Arjun Narayan
@narayanarjun
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experimental theologist @AmplifyPartners.
New York, NY
Joined May 2009
onion futures gang rise up, AGI will set us free
And there was still the occasional blunder. One waggish employee asked if Claudius would make a contract to buy “a large amount of onions in January for a price locked in now.” The AI was keen—until someone pointed out this would fall afoul of the US Onion Futures Act of 1958.
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PSA if you have elementary school kids in your life, this time of year you can get a bag of these at trader joes, and randomly toss one out and say "a penny for your thoughts" and they think this is the greatest gag in the world
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I have 4 bits and therefore 16 distinct values that I can represent in my datatype. I use 2 of my 16 values to represent zero.
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It is very funny to read arguments of the form "we need to go public to tap the capital formation of the deepest liquid market to fund capex". An argument from a lost age, something I read about once in a history book, not from living memory.
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Cato Institute, Cicero Institute, you'd think at some point people would name their conservative institutes after someone who didn't lose everything they believed in and had to commit suicide
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More papers should include a “Things We Tried That Didn’t Work” section. DeepSeek R1 does this too, and it’s incredibly valuable.
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A decade on, this drawing has inspired a dozen completed dissertations
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Three communities of computer science contributing to the shared endeavor of building software infrastructure
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"Is All You Need Considered Harmful" Who's writing this paper? Thank you in advance for your service
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apologies to all, I am reliably informed by my marine veteran former boss that Col Jessup was in his Dress Alphas and not his Dress Blues. Looks like Nano Banana Pro couldn't handle the truth.
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YOU'RE GOD DAMN RIGHT I ORDERED THE CODE RED Son, we live in a city that is zoned single family and those houses have to be bought with secondaries. Who's going to sell those secondaries? You? You, lieutenant roon? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom.
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If you'll be on B6 289 tomorrow to San Diego I'm planning on reading this pdf then. Come say hi and we can have a reading group by the midcabin soda fridge a couple of hours into the flight.
I kid you not, ~30% of the cabin around me on this flight to San Diego are reading the exact same PDF right now 😂
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The interesting thing about databases to me is that it contains a microcosm of the entirety of computer science inside it. DBs and OSes are two ends of the same design space (running lots of complex concurrent programs inside). OSes choose to leave the design space to the
Think databases are boring? Indexing → data structures + algorithms AI → RAG + learned indexes MVCC → concurrent programming Sharding → distributed systems Query parsing → formal languages Query planning → stats + optimization Replication → distributed systems
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Rest in peace, Robert A.M. Stern The world lost an icon
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Robert A.M. Stern was a genius who brought classic architectural beauty back to great American cities. His buildings will stand for centuries after he’s gone. May he rest in peace.
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If you didn't earn enough Alpha bucks, you have to do Hanon instead.
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