Jim Miraflor
@futilityfunc
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This course literally shows how to design scalable systems in under 1 hour
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Why abolish Congress? Let's abolish elections. Time for sortition democracy. Let representatives be statistically representative.
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Something I told 13 yo: Many if not most philosophical controversies are artifacts of trying to using natural language at a higher resolution than it will support.
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Narcissism is a robust predictor of belief in conspiracy theories. https://t.co/PUB7UFbXcA
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The official @jackbmeyer 2025 holiday gift guide: You can’t go wrong with Douglass North’s Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (1990). Anyone would enjoy such a landmark account of how institutional constraints come to shape human behavior.
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he listed the top repos and resources for learning low-level GPU programming and working with inference engines. if you love LLMs, you’ll love this too.
someone kindly reached out and asked for systems engineering resources so I shared my top recommended repos and resources they should skim though and familiarize themselves with. I figured more people could benefit from this list, so I explained and linked them below:
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Pure poetry
Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I
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Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I
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The Hive Mind Paradox Scientists just proved something wild: a swarm of bees is mathematically identical to a single AI learning algorithm. Not 'similar to.' Not 'inspired by.' Identical. Here's why this changes everything we thought about intelligence 🧵 For centuries,
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Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the scale of #inequality over time and across space. The third edition of the report, prefaced by @JosephEStiglitz & @Jayati1609 comes at a challenging political
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The number of Nobel Peace Prizes awarded this century for anti-colonial or anti-imperial struggles: zero.
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A cool concept in topological data analysis is the simplicial complex. It connects points with edges, triangles, and higher order analogs. By gradually increasing each point's neighborhood size it captures data's topological structure (e.g. voids, holes) at different scales.
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New book from @Lethain: "Crafting Engineering Strategy" I haven't read it yet, but judging by his previous books ("Staff Engineer" and "An Elegant Puzzle") I'm sure this is a good read too.
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Even in OS, the Unix-ish view is that everything is a file
The paper says the best way to manage AI context is to treat everything like a file system. Today, a model's knowledge sits in separate prompts, databases, tools, and logs, so context engineering pulls this into a coherent system. The paper proposes an agentic file system where
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The paper says the best way to manage AI context is to treat everything like a file system. Today, a model's knowledge sits in separate prompts, databases, tools, and logs, so context engineering pulls this into a coherent system. The paper proposes an agentic file system where
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Sell your software books right now and pick this up
Groki: Grok-powered KiCad schematic review, exploration, power analysis, and part replacements via deep research. Evolve your EE workflow! @juliankc @KodaClement @ernestyalumni @unhinged_evan
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Counterpoint, though
Whenever I hear someone say "science has no idea how the brain works!", 9 times out of 10, they're trying to sell you their own patented woo. We know a lot about how the brain works! There are deep mysteries still, but a century of neuroscience hasn't exactly been wasted. 1/N
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What many ppl don’t get: Once you miss a concept in math—maybe you don’t quite get how functions work—you’re *screwed*, unless you do a hardcore catchup boot camp, in which case you’ll be fine. But schools don’t do this— they keep advancing. Only parents offer this service.
all my life i've been told that i'm naturally gifted at math because i'm chinese. straight A student. math major at ucla. but here's what people don't know: when i was in 8th grade, i got a B+ in geometry. my dad said "that's unacceptable", bought a geometry textbook, and
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Why has India failed to industrialize? The main reason seems to be that India’s business and finance elites don't want industrialization. In order for industrialization to occur, they need to be repressed. Financialization is incompatible with industrialization.
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