Mark Abraham

"A single binary operator, eml⁡(x,y) = exp⁡(x) − ln⁡(y), together with the constant 1, generates the standard repertoire of a scientific calculator" arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852

@Patriot5715 @kevinnguyendn @GergelyOrosz Sounds like Gemini has it right!

@kevinnguyendn @GergelyOrosz If it can't get something as simple and as fundamental as motion right, what else is it getting wrong. GPT 5.1 didn't have an issue with gravity/Relativity being falsified by 5.4 has definitely gone full retard while Gemini says: You are operating in a different universe.

Opus 4.7 is the first model that feels like it is openly condescending towards me, as the customer with certain prompts. Whatever Anthropic did: I don't like it. If the model is condescending: I shouldn't be paying you to use it; you should be paying me! Who would have thought

@crascit Failing to assert copyright would probably give up any rights if they were inadvertently or maliciously distributed. IANAL

I'm curious whether anyone has a rigorous legal opinion on whether copyright notices in source files that will never be distributed outside of a private company has any legal value at all? Simply stating something like "Copyright 20XX Company YYY" seems of dubious value.

Jensen Huang just called out every CEO who’s been firing people “because of AI.” Jim Cramer asked him why companies are laying people off if AI is supposed to make everyone MORE productive. Jensen's answer: "For companies with imagination, you will do more with more. For companies where the leadership is just out of ideas, they have nothing else to do. They have no reason to imagine greater than they are. When they have more capability, they don't do more." Read that again. The man who built the most important tech company on Earth just told you that if your CEO is using AI to cut headcount, it means one thing: They have no imagination. They have no vision for what comes next. They got handed the most powerful tool in human history and their FIRST instinct was to fire people. This is the CEO of NVIDIA. The company whose chips power every AI system on the planet. If anyone on Earth has the right to say "AI replaces workers," it's Jensen Huang. And he said the OPPOSITE. He said every carpenter could become an architect. Every plumber could become an architect. AI elevates capability. It doesn't eliminate it. But here's where it gets really interesting... During the same interview, Jensen revealed something nobody's talking about: He said AI startups like OpenAI and Anthropic are seeing their revenues increase by one to two billion dollars a WEEK. And he wishes these companies were public so the world could see what he sees. One to two billion per week. That's a $50 to $100 BILLION annualized run rate. For companies that most people think are burning cash and making nothing. The entire Wall Street narrative that "AI companies aren't profitable" might be completely wrong. Jensen sees their numbers. He sees their compute orders. He sees their growth. And he's saying the revenue is real. So if the money IS real, why are other companies firing people? Because they're not building AI products. They're not creating new revenue streams. They're not using AI to expand into new markets. They're using AI as an EXCUSE to cut costs because they ran out of ideas 3 years ago and need something to tell the board. Jensen's company added $500 billion in new orders in 5 months. He expects $1 trillion in cumulative revenue through 2027 from just two product lines. That number doesn't include the new chips, systems, or partnerships announced this week. And he's not cutting people. He's hiring. Because when you have imagination, more capability means MORE opportunity. Not less headcount. Meanwhile Salesforce cut thousands. Meta cut thousands. Amazon cut thousands. All blaming "AI efficiency." Jensen's response: You're out of imagination. He also said something that stuck with me. Cramer asked if he ever thought he'd build a $10 to $20 trillion company while waiting tables at Denny's. His answer: "I was just trying to make it through the shift." Biggest tip he ever got? Two, three dollars. Now he's building tech that increased computing demand by one million times in two years. He announced OpenClaw, which he says is as big as ChatGPT. And he's got 21 months of new business that isn't even counted in the trillion dollar figure yet. When asked how long he plans to keep working? "I'm hoping to die on the job. And I'm not hoping to die anytime soon." This is a man who believes every single thing he's building. And his message to every CEO using AI to justify layoffs is simple... You're not innovating. You're surrendering. The technology wasn't built to shrink companies. It was built to make them limitless. If your leadership can't see that, the problem isn't AI. It's THEM.

