Conrad Kramer
@conradev
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Co-Founder @SoftwareAppsInc, previously @BelferCenter, Shortcuts @Apple. you should copy that floppy
West Hollywood ↔️ SF
Joined June 2009
Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation. It carries an ethical and spiritual weight, for every design choice expresses a vision of humanity. The Church therefore calls all builders of #AI to cultivate moral discernment as a
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It turns out that America is another country. Who knew?
The UK House of Lords sent this letter on Friday. The Lords and UK NGOs are concerned US tech isn't "quaking in our boots" at their censorship orders. 100% correct. We're not afraid of you at all. You want our free speech? Come and take it.
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Introducing a new type of civic tech made possible by AI. Every citizen should have a live, systems view of their government and today we bring that to SF! Track gov entities, spending, news, and more in real time. With LLMs, we can bring this to every city. Who's next?
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Area for Software Inc. Naming + visual identity for Sky. https://t.co/oRsi5jIfak
area.tech
Brand identity for Sky.
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So happy for my Figma friends today! I met @zoink via Twitter DM (!) in 2009 (!!) as a beta tester for an app I made (!!!). Dylan inspires me so much; it's so satisfying to see him create an amazing product, technology, & company, while being such a kind and thoughtful person.
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If you're indexing Ethereum and want to use a hosted indexer, please use @indexsupply. There is no second place.
Hate to say it, but The Graph feels like an abandoned project. → I opened 50+ GitHub issues in the past 2 months, most still unanswered → Subgraphs keep failing with obscure, impossible-to-debug errors → The UX of publishing subgraphs and GRT billing is ... just bad
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"I am an enthusiast, but not a crank."
Letter from Wilbur Wright to the Smithsonian Institution, requesting information about attempts at human flight. "I am about to begin a systematic study of the subject in preparation for practical work. [...] I am an enthusiast, but not a crank."
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Huge congrats to Dylan and the Figma team! When Dylan started his Thiel Fellowship in 2012, he used the $100K no strings attached grant to get bunk beds for him and Evan to get cranking in San Fransisco. Today, announcing the Figma IPO!!
Sharing an update on @figma: we publicly filed our S-1 with the SEC today, and have applied to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “FIG.” https://t.co/cagsA51to4
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all of my guy friends are stoked that i'm on tbpn today
BREAKING: @AmbrookAg raises a $26.1M Series A to modernize farm finance, led by @ThriveCapital and @zoink. @ciaomack (Co-founder & CEO) is joining us at 1:50 PM PST to break it all down.
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1/ Export controls, national supercomputers, poaching scientific talent... are not new! New preprint from me on the global race to build the first supercomputers for numerical weather prediction (NWP) and its relevance to the modern AI race today:
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More Tillis: Says solar is "increasingly becoming viable because of storage" and is key to meeting data center power demand. "What you have done is you have created a blip in power service because there isn't going to be a natural gas power generator any time soon."
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Increasingly arguments about LLM coding will be less technical and more political ("anti-worker"), because it's clear the technical objection just isn't there. In this post, Alex and Claude start with an ASN.1 feature and end with an LLVM compiler change. https://t.co/AD73uT16gN
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we sent some of our customers disposable cameras so they could document their lives for us through their own eyes, and just got the first film back. here's Double M Ranch in TX
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New longform @inkandswitch essay! 📜 Malleable Software by me, Josh Horowitz, @pvh and Todd Matthews. https://t.co/3Xhk888Uuh It's about why people need agency over their software tools, and how to make that happen. Here's the quick tl;dr... 1/
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The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users...
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Are you sick of Hinge? Do you wish you could get matched to someone based on, say, your values and shared affinity for Astral Codex Ten? If you’re willing to fill out a 60-question survey and tell us your three favorite Substacks we’ll give you a romantic and/or platonic match
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Spot on!
$140 billion. That’s what companies spend every year on market research trying to understand their customers. Most of it goes to outdated methods: slow surveys, lagging panels, and static reports. AI is flipping the model. Instead of expensive human surveys, research startups
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every once in a while i catch myself wondering what https://t.co/OMX1A2AL4N has been up to ever since their $6.5m raise in late '23 to rethink personal computing. same with https://t.co/DqBU16xobf, they were doing some neat stuff
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