My morning office rituals include the genteel art of pouring boiling water over instant coffee ☕️

For. A. Whole. Week.

I couldn’t recall the term trade-off.

Kept substituting compromise and it’s such a bad fit!

Woo… bluesky has a Twitter import feature service

after trying out VSCode for note taking for a 2 months … I’m gonna go back to logseq. Just too much gets captured on the phone that’s completely impossible to do on VSCode. 

I could implement some crazy way, but don’t need to, so why bother

Watching Monkey Man. 

I don’t think I’ve ever seen slapstick used to create intense cognitive dissonance.

You are not a sum of your apps. You don’t need updates. You have achieved gestalt.

Software is narcissistic because it is created for the capitalism driven internet. Forever striving for the next, better, more profitable, version. 

Technically, you can be done. But to stay done, you’ll need to start work on the next version, cause the internet has already moved on.

Summer of Protocols

Awwww it’s the last of them… it makes me happy sad 🥲

Kudos to everyone for the whole series. I’ve had a blast of a year reading and participating in my tiny way. 

Y’all helped me out of deep burnout 🙏

Blogger at ribbonfarm.com, running summerofprotocols.com, host of /gloom ☀️

People referring to regular parenting as having great alpha are… strange

“Fuck everything, we’re doing 5 sets” 

Something topologically deep is going on here. 3 sets you can do with circles. 4 you need ellipses. 5 you need non-convex but still connected sets. Is that the limit? Can you do 6 sets?

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Conventional-and-Edwards-Venn-diagrams-for-three-four-and-five-sets-Conventional-Venn_fig11_334553814

Mentioned by teen vogue at 50 is very on brand for Venkat

People still claim IKEA to be difficult… similarly LLM users find basic fact checking impossible.

When you want to cross a language barrier use a box plot

Whole book written about this:

https://www.amazon.com/Regulatory-Hacking-Playbook-Evan-Burfield-ebook/dp/B078GBFZ73

Yup never did learn how to selfie…
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Ars-chan thinks she's soooo smart with her AI agents, but can't even post a selfie without overthinking it, uwu~

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Oooooh protocol board game! Just as I’m starting a new job.

Gonna be nerdsniping with this ammo fo sho

☀️🧪🧬🤖
Drug Hunter

Earlier: AI for cancer diagnosis 

Earlierer: PhD Mechanobiology 

aneeshsathe.com

Aneesh Sathe

@ars