PatternShift
@pattern_shift
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Composer/producer, computational scientist, sci-fi author, martial artist, explorer, amateur philologist. No longer here: https://t.co/UjIfEwSGye
Longmont, CO
Joined April 2018
> Scare a software engineer with 4 words: npm install, pip install
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study computational biology
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Did my best to give the weirdest possible talk on software for cancer informatics. Featuring: - historical linguistics memes - cancer as a crime scene - lisp - music composer business hacks - the etymology of 'etymology' - spiritual alignment w/@htmx_org
https://t.co/XXedIMZIGx
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I have no words to add, just some music to play while everything burns down:
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Benjamin Kamphaus · album · 2025 · 22 songs
Here is why I am afraid of AI. I understand how management, boards, investors think. They are all overextended, barely able to keep their head above the water. They've already outsourced their thinking to ChatGPT because they just can't keep up with the changing times. They do
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"you can't fool an honest man"
PSA: there’s a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups at the same time. He’s been preying on YC companies and more. Beware. I fired this guy in his first week and told him to stop lying / scamming people. He hasn’t stopped a year later. No more excuses.
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violating IP laws and operating in gray areas around them is OK b/c it benefits the investment class and only harm people who actually make things. secret moonlighting & overemployment are bad b/c they harm the investment class and benefit people who make things. got it.
@_kenfernando Knowing which rules to bend or break is part of the founder journey It doesn’t justify all rule breaking
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LLMs are a bubble, y'all
@_kenfernando Knowing which rules to bend or break is part of the founder journey It doesn’t justify all rule breaking
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https://t.co/iHa0Lx33bB ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
YC asked “Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage.” in their application for the longest time and you're all still surprised about the cluelies and sohams of the world
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TIL css actually stands for 'complexity shit show'
let me take this opportunity to point out again that the VB live debugger was the best ive ever used: you could drag the execution point up above a loop, rewrite it live & then step through the new code no compiling, no visible reloading, no build chain pure, unadulterated flow
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let me take this opportunity to point out again that the VB live debugger was the best ive ever used: you could drag the execution point up above a loop, rewrite it live & then step through the new code no compiling, no visible reloading, no build chain pure, unadulterated flow
Visual Basic made it possible for 14-year olds to create usable GUI apps with no training in 30 minutes. Web dev is a total failure
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risk aversion has straight up destroyed hacker culture in programming go tinker on something. make it weird. sheesh.
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veritas odium parit
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imagine thinking the reason ai hasn’t made all our software dreams come true yet is because people just aren’t hustling enough
The gap between what AI can do vs what we're building with it is MASSIVE right now. That gap is your opportunity to build. This might be the best time ever to start an AI company.
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what is it called if you want both healthy markets and healthy safety nets? if you're against both political corruption & the tyranny of the majority? naïve dumbass or something? I guess I'm that.
Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
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someone plz make AI to protect us from statistically illiterate rich people
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holy shit this dude is insufferable
At a party tonight with politically active San Franciscans and we were just thinking... wow, NYC is cooked.
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This is what I hate about LLM fanaticism. Excellence in ML/AI requires model skepticism: having a nuanced understanding of precision/recall, ROC analysis, Bayesian modeling of priors etc, not euphorically recounting anecdotes.
Woman has lingering sore throat. Doctor tells her to wait it out, ChatGPT suggests an ultrasound, which reveals…aggressive thyroid cancer. I tell all my friends and family - please get a second opinion on medical stuff from AI. It might save your life!
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