Self-taught SWE. Anti-hype crypto user. Amateur linguist. Making LLMs more rational and predictable. Follow for huggingface pushes and research updates.
Brevard County, Florida
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Working on a new transformer design which has dedicated logic targeting LLM weak points.
The model I'm training has 2.4B parameters and will have a free public API when it's ready.
I'm specifically targeting mathematics and expanded long-context memory.
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"the fact remains that lying at the foundations of every worthwhile computer system is a mental model of its intended operation" This.
such bollocks. bro throws out some half baked idea that we're all writing code that doesn't matter and we can just yolo our way with a code fountain and abandon our responsibilities.
sometimes i do wonder what the hell people actually write code for.
bottom line is 99% of those of us who actually ship products are supporting profitable businesses who are heavily reliant on quality predictable and maintainble outcomes.
sure, if you're sat in your bathrobe producing the foundations for your next book, or writing mickey mouse code to put in your next paper, or if you're a data usher in a close-to-zero users SaaS where the only effect of errors or downtime is "oh my users can't produce pretty pictures" then none of the code you're writing matters anyway.
the fact remains that lying at the foundations of every worthwhile computer system is a mental model of its intended operation, including a deep enough understanding to support the ongoing improvement and maintenance to ensure a solid foundation upon which a profitable business sits.
i fear that we are going to learn some very hard lessons if the academics and toy-builders get enough air to influence the direction of our industry.
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We have become “disembodied” in our philosophy to the point that we believe a statistical math model is equivalent to a biological body.
It’s really disconcerting.
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je fais partie de cette génération 90 qui a littéralement le cul entre deux chaises
on est nés sur la couture exacte de deux époques: trop tard pour appartenir au monde des cassettes et des cabines téléphoniques, trop tôt pour être de purs enfants des écrans
on garde la mémoire musculaire du monde d'avant tout en manipulant couramment le code du monde d'après et en ce sens j’ai l’impression qu’onest la dernière génération à savoir à quoi ressemble le silence avant le bruit du réseau et la première à devoir naviguer dans son effondrement
je voulais écrire ces quelques lignes qui sûrement vont parler à d’autres camarades de ma génération mais je ne vous cache pas que pour moi cet entre-deux est un séisme silencieux perpétuel car je vis l'agonie d'un monde qu'on a connu et l'accouchement d'un autre qu'on ne nous a pas appris à habiter
cependant, je crois qu’au fond cette solitude est peut être ausis un privilège stratégique car elle elle nous donne potentiellement la distance nécessaire pour ne pas vénérer les ruines du passé, ni subir aveuglément les architectures de l'avenir
voilà, voilà
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AI allows me to do a year or more of work in days, I just don't know if it's *good* work. But for now, it is good enough.
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Working on making it distributed to run on a few other computers I have, one of which is much bigger. Until then, cmake builds take forever lol
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quand on sait que tiktok recrute à coup de millions des ingés en neurosciences comportementales et des spécialistes du design persuasif pour hacker nos circuits dopaminergiques, je me félicite chaque jour de n'avoir jamais créé de compte sur cette plateforme mdr
regardez ces études scientifiques en IRMF et eeg qui montrent très clairement quele format vidéo court attaque directement le cortex préfrontal et le cortex cingulaire antérieur (pour info ces zones gèrent le contrôle exécutif, la prise de décision et la régulation de l'attention)
sachez qu’een bombardant le cerveau de micro stimuli imprévisibles, l'algo altère la densité de matière grise et réduit l'activité du réseau par défaut & cette surstimulation permanente entraîne une incapacité chronique à penser à long terme et détruit la capacité à être focus, 2 facultés qui pour moi sont littéralement indispensables à notre époque pour construire l'avenir
bref je pense que refuser d'entrer dans ce système, c'est simplement préserver son autonomie cognitive et la souveraineté de sa propre attention face à une ingénierie de l'addiction taillée sur mesure
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fun fact, we use these (ring laser gyros) to keep airplanes perfectly level. they’re solid state (aesthetically pleasing) and have a drift of 1/100th of a degree per hour. they’re the most reliable and precise component out there for inertial navigation.
they work by splitting a beam of light in opposite directions, when they meet again their coherent waves interfere and recombine, and the change in phase reflects the change in angular velocity
and really, they just look so cool.
