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should have preconditioned the prompt with 786

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https://x.com/PratyushRT/status/1873428775171670435 Things like this are a big part of why I'm skeptical of just putting a single AI in charge of things (eg. DAOs, funding mechanisms), and favor an open market where many AIs can participate and humans judge AIs based on some sample of outcomes.

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Wrote an expanded version of "how to ship fast" over the weekend. https://www.varunsrinivasan.com/2024/08/17/how-to-ship-fast

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hits a chord for a very narrow domain language that I have little literacy in, but it also seems universally true for many 'mathematical subjects' that I can only ogle at

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"As a mathematical discipline travels far from its empirical source, or still more, if it is a second or third generation only indirectly inspired by ideas coming from "reality", it is beset with very grave dangers. It becomes more and more purely aestheticizing, more and more purely l'art pour l'art. This need not be bad, if the field is surrounded by correlated subjects, which still have closer empirical connections, or if the discipline is under the influence of men with an exceptionally well-developed taste. But there is a grave danger that the subject will develop along the line of least resistance, that the stream, so far from its source, will separate into a multitude of insignificant branches, and that the discipline will become a disorganized mass of details and complexities. In other words, at a great distance from its empirical source, or after much "abstract" inbreeding, a mathematical subject is in danger of degeneration." fascinating from John Von Neumann on applied vs pure math

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"Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else"

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just randomly remembered my days tussling with floating licenses. it is only ~8 years ago but the technological evolutionary changes have been so rapid and prevalent that it feels like decades have passed since.

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Naive prejudice I had about the world when I was 15 turns out to be entirely correct: https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-study-explains-laws-incomprehensible-writing-style-0819

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Aadhaar-based age proofs using Nova https://github.com/avras/nova-aadhaar-qr (Rust lib) https://github.com/avras/aadhaar-age-proof (Web app) https://github.com/avras/aadhaar-age-proof-android (Android app) Demo of web app: https://age-proof.vercel.app/

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"I think it is generally underappreciated that the great miracle of modern computers is not that they can do things that humans cannot. It’s that they can do things that are easy for humans and then do them 100 trillion more times without getting bored."

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/politics seems like a good home for that

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interesting advertisement

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"Quantum computers do not even exist: all constructions you might read about on the internet today are either prototypes not capable of doing any computation larger than 4 bits, or are not real quantum computers, in the sense that while they may have quantum parts in them, they cannot run actually-meaningful computations like Shor's algorithm or Grover's algorithm. Recently, there have been signs that "real" quantum computers are no longer that far away. However, even if "real" quantum computers come soon, the day when regular people have quantum computers on their laptops or phones may well be decades after the day when powerful institutions get one that can crack elliptic curve cryptography."

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Take a break from memecoins to design an airplane with AI for free 🤷‍♂️ https://airplane.physicsx.ai/

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