AKHIL FKA SUMMER
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make software that feels like new music
weekend reading
10 months ago
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godoglyness
11 months ago
youtu.be/xEddsmnY228?...
One finds lectures of folks reminiscencing about what intellectual life was like "before the great war" (number one, that is...) & starts to pick up on queer habits of speech otherwise lost to history before one's parents were even born
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The Sane & Eccentric in Present Thought - Brand Blanshard (1963)
YouTube video by Philosophy Overdose
https://youtu.be/xEddsmnY228?si=NhZpv0IGeyCopcUl
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how do you like decentralization now?
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11 months ago
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powerful perspective I have had this realization myself
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11 months ago
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classical theory of computing is inadequate for true agents with autonomy LLMs — clearly crude instruments — indirectly reveal a new path and that’s the most interesting thing about them
11 months ago
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Sichu Lu
11 months ago
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AI has to seriously account for the distinction between prediction and explanation
11 months ago
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turned 28 elder technology brother arc
11 months ago
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it feels like first day back in school here
11 months ago
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claude has gotten so good I have levered up in somethings even when I’m not using it
11 months ago
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when Ellul said “I am somehow unable to believe in the revolutionary value of an act which makes the cash register jingle so merrily.” i felt that
over 2 years ago
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i just had a “ha that’s a computer” moment surprising amount of things are computers
over 2 years ago
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looking for books that tell the story behind large deals ( there’s one about a bank merger at the tip of my tongue )
over 2 years ago
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video games are very impressive software
over 2 years ago
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slowly but surely i am trending towards writing a whole webrtc stack ( this evening I’m building an SFU )
over 2 years ago
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i think i’m going to write a long form essay on all the things i love about technology ( mostly pulled from my tweets on software/technology )
over 2 years ago
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don’t stop making music
over 2 years ago
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looking for books that tell the story behind large deals ( there’s one about a bank merger at the tip of my tongue )
over 2 years ago
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any good programming language has to be a consistent source of drama keep that in mind when you’re designing your language
over 2 years ago
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some of y’all are very tedious
over 2 years ago
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book i want to read: Identity and Agency in Virtual Spaces someone write it please
over 2 years ago
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expert programmers have a comfort with latent spaces that goes hard
over 2 years ago
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modern day mating call
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over 2 years ago
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i go back and forth between enjoying the artistic talk about computing/internet to screaming “build something mf”
over 2 years ago
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everyday i thank Al Gore for inventing the internet
over 2 years ago
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any good programming language has to be a consistent source of drama keep that in mind when you’re designing your language
over 2 years ago
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the idea of personal computers was a mistake computing is a social activity
over 2 years ago
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i think the computer is primarily a way for people to depend on each other
over 2 years ago
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whatever replaces the document model will have to allow for infinite fracturing
over 2 years ago
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listening to music with your friends is a top tier experience
over 2 years ago
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a computer is a machine that carries stories
over 2 years ago
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this one time i was talking to a crypto person and 15m into a normal conversation he was like one day wallets will encapsulate all features of a browser that one interaction permanently tinted my view of crypto/web3 people
over 2 years ago
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work is love made visible
over 2 years ago
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“most important thing is to have a strong vision, be selfish, to build something for yourself, and then be able to convince others to do the same
over 2 years ago
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writing position papers is fun when it’s about a speculative new future for the web
over 2 years ago
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some of you have never created enterprise value i can tell
over 2 years ago
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got something i’ve been working towards for ages but it’s anticlimactic bc i’m already working on the next thing
over 2 years ago
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what comes to mind when you hear “charismatic software”
over 2 years ago
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i have learned more about the mouse and keyboard from the browser work than i care to admit
over 2 years ago
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wait sacrifice == make sacred i sacrificed my time to workout i made my time sacred to workout
over 2 years ago
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how many promises can your new technology carry? how new and compelling are these promises?
over 2 years ago
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over 2 years ago
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over 2 years ago
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ability to generate goals has to be a part of agency
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over 2 years ago
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a good nap can change your life
over 2 years ago
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only thing on my mind these days
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over 2 years ago
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build technologies with nerve
over 2 years ago
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rejecting PRs for lacking magic
over 2 years ago
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people have no idea the leverage that comes with software you can turn abstractions into institutional realities
over 2 years ago
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turn abstractions to institutional realities
over 2 years ago
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