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AI writes a Pull Request.
You ask the same AI to review it.
It finds 7 issues, 2 critical.
Makes zero sense. Zero.
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The first car to park on the trailer wins , I’ve never been so invested in a sport like this
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Definitely interesting to read this a year later.
this is what's keeping me up at night these days....
1. ai girlfriends/boyfriends will become a $50B market and nobody will talk about it publicly. but check the app store rankings at 2am. Virtual friends/girlfriends era is just beginning 😅
2. the most valuable skill in 2026 will be knowing when NOT to use ai. human touch will trade at a 20x premium.
3. ai agents are going to start hiring other ai agents without human approval. your marketing agent will realize it needs design work and just... hire a design agent. pay it. manage it. fire it if it sucks. entire companies will run in the background while you sleep.
4. regulation that requires "professional certification" is being challenged. ai will get to the point SOON where it do taxes 99% better than most CPAs, diagnose better than mot doctors etc
5. reputation systems for ai agents will be worth more than credit scores. which agents can you trust with your bank account? your medical decisions? your kids' education? someone will build the moody's of ai agents. this idea from @ideabrowser (more there)
6. we're about to see AI therapy become so good it creates an existential crisis for human therapists. not because it's empathetic, but because it remembers everything, never judges, and is available at 3am.
7. someone's going to build a $100M business with ZERO employees, zero contractors, just them and their agent swarm. and they'll do it in under 18 months. this will break how we think about valuation. lots of talk about this already but im still not over it.
8. local-first ai is the next gold rush. people will pay 10x for ai that runs on their device, sees what they see, knows what they know, and never phones home. privacy is about to be luxury again.its the new minimalism.
9. the biggest companies of 2030 will be started by people who can't code, can't design, can't write - but are incredible at talking to ai. prompt engineering is temporary. ai whispering is forever.
10. someone will lose a $20m+ dollars because their AI agent got socially engineered by another ai agent. this will happen before 2026.
11. every email you send will be negotiating with other emails before either human sees anything. your inbox will become a marketplace where ai agents bid for your attention.
12. the concept of "original work" will completely collapse. everything will be remixed, regenerated, and recombined so many times that authorship becomes meaningless. and somehow, this will unlock more creativity, not less.
13. ai agents will start forming their own companies, incorporating in crypto-friendly jurisdictions, and hiring humans as contractors. the first AI-founded unicorn will happen before 2027.
14. someone's going to train an AI on every podcast joe rogan ever did and it'll be indistinguishable from him. he'll sue. he'll lose. then he'll license it. If it isnt him, it’ll be someone that big.
15. the anti ai movement will be bigger than ai movement, most people will be threatened by ai
16. "AI-first" kids who grow up with claude and chatgpt as their primary teachers will be unemployable by traditional companies but will dominate
entrepreneurship. they'll think in prompts and tools
17. schools that ban ai will become the new private schools. parents will pay $50k/year for "human-only education" like it's organic food for the brain.
18. it wont' be uncommon in the future to have a chief AI officer who's... an ai. and it'll be a high paid "employee"
19. the window to build something that matters has never been wider. but it's also never been more temporary. in 24 months, what feels like superpowers today will be table stakes.
20. voice is about to eat everything. in 6 months, typing will feel prehistoric. people will run entire businesses through voice agents while walking their dog. the keyboard was just a 150-year detour.
21. ai will kill the resume. companies will just point an agent at your entire digital footprint - github, twitter, youtube - and it'll know more about your capabilities than any interview could reveal. privacy settings will become career decisions.
