Bourke Floyd, IV
@BourkeFloyd
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no shortcuts for the tried and true -undefined
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Joined October 2022
INVICTUS by William Ernest Henley … It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.
Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are
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@signulll Ok, let’s do it, but rigorously enforcing no gaming of the system @nikitabier
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@mmealling @rookisaacman We are going to build a Moon base
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BREAKING: The U.S. Senate has just officially confirmed Jared Isaacman as the new head of NASA. At just 42 years old, he now becomes the youngest person in history to lead the agency. Congrats @rookisaacman! To the Moon and Mars!🚀
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In today's episode of programming horror... In the Python docs of random.seed() def, we're told "If a is an int, it is used directly." [1] But if you seed with 3 or -3, you actually get the exact same rng object, producing the same streams. (TIL). In nanochat I was using the
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📢 WebGPU is now officially supported across Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari → https://t.co/TNB1bpcQtq Access high-performance 3D graphics and AI capabilities right in the browser with this major milestone.
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Career Update: After almost four memorable years, I moved on from Apple last week, closing an unforgettable chapter of my professional journey. I’m sincerely grateful for the opportunities to work on so many amazing projects and products across the company. Though many of them
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We’ve received approval to develop Space Launch Complex-37 for Starship operations at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Construction has started. With three launch pads in Florida, Starship will be ready to support America’s national security and Artemis goals as the world’s
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Arrived in Japan and had fresh OJ from vending machine with my fam 🍊🥰
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Successfully migrated to my personal handle @BourkeFloyd from my initials handle @chbfiv 🤙 Thank you @XHandles !
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I think in the past, to some extent, growing up meant coming to terms with reality. But we have diluted the truth so severely at this point that age is only a loosely correlated proxy to whether or not someone is a proper thinking adult. There are plenty of options for “truth”
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My most amusing interaction was where the model (I think I was given some earlier version with a stale system prompt) refused to believe me that it is 2025 and kept inventing reasons why I must be trying to trick it or playing some elaborate joke on it. I kept giving it images
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FSD saves lives. It happened to me tonight. Going through New Mexico from the Tesla Shareholders' meeting, the head-on collision (75 mph) with oncoming traffic was averted. Just a broken mirror, busted window, and a bit of a shaken mind. Thank you Elon, thank you Tesla, thank
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BREAKING NEWS: CARDANO–SPACEX NEGOTIATION IS BACK ON THE TABLE FOR 2026 😱😱😱 @IOHK_Charles confirmed that initial talks with @SpaceX have already begun, with plans to renegotiate next year once Cardano’s tech stack fully meets SpaceX’s ambitious needs. Midnight's
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BREAKING: Tesla shareholders have officially approved Elon Musk’s 2025 CEO Performance Award Plan with 75% voting in favor! Full steam ahead into a future of autonomy, robotaxis, Optimus and sustainable abundance!
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The next video in the Laplace Transform sequence is up! https://t.co/Ln1CXghmBj Here, we dig into a concrete example, the forced oscillator. Some of you may remember that this was relevant for studying why light slows down in a medium.
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