I TA a complexity theory class, and am trying to make my students laugh before the worst week of the quarter hits.

RT @hdevalence: pov: you are amanda askell updating the claude system prompt

Today was my last day helping @windsurf transition teams, and I just wanna publicly say how damn awesome Windsurf’s (largely unsung) Summer interns have been. Truly a weird internship, but they’re a genuinely amazing group of people and engineers. They just kept going.

The cope is usually: “I thought this might not be up-to-date.”. Believe me, if I am even close to considering a job change, I will remove the bold text saying I don’t want to change jobs on almost every page.

I’d say I’m surprised at how often this deliberate misreading happens but honestly, I’d be surprised if it happened less

RT @QuantaMagazine: Earlier this year, a 17-year-old high school student named Hannah Cairo solved a 40-year-old mystery about how waves be….

maybe now uv exists… i can fix her?.

topology spurned again

I honestly very much enjoy reading these things, and I think many of these writers just expect their readers to have the media literacy to know they’re not an expert and they don’t think this topic is the be-all-and-end-all, but it can sometimes be hard to tell from the writing.

“Big meta signing bonuses ? Hmm, what would Arthur Crock write about this?”. “Something happened to a Waymo? Time for my Pulitzer.”. “I last wrote code in freshman year, but my take on ‘vibe coding’ is super unique. ”. (This isn’t a subtweet, aware some writers I like follow me).

God give me the confidence of (especially Substack) writers who write on basically every Silicon Valley hot topic, regardless of their knowledge of the topic or its actual importance, as if either of those things merits them trying to put together a well-written think piece.

My hot take is this book is a mid-at-best remnant of one of the most pseudoscientific parts of cybernetics. Meadows and Forrester both did cool work, but this particular book is basically all the most obvious, substance-less, and useless pop-sci in their research.

RT @JacobTref: Science writing from the last two years that stuck with me:. (1/many).

orbifolds were almost called foldimanis or manifoldeds. either would have been better than what we got, but i also want to suggest:.- foldifolds .- folded manifolds.- stabilicosetfolds.- thurstifolds.- etale lie groupoids.- quotifolds.- those base things for Seifert-fibered tori.

Did you mean “…is an affront to all that is good”?.

RT @KelseyTuoc: this is now out as a paper. if this result is real (captures meaningful, persistent learning in a replicable way at this co….

RT @charliermarsh: Today, we’re announcing the preview release of ty, an extremely fast type checker and language server for Python, writte….

(Or far more likely my Twitter is not very SEO-ed and linked compared to and the Mashle character and the footballer, so they didn’t find me. But we don’t let facts get in the way of fun on this account).

Some people in my DMs were arguing this person’s case. I agree that missing the initial follow back is beyond acceptable. What I’m worried about is really *today*. It implies they either don’t think I’m interesting enough to stalk, or they stalked me and still didn’t follow back.

definitely gonna get in trouble for ~inconsistent branding~ but here’s the vibe *i* am talking about when i say vibe coding

is it rude if an acquaintance sends you a recruiting email, but they still haven't followed you back on twitter.