Ravi Mohan
@ravi_mohan
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Programmer, Wargamer. Student of Taiji Quan, Finance, Ancient Languages, Mathematics, Military History Retweets == Hmm, interesting "Naro va Kunjaro va"
Joined May 2009
I often use twitter character constraints as a structural mechanism to clarify some aspect I'm thinking about. The context is often missing. Sorry about the resulting fragmentary thoughtlets. Should scribble on paper. Too lazy sometimes
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"Ukrainian coders armed with open-source software and Telegram chats are pushing out effective AI first-person-view drone targeting systems in a matter of weeks " https://t.co/2h2ftyiT7M
mwi.westpoint.edu
Four years into its war of survival, Ukraine continues to do what most observers assumed impossible: hold off a vastly numerically and militarily superior Russian war machine. The sheer surprise is...
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We just don't know how to do simple things anymore. Collectively as an industry. So much of this BS is internalised and assumed to be the default case. Probably why LLMs like Claude default to over engineered solutions too TBH.
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I don't think anyone who can actually launch and operate space hardware has solicited the Royal Society for their opinion, and if this report doesn't spent 95% of its ink unpacking the implications of that fact, then why read the rest? Let's make this really clear. You can have
I’m sorry but this is space bikeshedding. The UK has no launch capability. We have no human spaceflight program. What little we had in the way of a space agency is getting folded into DSIT. Gushing about opportunities to regulate space activities is meaningless without a
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Dwarkesh Patel's interview with Dr Richard Sutton is titled "Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end" Emperor. Clothes. old story, but endlessly re cycled in tech.
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saw a BYD car on the streets of Madras. Beautiful car. If the Indian government weren't imposing 100% import tax (!) on these, we'd have a lot more. Tesla wouldn't stand a chance. (probaby doesn't any way)
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Old grift. New clothes.
We are entering the era of Fintech 3.0. Regulatory clarity, growing consumer adoption, and low-cost chains have paved the way for a golden age of building in crypto — and at YC, @base and @coinbase we want to fund builders to seize this moment. @harjtaggar and @jessepollak sat
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Catching up on the dhh / Shopify / Ruby Central drama. Damn every language community has some drama, but ruby seems to have 24 X 7 drama ongoing
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“There was definitely a consensus up until the mid-2000s that it was totally fine for America not to be making toys and socks… But I am more inclined to say that if you can’t make the simple things, you also can’t make the complex things” https://t.co/VdbVDT2Bun
restofworld.org
In his new book, author Dan Wang compares China’s “engineering” state that is enabling its rapid rise on the tech ladder, with U.S. policy and immigration rules that threaten to dent its edge.
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OH today. "Civilizational fall, unlike in the zombie outbreak movies, unfold over decades. The pandemic was the preview , we are in the intro scenes now with war imminent in Europe We are not "going back to normal.* Most people just haven't realized it yet" Umm. Yay!?
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I don't think anyone who's salivating at the prospect of mass political violence or civil war has the foggiest idea of how bad these things are in real life. It's beyond their memory and their imagination.
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I used to be inspired by famous people in tech. I saw them writing spicy articles, and everyone discussing these blog posts. I wanted to be like that. So I started writing articles myself. Big mistake. Turns out, they're not popular or successful just because of their blog (at
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The real body count is how many people you convinced to use C++ because of your shitposting
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[new blog post] Disaggregation: A New Architecture for Cloud Databases https://t.co/zTM8BaSIem
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“What is Jira?” Gibson said when I asked if they used the task-management application. “Is it a software?” Pellen said, adding that they’d briefly used Trello before their account was deactivated because they didn’t use it enough. (2/2)
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From the bloomberg article on how a ** 3 man **team built silksong, an indie game that has sold 15 million copies (so approx 300 million $) a few days after release Staying small also meant eschewing the production practices commonplace at many game-development studios (1 / 2)
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MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline https://t.co/2VhOBRCSLA
publichealthpolicyjournal.com
By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
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If you are a student interested in building the next generation of AI systems, don't work on LLMs
The Godfather of AI is at #VivaTech! Yann LeCun (@ylecun) advises students coming into the industry: "Don't work on LLM. This is in the hands of large companies, there's nothing you can bring to the table. You should work on next-gen AI systems that lift the limitations of LLMs.
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board gamers know this feeling well!
This weekend I kept trying to play games that should be fun, but they were drowned in "I will now bombard you with 100 little modifier tokens that change things by 5% and you need to understand and tediously manipulate these before you are allowed to enjoy anything."
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