Happy husband and father. Trying to make the world a teeny bit better each day with my family and friends. Teaching people to love the new era of computing.
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I haven't tweeted much about it, but I am running a part-time, 6 week program this summer at Fractal to help professionals master AI agents.
It's based on everything I learned from training ~100 engineers over the last 2 years. Check to see if your employer will pay for it :)
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We should be more ambitious with the software we build:
danluu.com/ambitious/
![Since early this year, Michael Malis (of pgrust) has been showing me interesting things he's done and saying
[W]e should be more ambitious1 with the software we build
There is, understandably, a lot of skepticism about projects like pgrust because there are so many low-quality AI-generated projects out there. If I didn't know Malis and didn't look into it, I would just assume that pgrust was another vibe slopped project that's never going to work. But I know Malis well enough to trust his work without looking into it, and if you look into it a bit, you'll see that in testing pgrust, he's testing thoroughly enough that he's even uncovering real bugs in Postgres, such as this numerical bug that can cause valid SP-GiST operations to fail, this format cache bug that can cause incorrect results from JSONPath, this pgcrypto bug that can cause later operations to fail, multiple memory safety bugs in the dictionary loader, this money overflow bug, etc.
This isn't to say that pgrust i...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HVbOGdKboAAAbtO.png?name=orig)
ALT Since early this year, Michael Malis (of pgrust) has been showing me interesting things he's done and saying [W]e should be more ambitious1 with the software we build There is, understandably, a lot of skepticism about projects like pgrust because there are so many low-quality AI-generated projects out there. If I didn't know Malis and didn't look into it, I would just assume that pgrust was another vibe slopped project that's never going to work. But I know Malis well enough to trust his work without looking into it, and if you look into it a bit, you'll see that in testing pgrust, he's testing thoroughly enough that he's even uncovering real bugs in Postgres, such as this numerical bug that can cause valid SP-GiST operations to fail, this format cache bug that can cause incorrect results from JSONPath, this pgcrypto bug that can cause later operations to fail, multiple memory safety bugs in the dictionary loader, this money overflow bug, etc. This isn't to say that pgrust i...
is there a You Can See Everything tpot group chat yet? If not, I need one. I want to discuss this movie so badly, but I don't want to spoil people.
I need 1password to build me a feature that systematically rotates my passwords every month, and sends the updates passwords securely to all the services I'm signed up for.
Security just can't be a wild west like this anymore, we need secure protocols
this is cyclical, by the way.
I encourage you to play long games, so you can compound something forever. One such thing you can compound is 'career capital' (what gabriel calls 'status'), which is, like regular capital, non-zero-sum by nature. It is not a ranking.
my most schizo political theory is that elite overproduction and ennui, and intra-elite competition, are leading to an externalized sense of depression and pessimism, whereby we need to continuously raise taxes for welfare for [other people who are not me] until I am happy.
A lot of this started on the left, because they have this extended idea of family (socialism/communism), where the family and the state should merge together until everyone feels loved and supported by their state.
But I notice that it has caught on among the new right, as well
you, too, could be demoing production software that you built during your first week at @fractaltechnyc if you join our next Accelerator program, starting November 7th!
If you have ever thought "wow there are all these things I wish I could do with AI", then sign up now!
Tonight I demoed my AI event ROI capture tool at @stripe with our @VCPlatform NYC crew. I built this in my first week at @fractaltechnyc during summer bootcamp and over the weeks I realized how much fun it is demoing things! I love it so much, makes me want to build more things
Is there a cheap way to get subsidized credits for messing around with AI videos? They're very expensive right now, expensive enough that it's hard to just throw credits at the problem.
extremely cool initiative
Intelligence is an awful thing to WASTE!
20% of us max our AI plans every week, a huge waste of intelligence!
What if we could pool that expiring intelligence & point the swarm at projects aimed at building the world of abundance.
A tutor for every child,
Cures for rare diseases,
Cheap, abundant energy?
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I'm curious to see how people are using system one models like Clairic and Jev in their applications. Anyone want to do some show and tell?
a brand new model paradigm! introducing 𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚒𝚌: a system one model for extracting, computing, estimating, and predicting values from unstructured inputs.
blog.cloudflare.com/clairic-…
It still needs a lot of work, but here's a gameplay teaser for the Odyssey card game I've been making over the last week or so. Everything you see in the trailer is real gameplay. I thought it was pretty cool.
Cell phone use is not an addiction, it's an adaptation.
There are plenty of addictions inside the cell phone, but the reason it's hard to cut out of your life is because you are trying to keep up with the current social order. You're trying to be useful to your society.
Cell phone addiction is an absolute thermonuke to the brain and nobody 'takes it seriously' because it is not clear that there is any solution in a world where the revealed preference of everyone across the globe, regardless of income, race, age, any factor whatsoever, would rather be on their phone than do *anything* else. Deciding "I use this too much" and meaningfully altering one's behaviour doesn't seem to have much success for any of the very small minority of people with the sentience or self-reflection to realize how bad it is. Most people seem to think of it as an unproductive habit at most, rather than an addiction. Any attempt to speak seriously about this is met with derision, accusations of pretentiousness. There is no real solution to it. The future of human cognition fifty years down the line is horrifying if you stop and think about it for even a moment.
"The economically useful work is inside the cellphone, there's a billion dollars inside the cell phone, if only I knew how to use it the right way!"
This thought process isn't even wrong, it is mostly right. The problem has more to do with a lack of good technology education