Kyle Mathews

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If someone ever makes a documentary about electric-sql.com they should name it "Straight Outta Postgres"

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it's very good at both finding a whole bunch of scattered resources and picking out the best of them. Also it does a superb job summarizing all the resources into a report.

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Your periodic ritual reminder.

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sorry which tool is this?

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heh imagine now! It must be weirding them out.

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First Deep Research blocks me and now Claude — I guess that's the sign from the AI overlords that it's time to go take a bath.

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OpenAI's Deep Research feels like as big of leap as the original ChatGPT. Also, in a strange way, I feel more keenly sad I didn't have it when I was younger than ChatGPT. So many questions I could have blitzed through...

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Grand Tour's trip across Mongolia has some spectacular scenery https://www.amazon.com/The-Grand-Tour-Season-3/dp/B086VX9KF4

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Yeah, DC, Putin, Xi, etc. wannabe great men roving around

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Heh not specifically. Just that last chapter has haunted my thoughts now and then since I first read it

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as a self-described "Hater" that sounds about right

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Huh it almost looks like the Canada/Mexico trade war was just a smoke screen for the ongoing attempt to take over the federal government spending

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Yup he's a "strong man" making other countries respect us

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It's a field-day for megalothymia!

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"The Bitter Lesson"  (tldr): Do not "human tweak" shit that is likely to end up "just working™️" as an emergent property of some real-world scaling laws that are in play.

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It seems like "The Bitter Lesson" from AI is just a general lesson for the design of any system with emergence. It's very fun to tinker with a system's details but a simple design with emergence always works better http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

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Something very on-the-nose about investing 500b to build AI infrastructure and calling it “Stargate” A bit like Reagan “Star Wars” or Japan’s “5th gen computing” Great tech enters history obliquely. Cul de sacs start in on-the-nose ways, even if they achieve great heights. Eg internet as arpanet was oblique, space program that stagnated with Apollo was on-the-nose. Crypto was oblique, “private blockchains,” CBDCs and e-ID schemes are on-the-nose. The Alexnet genesis event and transformers were oblique, “alignment” tech is on the nose. Landing reusable boosters was oblique. SLS is on-the-nose. On-the-nose history-making goals are for politicians. Tech is most interesting when oblique. In the last decade SV tech in particular has lost its obliquity. Ironically, it now seems to start with ever-more ideological manifestos the way weak “alt” tech visions used to. Big money is always insecure so goes on-the-nose. The small money p,aging on the margins otoh is worth keeping an eye on.

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AI really changes the calculus on API design. It is perfect at verbose but very explicit code but struggles at elegant but high-conceptual-density APIs.

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A common way designs fail is the designer eliminates "ugliness" from the design too early, before they understand the space. Similar to Andy Grove's famous management quote — “Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos”. The chaos and ugliness hold great ideas — if you can tolerate them long enough.

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