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Yaron (Ron) Minsky

Yaron (Ron) Minsky

@yminsky

Occasional OCaml programmer. Host of @signalsthreads. @[email protected] @yminsky.bsky.social https://t.co/kiUGRvWOO2

Katılım Haziran 2009
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Rachael Bedard
Rachael Bedard@RBMD1982·
78 degrees would feel amazing rn, no?
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Anil Madhavapeddy
Anil Madhavapeddy@avsm·
5 days to ICFP camera ready, and SPJ is helping 'red ink' our package management calculus paper! The heat is on!
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Yaron (Ron) Minsky@yminsky·
A fun chat with with Jacob Baskin about software architecture, mechanism design, and systems design.
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Nick Bergson-Shilcock
Nick Bergson-Shilcock@nicholasbs·
I finally found a good way to run agents unmonitored. A shocking number of people run `claude code` or similar without a sandbox. They either `--dangerously-skip-permissions` or tediously approve each request, which quickly becomes mindless and almost as bad as YOLOing. This opens you up to mistakes (e.g., `rm -rf`), prompt injection, and supply chain attacks. The right way is to run agents in their own VMs, but that's annoying to set up correctly, so most people don't do it and just hope nothing goes wrong. Enter: @ssh_exe_dev. You can have a VM running in 30 seconds. And it makes all the stuff that's normally hard or annoying (secure web access, auth, API secrets, sending/receiving email, etc) super easy. (This is not an ad! I'm just a paying customer, who came across @ssh_exe_dev because it was founded by @davidcrawshaw , a @RecurseCenter alum.)
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Anil Madhavapeddy
Anil Madhavapeddy@avsm·
Also, a multi-year effort to make the OCaml compiler relocatable landed in this tree. Binary caches (uv style) are entirely possible now once a few downstream packages (like ocamlfind) have patches to add support
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The latest OCaml release (5.5) has some great stuff. Module dependent functions are a big step, and we've been waiting for it to land foreeever. Polymorphic parameters is great too. discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-5-5-0-…

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Yaron (Ron) Minsky@yminsky·
The latest OCaml release (5.5) has some great stuff. Module dependent functions are a big step, and we've been waiting for it to land foreeever. Polymorphic parameters is great too. discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-5-5-0-…
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Yaron (Ron) Minsky@yminsky·
@zeynep Ah, fair enough. I was largely responding to Amanda's posts, which seemed personal and reasonable (and not about ultrasound). But Twitter can mix things up!
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zeynep tufekci@zeynep·
@yminsky The entire conversation was sparked by the Midjourney ultrasound scan, which is being debated pretty extensively. Symptomatic MRI is a whole different ballgame. That’s not population screening.
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zeynep tufekci
zeynep tufekci@zeynep·
So lucky that we’re not in an era with any downsides for “our whole lives to be recorded” and with our physical and digital signal density to go to 10,000x. Nothing but a “worship of human life” would come of that. Not in 2026.
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this will be true across all walks of life I would expect our whole lives to be recorded and the sheer signal density of your physical and digital presence to go 10,000x agents and computers to sift through all of it really it’s a form of worship of human life

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Yaron (Ron) Minsky@yminsky·
@zeynep I'm not sure where the ultrasound conversation is coming from. Amanda was taking about an MRI.
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Yaron (Ron) Minsky@yminsky·
@zeynep I don't know how useful it is to pick apart the specific observations of a non expert missing about their own health experiences. It's true she could have dug more onto the details here! But the underlying point still has something to recommend it.
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Yaron (Ron) Minsky@yminsky·
@zeynep There's a lot of decision making that's driven by very broad brush best practices that are optimized at a population level, and are often very far from optimal when considered at an individual level.
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Yaron (Ron) Minsky@yminsky·
@zeynep It's just not the case that the real world medical system is optimal, or even particularly good at making decisions in a way that maximizes the information content from tests and lab results.
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Yaron (Ron) Minsky@yminsky·
@samth @RBMD1982 For sure. But I don't have much faith that the medical system does a good job of optimizing in the face of people's psychology. Certainly the public health system did a very bad job of this.
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