounds impact by showing that it’s okay to help others without asking anything in return.

If money couldn't buy me the freedom to work on Omarchy for the sheer love of computers, what good would it be?

The purest reason to make something is not to make money and not even to make the thing. It’s to have the experience of making the thing - and no one can take that from you.