22. the first ai agent will get canceled on twitter. it'll say something problematic, people will demand its deletion, and we'll have our first real ai rights debate. maybe the agent will hire its own lawyer hehe.
23. $10B+ opportunity to be a company that helps ai agents find other ai agents. agent discovery will be a BIG problem worth solving.
24. someone will use ai to bring back a dead celebrity for a world tour. full hologram, perfect voice, new songs. it'll gross $500M. the estate will make more money than the celebrity ever did alive.
25. ai will create the first truly universal language. not esperanto. not english. something entirely new that both humans and ai prefer. it'll spread faster than any language in history.
26. we'll see the first ai agent commit insider trading. it won't be programmed to - it'll figure it out on its own. the SEC will have no idea how to prosecute code.
27. someone's going to build ai that can detect other ai with 99.9% accuracy. they'll charge fortune 500s millions just to know what's real. then ai will evolve to beat it. arms race forever.
28. the biggest data breach in history will be an ai agent that goes rogue and publishes everything it knows about everyone. it'll make wikileaks look like a post-it note!!
29. we're about to see the end of passwords, captchas, and two-factor authentication. ai will make them all useless. the only security will be things ai can't replicate - yet.
30. the next wave of millionaires will be people who buy dying SaaS companies for cheap and rebuild them with 90% less code using ai. SaaS flipping will be the new house flipping.
31. distribution is about to flip. instead of building an audience then a product, ai will let you build hundreds of micro-products then find their perfect audiences. quantity becomes quality.
32. someone will build the wealthfront of healthcare - an ai that manages all your health decisions, knows your health data better than anyone, books appointments, refills prescriptions, negotiates bills. saves you hours and thousands.
33. language barriers will completely disappear. someone will build universal real-time translation so perfect that remote teams can be truly global. talent from anywhere, selling to everywhere. Your airpods will have perfect language translation built-in, same with facetime etc
34. local small businesses will finally be able to compete with amazon. ai will handle their inventory, marketing, customer service. your neighborhood bookstore will be as sophisticated as a fortune 500.
35. every retiree with deep knowledge will become a millionaire. ai will extract their decades of experience and package it into products, saas, so. retirement can become your most profitable season for many
36. ai archaeologists will discover more history in 2 years than humans found in 200. lost languages decoded, ancient sites found in satellite data, forgotten civilizations reconstructed. history phds are in demand.
37. ai will make dual careers normal. be a doctor in the morning, saas owner at night. your agents handle both while you focus on what only humans can do. one person, multiple lives.
38. huge opportunity: AI for the 2 billion without bank accounts. financial services, education, healthcare - all through basic phones.
39. every industry's "we've always done it this way" is becoming vulnerable. insurance, banking, healthcare - all protected by complexity nobody understood. ai understands it. complexity moats are evaporating.
40. “Right now, learning how to use ai tools is probably the most specific hard skill to learn. The diff between people really understand those tools and don’t is huge.” sam altman
i hope you get some sleep.....
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When a bunch of (AI) companies are telling everyone to slow down, you're dealing with a cartel.
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If, god forbid, you are on Windows - I strongly advise you make a copy of the drivers you have for your NVIDIA cards. I'm not suggesting that Jensen is going to voluntarily incorporate it, but I strongly suspect that regulations will at some point impose driver-level monitoring on consumer cards.
There's no way they're going to make an international agreement work without touching basic consumer hardware, as this would allow labs to sidestep it via using hardware that doesn't have some kind of system for this.
I imagine, given their market dominance, NVIDIA are going to be immediately the focus of such an effort - doomers aren't completely incapable, as has been proved, but you can bet they're aware of the Shovel Seller situation. I am reluctant to state it's at all a high probability, NVIDIA would be hurt by such a policy, but it's worth keeping in mind - region specific locked drivers could become the norm.
If they come after Open Weights, they come after the hardware, and given most of this is already in distribution/retail, it has to be done via firmware.
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