@OneManSaas @om_patel5 Articulating it is the value

@om_patel5 The real question is whether Claude found genuinely useful patterns or just impressive-sounding correlations. 14 years of data can make any AI sound insightful, but most "discoveries" about yourself are things you already knew deep down and just never articulated.

this guy fed 14 years of daily journals into Claude Code turned it into 5,000 markdown files of random thoughts, brain dumps, and daily entries he wasn't planning to ever read them again but figured Claude might find patterns he couldn't see so he prompted it from different angles: > therapist perspective > life coach view > relationship patterns > month by month evolution > year by year growth analysis what he got was BRUTAL because his journals were super self-critical Claude didn't even sugarcoat anything it called out patterns exactly as they were > identified a 4-month cycle of project excitement (something we ALL have) → overcommit → burnout → ditch it > spotted connections between health issues across 20 years of medical records > found behavioral patterns he'd been blind to for over a decade he's now using it as his main self-improvement tool prompts Claude monthly for perspective checks and what things he can do better the crazy part is how AI can see patterns in your own life that you refuse to accept or just can't spot it's like having your very own therapist who's read every single thought you've had for as long as you can remember he posted all his prompts on GitHub and wrote a whole blog breakdown i would do this if I had a journal to see what patterns it can spot in my life

"Just grow crops on that land instead of raising cattle." Right. Yes. Absolutely. Have you been outside? Not outside in a city. Outside outside. Countryside outside. Have you looked at what 65% of Britain's agricultural land actually looks like? It looks like the side of a mountain in Snowdonia with soil the depth of a paperback novel and an annual rainfall that would make a rainforest feel overdressed. It looks like the Scottish Borders at 400 metres elevation, where the wind comes in horizontal for nine months of the year and the frost doesn't fully leave until June. It looks like the Devon coastline on 40-degree slopes where no tractor has ever successfully operated without becoming a story people tell in the village pub for generations. It looks like the Brecon Beacons, where the peat bog comes to meet the acidic grassland and the nearest thing to an arable field is someone's daydream. These are not fields that have been selfishly hoarded by farmers for cows while perfectly good crop-growing sits unused. These are fields where the cattle ARE the only possible food production. Where the grass grows because it evolved to grow there, and the cow eats it because it evolved to eat grass. Plant quinoa in mid-Wales and it will stand briefly in the wind, look confused, and die. Plant wheat on a Cumbrian fell and the sheep will watch it fail with the quiet satisfaction of animals that know how this works. The people saying "just grow crops instead" have confused a topographic map with a menu. The land does not offer what the spreadsheet requires. The cow is not blocking a better option. The cow IS the option. It is, in fact, the ONLY option. Go outside. Have a look. Bring a coat.

@allen_drewe @zephyr_z9 Intel's fabbed a competitive product (obviously compare PTL with M5, not a discrete GPU) on its own foundry, which puts them at least a decade and $20B ahead of these companies who you imagine could do it themselves easily with the foundry experience they don't yet have!

@the_mabraham @zephyr_z9 It didn’t prove a damn thing. You’re confusing a laptop chip with integrated graphics that competes with the absolute bottom end with something that moved the needle. Where is the revenue? Where is the volume? Where is the new customers? Haven’t proved anything at all.

I'm not too sure if it will catch up to TSMC USG is also not betting the farm on Intel's catchup They are forcing TSMC to invest and build fabs in US But, Intel is in a very sweet spot rn EMIB has traction, TSMC customers want capacity elsewhere, server CPU tailwind, investments and partnerships with the big bois (Apple, Nvidia, USG)

@allen_drewe @zephyr_z9 Panther Lake proved it already - Intel's design on Intel's fab made a product about on par with Apple's designs made on TSMC's fabs. In any case, those other companies have zero experience at being a foundry, so that sure doesn't translate to starting one now!

@the_mabraham @zephyr_z9 Do you think Intel has experience when they are so far behind? Experience building a car in the 90s hardly translates to building a car today for example.

@TheGingerBill Easy one. It's so my skill set transfers across environments, languages, projects, and employers

I understand some people are forced to be in a terminal all day (e.g. SSH into a remote server) but actively wanting to use one when you don't have a need? I seriously cannot understand the mind of such people, or rather I probably do and I don't want to think like that.

I understand when you have no choice but to use a terminal, but actively loving it? I have never actually understood that. I swear it's either Stockholm Syndrome or a lack of vision of what anything but terminals can do (I'm being vague on purpose).

