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principal software artist

The Netherlands
Joined October 2017
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imagination, not intelligence, made us human
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never been a better time to get really good at something
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great unblocker for those tasks you dont want to do
I’m at least 100x more productive than I was before AI. And that’s with a much better quality of life; I can get more done in a day running errands than I did in a month of being chained to my desk. If AI doesn’t kill us all, I can’t help but think we’re headed for some really great times.
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cool prompt
Mocny ekesperyment lata po necie:, wrzucasz do swojego modelu AI taki obrazek i komendę: „Wypełnij ten pokój tym, co o mnie wiesz” Przyznam, że mój wynik mnie zaskoczył, to znaczy zawsze byłem świadomy, że oni zbierają informacje o nas… ale co innego być świadomym a co innego zobaczyć to na takim obrazku, trochę mrozi krew w żyłach ;)
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tough decisions, i dont think i can make it 1d 23hrs
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been loving claude artifacts for visual understanding
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all hail our new alien god. how may i serve thee?
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weight neurosurgery
We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math. It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training. We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵 Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weigh…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
LLM was given weights explicitly as text in prompt and used code/forward passes (per authors' logs) to ablate Qwen looping direction, a known thinking-mode issue per model card. Primarily fixed repetition in that mode, not general 'natively' improving weights/math. rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-sp… github.com/RikiyaT/lm_und… huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-0… huggingface.co/RikiyaT/Qwen3.…
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my 11yr old kid has been burning 1b tokens a day vibe coding, with his younger 5yr old brother game testing what a time to be alive.
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live long and prosper
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im starting to wonder if im in a simulation and everyone else is just an npc of course you all say you are not exactly what an npc would say
If P = NP but all the things we thought were not P just have huge constants, then the only reasonable conclusion is that we are in a simulation and these constants were chosen to be inaccessible to denizens of the simulation
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game dev solved
Had early access to Genie 4 from @GoogleDeepMind. This is a fully generated, interactive world from a single starting prompt (environment + character) 🤯 Feels like a massive step forward - you can now prompt to change the world and interact with it. With native audio!
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i cant tell if im in a simulation anymore
This is Genie 4, our most realistic and interactive world model yet. 🌐 Explore dynamic environments in real time to see how the scene responds, sounds, and how the people in it move, react, and speak.
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i think i know a few of these words
This morning we are releasing the largest proof in the history of mathematics: A formalization of the Classification of Finite Simple Groups (CFSG)! Over 43 million lines of Lean, 715 papers and books, and 100 substantive fixes to the literature, this is truly an enormous theorem. Well done team!
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ai makes answers cheap. the moat is discovering questions nobody knew needed asking.
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last few weeks platform & sec teams are working over time
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: "I don't even know a dramatic enough word to use… models can find bugs that are outside of the normal threat model of what we think a hacker can do… hardware-level, insane stuff… I no longer think we're gonna be able to just patch all the bugs." It's over.
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have to fight for every cent of a raise but another 5k for tokens gets signed off instantly
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still waiting for the penny to drop. knowledge work has no moat.
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fuck it. floor it.
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