@allen_drewe @zephyr_z9 But little talent with experience in *building a foundry*

@zephyr_z9 The idea that Intel is going to catch up to Tsmc bc it has investments from Apple and nvidia is peak fever dream fantasy land nonsense. If it was that easy Apple and nvidia would have done it themselves. They already have better talent and deeper pockets than Intel.

@NavinFS @ericdgdev @its_bvisness You didn't read at all!

@the_mabraham @ericdgdev @its_bvisness You're looking at one slide from the middle of a powerpoint. Gotta think harder.

Glad to see that university CS education is still deeply confused about the most basic things (this picture is real and comes directly from a former robotics student of mine)

@NavinFS @ericdgdev @its_bvisness None of the slide mentions anything to do with *execution*, merely processing. So assuming they refer to binary vs text *data* files is reasonable.

@the_mabraham @ericdgdev @its_bvisness The entire slide is about binary executables vs scripts. That's why the last line compares java class files that are read by the JVM to other binary executables (Eg ELF files read by ld-linux). The first 3 sentences are true in this context.

@petergyang @tobi Plenty of free alternatives!

@tobi I wish Slack was a more friendly platform for online communities vs. forcing everyone to upgrade to keep their messages beyond 90 days

Well the consequence of this tweet was that I had a perfectly pleasant meeting with the Slack CEO in Toronto. But they never actually fixed the css 🤷‍♂️

@MarkWillcoxon @krassenstein You presumably vote... Change it :-)

@krassenstein You are correct... What if the US did not spend our money on the military (to protect your freedom as well as mine)? What if US innovation did not spend so much on research and development to keep your medical costs down?

From a friend overseas: “Apologies if this comes across in a dickish way, but coming from a country with free healthcare including prescriptions, free college and university at world class institutions, 35 days paid holidays etc., I find it so sad that Americans get completely screwed by their government. The thing is, you could afford all this “free” stuff too if all your taxes weren’t spent on an outrageously huge military that keeps starting wars.”

@dbru1 @krassenstein Sure they do. Free at the point of consumption, paid for via taxation. And my American employer pays me during my 25 days of formal vacation in Sweden, plus public holidays with pay etc.

@krassenstein No country in the world has “free healthcare including prescriptions” or free college and university. And as for 35 days of paid holiday, I have just one question: Paid by whom?

@ericdgdev @its_bvisness The first three sentences on the slide explicitly refer to not this!

I think in this context, “binary files” means “executable files”. When people say “binary file” without qualifiers (e.g., “run the binary”), it typically refers to a compiled executable. In Unix/Linux, this is reinforced by: • The bin/ directory (short for binaries) • Commands like file hello → “ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable…” • Common phrases: “Download the binary”, “Statically linked binary” So the screenshot is correct — it’s using standard systems terminology where “binary” = native executable, contrasting it with Java’s platform-independent

@EigenGender Cleaning the kitchen after dinner, searching for my wife's lost wallet, playing an online game

it’s very hard to get an unfiltered view of how people spend their time. this post is my best attempt at that: I’d appreciate if you responded to this with what you’ve been doing for the past 30 minutes

@dynodave33 @uncleFredsTweet @mcsquared34 So live somewhere else?

@uncleFredsTweet @mcsquared34 Where I live you have to have personal transportation, there is no other option.

We should catch up with the rest of the industrialized world and have high speed train public transportation options in every single large city in the United States

@GergelyOrosz @hellhax The analogy with a screwdriver is flawed. Can a stochastic parrot make an original response?

@hellhax what kind of question is this? can a scredriver build something completely new? or just stuff previously created by humans? Given it's a human that uses the screwdriver, what a silly question. same with this. The tail doesn't wag the dog!

I really don't think most people appreciate the difference between shipping something in 6 weeks, beating the global competition (first to offer an agent workflow builder!), then fixing up small issues in 6 more weeks. Vs building for 6 months, and no one cares by launch...

@ecoengr @SpencerHakimian Plenty of countries weren't bombed out. Try Sweden, for example

@SpencerHakimian We fail to realize that the post WWII American economy was an anomaly. It had never happened before in the history of the world. It was a confluence of post-depression social & industrial policies, & the U.S. having the only intact industrial base not bombed out from WWII.

Married and home by 30 years old: 1950: 50% 1960: 52% 1970: 48% 1980: 45% 1990: 43% 2000: 35% 2010: 25% 2025: 12%